Scope and Content Note The Benjamin Ryan Tillman Papers has twelve series. The Papers consist primarily of material from the years when Tillman served as Governor of South Carolina (1890-1894) and then U.S. Senator (1895-1918). It includes substantial amounts of routine correspondence related to speaking engagements for the years prior to Tillman's stroke in 1908, requests for pensions, requests for help by individuals seeking jobs, and letters from citizens on a wide variety of subjects which they wished to bring...

Scope and Content Hartzog began creating this scrapbook in the 1940s. It contains Hartzog's memoirs and a variety of printed material documenting his career in education. Hartzog included material related to his family history and local history in Bamberg, South Carolina. There are copies of letters and recollections of events during the Civil War, particularly of the siege of Fort Sumter and Sherman's March. The memoirs include descriptions of some of his major contributions and of controversies in whic he...

Abstract

A 15 page script for a historical drama involving Thomas Green Clemson and Benjamin R. Tillman meeting for the first time.

Scope and Contents note The Pre-Senatorial Series consists of advertisements, biographical sketches, campaign materials, certificates, clippings, correspondence, legal documents, lists, postcards, photographs, publications, receipts, reports, a few subject files, and telegrams.Materials in this series cover the period 1879-1930, from Byrnes’ parent’s marriage through his election to the United States Senate. The bulk of the material dates from 1929-1930, much of it documenting his 1930 U.S. Senate...

About this index This is an alphabetical index to the correspondents represented in the Tillman Papers Series 2, Incoming Correspondence. The original handwritten index was created after the collection was transferred to Clemson University. In July 2004, staff archivist Shanon Hays revised and retyped the first half of the index (A-L) as an Excel spreadsheet with the help of student assistants Subburayalu Rajaram and Uday Mandhata. In 2009, student assistant Kristi Roberts continued the project, completing...

Scope and Contents This collection contains card files which document research conducted by Professor Tuttle concerning Ben Tillman and the South Carolina Liquor Dispensary. These cards index a number of publications related to the subject of liquor laws in South Carolina circa 1892-1909 including items from The State, Journal of the House, South Carolina Reports and Resolutions, and the ...

Scope and Content Note This series contains the records of the office of Walter Merritt Riggs, President of Clemson College 1909-1924. The series is divided into two parts: correspondence, which is arranged chronologically, and collected material, arranged alphabetically.The correspondence falls into the general categories of administration, cadet life, and institutional development. Within these respective categories the topics deal with specific issues such as budget requests, requests for raises,...