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...