Scope and Contents The collection contains two printed articles. One is a photocopy of a presentation to the South Dakota Genealogical and Historical Societies at a joint convention in Huron, South Dakota in May 1993 by the author, James A. Gabel, a great, great grandson of James Henry Rion. The presentation talked about Rion's deathbed revelation to his physician of his lineage as the Dauphin, or heir, to Louis XVI of France. The other article is a photocopy of extracted portion from the above presentation...

Scope and Contents This collection documents the legal, financial, personal, and family affairs of Richard Wright Simpson, Thomas Green Clemson, Anna Calhoun Clemson, and Gideon Lee, for his deceased wife Floride and their daughter, Isabella Lee, who was Clemson's only grandchild. The Lee's contested Clemson's will. The papers, and original documents, are resources Simpson and other legal representatives used to prepare for the court cases and estate settlement following Thomas Greene Clemson's death on April...

Scope and Content Note Thomas Green Clemson's papers reflect his intellectual interests in mining, geology, scientific agriculture and the promotion of education; his cultured back-ground as an artist, art collector, linguist and diplomat; and his personal life as a plantation owner, businessman, husband and father. A pocket journal, 1832-1837, is the first piece of Clemson's writing in this collection. Mr. Charles R. Clemson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, donated this brief journal and its typed transcription to...