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Franklin Harper Elmore papers
Collection
Identifier: SCL-MS-0166
Scope and Contents
This collection is chiefly family correspondence which gives a glimpse of antebellum life. Gov. John Taylor agrees to the marriage of Harriet and Elmore in a letter, 17 Oct. 1826, and states "what I may [be] able to give as a Dowry . . . I claim the Right of giving as I have given to my Daughter Rebecca." Although the collection provides little information on Elmore's career as a lawyer, banker and U. S. Congressman — serving in both houses — correspondence with his family reveals him as a...
Dates:
1818-1877
Found in:
South Caroliniana Library
Singleton Family papers
Collection
Identifier: SCL-MS-5176
Scope and Contents
Chiefly correspondence, business records, and estate papers of Richard Singleton (1776-1852), including letter, 10 April 1823, from "Parson" Mason Locke Weems (Charleston, S.C.) to Richard Singleton (High Hills, Sumter District, S.C.), re mention of a box of books that Singleton had ordered, writing that he "took the liberty to place a little pamphlet of my own scribbling, just reprinted here a day or two ago. It is popular and Judge Waties who sat on the bench when the Heroine of this...
Dates:
1750-10-25 - 1956
Found in:
South Caroliniana Library
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- Elmore, F. H. (Franklin Harper), 1799-1850 1
- Elmore, Harriet Chesnut Taylor 1
- King's Mountain Iron Works (York County, S.C.) 1
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- Singleton, John Coles, 1813-1852 1
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- Singleton, Richard, 1776-1852 1
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