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Calhoun, Noble and Pickens Families Collection

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: Mss-0225

Scope and Contents The collection consists of clippings, original and photocopied correspondence, original and photocopied typed notes/transcripts and photography of a resolution collected by Kathryn Calhoun Hill and all relating to the genealogy of the Calhoun, Noble and Pickens families. A June 30, 1970 clipping from the Southwest Virginia Enterprise of Wytheville concerns the presentation of a marker for the grave of Ezekiel Calhoun by Hill. Most of the correspondence...

Dates: 1955-1956, 1958-1959, 1964, 1968-1971, undated

Found in: Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives

Charles M. Wiltse Papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: Mss-0061

Scope and Contents

A typed draft with corrections of Charles M. Wiltse's third volume of his biography of John C. Calhoun, John C. Calhoun, Sectionalist, 1840-1850.

Dates: 1942 - 1951

Found in: Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives

Enoch Walter Sikes Presidential Records - Speeches and Writings

Collection

Identifier: Series-0003

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...

Dates: 1926 - 1941

Found in: Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives

Ernest McPherson Lander Papers

Collection

Identifier: Mss-0280

Abstract Ernest M. Lander had a distinguished career in teaching, research and service as a professor of history at Clemson University. The collection contains correspondence, memos, minutes and other materials relating to Lander’s participation in various professional organizations. It also documents his service to the University community as a member of the Faculty Senate, the Graduate Committee, and other committees. The collection also contains material related to Lander’s teaching duties, and...

Dates: 1581 - 1988; 1955 - 1988

Found in: Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives

Ethel Mitchell collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: Mss-0005

Scope and Contents Carbon typescripts (38 pages) of the manuscript, The Romance of Fort Hill, written by Mrs. Mitchell in 1938. A photograph of a drawing of Fort Hill, the plantation of John C. Calhoun, drawn to Mrs. Mitchell's specifications, given by Jack Tuttle to the Library in 1961. This photograph is filed in the Mss Negatives and Photographs file. November 23, 1940, copy of A.G. Holmes letter to Mrs. Mitchell concerning the restoration of Fort Hill, witnessed by Muriel...

Dates: 1938, 1940, 1955, 1961

Found in: Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives

Fort Hill Mansion registers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: Mss-0003

Scope and Content

Registers listing visitors to the home of John C. Calhoun (1782-1850), located on the Clemson University campus. From 1893-1932 no register was kept. Mrs. A.G. Holmes reintroduced the register beginning March 31, 1932.

Dates: 1888-1893, 1932-1937

Found in: Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives

J. C. Littlejohn Collection

Collection

Identifier: Mss-0068

Introduction

This collection consists mainly of material compiled by J. C. Littlejohn for a history of Clemson College. He died before completing this project. It is a rich source of documentation on every aspect of Clemson, from information on the Calhoun and Clemson families to student life and college administration.

Dates: 1900 - 1961

Found in: Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives

James H. Rion Papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: Mss-0322

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...

Dates: 1993-1996

Found in: Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives

John C. Calhoun Letters

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: Mss-0112

Scope and Contents

Copies of two letters from John C. Calhoun to his nephew, John Alfred Calhoun about crops and John's health, Fort Hill, September 26, 1849 and November 20, 1849.

Dates: 1849

Found in: Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives

John C. Calhoun Papers

Collection

Identifier: Mss-0200

Scope and Contents Note The papers consist of correspondence and other materials documenting the career of Calhoun, the Calhoun and Clemson families, and United States politics during the early to mid-nineteenth century. Included are agreements, articles, clippings, correspondence, lists, notes, maps, microfilm, photographs, poems, receipts, speeches, statements, a survey book, an autograph draft and a photocopy of the South Carolina Exposition and other material.Most of...

Dates: 1784 - 1980; 1802 - 1850

Found in: Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives

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Calhoun, Noble and Pickens Families Collection

Charles M. Wiltse Papers

Enoch Walter Sikes Presidential Records - Speeches and Writings

Ernest McPherson Lander Papers

Ethel Mitchell collection

Fort Hill Mansion registers

J. C. Littlejohn Collection

James H. Rion Papers

John C. Calhoun Letters

John C. Calhoun Papers

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