Scope and Contents Alice Noble Waring of Hughes, Arkansas, great-great-great granddaughter of General Andrew Pickens, collected photostatic copies of original correspondence, documents, and papers which she used in writing The Fighting Elder: Andrew Pickens, 1739-1817, published in 1962. These copies were acquired from major research libraries, including the Library of Congress, the State Historical Society of Wisconsin (Draper Collection), William L. Clement Library, the...

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Steel engraving by J.B. Longacre from a painting of General Andrew Pickens (1739-1817) by T. Sully after an original portrait. Pickens was a brigadier general in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. The mat has a reproduction of Pickens' signature.

Scope and Contents The Collection consists of a copy of a charter, deeds/indentures, an estate account, land grants, leases, a military commission, plats/surveys and transcriptions of some of those documents. Most of the material is from South Carolina but the states of Alabama, Georgia, Illinois and Pennsylvania, as well as the country of Great Britain, are also represented.Among the items in the Collection are: a November 23, 1622, lease of Baker's Close, near Southampton, Great Britain, to Alice...

Scope and Contents This series contains the speeches and writings of Enoch Walter Sikes while he was President and after his retirement from office. In the series are found speeches, addresses to cadets at Clemson College and to organizations in the community, short public statements, lectures, Sunday School talks, and articles that appeared in student publications and newspapers. Topics include agriculture and the training of farmers; education; histories of the Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran, and Presbyterian...

Abstract The records of the Historic Houses Office are of particular value to those researching Clemson’s founding history through its built environment and to those interested in understanding the university’s record of historic preservation. This collection contains all office and departmental records pertaining to the activities of the Historic Houses Office (now called the Department of Historic Properties). The collection comprises meetings, agendas, budgets and personnel records as well as...

Scope and Contents This collection contains correspondence, essays, photographs, and miscellaneous material gathered and prepared by William Hayne Mills, ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church and faculty member with the Agriculture Economics and Rural Sociobiology Department at Clemson College.Among the correspondence are items sent and received during the period 1917-1941 documentation donations to the Clemson College Library, ecclesiastical matters within the South Carolina Presbyterian...

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Handwritten essays or lectures (originals and photocopies) on education, Andrew Pickens, English history. Treaty of Hopewell-on-Keowee, Institute (Experiment station) notes, 1902; a list of occupations of parents and guardians of Clemson students, 1897-1902; D.K. Norris correspondence, July 15, 1895 re local Indian legend; two oversize photographs, one a campus view and one of cadets, faculty, and trustees, were removed and filed in the Mss photograph files.