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REYNOLDS HISTORICAL GENEALOGY COLLECTION
ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1833 02317 4821
HISTORY
OF SOUTH CAROLINA
EDITED BY YATES SNOWDEN, LL. D.
In collaboration with H. G. CUTLER, General Historian
and an Editorial Advisory Board including Special Contributors
Issued in Five Volumes VOLUME III 3
ILLUSTRATED
PUBLISHERS THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY CHICAGO AND NEW YORK 1920
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History of South Carolina
HON, RICHARD IRVINE MANNING is the sixth of his family who have been governors of South Caro- lina. His grandmother, Elizabeth Peyre Richard- son, a niece of Governor James B. Richardson, a sister of John Peter Richardson, Sr., and an aunt of Governor John Peter Richardson, Jr., was the wife of Governor Richard Irvine Manning. Sr., was the mother of Governor John Laurence Manning and grandmother of Governor Richard Irvine Manning.
Doubtless always the major distinction will rest upon Richard Irvine Manning the younger, not only upon the high quality of his domestic administra- tion marked by earnest reforms and progressive han- dlings of state institutions, but also because of the extraordinary responsibilities devolving upon his leadership during the two years in which this coun- try was involved in the war with Germany.
The first American Manning was Laurence Man- ning, an Irish lad who came with his widowed mother to this country before the Revolutionary war. They settled in Pennsylvania, and from that province he entered the Continental army. He was wounded at Staten Island, and after recovering was transferred to Light Horse Harry Lee's Legion in Virginia. He served in the campaign in South Carolina and after the Revolution settled in this state, where he mar- ried Susannah, daughter of Gen. Richard Richard- son of South Carolina. He was the first adjutant general of the state.
One of his sons was Richard Irvine Manning the elder, who was governor of South Carolina from 1824 to 1826 and died in Philadelphia while a mem- ber of Congress. A son of this early governor was John Laurence Manning, who filled the post of gov- ernor from 1852 to 1854 and served as a colonel under General Beauregard of the Confederate States Army.
Another son of the early governor was Colonel Richard Irvine Manning, who was a successful plan- ter in Sumter county, served for some years in the State Senate, and became colonel on the staff of General Patrick Henry Nelson of the Confederate States Army. He also raised and equipped a cavalry company. He died during the war as a result of exposure. His wife was Elizabeth Allen Sinkler of Berkeley County.
Richard Irvine Manning, their son and a grandson of the first Governor Manning was born on the Homesley plantation in Sumter County August 15, 1859. The people of South Carolina doubtless felt the greater confidence in Governor Manning as their chief executive because throughout his mature
lifetime he has been a practical farmer and a sound business man and the qualities that enabled him to make success as a tiller of the soil were the qualities needed in the direction of state affairs. He received his early education in private schools, in the Kenmore University Iligh School at Amherst, Virginia, and was a student in the University of Virginia until 1879, after which he took up the study of law. How- ever, he never entered the legal profession and since 188o his business has been farming and banking in Sumter County. From time to time he became connected with other business interests of growing magnitude, and is president and director of the National Bank of Sumter, president and director of the Bank of Maysville, president of the Cotton Ware- house Company, director of the Telephone Company, the Telephone Manufacturing Company, the Magneto Manufacturing Company, Palmetto Fire Insurance Company, the Anderson Motor Company, and the New York Life Insurance Company.
His home county sent him to the House of Repre- sentatives, where he served from 1892 to 1898, and from 1898 to 1906 he was a member of the State Senatc. He was also a candidate for governor dur- ing that period but was defeated by the liquor issue. In 1914 he was elected governor of South Carolina, and by re-election served the two terms in 1915-17 and 1917-19. His first term was especially notable for the restoration of the enforcement of law; for the upholding of the decrees of conrts and sustaining the verdict of juries; for the banishing of race track gambling and other forms of vice; return to the respect of law and order; for the broadening of popular education for town and country, for mill and farm, for the inauguration of compulsory education ; for shorter hours of labor, for the adoption of a child labor law; for the creation of a State Board of Arbitration and Conciliation; for the creation of a tax commission, and the equalization of taxes; for the reinstatement and reorganization of the National Guard of South Carolina; the reorganization in the management of the State Hospital for the Insane; for the establishment of the State Board of Chari- ties and Corrections, the Institution for the Feeble Minded and the opening of the State Tuberculosis Hospital. Soon after his second inauguration Amer- ica entered the war with Germany and he left office about three months after the armistice. Governor Manning's only military experience was as a member of the National Guard in 1878, but the record of several of his soldier sons is detailed on other pages of this publication.
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Governor Manning has attended every Democratic State Convention since 1884, is a member of the Democratic Executive Committee, and was a dele- gate at large from South Carolina to national con- ventions in 1912, 1916, and 1920. He is a Mason and Shriner, Knight of Pythias, Woodman of the World, a member of the Cosmos Club, Rotary Club and Ridgewood Club, is a Delta Kappa Epsilon and was a member of the State Committee of the Young Men's Christian Association and on the Board of the National Red Cross. He is a life trustee of Clemson College. He has been deeply interested in his church, Protestant Episcopal, served as warden and vestryman, member of the Standing Committee Board of Missions, and Finance Committee, as trustee of the Church Home and Orphanage, and from 1884 has been a member of the Diocesan Coun- cils and of the General Convention since 1892. He was chairman of the Diocesan Committee and mem- ber of the National Committee in the Episcopal nationwide campaign in 1919-20.
February 10, 1881, at Richmond, Virginia, he mar- ried Lelia Bernard Meredith, daughter of Judge John A. and Sarah ( Bernard) Meredith. Brief mention of their children is as follows: Sarah Bernard, only daughter, who married Kev. Alfred R. Berkeley of the Episcopal Church; Richard Irvine; John Meredith; William Sinkler, who mar- ried Barbara Brodie; Vivian Meredith who married Adair McDowell; Bernard who married Catherine Burton; Wyndham Meredith who married Laura A. Stevens; Elizabeth Allen; Laelius Meredith; St. George Sinkler; Burwell D .; John Adger ; and Pres- ton Cocke. Six of his sons served in the American Expeditionary Forces in the war with Germany: Maj. William Sinkler Manning who was killed in action in the Meuse-Argonne battle November 5, 1918; First Lieutenant Vivian Meredith Manning; Maj. Bernard Manning ; Lieut. Col. Wyndham Mere- dith Manning; Corp. Burwell Deas Manning; Battal- ion Sergeant Major John Adger Manning.
CHRISTIE BENET, a lawyer, was born at Abbeville, South Carolina, December 26, 1879. His father, Wil- liam Christie Benet is a native of Scotland and well known in South Carolina as a lawyer and Circuit Judge. His mother was Susan McGowan of Abbe- ville, the daughter of Gen. Samuel McGowan.
Christie Benet attended the public schools at Abbe- ville and was educated thereafter at the College of Charleston, University of South Carolina and at the University of Virginia. He is now a member of the law firm of Benet, Shand & MeGowan.
He has been Solicitor of the Fifth Judicial Circuit, City Attorney of Columbia, and United States Sena- tor from South Carolina.
He married Alice VanY. Haskell, daughter of Col. and Mrs. Alexander C. Haskell of Columbia, October 17, 1905. They have two children : Christie Benet, Jr., and Alice VanY. Benet.
HON. ROBERT ARCHER COOPER, who was inaugu- rated governor of South Carolina in January, 1919, has been a real leader among the people of the state many years. By profession he is a lawyer and had extensive experience as a legislator and circuit so- licitor before his name became known over the state in connection with larger offices.
While he brought exceptional qualification to the office of governor, Mr. Cooper is in a true sense a South Carolina commoner, and in an important sense represents the plain people. He was born in Water- loo Township, Laurens County, June 12, 1874, a son of Henry A. and Elizabeth (Jones) Cooper. His paternal grandfather Rev. John A. Cooper was a Baptist minister distinguished in the early days by his vigorous intellect and eloquence. The maternal grandfather Barber Archer Joues settled in Laurens County from Virginia about 1830 and was a con- tractor. Governor Cooper's father was a farmer and the son grew up as a farm boy, had limited advantages in the local schools, and had real work and serious responsibilities when many boys of a later day enjoy luxury and complete freedom from care. The best part of his education was the one year spent in the Jones High School, where he owed much to the inspiration of the principal, Wil- liam P. Culbertson He then taught in country schools for four years, and at the same time studied law with Col. B. W. Ball. In 1897 he entered the law office of Senato: J. L. M. Irby, and in December, 1898, was admitted to the bar. After the death of Senator Irby he formed a partnership with Col. H. Y. Simpson and for eighteen years has been a inem- ber of the firm of Simpson, Cooper & Babb, one of the leading law partnerships in that section of the state.
His character and abilities have been generously devoted to the service of his community and state. His first importan: office was an appointment as lo- cal magistrate in 1399. In 1900 at the age of twenty- six he was elected a member of the House of Repre- sentatives and re-elected two years later. In 1904 he was a candidate for solicitor of the old Seventh District, and the following year upon the creation of the Eighth District he made a successful race for the office of circuit solicitor and served twelve years. That service brought him a well deserved fame as a prosecuting lawyer, and he handled many important eases for the commonwealth.
Governor Cooper first entered the race for the governorship in 1914, and in that year and again in 1916 received so much support in the primaries and developed such strength among remote sections of the state as to make his choice in 1018 a logical one. In 1918 le had the distinction of being nom- inated over six opponents at the first primary. He is the first Laurens County citizen to become govern- or by popular vote. Judge William D. Simpson also from Laurens County, and a former occupant of . the office becane governor from the office of lieu- tenant governor when Wade Hampton was chosen to the United States Senate in 1878.
Governor Cooper has been prominent in business and civic affairs in Laurens for many years, and has been president of the Laurens Trust Company. He is a leader in religious life, a member and offi- cer of the First Baptist Church of Laurens. March 22, 1809, he married Miss Mamie Engenia Machen, a native of Lirens County, and a daughter of James T. and Eugenia ( Poole) Machen. She died June 22, 1014. having become the mother of five children, of whom the sole survivor is a daughter, Mamie Elizabeth.
November 15. 1917, Governor Cooper wedded Dor- cas Ray Chalmes who was born in Newberry Coun-
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ty, South Carolina, a daughter of Fred Nance, and Dorcas (Ray) Chalmes. Having been left an or -. phan during her early girlhood, she was reared in the home of an uncle, Thomas Ray, at Laurens. She became a student in Winthrop College, from which institution she graduated in 1905, winning the de- gree of A. B. She engaged in the profession of teaching and for the ensuing eleven years, thus en- gaged in Albemarle, North Carolina, Laurens, South Carolina, and in Columbia. To this marriage has been born a son, Robert Archer, Jr.
Governor Cooper is widely and favorably known throughout the state as an active and prominent member of the time honored Masonic fraternity. He first became a member of Orman Lodge, No. 69, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at Fork Shoals, Greenville County. He was one of the or- ganizers, and a charter member of Laurens Lodge, No. 260, and was elected its first master. He is a member of Rising Sun Chapter, No. 6, Royal Arch
Masons; Adoniram Council, No. 2, Royal and Select Masters, both at Laurens, Greenville Commandery No. 4, Knights Templar, at Greenville, and is also a past potenate of Omar Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, Charleston. He was elected grand master of the Grand Lodge of Masons of South Carolina, serving as such during the term of 1916-17.
Governor Cooper bring's to his high office that measure of ability, broadened by a wide experience, which bespeaks a successful and business-like ad- ministration of the affairs of state, and a faithful discharge of the duties incumbent upon him as chief executive of one of our oldest commonwealthis.
WILLIAM SHANNON MORRISON became a teacher as a means of paying for his advanced education. He found the work not only congenial, but a con- stant source of inspiration to his best powers and abilities, and as an educator he has rendered a splendid service to his native state. He has been active as a school man for over forty-five years, and for a quarter of a century has enjoyed the quiet dig- nity of professor of history and political economy at Clemson College.
He was born at Winnsboro in Fairfield County, April 7, 1853, son of William Austin and Nancy Ray (Carlisle) Morrison. His father was a son of Rob- ert and Nancy ( MeCreight) Morrison. Nancy Me- Creight was descended from an ancestor who came from the north of Ireland prior to the Revolutionary war and settled in what is now Fairfield County, South Carolina. William McCreight died about the beginning of that war and is buried at Winnsboro. His son William was a captain in the War of 1812, afterwards a militia colonel and was also buried at Winnsboro. William MeCreight, Jr., was the father of Nancy, wife of Robert Morrison. Nancy Ray Carlisle, Professor Morrison's mother, was de- seended from one of five Carlisle brothers, Henry, John, Thomas, Alexander and William, who came with their parents from the north of Ireland early in the nineteenth century and settled in Fairfield County. Of these brothers William married Mary Ann Buchanan, and Nancy Ray Carlisle was one of their children.
The formative years of William Shannon Morri- son were spent in that peculiarly trying and pov-
erty stricken period of South Carolina during and following the war between the states. He was for- tunate in the possession of good health and a sound constitution, and much of his continued health and vigor is due to his early associations with the open country. At the age of sixteen in 1869 his parents moved from Winnsboro to a farm near Blackstock, where he worked in the fields. His father had been a merchant at Winnsboro, and served for a number of years as postmaster of that town. Through some assistance from relatives and by his individual efforts, Professor Morrison acquired his higher education. During one vacation he earned money by selling books and maps and in another he taught a term of school. He attended private schools at Winnsboro, also Mount Zion Institute, and in 1867, 1868 and 1869 attended the preparatory department of Wofford College. One of his early teachers was A. C. Elder of Blackstock. From 1869 to 1871 he worked on a farm near Blackstock and studied at night and whenever opportunity came. In October, 1871, lie entered the freshman class of Wofford College, and was graduated in June, 1875, being Greek orator. During his early life Mr. Mor- rison found his chief literary inspiration in the Bible, history and Simm's novels. As a child he attended Sunday school regularly in the old brick church (Methodist) at Winnsboro, and has always taken an active interest in Sunday school work.
Ten days after his graduation from Wofford Col- lege he was appointed teacher of a free school at McAbee's Academy, five miles from Spartanburg. His continuous record as an educator since that date may be briefly reviewed as follows: Teacher at Blackstock three months in the fall of 1874, also the suinmer term of 1875 at MeAbee's Academy, three months in the fall of 1875 in a private school at Easley. He then founded and for seven years from 1876 to 1883 was principal of the Wellford High School in Spartanburg County. Mr. Morrison is credited with organizing the city school system of both Spartanburg and Greenville. He was superin- tendent at Spartanburg two years and for six years was city superintendent at Greenville. In July, 1893, he identified himself with Clemson College and is one of the oldest members of its faculty. At first he was instructor in history and political economy, and for many years has been head of that de- partment. Besides his regular duties as a member of the teaching staff he has performed special work in county teachers institutes in more than half the counties of the state, and has been assigned as a lecturer on industrial education at farmers insti- tutes in nearly every county. He was secretary of the first Normal Institute held in Spartanburg in 1881, and was president of the State Teachers Asso- ciation at Anderson in 1891. His writings comprise a large number of addresses on educational and his- torical subjects.
Mr. Morrison is a democrat and while in college joined the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and for many years has been a steward of the church at Clemson and several times a lay delegate to dis- triet and annual conferences. December 12, 1878, he married Miss Maggie Jackson of Spartanburg County. They have had five children, four daugh- ters and one son.
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SAMUEL TOMPKINS CARTER, state treasurer of South Carolina, and also a well known Columbia banker, is one of the men who have been longest associated with the state government, and has held some office in the state capital for over twenty years.
He was born at Edgefield Court House, South Carolina, September 9, 1871, a son of Capt. Jonathan H. and Henrietta (Tompkins) Carter. He is of a distinguished family on both sides. His maternal uncle, Col. D. II. Tompkins, was at one time secre- tary of state. Capt. Jonathan H. Carter was a Virginian, and was a graduate from the first class of the Annapolis Naval Academy. He became an officer in the United States navy, served during the Mexican war, and continued in the service until he resigned in April, 1861, and joined the Confederate army. Later he was assigned to the Confederate navy and was promoted to captain before the close of the war.
Samuel T. Carter was twelve years old when his father died and he assumed serious responsibili- ties in advance of his age. He managed to acquire a good education, and was one of the first students enrolled at the opening of Clemson College in 1893. He finished his sophomore year there. In December, 1894, he became chief clerk under his uncle, Colonel Tompkins, then secretary of state. From 1895 to 1897, three years, he was clerk to the state superin- tendent of education, W. D. Mayfield. From 1898 to 1907, a period of ten years, Mr. Carter was book- keeper in the state treasurer's office and in 1908 was promoted to chief clerk in that department, serving five years, until 1912. This experience gave him inasterful qualifications and knowledge concerning all the duties of the state treasurer, and his election to the office of state treasurer was based largely on these qualifications and his well known prominence over the state at large. He has served continuously as state treasurer since 1913.
Mr. Carter is president and director of the follow- ing well known institutions in Columbia : The Com- mercial Bank, Guarantee Trust Company of South Carolina, Guarantee Investment Company, the Shan- don Building and Loan Company and president of the Carter Motor Company. In politics he is a democrat. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, serving as chancellor commander of Co- lumbia Lodge No. 106 in 1907, is a member of the Woodmen of the World, Fraternal Order of Eagles and Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is a member of the Ridgewood Club and the Columbia Club of Columbia.
October 23, 1805, at Columbia, Mr. Carter married Miss Nell Brooks, youngest daughter of Gen. and Mrs. U. R. Brooks. Her father was a Confederate soldier of distinguished record. At one time he was chief clerk to the secretary of state, and served as clerk of the South Carolina Supreme Court from 1805 to 1917. He was also author of several pub- lished works. Mr. and Mrs. Carter have a family of seven children: Nell Montague, Mary Henrietta, Samuel T., Jr., Ulysses Brooks, Jonathan H., Susan Travis and William Bennett.
DUNCAN CLINCH HEYWARD, who was governor of North Carolina from 1903 to 1007, was a success- ful business man and man of affairs long before
this great dignity and responsibility was imposed upon him. Since making his creditable record of two terms in the governor's chair, he has continued to be a large factor in the financial and business life of the state. For the past six years he has been collector of internal revenue, with headquarters at Columbia.
Governor Heyward was born June 24, 1864, in Richland County, son of Edward Barnwell and Katherine Maria (Clinch) Heyward. His father devoted his life to rice planting, served as a lieu- tenant of engineers in the Confederate army, was a graduate of South Carolina College, had traveled extensively in Europe and was a man of well known cultivation and literary tastes. Katherine Maria Clinch was a daughter of Gen. Duncan L. Clinch of Georgia, a general in the United States army who held the most important command in Florida during the Indian wars there.
Governor Heyward when six years of age lost both his parents within six months of each other and he was reared by his mother's sister and step- mother. He attended private schools in the city of Charleston, spent three years in the Cheltenham Academy near Philadelphia, and in 1882 entered Washington and Lee University at Lexington, Vir- ginia. He was there three years, pursuing special studies for which he received diplomas, but took 10 degree.
Immediately upon leaving college in 1885 he re- turned to South Carolina and soon was absorbed in the planting of rice on the Combahee River in Colle- ton County. For four or five generations his father's people have been rice planters in this state, and most of the lands inherited by Governor Hey- ward had been a grant to his people. His mother's people had been prominent rice planters on the Satilla River in Georgia, and to them also their lands had been grants. From 1887 to January, 1903, when he entered the governor's mansion, Mr. Heyward and family resided in Walterboro, within twenty miles of the plantation. Though one of the largest planters in the state, he led an uneventful life so far as its public manifestations were con- cerned.
In the summer of 1901 came the first interruption to this quiet routine. He had never figured at ail in politics, but at that time was persuaded by his friends over the state to become a candidate for governor in the democratic primary in the summer of 1002. He was elected over four opponents, and in his home county out of a total of 3.000 votes lost only 56. He served as governor from January, 1903, to January, 1907, two terms. The second time he was elected without opposition and was the first governor to be accorded a second term without opposition after the primary elections were instituted in 1890, and no succeeding governor has so far been chosen as his own successor. Governor Heyward was succeeded by Martin F. Ansel. After leaving the governor's chair he was elected presi- dent of the Standard Warehouse Company of Co- lumbia and the Columbia Savings Bank & Trust Company, positions he held about two years, and then returned to rice planting, enlarging greatly the extent of his business in that field.
In September, 1913, he was appointed collector of internal revenue for the District of South Caro-
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lina by President Wilson, and that office he still retains. For several years he was captain of a Cavalry Company in Colleton County.
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