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Not merely in these additions to the city's wealth did people find grounds for rejoicing. Running through the history of Spartanburg always was the determination of her citizens to extend communica- tions and means of transportation. On Monday night, February 17, 1930, WSPA, a Spartanburg radio station, sent over the ether waves the first commercial broadcast made in the State of South Carolina. With this broadcast another set of spokes was attached to the Hub- innumerable spokes linking the once remote back-country village with the ends of the earth.
Even before the radio station began to operate, other great spokes stretched into the sky. Through the vision of Spartanburg builders, a cotton patch on the outskirts of the city was transformed into an airport, which was officially opened September 10, 1927, and was the first commercial airport in South Carolina, a fresh demonstration that here was a hub city. So rapidly did aviation develop that expansion was soon necessary, and today the field with its equipment has cost more than a quarter of a million dollars, and even more improvements are being planned to care for increasing needs. The field covers 105 acres, has paved runways, capacious hangars, offices and waiting rooms, a Federal weather bureau and airways radio station and flying school, under the Civil Aeronautics Authority. It is also the seat of a privately managed Palmetto Air School, and numbers of inhabitants of the county maintain private planes, which are housed in its hangars.
In Spartanburg originated the Sunday morning breakfast meet- ings, frequently enjoyed by fliers of the Carolinas and Georgia. Wing- ing their way through what seem to a civilian the trackless skyways, what a contrast these visitors present to the first explorers and set- tlers, with their saddle horses and covered wagons !
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Since 1931 The nation-wide depression was felt in Spartanburg the more keenly because of preceding prosperity. Its effects have not entirely disappeared, for many citizens yet are suffering from the effects of their losses in the financial panic of 1929. It has been said that Spartanburg was the hardest hit city in the nation, and that the subsequent recovery has been all the more remarkable on that account.
These latter days are so close that an attempt to write their history would be a mistake. Thoughtful citizens must be daily impressed by what they learn through the press, the radio, and their own obser- vations, with a realization that the spirit of pluck, endurance, and perseverance which led their ancestors to choose the word Spartan as a characterizing epithet is as appropriate today as it was in 1775, to county and county seat.
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No detailed list of all the sources consulted in the preparation of this history is here presented. All available documents and reports-Federal, State, County, and Municipal Records; directories and handbooks; church books; scrapbooks and clippings files-have been carefully examined. The facts tabu- lated from these sources have served as the bony framework of this structure.
The files of local newspapers have provided the flesh and blood which have given life to the narrative. Without the carefully preserved files of the Caro- lina Spartan, the Express, the Herald, and the Journal, this book could not have been written. From these files many transcripts have been made by the staff of the Spartanburg Unit, South Carolina Writers' Project, and deposited in local libraries. Such transcripts as are in the Kennedy Free Library are indicated in the list below by the asterisk.
Supplementary details have been gathered from manuscript materials- which have been far less abundant than would be expected, but yet valuable.
Of the hundreds of pamphlets, books, and articles consulted in preparing this book a selected list of those most valuable follows. Only brief notes are appended in cases where their value seemed clear.
NEWSPAPER FILES are to be found as follows :
The Spartanburg Journal (1842-1843) was the first newspaper in the town. H. B. Carlisle has one copy of the issue dated March 25, 1843, and labelled Vol. II, No. VI. Notes from this issue may be seen in the Transcripts at the Kennedy Free Library.
The Carolina Spartan (founded 1843) 1848-1893, with several breaks. Scat- tered copies or extracts before 1848 have been found in scrapbooks. The Kennedy Free Library has files of Feb. 13, 1849-Dec. 25, 1851; Feb. 28, 1856-Dec. 1, 1864; Feb. 1, 1866-Dec. 27, 1876 (with several long breaks). The Wofford College Library has files of June 2, 1853-Feb. 18, 1856; Jan. 8, 1879-Dec. 27, 1893.
The Spartanburg Express (1853-1862 ; 1866-1872). No files are to be found in Spartanburg. The Gaffney Public Library has a partial file for 1859. The University of South Carolina Library has files of Jan. 4, 1860-Apr. 23, 1862, with twenty or more pages missing at various intervals. The Ken- nedy Free Library has only a few scattered copies, not bound, between Aug. 13, 1857, and Dec. 17, 1857. Several items from this paper have been found in scrapbooks.
The Spartanburg Herald (Weekly 1875-1897; Daily since 1890). The burn- ing of the Herald-Journal Building, Dec. 6, 1918, destroyed the files of this paper except two partly bound volumes for 1917-1918. The University of South Carolina Library has files of 1875-1877. The Wofford College Library has a file 1881-1882. The Kennedy Free Library has files of Jan. 1906-Jan. 1912; July 1913-June 1915; July 1918-Dec. 1921. The Herald- Journal Company has complete files since 1917.
The Piedmont Headlight (1892-1902). No files are available; but many scat- tered copies have been found, as well as extracts in scrapbooks.
The Spartanburg Journal (Daily except Sunday, 1900 to date). This paper absorbed the Carolina Spartan, and the Evening Star (successor to the 286
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Free Lance, which followed the Piedmont Headlight). In 1913 the Journal was bought by the Herald Publishing Company, and since that time the Sunday edition has been called the Herald-Journal. The Kennedy Free Library has files of Jan. 1915-June 1915, and the Herald-Journal has files since 1917.
Especial mention should be made of the CLIPPING FILES of the Chamber of Commerce, the Young Men's Christian Association, the John Floyd Estate, Ben Hill Brown, and the SCRAPBOOKS of the Cowpens Chapter, D. A. R., H. B. Carlisle, J. D. Bailey, B. F. Perry, R. J. Gantt, T. M. Craig (all of Spartan- burg), Mrs. S. A. K. Hughes (of Woodruff), J. H. Sullivan (of Laurens County), the Fairforest Chapter, D. A. R. (of Union), the Historical Foun- dation (Montreat, N. C.).
BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, and ARTICLES are listed by authors alphabetically :
ALLAIRE, LIEUT. ANTHONY : Diary. In L. C. Draper's Kings Mountain and Its Heroes, pp. 484-515 (q. v.).
ASBURY, REV. FRANCIS : Journal of Rev. Francis Asbury, Bishop of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church. New York, published by Lane & Scott. Joseph Longking, Printer. 1852. 3 Volumes, with Index. There is also an edition published 1821. N. Y. M. E. Church.
BABCOCK, J. W .: Article "Public Charity in South Carolina"-pp. 43-63 in South Carolina Handbook-2nd edition. 1908. Tribute to "Samuel Farrow (1760-1824) Founder, Father of the Asylum," with portrait, p. 61.
BAILEY, JOHN DAVIS (REV.) : Centennial Paper : The Pioneer Ministry of Broad River Baptist Association, (Minutes Centennial Association held at Gaffney, S. C., August 1900.) pp. 26-32.
-: Cowpens and Wofford's Iron Works-Historical Addresses. 28 pp. : History of Grindal Shoals-and-Some Early Adjacent Families. Gaff- ney, S C. The Ledger Printing Co. (Privately published, n. d.) 85 pp.
-: Reverends Philip Mulkey and James Fowler-The Story of the First Baptist Church in Upper South Carolina. Gaffney, S. C. The Ledger Printing Co. Privately published, "Cowpens, S. C., June 1924." 26 pp.
-: Some Heroes of the American Revolution. Band & White, Printers, Spartanburg, S. C. 1924. 287 pp.
BOBO, SIMPSON : Inauguration of the Spartanburg Female College on the 22nd of August 1855, with the address on that occasion by W. Gilmore Simms, Esq., to which are prefixed an account of the institution, its faculty, course of study, and terms of instruction. By S. Bobo, Esq., President of the Board of Trustees. Spartanburg, S. C. Published by the Trustees, 1855. James & Williams, Printers. Charleston, S. C. 62 pp.
BOGGS, JOHN: The Southern Christian. (A Memoir of Anthony Jefferson Pearson.) Ezra Collier. New York. 1835. 153 pp.
CARLISLE, J. H .: Addresses, 1825-1909. The State Company, Publishers. Co- lumbia, S. C. 1910. 252 pp.
*CARSON, SALLIE M. : Reminiscences of the Church of the Advent. Amend- ments and comments added by Mrs. H. H. Legare of Walhalla, a daughter of J. L. McCollough. Manuscript in archives of the Church of the Advent, Spartanburg, S. C .; lent for use of the Writers' Project. 17 typewritten pages.
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CHESNEY, ALEXANDER (1756-1845) : The Journal of Alexander Chesney. (A South Carolina Loyalist in the Revolution and after.) Edited by E. Alfred Jones (q. v.). 166 pp.
*COTTRELL, JOSEPH B .: Reminiseential Chit-Chat. These articles appeared in the Carolina Spartan at irregular intervals, between May 20, 1885, and May 14, 1890, and supplied valuable details concerning Spartanburg in the 40's.
COWPENS CENTENNIAL COMMITTEE, 1896: Proceedings at Unveiling of the Battle Monument in Spartanburg. In commemoration of the centennial of the Battle of Cowpens. Cowpens Centennial Committee. 137 pp.
CHREITZBERG, A. M .: Early Methodism in the Carolinas. Publishing House of the Methodist Church, S. 1897. Nashville, Tenn. 364 pp.
DAVIS, E. GIBSON : (Pastor-Compiler.) Centennial Booklet - First Baptist Church of Spartanburg, South Carolina. One hundredth anniversary num- ber. 1839-1939. 69 pp.
DEAN, MARY OWEN: Diary. MS. copy owned by Mrs. W. B. Lyles.
*DERWENT (pseudonym) : Historic Views of Spartanburg, or Facts and Memo- ries of Eighty Years. This series of five articles appeared in the Carolina Spartan, March 27, April 17, April 24, May 8, May 15, 1856. Who was the actual author is not known. The editor vouches for the reliability of these articles, which are almost indispensable source matter.
DRAPER, LYMAN C: Kings Mountain and Its Heroes : A history of the Battle of Kings Mountain, October 7, 1780, and the events which led to it. New York. Dauber & Pine Bookshops, 1929. XV (16), 612 pp., front., illus., plates, ports., maps, and plans. Appendix : Allaire's Diary. Note: a fac- simile reprint of the 1881 edition. Cincinnati, Ohio. P. G. Thomson, 1881. DRAYTON, JOHN : A View of South Carolina, as respects her natural and civil concerns. Charleston, S. C. W. P. Young, Publisher, 1802. 253 pp., illus., charts, tables, and maps.
EDMONDS, RICHARD HATHAWAY : Facts About the South. Manufacturers' Rec- ord, 1907. (Pamphlet.)
FIKE, PIERRE H .: (Co-author, Capt. Joseph Lawlor) : History of Company F, 118th Infantry-Hampton Guards-30th Division. World War. 1919. Band & White, Printers, Spartanburg, S. C. 80 pp.
*FORD, LYMAN H .: Public Schools of Spartanburg, S. C., First Annual Report of the City Schools. 1887.
*GAFFNEY, MICHAEL: Journal of Captain Michael Gaffney. Manuscript. Owner, Miss Cora D. Wilkins, 308 Victoria Avenue, Gaffney, S. C.
*GAGE, ROBERT J. : Idle Moments in an Old Library. A series of Papers writ- ten for the Union Times in the seventies; reprinted in the Union Times' Souvenir Edition, Union, S. C., Dec. 17, 1897, under the title "Reminis- eenees of Early Settlers." A particularly valuable item in this series is "The Battle of Cowpens," in which a fragment of a genuine Revolutionary ballad is incorporated.
* : Memoir of Major Thomas Young. The Orion III, pp. 84-88 and 100-105 (October and November 1843). This is the original appearance in print of this memoir, which has been several times reprinted. Judge Robert
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Gage of Union, S. C.,-a cultured and wealthy citizen of Union-contrib- uted it to the Orion with these introductory words (Orion III, pp. 84-88) : "We will present the record in his own words, etc." A note at the end runs thus : "If the perusal of this sketch should give as much pleasure to the reader as its preparation has given to us, we shall be amply repaid. May the venerable patriot's life be spent in peace, etc." Young was then 79 years old.
GIBBS, ROBERT WILSON : Documentary History of the American Revolution: Consisting of letters and papers relating to the contest for liberty, chiefly in South Carolina, from originals in the possession of the editor and other sources. New York. D. Appleton & Co. (etc.), 1855 Vol. I, 1764-1776; 292 pp. Vol. II, 1776-1782, 1857; 293 pp. Vol. III, 1781-1782, 1853; 288 pp. (Volumes II and III, Columbia, S. C.)
GRIFFITH, HARRISON PATILLO: Life and Times of Rev. John G. Landrum. H. B. Garner, Publisher. 710 Arch Street, Phila., Pa. 1885. 298 pp.
: Variosa. A collection of Sketches, Essays, and Verses. 1911. Pri- vately printed. 266 pp.
: John S. Esell-His Life and Times. Greenville, S. C. 1905.
*HALE, COLUMBUS F .: Diary of Journey from Charleston to the Old Fort Prince Section in the Summer-1804. (12 typewritten pages) Transcript of Manuscript. (Manuscript loaned by J. Hamlin White, Spartanburg, S. C.)
HAMMOND, HARRY (Major) : South Carolina Resources-Population-Institu- tions-Industries. The State Board of Agriculture. 1883. Charleston, S. C. Walker, Evans & Cogswell Press. Major Harry Hammond was assigned to investigate cotton culture for the Tenth Census Report. His report, containing "a vast amount of other (than cotton culture data) well- ordered detail of economic and sociological value," was incorporated in Volume XIII, Part VI, pp. 451-526 of the Tenth Census Report. Much of this matter was incorporated in South Carolina Resources.
HENRY, JAMES E: Myra Cunningham. Nine Chapters. According to O'Neall's sketch of Henry, (Bench & Bar, II, 524) "Between '21 and '25 he wrote a pretty little novelette called Myra Cunningham. This was published by Patrick Carey at Yorkville, first in his paper, and afterwards in book form. It attracted great attention." This romance appeared again in the Mag- nolia in installments beginning May 1839. It introduces much Spartanburg Revolutionary history and atmosphere.
Tales of the Packolette. Written for the Magnolia or Southern : Monthly, published by P. C. Pendleton, editor and proprietor. Savannah, Ga. This series of sketches began in Vol. III, 1841, p. 230. Henry, in a prefatory note speaks of this as his "first literary venture," and says he based it on his experiences during a season spent at Packolette Springs. A letter signed "Puritan," dated Savannah, Ga., May 26, 1841, appears on page 285, bitterly attacking the moral tone of this work and of Simms' Loves of the Driver. Other articles of Henry's appeared anonymously in Orion and Magnolia, as well as the Carolina Spartan.
HOWE, REV. GEORGE : History of the Presbyterian Church in South Carolina. Prepared by order of the synod of South Carolina. Columbia, S. C. Duffie & Chapman, 1870, 1883. (Two Volumes. Vol. I, 709 pp .; Vol. II, 789 pp.)
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: The Scotch-Irish, and Their First Settlements on the Tyger River and Other Neighboring Precincts in South Carolina. A centennial dis- course delivered at Nazareth Church, Spartanburg District, South Carolina, Sept. 14, 1861. Columbia, S. C. Southern Guardian Steampower press, 1861, 31 pp.
*HOY, WILLIAM, of Reidville, S. C., contributed a series of invaluable chatty reminiscences to the Carolina Spartan, Sept. 23, 1891-Dec. 20, 1893. Hoy justifiably claimed that his papers would provide more facts than the church historians had published concerning school teachers and preachers.
HURT, WILSON N .: Memorial to Rev. Thomas Bomar. 1837. Spartanburg, S. C.
HYATT, ALLEN : Spartanburg County and Reconstruction. M. A. Thesis, Wof- ford College. 60 pp.
JACKSON, GEORGE PULLEN : White Spirituals in the Southern Uplands. The Story of the Fasola Folk-their Songs, Singings, and "Buckwheat Notes." Chapel Hill. 1933. University of N. C. 444 pp.
JOLLY, RICHARD M. : The Story of My Reminiscences. 1924. Privately printed. 96 pp. A very valuable item for the student of social history.
JONES, E. ALFRED (Editor) : The Journal of Alexander Chesney, a South Carolina Loyalist in the Revolution and After. Published by the Univer- sity of Ohio. Columbus, Ohio. (The Ohio State Univ. Bull., Vol. XXVI.) Oct. 30, 1921. 166 pp. Introduction by Professor Wilbur H. Siebert.
JONES, F. DUDLEY : (Co-author, W. H. Mills)-History of the Presbyterian Church in South Carolina Since 1850. Published by the Synod of South Carolina. 1926. The R. L. Bryan Co. Columbia, S. C. 1094 pp. Con- tains a valuable continuation of Howe's History of the Presbyterian Church in South Carolina by the Rev. W. S. Bean, with supplementary sketches of communities, schools, and churches prepared or edited by F. D. Jones and W. H. Mills.
KENNEDY, JOHN PENDLETON : Horse-Shoe Robinson, A Tale of the Tory As- cendency in South Carolina. 1835. Reprinted by Burt and Company. 483 pp. Reprinted May 10, 1896, as a double number of Standard Literature Series by the University Publishing Company, New York. 190 pp.
KOHN, AUGUST: Cotton Mills of South Carolina. Daggett Printing Co., Charleston, S. C. 1907. 228 pp. These sketches are accepted as authori- tative. They are reprints of letters to the News and Courier based on Kohn's careful personal investigations.
LANDRUM, J. B. O .: Colonial and Revolutionary History of Upper South Caro- lina, embracing for the most part the primitive and colonial history of the territory comprising the original county of Spartanburg with a general review of the entire military operations in the upper portions of South Carolina and portions of North Carolina. Greenville, S. C. Shannon & Co. 1897. vii, iv. 364 pp.
-: History of Spartanburg County-embracing an account of many important events, and biographical sketches of statesmen, divines, and other public men, and the names of many others worthy of record in the history of their county. Atlanta, Ga. Franklin Printing and Publishing Co. 1900. vii, 739 pp.
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LAWLOR, CAPTAIN JOSEPH : (Co-author) See Pierre H. Fike.
LIEBER, OSCAR MONTGOMERY : Reports on the Gcognostic Survey of South Carolina. 1856-1860. Columbia, S. C. General Assembly 1860.
LOCKWOOD, THOMAS P .: Geography of South Carolina. Adapted to the use of schools and families: Comprising a distinct chorographical account of cach District, interspersed with historical anecdotes. A general view of the State; cmbracing its natural features, government, inhabitants, towns and villages, spas, minerals, the state of education and religion; with a sketch of its agricultural and commercial and natural history. With a map of the Statc. 16 mo .- 135 pp. Copyright, Charleston; J. S. Burgess, 44 Queen Street. 1832.
LOGAN, JOHN H. : A History of the Upper Country of South Carolina, from the carlicst periods to the closc of the War of Independence. Charleston, S. C. Walker, Evans & Co., Charleston, and P. B. Glass, Columbia, S. C., Publishers, 1859. Vol. I, xi & i, 521 pp.
Logan's Manuscripts. Volume II, in manuscript form, fell into Ly- : man C. Draper's hands, and extracts of it have been published in Histori- cal Collections of Joseph Habersham Chapter, D. A. R. Vol. III, 117 pp; after p. 172. Atlanta, Ga. Charles P. Byrd, State Printer, 1910.
LOGAN, JOHN R .: Sketches, Historical and Biographical, of the Broad River and Kings Mountain Baptist Associations, 1800-1882. Shelby, N. C. 605 pp. This work is based to some extent on early minutes of Broad River Association, apparently no longer in existence.
LOSSING, BENSON J. : The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution; or, Illus- trations, by Pen and Pencil, of the History, Biography, Sconcry, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independcncc. With eleven hundred engravings on wood, by Lossing and Barritt, chiefly from original sketches by the author. . . . New York, Harper & Bros. 1859-1860. 2 Volumes : (Vol. I, 783 pp., 1859; Vol. II, 772 pp., 1860.)
MACKEY, ALBERT G. (allatin) M. D .: The History of Freemasonry in South Carolina From Its Origin in the Year 1736 to the Present Time, Etc. Written at the request of the Grand Lodge of Ancient Freemasons of South Carolina. By grand secretary of the grand lodge. Columbia, S. C. South Carolina Steampower Press, 1861. Charleston, S. C. Walker, Evans & Cogswell Co. Reprinted for Solomon's Lodge No. 1, A. F. M., 1936.
MARCHMONT, JOHN: (pseudonym) : See Celina E. Means.
MCCRADY, EDWARD: The History of South Carolina in the Revolution, 1775- 1780. New York. The MacMillan Co. London, MacMillan & Co., Ltd. 1901. XXXIII, 899 pp. front., maps (1 fold) plans.
McJUNKIN, JOSEPH : Reminiscences. First appeared in the Magnolia, January 1843. Again printed, from James H. Saye's manuscript, in the Picdmont Headlight, Spartanburg, S. C., Sept. 9, 1898, which may be found in a scrapbook presented to the Kennedy Free Library by the Reverend J. D. Bailey. Rev. James H. Saye (in a note to J. H. Logan, Sept. 23, 1858) . wrote : "You will find his (Major McJunkin's) narrative in the January number of the Magnolia, 1843, by Judge O'Neall. Some things are in that which were put in one published by myself at a subsequent period."
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MEANS, CELINA E. (John Marchmont) : Thirty-Four Years. Claxton, Rem- sen & Haffelfinger, Phila., 1878. 336 pp. The action of this book takes place in Spartanburg and Union Counties chiefly, and introduces actual events of the Ku Klux period. The social atmosphere is said to be a faith- ful presentation of that of Glenn Springs, Union, and Spartanburg.
: Palmetto Stories-A Reader For the Fifth Grade. (With the editorial assistance of Wm. H. Hand, Supt. of Schools, Chester, S. C.) MacMillan Co. New York, 1914. 244 pp. "A Story of Indian Warfare" (pp. 94- 103) is a graphic account; the scene is laid at the famed Block House. "Ferguson's Defeat" (pp. 181-183) is a genuine Revolutionary ballad.
MCGHEE, ZACH: The Dark Corner. Grafton Press. New York, 1908. 206 pp. An interesting and valuable fictional treatment of fact material on some flimsy educational institutions of the 80's and 90's.
MILLS, ROBERT: Atlas of the State of South Carolina made under the authority of the Legislature. Published by the State, 1826. 27 plates.
: Statistics of South Carolina including a view of its natural, civil and military history, general and particular. Charleston, S. C. Hurlbut & Lloyd, 1826. 782 pp. 48 pp. appendix with map.
MILLS, W. H .: (Co-author.) See Dudley F. Jones.
*MITCHELL, W. H .: "Spartanburg in the Revolution." Carolina Spartan, Oc- tober 7, 1858. This article on Fort Prince contains a transcript of a com- missary's book kept at this fort during part of the year 1776 by James Jordan, who was afterwards one of the first county commissioners and legislators.
: "The Rabys." Carolina Spartan, November 4, 1858. This story, dealing with the "great nigger skeer" of 1832, has a well-constructed melo- dramatic plot and is of value for its depiction of social customs in the "back country."
MOORE, T. J. : Reminiscences of Nazareth Church Cemetery and Family Burial Grounds. A discourse delivered by Colonel T. J. Moore at the church on Thanksgiving Day, November 26th, 1908, and published by request of the congregation. Spartanburg, S. C. Band & White, Printers, 1909. 26 pp. Reprinted in : William Anderson and Rebecca Denny and Their Descend- ants. 1706-1914. Columbia, S. C. R. L. Bryan, 1914. pp. 251-278.
O'NEALL, JOHN BELTON : Biographical Sketches of the Bench and Bar of South Carolina. Courtney & Co. 2 Volumes. Charleston, S. C., 1859.
-: "Poetry of the Revolution." The Orion, Vol. II, pp. 322-326 incl. March-April 1843. The index lists this article under the title "Revolu- tionary Poetry." It contains a fragment of "Cowpens, composed by Briggs and sung on the field the morning after the battle, etc."
PERRY, BENJAMIN F .: Revolutionary Sketches. A series of articles published in the Carolina Spartan during 1879. Perry (in Greenville Enterprise, Oct. 2, 1872) named Samuel Earle as his best informant on Revolutionary history. Samuel Earle was captain of a company of Rangers in the Revo- lutionary War, and was a member of the State Convention to frame a constitution. "No one," says Perry, "in the upper country knew so well as he did the Revolutionary history of the State and the early settlements of the back country."
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-: Reminiscences of Public Men. John D. Avril & Co., 1883. 320 pages with index.
: Biographical Sketches of Eminent Statesmen, with speeches, addresses and letters. Ferbee Press. 609 pp. Philadelphia, 1887.
: Reminiscences of Public Men, with specches and addresses. (Second Series.) Shannon & Company, Printers, Greenville, S. C., 1889. 397 pp.
RAMSAY, DAVID: History of South Carolina from its earliest settlement in 1670 to the year 1808. 2 vols. Charleston, S. C., 1809. David Longworth. 602 pp.
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