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Farmers' State Alliance of South Carolina

 Collection
Identifier: Mss-0050
Introduction Dr. William Hayne Mills, a Clemson faculty member during the 1930s, was instrumental in obtaining this material from Joseph Wightman Reid, for many years Secretary of the South Carolina State Grange, E. M. Livingston and Mrs. Fred Patterson. The organization of the State Alliance followed that of the Patrons of Husbandry, the "Grange," a collection also held by this library. These two collections, together with the library's Benjamin Ryan Tillman collection, provide information about...
Dates: 1887-1927; 1888 - 1893

J. F. Thomas letter

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: Mss-0007
Scope and Contents

A.L.S. from J.F. Thomas of Charlotte, North Carolina to Thomas W. Holloway, Secretary of the State Agricultural and Mechanical Society of South Carolina, Anderson, South Carolina, concerning Thomas' rustproof seed wheat.

Dates: August 12, 1882

Pendleton Farmers' Society Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-0210
Abstract

The Pendleton Farmers' Society was organized on June 12, 1815, as the "Farmers Society of Pendleton District"; its first president was Thomas Pinckney, Jr. The Pendleton Farmers' Society's original building, the Pendleton Farmers' Hall located on the square in Pendleton, South Carolina, is considered to be the oldest farmers' hall in the United States.

Dates: 1815 - 1965

Wiley Pardue Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-0226
Scope and Contents The papers include bills, a note, an order, a plat, real estate conveyances, receipts, a tax assessment, a tax notice and a writing composition book. A hand-written list of the items in the collection is also included. Most of the material relates to Pardue's farming activities -- purchases of land and supplies, the slaughter of hogs, lumbering, and tax payments on his agricultural products. One April 10, 1852 receipt is for an enslaved hire; a note, dated February 2, 1858, may also document...
Dates: 1800, 1833, 1841-1842, 1844, 1847-1848, 1852, 1858, 1860, 1863-1865, 1867, 1870, undated

William Hayne Mills Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss-0088
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...
Dates: 1917-1942, no date

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