Gignilliat Family Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-0060
This collection includes six account books; class notes 1888-1902; Charles Nutting Gignilliat's 1902 Clemson degree (oversize); his Calhoun Literary Society diploma, 1902 (oversize); a cotton Telegraphic Cipher Code, 1878, revised and improved edition, especially adapted to the cotton trade; a bound copy of biographical data submitted by Clemson"s class of 1902 for their 50th reunion in June, 1952; and a lacquered keepsake box with seventy cents in coins, the first money Charles Gignilliat earned as an engineer (1877 fifty cent piece; 1889 and 1900 twenty cent piece).
The Gignilliat family in Oconee County, South Carolina included G.W. Gignilliat, a Seneca, S.C. dealer in general merchandise, fertilizers, cotton, buggies, and wagons. Charles Nutting Gignilliat received an engineering degree from Clemson College in 1902. At Clemson he was a member of the Calhoun Society and graduated Lieutenant of Co. "A".
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Four account books were donated by Professor Emeritus George H. Aull on behalf of Thomas Gignilliat on February 17, 1978. Thomas Gignilliat donated the remainder of the collection on November 11, 1980.
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