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He was three times married. At the age of twen- ty-one he married Anna Elizabeth Ross, a daugh- ter of Rev. A. W. Ross. She died about eight years after their marriage, leaving four children : Elizabeth, who died at the age of twelve years; James, who passed away at the age of sixty, at Andersonville, where he is buried; Sarah, who was married to Joseph G. Cunningham, mentioned elsewhere, and Antoinette Ross, who married Pres- ton Earle, and is deceased. Colonel Harrison mar- ried for his second wife Mary Unice Perrin. She was the mother of five children: Francis Eugene. Thomas Perrin, James Wardlow, Lewis Clark and William Harrison, William Harrison is a promi- ment and successful wholesale grocer at Anderson, is unmarried and makes his home with Mrs. Sarah H. Cunningham. Mrs. Cunningham reared her half-brother, who was only two years of age when his mother died.
Seven years after the death of his second wife Colonel Harrison married Elizabeth Perrin Cotch- ran, who now resides at Greenwood, South Caro- lina. She was the mother of one son, Wade Cotch- ran Harrison.
JOSEPH GILBERT CUNNINGHAM. While only a little more than a half century was allotted for his lifetime, Joseph Gilbert Cunningham lived intense- ly, usefully and well, and impressed his name and abilities strongly upon the community of Anderson.
lle was born in Anderson County, February 15, 1848, a son of Thomas H. and Elizabeth (Gilbert) Cunningham. He spent his youth in his native county, and when sixteen years old tried to get into the Confederate army, but was rejected on account of his youth and sent back home. The following ycar he went to work as a clerk in Anderson and gradually accumulated the experience, the capital and credit which enabled him to become an in- dependent merchant. For many years he was an important factor in mercantile circles at Anderson, and was in business up to the time of his death, which occurred in 1900, at the age of fifty-two.
He married Sarah Harrison, daughter of Col. Francis Eugene Harrison of Anderson. They had six children, named : Frank H., Joseph Gilbert, Anna Ross, Thomas H., Jane Elizabeth and Sarah An- toinette. Mrs. Cunningham, the widowed mother. is still living at Anderson. The late Mr. Cunning- ham was a deacon in the Presbyterian Church and led an exemplary and consistent Christian life.
LEWIS AYER GLENN. The entire life of Lewis Ayer Glenn has been passed on the farm in Ander- son County where he was born February 24, 1883, and to the management of which he succeeded at the time of the retirement of his father. During his active carecr he has been successfully engaged in the pursuits of the soil, making marked progress by reason of his thorough knowledge, modern ideas and great industry, and at the same time has won and held the confidence of the people of his com- munity, who have had reason to account him thoroughly reliable in his business relations and soundly public-spirited in civic affairs.
Mr. Glenn is a son of James Lawrence and Re- becca Texanna (Burriss) Glenn, natives of Ander-
son County, and a grandson of Benjamin Franklin and Cynthia ( Watson) Glenn. His. grandfather was born in Laurens County, South Carolina, Febru- ary 28, 1836, and died of fever while in the Con- federate service during the war between the states, August 7, 1862. He was a son of James Glenn, but his mother's given name is not remembered, although she was a Miss Henry. James Glenn was one of four brothers, the others being Simpson, Alexander and Frank, and their father is understood to have come from his native Ireland and settled in Laurens County at an early day. James Glenn died in Laurens County, and subsequently his widow re- moved to Anderson County with her children, who were: Ellen, Henry, Benjamin Franklin and Mary. Both of her sons served as soldiers in the Con- federate army. The wife of Benjamin Franklin Glenn, whom he married in 1855, was the youngest child of Daniel Watson, a son of John Watson, and was born in Anderson County September 3. 1835, and died September 13, 1892. She bore her husband the following children: James Lawrence, born De- cember 29, 1855, died November 28, 1899, Daniel Ashmore and William Henry. The father achieved an enviable record as a Confederate soldier, and the mother was a woman of marked ability and many sterling traits of character. The wife of James Lawrence Glenn was a daughter of William Burriss, who was a son of Rev. Jacob Burriss, a prominent Baptist preacher during the early days.
James Lawrence Glenn and his wife were the parents of the following children: William Frank, Lewis Ayer, Charles Curran, Lawrence Mill, Nannie Ethel and Laura Gertrude. The father was a farmer by vocation, also engaged to some extent in cotton seed buying, and in general made his life a success- inl one financially and otherwise. He was a Baptist, a faith also held by his widow, who survives him, and his fraternal connections were with the Master Masons and the Woodmen of the World.
Lewis Ayer Glenn was married in 1902 to Miss Zylpha Maude Hall, who was born in Anderson County June 22, 1886, a daughter of William D., and a granddaughter of Wilson and Nancy (Kay) Hall. Her father served with gallantry as a soldier of the Confederacy during the war between the states, following the close of which he resumed his operations as a farmer, in which he continued to be engaged throughout the remaining period of his active career. He was twice married, his first wife being Jane Snipes, who bore him three children : Edgar, Dessie and Florence. His second wife was Louisa Snipes, and they also had three children, Elias, Blanche and Zylpha Maude. Mr. and Mrs. Hall are consistent members of the Baptist faith, and Mr. and Mrs. Glenn also belong to that church. The latter have had five children: One who died in infancy, one who died at the age of seven years, and Agatha Wilma, Harvey Lewis and Hazel Shu- mate, all of whom reside with their parents. Mr. Glenn is a popular member of the local lodge of the Woodmen of the World.
ROLFE ELDRIDGE HUGHES, M. D. The list of emi- nent professional men of Laurens County who have given the best of themselves in the service of their fellow-men and have firmly established for them-
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selves reputations for sterling integrity and upright- ness of character, contains no more highly esteemed name than that of Rolfe Eldridge Hughes, M. D. One of the thoroughly trained members of his pro- fession, in which he occupies a high place by reason of his skill and learning, paying special attention to diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, he has also come close to exemplifying the highest ideals of citizenship.
Doctor Hughes was born at Columbia, Virginia, May 5, 1868, a son of E. Tucker and Nannie B. (Perkins) Hughes. The Hughes family is of Scotch-Irish lineage and one of the very first families of Virginia, where the early progenitor of the name settled. Doctor Hughes is of the ninth generation in descent from Pocahontas. His grandfather, Thomas A. Hughes, was a son of Thomas A. Hughes, a Revolutionary patriot, and the mother of the doctor was a daughter of Thomas H. Perkins, an eminent physician of Virginia, who was a son of Dr. Frederick Perkins, also of an old Virginia family.
E. Tucker Hughes, the father of Doctor Hughes, served with gallantry in the Confederate army dur- ing the war between the states, and when this country entered war with Germany volunteered his services to the United States Army. although he was seventy-three years of age. He has served with distinction as a representative in the Legisla- ture and is one of the distinguished citizens of his community.
Rolfe Eldridge Hughes was reared at Columbia, Virginia, where he attended Miller's School, and then entered the University of Maryland, where he took up his professional studies. He received his degree of Doctor of Medicine at Baltimore in 1892 and following his graduation commenced the prac- tice of his calling at Abingdon, Virginia, where he remained until 1898. Coming then to Laurens, he established himself here in a professional capacity, and since had gained a large, representative and remunerative practice among the best families. He is a member of the Laurens County Medical Society, the South Carolina State Medical Society, Southern Medical Association, the American Medical Associa- tion, and the Tri-State Medical Association of the Carolinas and Virginia, of which last-named he has served as secretary and treasurer for seventeen years, and was made president in 1907. Fraternally, the doctor is a Master Mason and a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protec- tive Order of Elks.
In 1900 Doctor Hughes was united in marriage with Miss Hallie W. Cosby, of Virginia, and they have three children: Charles E., Harriet W. and Rolfe E., Jr. The doctor and family are com- municants of the Episcopal Church.
HAWKINS KING JENKINS. The history of the Jenkins family runs parallel to many of the im- portant interests in and around South Carolina for many generations back. Hawkins King Jenkins, who is of the seventh generation in South Carolina, was for many years a practicing lawyer, has had much to do with the family vocation of planting, and is a former member of the State Senate, now living retired at Charleston.
lle is a direct descendant in the seventh genera- tion of John Jenkins, who left England about 1690 and settled on St. Helena Island in Beaufort Dis- trict, South Carolina. From him the ancestry runs through his son Joseph, Richard Jenkins, Joseph Jenkins, Joseph Evans Jenkins, Dr. Paul Fripp Jen- kins and Hawkins King Jenkins.
The great-grandfather of the last named, Joseph Jenkins, at the age of seventeen was a lieutenant in the St. Ilelena battalion of the South Carolina troops in the Revolutionary war, and later was a member of the Council of Safety. After the struggle for independence he was a member of the State Senate a number of years from Beaufort Dis- trict. His son, Joseph Evans Jenkins, also served in the State Senate, representing St. John's parish of Colleton County, and subsequently representing St. Paul's parish. He was a member of the Seces- sion Convention of South Carolina. Joseph Evans Jenkins married Anne Jenkins Fripp, his first cousin.
Joseph Jenkins, the great-grandfather, bought the Brickhouse plantation on Edisto Island in 1790. That land has remained in the possession of his descendants to the present day. His son, Joseph Evans Jenkins, inherited the property and in the course of time added to it by purchasing six planta- tions in the same vicinity but located on Toogoodoo on the mainland. In the division of this estate Dr. Paul Fripp Jenkins inherited part of the six plantations on Toogoodoo. The summer residence was at Adams Run in Charleston County, and at that home Hawkins King Jenkins was born in 1859, be- ing a son of Dr. Paul Fripp Jenkins and Theodora Ashe Burden ( King) Jenkins. Dr. Jenkins served as a surgeon in the Confederate army, part of the time having charge of the Confederate Hospital at Adams Run. He was a graduate of the medical de- partment of the University of Pennsylvania, and for many years gave a useful service to his com- munity as a physician, and also looked after his extensive planting affairs.
Hawkins King Jenkins was educated in Holy Communion Church Institute, now Porter Military Academy at Charleston, and studied law with Col. George W. Croft at Aiken. He was admitted to the bar in 1881, beginning practice that year at Rock Hill, moved to Yorkville in 1882, but later returned to lower Carolina and opened an office at Mount Pleasant, then the county seat of Berkeley County In 1804 he came to Charleston, but in 1896 moved his office to Moncks Corner, the new county seat of Berkeley. After thirty years of busy professional cares, he retired from the law in 1011, and for sev- eral subsequent years was occupied with his plant- ing interests in Charleston County, owning a planta- tion in Charleston County on Toogoodoo known as the White House Plantation. Since 1916 Mr. Jen- kins has been practically retired and a resident of Charleston.
llis public service was rendered early in his pro- fessional career when he was elected a member of the General Assembly in 1888, serving two sessions in the Ilouse, and in ISco was chosen to represent Berkeley County in the State Senate, serving by re- election until 1808. Then having given ten years to the affairs of state, he refused the use of his name longer in connection with politics.
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Mr. Jenkins married Miss Josephine Manigault, of Charleston County, daughter of Louis and banide Elizabeth ( Habersham ) Manigault. She is a mem- ber of the noted Habersham family of Savannah, Georgia, and is a direct descendant of James Habersham, the first postmaster general of the United States, whose son was Col. John Habersham of the Revolutionary army. Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins have four children: Emma Manigault, wife of Rev. Robert E. Gribbin; Joseph Evans Jenkins, Dr. Hawkins King Jenkins and Gabriel Maniganh Jen- kins.
Mr. Jenkins is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, the St. Cecelia Society, is a Knight of Pythias and a Woodman of the World.
THOMAS CARRUTH JACKSON. While the late Thomas Carruth Jackson was a man among men and proved his usefulness in the varied relations of a long life, he should perhans be best remem- bered as the first merchant and one of the real build- ers of the Town of Iva in Anderson County.
He was born on a farm in Laurens County, February 2, 1855, and died at his home at Iva, Jann- ary 20, 1919. He was a son of Alexander Carruth and Elvira (Fielder) Jackson, both natives of Spar- tanburg County, where his grandfather, Arthur Jackson, was also born. His maternal grandfather, John Fielder, came to Spartanburg County from Virginia, married a Miss Miller and lived to be nearly a lindred and ten years old.
When Thomas C. Jackson was four years old his parents removed to Fairview, Greenville County, and two years later to Stoneville in Anderson County, where he was reared. Being the third in a family of six children, and only fourteen years old when his father died, and moreover his youth being spent in the trying period of war and re- construction, he had to make the best of limited cir- cumstances and opportunities. His father had been a farmer and country storekeeper, and he early learned the duties of the store as well as the farm, and for a number of years had the practical over- sight and direction of the paternal property. He solicitously cared for his mother until her death in 1809.
In 1887 Mr. Jackson moved to Iva, where he was the first merchant after the completion of the Charleston and Western Carolina Railroad. He conducted a general store there until 1904. when he sold. In that year he organized the Bank of Iva and was its president until December, 1917. He resigned the excutive direction of the bank on account of ill health. In 1906 he took an active part in establishing the Jackson Mills named for ' him. He was assistant treasurer and general man- ager of this institution until October, 1917, and after that was vice president until his death. As this brief sketch indicates, he started in life with no peculiar advantages, made his own opportunities, and for many years was a successful business man. He had no part in politics though always inter- ested in public affairs, and personally was modest and unassuming, faithful and true as friend, hus- band and father and thoroughly deserved the high esteem with which he was surrounded. He was a Presbyterian, a Master Mason and organizer of the
Blue Lodge at Iva, which he served as master, and was a Royal Arch Mason.
April 23, 1891, he married Leila Beaty. She was horn and reared near Iva in Anderson County, a daughter of James and Mary (Williford) Beaty. Her grandparents were David and Malinda ( Sadler) Beaty and Samuel and Sarah ( MeMullen) Willi- ford. all identified with the early settlement of Anderson County. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson had four children: Lois, Mrs. George C. Welch, of Jackson, Tennessee; Thomas Carruth, Jr., of Iva; Alexander Beaty and Louis Williford. Thomas C., Jr., was a soldier in training in one of the camps during the late war.
Ross DUCKETT YOUNG. Prominent among the offi- cials of Laurens County, one who has won a sub- stantial reputation and the confidence of his fellow- . citizens as a careful, conscientious and entirely effi- cient public servant is Ross Duckett Young, who has occupied the position of county treasurer con- tinuously since Igio. Such a length of continuous service should indicate the possession of marked abilities as well as of faithful performance of duty, two characteristics which have featured Mr. Young's administration and made it remarkable in the his- tory of the county.
Mr. Young was born on a farm near Clinton, South Carolina, January 9, 1876, a son of George C. ( Kit) and Nannie (Blakely) Young. The father, an agriculturist, was born in Laurens County, and passed his entire career on the farm which was the birth-place of his son, dying there in 1918 at the age of sixty-nine years. His wife, who survives him, is a native of Alabama, born in 1850, and a member of an old Revolutionary family. She is a daughter of Andrew Blakely, a native of Laurens County, and a granddaughter of William Blakely. who was known as "Wagonmaker Billy." Mr. and Mrs. Young were the parents of three sons and three daughters, of whom one son is deceased, and these children were carefully reared in the family faith of the Presbyterian Church, of which the parents were devout and life-long members.
Ross D. Young was reared on the farm, in the vicinity of which he first attended the public schools, and was subsequently sent to the Presbyterian Col- lege. He also spent one year at Clemson College, following which he secured employment as a clerk in a mercantile establishment, a position which he was holding at the time of his first election to the office of county treasurer. in 1910. He has since retained the office by re-election in 1012, 1914. 1916 and 1918, and has established a splendid record.
In 1900 Mr. Young was united in marriage with Miss Lillie Ray, of Laurens County, and they are the narents of two sons and two daughters. Mr. and Mrs. Young are consistent members of the Presby- terian Church, and fraternally he is affiliated with the Woodmen of the World and the Knights of Pythias.
COLUMBUS EVANS HARPER became a resident of Honea Path nearly fifty years ago and has lived in that vicinity practically all his life. The outstanding feature of his long residence has been his loyalty and public spirit to all the best interests of the com-
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munity. At the outset of his career if he was dis- tinguished at all it was by his industry and earnest- ness and not by his exceptional advantages in either education or capitalistic possessions. He has pros- pered, and his life has been one of signal benefit to his fellow citizens.
His birth occurred on his father's farm five miles east of Honea Path April 23, 1849. The family is one of several generations of residence in Ander- son County and they came to this state either from Virginia or Maryland. The grandparents, William and Barbara (Cox) Harper, were natives of An- derson County, and Mr. Harper's parents were John H. and Chloa (Kay) Harper, also natives of the same county,
Columbus Evans Harper left the home farm at the age of twenty-one, without capital, and took · with him only a common school education.
As a boy he had served two months in the Con- federate army during the last year of the war. Seven of his older brothers wore the uniform of the Con- federate government. He is one of thirteen chil- dren by his own mother, and his father hy a second marriage had two other children. Of this large household Mr. Harper and one sister are the only
survivors. While his father enjoyed the average prosperity of a farmer in the middle of the last century, there were many to divide and share that prosperity, and furthermore Mr. Harper's youth was spent in a period when all the resources of the state and its citizens were devoted to war or recon- struction. He therefore had only the advantages of the old field schools near home.
In 1871 he established his residence at Honea Path, and from that time has worked for the best in- terests of the town and the community. Mr. Harper is a practical machinist, was in the machine business as an operator, and for many years handled thresh- ing machinery. It is said that in .that time he threshed more wheat and other grain than any other man of Anderson County. He also operated a gin and has been a factor in the oil mill industry many years. Since 1907 he has been president of the Honea Path Oil Mill, and has made that one of the leading institutions of Honea Path. He has also been a dealer in livestock, and since his youth on the farm has been keenly interested in agriculture and all its related affairs. Out of his business Mr. Har- per has acquired title to some fine farms, and he does farming on an extensive scale. In Honea Path he has used his capital to erect several business buildings, including some of its best store rooms.
He is a thorough Southerner, is a democrat, but has never sought any political honors. He has had a wide business experience, and largely through life itself has attained the education and wisdom which can seldom be gained from the most extensive asso- ciations with colleges and universities. In 1872 Mr. Harper married Miss Jane Clinkscales. She died in 1905, leaving four sons and four daughters.
JOHN WILLIAM BROCK is a successful business man of Honea Path whose success has consisted not en- tirely in making money, but in many constructive enterprises which have been instrumental in im- proving the economic welfare of several communi- ties.
Mr. Brock was born at Honea Path August 29. 1860, son of James L. and Barbara ( Kirkpatrick ) Brock and grandson of Meredith Brock. James L. Broek was a Confederate soldier, and after the war for many years conducted a blacksmith and carriage business at Honea Path. John William Broek ac- quired a common school education, and as a boy learned the art of telegraphy. After a year as a telegraph operator he could see no promise of real advancement in the railroad service and therefore abandoned the telegraph instrument to take a posi- tion as clerk in the general mercantile house of G. WV. McGee & Son at Belton. He served there five years. In 1886 he and a son of G. W. McGee, L. L. McGee opened a stock of general merchandise at Honea Path, conducting business under the name of McGee & Brock. After three years Mr. Brock became sole proprietor, and has been head of the business now for nearly thirty years. Mr. Brock entered husiness as a merchant with a limited eap- ital. The capital he had was accumulated by the slow process of saving some of his salary as a clerk, and also from occasional good investments which his employer Mr. McGee had allowed him to make at his advice.
In later years Mr. Brock's enterprise has extended to various organizations aside from his store. When the Citizens Bank and the Bank of Honea Path were organized he took stock in both of them and has long been a member of the hoard of directors of the Citizens Bank. When the Donalds Oil Mill was organized at Donalds he became its first presi- dent, and the mill was constructed under his direc- tion. He remained the executive head for ten years, and after two years the board of directors again called him to the presidency and he still per- forms those duties. This has become under his management one of the best and most profitable oil mills in this part of the state. Mr. Brock has ac- quired extensive farm interests, and in their super- vision has made a reputation as a farmer which would be a distinction in itself if farming were his only vocation. He has never sought political office, and has maintained strong independence in voting for and supporting men and measures. He is a Presbyterian.
In 1900 Mr. Broek married Miss Mary Erwin. daughter of the late Malcolm Erwin of Abbeville County. Their three children are James Otto, Cath- erine Erwin and John Erwin Brock.
WILLIAM THOMAS ALEXANDER SHERARD. Any in- vestigation of the people and affairs in southern Anderson County during the last century leads to the Sherard family, man" of whom have been farmers, land owners, merchants and citizens of ' undoubted patriotism and loyalty. One of the present generation is William Thomas Alexander Sherard, whose home is at Iva.
He was born at Moffettsville in the same county in 1875, son of Thomas Alexander and Virginia (Baskin) Sherard. Thomas Alexander Sherard was horn in 1823 on Little Genesotee Creek in Anderson County, where his father, William Sher- ard. settled as a pioneer. William Sherard was a native of County Antrim, Ireland, and while it is not known just when he came to America, his nat-
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