Manuscript Collection
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History of Early Methodism in Rock Hill, SC - Accession 1127 - M516 (567)
Methodism and William Boyce White Jr.
Accession 1127 - M516 (567)This collection consists of Early Methodism in Rock Hill, South Carolina 1856-1881: A History of the first Twenty-Five Years in the Life and Ministry of St. John’s United Methodist Church by William Boyce White, Jr. This historical sketch provides a complete history of the St. John’s United Methodist Church from the years 1856-1881. Some of the things included in this book are drawings of the church, biographies of past pastors and a map of Rock Hill’s lots and streets.
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Mickle Family Papers - Accession 1163 - M538 (589-590)
Mickle Family and Lucius Milton Ford
Accession 1163 - M538 (589-590)The Mickle Family History Collection consists of photocopied and digitized materials documenting the history of the Mickle family(1700s-2003), who immigrated from Ireland and settled in Kershaw County, South Carolina, prior to the American Revolution. The collection includes a scanned and annotated typescript copy of a family history titled “A Sketch of the Descendants of Joseph Mickle and Miss Hyde Who Married in Ireland and Came to South Carolina and Settled in Kershaw County,” written in the summer of 1902 (possibly 1907) and attributed to Lucius Milton Ford (1842/43–1911). Also included is a typescript copy of a “Ford History” written by L. M. Ford in 1904; the original manuscript is held by the Fairfield County Historical Museum in Winnsboro, South Carolina.
Following the “Ford History” is a military report documenting the experiences of several family members who served on the Confederate side during the American Civil War. This report includes a roster—listing deaths and capture dates—of Company B, Chester District and Fairfield District Palmetto Rangers of the 4th South Carolina Cavalry, commanded by Captain Osbourne Barber. Additional materials in the collection include scanned and printed copies of identified family photographs, genealogical notes, and related newspaper articles.
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Middlebrook Family Register - Accession 357 - M142 (178-179)
Middlebrook Family
Accession 357 - M142 (178-179)The Middlebrook Family Register collection consists of a photocopy of the Register of the Middlebrook Family: descendants of Joseph Middlebrook of Fairfield, Conn. by Louis F. Middlebrook, 1909. The publication contains deeds, war records, genealogical records of first through the tenth generation, and wills, inventories, and surveys concerning the Middlebrook Family from 1686-1908.
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Middle Eastern Manuscript Collection - Accession 1392
Middle Eastern Manuscripts
Accession 1392The Middle Eastern Manuscript Collection consists of two manuscripts that were found in an abandoned monastery in the country of Armenia and was purchased at an antique market by Mr. B. L. Price while he was living in the Middle East. Mr. Price donated the manuscripts to Winthrop to honor two Winthrop graduates (Ruth Douglas Davis Horton, Class of 1929 and Carolyn Caldwell Gaddy, Class of 1931) that were professors of his while attending Wingate College. Mr. B. L. Price states, “I should like to give these two books in honor of the two graduates who have been of great influence to me and to thousands of other students.” The first manuscript, bound in animal-hyde, is a war chronicle chronicling the invasion of Mecca and is written in Arabic. The second manuscript, re-bound, consists of 38 chapters of the Al-Hidayah fi Sharh Bidayat al-Mubtadi, a commentary on jurisprudence written at the end of the 12th century by Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani (d. 593 [1197 CE]).
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Arthur Middleton Papers - Accession 668
Arthur Middleton
Accession 668The papers relate to the life and career of Arthur Middleton (1742-1787) of Charleston, SC who was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, state legislator, Revolutionary leader, and member of the Continental Congress. The collection contains correspondence and memoranda regarding both public and military affairs in Charleston and Philadelphia, and such issues as the Currency, the national debt, motions made in Congress, naval and army defenses. Notes in code about the deliberations concerning the Declaration of Independence.
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Henry Augustus Middleton Plantation Journal - Accession 806
Henry Augustus Middleton
Accession 806The Henry Augustus Middleton Plantation Journal collection consists of microfiche copies of a journal Henry Middleton began when he took over Weehaw Plantation in 1855 through the early days of the Civil War, when he began recruiting for Hampton’s Legion. The journal does included data that predates his taking over the plantation and includes lists of slaves on the plantation, children vaccinated, tasks assigned, allowances of clothing and provisions, expenses, fields planted, yields (1842-1861), overseers (1841-1861), livestock, tools, rules governing work, “Form Contract with Overseer”, “Supplies purchased, contacts made, clippings re Confederacy and agriculture, and for 1861, a personal diary. Henry Augustus Middleton (1793-1887) was a Georgetown County plantation Owner born to Thomas Middleton (1753-1797) and Anne Manigault Middleton (1762-1811).
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Hugh Williford Millen Collection - Accession 1213 - M578 (631)
Hugh Williford Millen
Accession 1213 - M578 (631)This collection consists of memorabilia collected by Chester County native, Hugh Williford Millen (1927-1999) including his high school diploma dated June 2, 1944 from Oakley Hall High School in Chester County, SC. Also included in the collection are two commencement invitations (one belonging to Hugh Williford Millen and the other to William David Ernandez), an Oakley Hall Junior/Senior Banquet invitation, four pictures of buses, a handbook containing rules and instructions for the “Entry and Transfer of Animals in the Herd Register of the American Guernsey Cattle Club,” a record-book or 1915-1916 at the Mt. Holly Consolidated Rural Grade School, newspaper clippings ranging from 1915-1965, and a Mount Holly Methodist Church guide.
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C.C. Miller Papers - Accession 1005
Clarence Carl Miller Jr., Gill Family, Curry Family, Wylie Family, Walker Family, Mills Family, and Kelso/Kelsey Family
Accession 1005The C. C. Miller papers consist of genealogical research conducted by Clarence Carl “Bud” Miller, Jr. (1934-2024). These papers are the result of Mr. Miller’s extensive research into the history of several families of Scots-Irish immigrants who settled in the detailed genealogical information and interesting personal anecdotes about the subjects, particularly the activities of several who were Revolutionary War soldiers. The papers include references to land grants as early as 1767 (see report by Crowder in folder 1) and specific details concerning numerous real property conveyances as early as 1774. The collection contains extensive family trees of the following families: Gill, Curry, Wylie, Walker, Mills, and Kelso/Kelsey. Mr. Miller’s research included examinations of church records (e.g. baptismal and cemetery), county records (e.g., deeds and wills), census data, applications for pensions deriving from Revolutionary War service, and published sources. Most of the family histories date back to the mid-1700s when the families emigrated from Ireland, settling first in Pennsylvania and then moving south. The collection incorporates research reports on the Gill and Walker families written by Mrs. Louise Crowder, as well as relevant information obtained from the extensive research of Dr. Lyman Draper during the 1800s. The Kelso/Kelsey family series of documents includes information on the family dating back to 1022 in Scotland. It appears that Mr. Miller’s wife was a Gill, as several documents reference. “The Chester/York County Ancestors of Paula (Gill) Miller.”
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Miller Family Papers - Accession 754 - M350 (401)
Miller Family
Accession 754 - M350 (401)The Miller Family Papers consist of a pedigree chart of the Miller Family line from William Clarke Miller (1889-1973) of Chester, SC. and a letter sent to family members with genealogical charts requesting information on the Miller Family. The Miller Family Papers were compiled by John Hamilton Miller (1920-).
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Miller Family Papers - Accession 204 - M90 (115-116)
Miller Family and William Joseph Miller
Accession 204 - M90 (115-116)The Miller Family Papers consist of notes on the Miller, Cathcart, and Roddey families, genealogical data on the Lindsay, Stewart, and McCaughrin families, and an American Civil War reminiscence of William Joseph Miller (1845-1918) entitled, “My Experience as a Soldier in the Confederate Army. Written at the Request of Barnette, My Only Living Daughter.” Miller served in the 12th Regiment, South Carolina Volunteers of the Confederate Army.
William Joseph Miller (1845-1918) was the son of Joseph Miller (1823-1890) and Mary Cathcart Miller (1825-1894) and married Margaret Josephine Roddey Miller (1845-1906). William and Margaret had six children: Dr. Joseph Roddey Miller (1867-1931); William Walter Miller (1869-1943); Annie Vena Miller Black (1876-1885); Mary Cathcart Miller (1873-1885); Innis Josephine Miller (1877-1880); Barnette Wylie Miller Spencer (1880-1952);
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Miller Family Bibles - Accession 1686
Miller Family, Walkup Family, Cathcart Family, and William Joseph Miller
Accession 1686The Miller Family Bibles consists of three family bibles which contain genealogical entries, photographs, newspaper clippings and obituaries, and other memorabilia. The genealogical entries consists of birth dates, death dates, marriage dates, and a couple narrative entries related to family history. The family history records relate mostly related to the Miller Family but also includes entries for other allied families: Walkup; Roddey; Williams; Black; Lindsay; Wylie; Cathcart; Spencer; Davis;
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John Hamilton Miller Papers - Accession 1428
John Hamilton Miller and Miller Family
Accession 1428The John Hamilton Miller Papers consist of genealogical materials and research pertaining to the Miller, Hamilton, Borders, Elder, Grier, Harris, Hawthorne, Henry, Kennedy, Meek, Torbit, and Witherspoon allied families conducted by John Hamilton Miller (1920-2018). The records consist of genealogical charts (1700s-2012), family histories, photographs, correspondence, notes, diaries, certificates, newspaper articles, and memorabilia.
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William Joseph Miller Civil War Reminiscence - Accession 41 - M16 (26)
William Joseph Miller
Accession 41 - M16 (26)The collection consists of a photocopy of a typescript account of William Joseph Miller’s experiences as a soldier in the Confederate Army, 12th Regiment, South Carolina Volunteers detailing his role in campaigns in South Carolina, Virginia and Maryland. Also included is a genealogy of William Joseph Miller’s family with his dates of birth and death and a photograph of Miller. William Joseph Miller (1845-1918) was the son of Joseph Miller (1823-1890) and Mary Cathcart Miller (1825-1894) and married Margaret Josephine Roddey Miller (1845-1906). William and Margaret had six children: Dr. Joseph Roddey Miller (1867-1931); William Walter Miller (1869-1943); Annie Vena Miller Black (1876-1885); Mary Cathcart Miller (1873-1885); Innis Josephine Miller (1877-1880); Barnette Wylie Miller Spencer (1880-1952);
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Robert Mills Papers - Accession 514
Robert Mills
Accession 514The Papers of Robert Mills consist of all manuscripts, known to have been preserved by his descendants. When H.M. Pierce Gallagher published her biography of Mills in 1935, part of this collection was in the possession of Thomas Dabney Dimitry, a descendant of one of Mills’ Daughters, Mary Powell, who married Alexander Dimitry. Another part was in the possession of Robert Mills Evans; he was a descendant of the only other daughter who had children, Sarah Jane, the wife of Dr. John Evans. Both parts were inherited by Richard X. Evans, who is a descendant of both of these daughters and thus twice a great-great-grandson of the architect.
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William Wilson Mills Letters - Accession 580
William Wilson Mills
Accession 580This collection contains correspondence, but includes some notes and newspaper clippings on the Mills family of Mayesville, S.C. during the periods 1837-1839, 1856-1864, and 1866-1868. This collection mainly consists of letters from family to Reverend William Wilson Mills (1837-1905) while a student at South Carolina College in Columbia, SC, and while a Confederate soldier in the 9th Regiment Co. F of the South Carolina Volunteers. Mills was also at Manassas, Monticello Hospital in Charlottesville, VA and was finally transferred to an arsenal in Charleston, S.C. Also included are letters received while he was a student at the Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Columbia, SC. The Letters from Mill’s sisters concerned events at home in Mayesville, S.C. and her life at Harmony boarding school in S.C. A great deal about education in the years noted can be discerned from the correspondence as well as some general description of Civil War events. There is also some general information on the business farming.
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Philip B. Mishoe Diaries - Accession 267 - M112 (144)
Philip B. Mishoe
Accession 267 - M112 (144)The Philip B. Mishoe Diaries collection consists of photocopies of two diaries kept by Mr. Mishoe when he served as a seaman during World War II, first aboard the USS New York during North Atlantic Convoy duty and secondly, during Operation Torch, North Africa campaign.
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Miskelley Family Genealogical Research Collection - Accession 1602 M785 (842)
John Thomas Misskelley and Miskelley Family
Accession 1602 - M785 (842)This collection consists of genealogical research (1730-1997) conducted and organized by John Thomas Misskelley concerning the Miskelley Family descended from James Miskelley (1730-1780) who is buried in York, South Carolina. The collection contains genealogical charts, family trees, data sheets, family anecdotes and other information concerning the Miskelley Family and allied families.
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Molony-Ryan Family Correspondence - Accession 371 - M151 (191)
Molony Family and Ryan Family
Accession 371 - M151 (191)This collection consists of photocopies of correspondence of Mary Ann Molony and her niece Geraldine Bellinger Ryan (1851-1891). The correspondence concerns their efforts to become Ursuline nuns. Mary would later become Mother Mary Charles and Geraldine would become Mother Ignatius. Also included is information on merchants and politics in the mid 1800s as well as letters from a Confederate Civil War Soldier. Of particular interest is a letter (August 24, 1864) to Col. John J. Ryan (1817-1869) (Geraldine’s father) from General Johnson Hagood (1829-1898) concerning the fighting at Weldon Railroad or Golden Tavern Battle; in which Patrick Molony was killed on August 21, 1864. Please refer to the Memoirs of the War of Succession by General Johnson Hagood.
*Please note that “Molony” is sometimes spelled Malony/Maloney.
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Moltke Family Papers - Accession 667 - M293 (344)
Moltke Family and Joseph Hart
Accession 667 - M293 (344)The Moltke Family Papers consists of Joseph Hart's research concerning Count Oscar P. A. Von Moltke (1828-1882), who is buried at Rose Hill Cemetery in York, SC, and the Motlke Family from Denmark that lived in York(ville), SC in the 1870s-1980s. Included in the collection is a translated reminiscence of York(ville), SC by Harald Moltke (1871-1960), son of Oscar Motlke, which describes life in Yorkville, SC from the perspective of a Danish immigrant. Harald Motlke was an accomplished painter and participated as a draughtsman in several Arctic expeditions in the 1890s and early 1900s with such noted arctic explorers as Knud Rasmussen, Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen, and Jørgen Brønlund. Also, included is correspondence and book excerpts concerning the Moltke Family.
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Quilters's Oral History Project Collection - Accession 1278
Dottie Moore, Quilters, Piecing a Quilt of Life, and Women Artists
Accession 1278This collection contains materials related to Dottie Moore’s oral history project for the organization “Piecing a Quilt of Life.” Dottie Moore is a fiber artist from Rock Hill, SC. Mrs. Moore that specializes in quilt art. She has been featured in many art and craft shows and is the author of Lives in Process: Creativity in the Second Fifty Years and has been published in numerous magazines and newsletters. She is also the founder of Piecing a Quilt of Life, “an international project dedicated to empowering senior women by recognizing their creative abilities.” Through this project Mrs. Moore interviewed over a hundred women artists and the majority of this collection consists of materials related to this project. The collection includes audio cassette tapes of the interviews, transcriptions, correspondence, slides, brochures, forms, inventories, poems, a VHS tape of a South Carolina Educational Television show concerning the project, a DVD of containing her interactive book, Lives in Process: Creativity in the Second Fifty Years, and other materials related to the project. For more information about Dottie Moore and her work please visit her website.
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Elizabeth Finley Moore Papers - Accession 327
Elizabeth Finley Moore, Finley Family, Gist Family, Moore Family, and Neely Family
Accession 327The Elizabeth Finley Moore Paper consists of correspondence, land grants, deeds, surveys and other legal documents (1763-1864), photographs, and newspaper clippings relating to some of the oldest families in the Catawba region. Documents trace area land ownership for several family names, including Neely, Finley, Moore, Gist, and Crenshaw. Several documents bear the signatures of Charles Pinckney or Henry Middleton. The collection also contains correspondence from family in Ireland, from students at Troy Female Seminary and the College of Charleston, and from family in World Wars I and II. There are papers relating to S.C. activities in the Revolution; S.C. including the Revolutionary War Recollections of Major Henry Moore (1755-1842), churches and church people; The Daughters of the American Revolution in York, S.C.; David Edward Finley, director of the National Gallery of Art; and the restoration of Rose Hill, the Union County mansion of SC Governor William Henry Gist (1807-1874). The collection is a valuable record of several generations of Moore family life.
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John Hammond Moore Papers - Accession 435
John Hammond Moore
Accession 435The John Hammond Moore Papers consists of records and materials related to Dr. John Hammond Moore's literary career. Dr. Moore (1924-2017) was a Winthrop professor of History from 1962-1965. The vast majority of the papers relate to Dr. Moore’s book, The Faustball Tunnel, which is an account of the escape of 25 German prisoners of war from Papago Park Camp, Arizona, December 23, 1944. The papers include National Archives records of the military papers relating to the escape, correspondence concerning the book, and photographs used in the book. Also included in the papers are records, notes, documents, correspondence, maps, photographs, reviews, and manuscripts concerning Dr. Moore’s books, The Young Errol, which was about Errol Flynn’s life, and Over-Sexed, Over-Paid and Over Here, which was about Americans role in Australia during World War II. Within the John Hammond Moore papers there are also articles, both published and unpublished, that spanned topics other than those of Dr. Moore’s books.
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Thelma Chandler Moorhead Autobiography - Accession 1672 - M804 (861)
Thelma Chandler Moorhead and Baptist Missionary
Accession 1672 M804 (861)This collection consists of a 2006 DVD prepared by Meggan Moorhead that includes a recording of Thelma Chandler Moorhead (1917-2014) in 1996 presenting her “Autobiography in Scripture” in Claremont, California to a group of ecumenical missionaries from Japan. Thelma Chandler Moorhead was born in Hopewell, Virginia to Thomas Jefferson and Theodus Bramlett Chandler and was orphaned at 5 years old. She grew up with her brother Douglas at the Connie Maxwell Children’s Home in Greenwood, SC. She later graduated from North Greenville Junior College in 1937, Winthrop College with an AB in History in 1939, and Southwestern Baptist Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas with a Master’s degree in Religious Education. She married Dr. Marion Francis Moorhead in 1940. They were both appointed as Southern Baptist Missionaries to Japan in 1946 and Thelma served in Fukuoka, Sapporo, Kokura, and Tokyo for 36 years until she retired in 1982.
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Martha Frances Morgan Papers - Accession 33
Martha Frances Morgan
Accession 33The Martha Francis Morgan Papers includes teaching aids, reading lists and tests relating to her teaching; together with constitutions, correspondence, photographs, program notes, and newspaper clippings concerning her involvement with the many clubs and organizations in which she participated.
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Moriah Baptist Association Records - Accession 584 - M250 (299)
Moriah Baptist Association
Accession 584 - M250 (299)The Moriah Baptist Association Records consists mainly of photocopies of minutes of the Association which include constitutions, obituaries, lists of officers and committees, reports on education, the state of religion, home missions, and finances. There is also a photocopy of the 150th Anniversary history titled Moriah Baptist Association, Lancaster County, South Carolina, 1815-1965: 150 Years Of Service To The King Of Kings. The records in this collection were photocopied from documents held in the Baptist Historical Collection at Furman University.
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S.A. Moseley Memoirs - Accession 419 - M165 (206)
Solon Arthur Moseley
Accession 419 - M165 (206)Solon Arthur Moseley (1903-1978) was a native and former mayor of Cowpens, South Carolina. The S. A Moseley Memoirs consists of two copies of “Around the World-Adventure Unlimited,” the memoirs of S. A. “Tip” Moseley (1903-1978). The memoir was dictated to his wife several months before he died and covered his travels around the world, including fifty trips to Europe, and a sojourn within 1600 miles of the South Pole. Also included is Moseley’s account of his participation in the World War II invasion of Guam.
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Mount Arnon Baptist Church of Allendale History - Accession 130 - M57 (72)
Mount Arnon Baptist Church, Allendale
Accession 130 M57 (72)The Mount Arnon Baptist Church of Allendale History consists of a photocopies of two typescript histories of the Mount Arnon Baptist Church of Allendale, SC. The first document, which describes the history of the church from its founding in 1839 to 1945, was written by Historian W. M. Jones. the second document continues the history of the church from 1945 to 1974 and was compiled by R. E. Cullom and typed by Dottie Fennell.
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Mount Arnon Baptist Church of Allendale Records - Accession 149
Mount Arnon Baptist Church, Allendale, S.C.
Accession 149The Mount Arnon Baptist Church of Allendale Records is composed of 2 bound volumes. of church minutes extending from 1839 to 1970, a church roster detailing members (1903-1952), and the original church Bible presented to the church at its founding in 1839 by Joseph A. Lawton.
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Mount Carmel Methodist Church Cemetery Tombstone Inscriptions - Accession 707 - M320 (371)
Mount Carmel Methodist Church and William L. Horne compiler
Accession 707 - M320 (371)The Mount Carmel Methodist Church Cemetery Tombstone Inscriptions Collection consists of a compilation of the tombstone inscriptions of the tombstones of Mount Carmel Methodist Church Cemetery in Greenwood County, South Carolina titled Tombstone Inscriptions From Mount Carmel Methodist Church Cemetery Kirksey (Greenwood County), South Carolina. The publication was printed on December 6, 1986 and the data was acquired and compiled by William L. Horne of the South Carolina Genealogical Society. The church was organized sometime between 1871 and 1884 and the earliest burial was in 1884. The earliest birth date on the tombstones is 1817. The publication is separated into two systems of classification. The first according to the plot location and the second according to family name.
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Mount Holly Graded School Yearbook - Accession 1384 - M685 (741)
Mount Holly Graded School and Rock Hill, Education
Accession 1384 - M685 (741)The Mount Holly Graded School Yearbook is titled, Our Record and was for the 1915-1916 academic year. The Mt. Holly Consolidated Rural Graded Schools was started around 1914 and served around 140 students from first grade through tenth grade in 1915-1916. The yearbook contains photographs, class and faculty rosters, directories, and information regarding the school’s history, events, programs, and other information regarding the school during the 1915-1916 academic year. This yearbook also contains a newspaper article (ca1916) glued to the back page which is discusses the yearbook and offers a little more background about it. There is a second article (1916) announcing the marriage of the marriage of Miss Livinia Firesheets (a former Mt. Holly Music Teacher) and Dr. Clarence Tolleson with a handwritten note indicating that the couple moved to Phoenix, Arizona following the marriage.
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Mount Holly United Methodist Church and School Collection - Accession 866 - M387 (438)
Mount Holly United Methodist Church
Accession 866 - M387 (438)This collection consists of photographs (many are copies of older photographs) of the Mount Holly United Methodist Church and school; historical information about the Mount Holly School, a 1994 church directory celebrating 150th anniversary of the church founding, and photocopies of the minutes of the Methodist Episcopal Church South- Rock Hill, South Carolina Circuit 1878 to 1885 which was compiled and laminated by Paul Rutherford (1922-2011) who was the Church Historian of the Mount Holly United Methodist Church.
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Mount Holly United Methodist Church History - Accession 1124 - M515 (566)
Mount Holly United Methodist Church
Accession 1124 - M515 (566)This collection consists of a history of the Mount Holly United Methodist Church titled A History of the Mount Holly United Methodist Church Rock Hill, South Carolina 1844-2002. Mt. Holly United Methodist Church can trace its roots to the 1860s when Shiloh Church was built in an area that later became part of Rock Hill, SC. Shiloh was a nondenominational church that shared a building with a schoolhouse.
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Mr. USA Pageant Records - Accession 107 - M46 (61)
Mr. USA Pageant
Accession 107 - M46 (61)The Mr. USA Pageant Records consists of letters, news releases, newspaper clippings, memorabilia, and photographs relating to the operation of the pageant and the publicity generated from the pageant. The Mr. USA Pageant was held on May 13, 1977 in Charleston, SC as a spoof of traditional beauty pageants and was sponsored by the National Organization of Women (NOW).
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Mungo Family Papers - Accession 189 - M99 (128)
Mungo Family and William P. Mungo
Accession 189 - M99 (128)The Mungo Family Papers consist of a letter written during the American Civil War from a family member to his parents concerning his incarceration in an unknown Union prison camp and a family history titled The (Mungers) Mungos of Kershaw County, South Carolina by William P. Mungo.
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Teresa Murphy Papers - Accession 1466
Teresa Harlem Murphy and Virgeson Family
Accession 1466The Teresa Murphy Papers consists of a scrapbook, Winthrop yearbook (The Tatler), and family photographs belonging to 1929 Winthrop graduate, Teresa Harlem Murphy (b. 1908. The scrapbook details her life and experience while a student at Winthrop from 1925 to 1929. The Tatler contains many notes from classmates including their married names. Also of interest is a Victorian era calendar listing the birth and death dates of members of the Virgeson Family which includes the family of Joseph Cahoon Virgeson (1875-1941) and Katherine Elizabeth Whitley Virgeson (1879-1958).
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Museum Artist League of York County, South Carolina Records - Accession 415
Museum of Artist League of York County, South Carolina
Accession 415The Museum Artist League of York County, SC Records consists of copies of the constitution and bylaws, correspondence, minutes, financial records, press releases, photographs, membership lists, publicity materials, and newspaper clippings relating to the activities of the Museum Artist League. The Museum Artist League was created "to support the arts, particularly the visual arts in York County, by offering varied programs that would be of interest to artists.
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Allegro Music Club of Rock Hill Records - Accession 164
Music Club of Rock Hill, Allegro
Accession 164The Allegro Music Club of Rock Hill Records consist of a history, constitutions, minutes, yearbooks, correspondence, rating sheets, financial records, program notes, newspaper clippings, and awards of merit, relating to the history and activities of the local women’s music club which was founded in 1950.
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Allegro Music Club Rock Hill Records - Accession 946
Music Club of Rock Hill, Allegro
Accession 946The Allegro Music Club of Rock Hill Records consists of constitutions, meeting minutes, correspondence, yearbooks, magazines, financial records and other records related to the activities and operation of the club. The Allegro Music Club of Rock Hill was founded in August, 1950 as a music club for women. A committee composed of members of the Rock Hill Music Club formed the club with 11 members. The Allegro club joined the S.C. Federation of Music Clubs in 1951.
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Juvenile Music Club of Rock Hill Scrapbook - Accession 160
Music Club of Rock Hill, Juvenile
Accession 160The Juvenile Music Club of Rock Hill was sponsored by the Rock Hill Music Club of Rock Hill, South Carolina to foster an appreciation of music among the city’s youth. The scrapbook contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and program notes concerning weekly meetings, contests, programs, and other activities of the club.
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Rock Hill Music Club Records - Accession 100
Music Club, Rock Hill
Accession 100The Rock Hill Music Club Records consist of minutes, correspondence, yearbooks, historical sketches, programs of the meetings, minute books, newspaper clippings, membership records, and two scrapbooks relating to the activities and history of the club. The club was organized in 1914. The records date from 1941 to 1977.
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Rock Hill Music Club Records - Accession 1645
Music Club, Rock Hill
Accession 1645The Rock Hill Music Club was founded March 20, 1914, by Mrs. A. E. Smith and a group of ladies. The Club has provided music awards and scholarships and free community concerts since. This collection contains the annual reports, musical show flyers, letters, music performance programs, written music, award certificates, Music club yearbooks, scrapbooks and Winthrop University Scholarship Students photo.
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Rock Hill Music Club Records - Accession 535
Music Club, Rock Hill
Accession 535The Rock Hill Music Club Records consist of correspondence, an annual report, numerous awards, news clippings, yearbooks, conventions programs, musical programs, scrapbook pages, presidents’ reports, and magazines relating to the Rock Hill, SC Music Club.
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Rock Hill Music Club Records - Accession 932
Music Club, Rock Hill
Accession 932The Rock Hill Music Club Records consists of correspondence, yearbooks, and programs of the meetings, convention programs, numerous awards, newspaper articles, sheet music, presidents’ reports, handbooks, constitutions, photographs, and scrapbooks pertaining to the Rock Hill, SC club.
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Sallie Pearce Musser Papers - Accession 55
Sallie Pearce Musser
Accession 55Sallie Alta Pearce Musser [1902-1974] was a home demonstration agent (1930-1957), and head of the South Carolina Home Demonstration Service (1957-1965). The Sallie Pearce Musser Papers consist of biographical data, correspondence, letters of appreciation upon her retirement, newspaper clippings, photographs, and term papers written by Mrs. Musser while she was working on her MA in 1950 at George Peabody College for Women.
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Constance Myers Papers - Accession 725
Constance Ashton Smith Myers
Accession 725This collection consists of letters, lesson plans, examination, photographs, student papers written, course syllabi, newspaper articles, excerpts of written material for class handouts. Constance Ashton Myers was a historian, author, and professor born in 1927 affectionately known to her family and friends as Connie. During the 1970s, Myers traveled around the United States and interviewed Suffragettes and other women and recorded their interviews. She participated actively in the women’s liberation movement throughout her years giving speeches, writing books, and interviewing women. Dr. Myers attended and taught at Sacramento State College, University of South Carolina at Aiken, and Augusta College as well as worked with many other institutions. In 1969 Myers was dismissed from her teaching at Augusta College in Georgia and she filed for sex discrimination. Throughout her career Myers gave many lectures on women’s history particularly on the Suffragettes, race relations in the south, Marxism, and Latin America. Some of her writings include: The Prophet’s Army: Trotskyists in America, 1928-1941 and “God, Darwin, and the Founding Fathers: Voice of Resistance to the Woman Suffrage and Equal Rights Amendments a Study in Popular Culture”. In 2012 Myers was killed a bus-car collision her husband Cecil survived the crash. They had four children and many grandchildren.
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NAACP Rock Hill Branch Program - Accession 1226 - M588 (641)
NAACP, Rock Hill Branch
Accession 1226 - M588 (641)A program booklet printed for the Nineteenth Annual Freedom Fund Dinner sponsored by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Rock Hill, SC Branch. The dinner was held on June 4, 2005. The booklet includes letters from the branch president, Pastor Anthony Johnson and Rock Hill Mayor, Doug Echols.
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Rock Hill Branch Program - Accession 1153 - M529 (580)
NAACP, Rock Hill Branch
Accession 1153 - M529 (580)This collection consists of a program booklet that was printed for the Eighteenth Annual Freedom Fund Dinner sponsored by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Rock Hill Branch. The dinner was held in McBryde Hall on the Winthrop University Campus on June 5, 2004. The booklet includes letters from the branch president, Pastor Anthony Johnson and Rock Hill Mayor, Doug Echols.
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Nance Family Bible - Accession 1235
Nance Family, Johnson Family, White Family, Workman Family, and Bible
Accession 1235The Nance Family Bible consists of The Comprehensive Bible: According To Authorized Version With The Various Readings And Marginal Notes Usually Printed Therewith. A General Introduction, Containing Disquisitions On The Genuineness, Authenticity, And Inspiration Of The Holy Scriptures; Various Divisions And Marks Of Distinction In The Sacred Writings; Ancient Versions; Coins, Weights, And Measures; Various Sects Among The Jews; Introductions And Concluding Remarks To Each Book: The Parallel Passages Contained In Canne’s Bible; Dr. Adam Clarke’s Commentary, 7 Vols.; Rev. J. Brown’s Self-Interpreting Bible, 2 Vols; Dr. Blayney’s Bible; Bishop Wilson’s Bible, Edited By Crutwell; Rev. T. Scott’s Commentary, 6 Vols.; And The English Version Of Ragster’s Polyglott Bible, Systematically Arranged: Philological And Explanatory Notes: A Table Of Contents, Arranged In Historical Order: An Analysis And Compendium Of The Holy Scriptures: A Chronological Index, An Index Of The Subjects Contained In The Old And New Testaments And An Index To The Notes, Introductions, And Concluding Remarks printed in Philadelphia by J. B. Lippincott & Company in 1868. The Bible was owned by the Nance Family and contains genealogical entries with birthdates, death dates, and marriages dates (1848-1968). The family names included are: Nance; Johnson; White; Workman; Margaret Emily White Johnson Nance (1838-1903), the mother of David Bancroft Johnson, Jr. (1856-1928), Winthrop’s founder and first president, married Mr. William Harrison Nance (?-1873) after the death of her first husband David Bancroft Johnson, Sr. (?-1857). Also included are newspaper clippings concerning the death of Paul D. Workman, Jr. (1900-1968) and a school grade report for Florence Nance (1867-1868). Florence Nance Workman (1872-1940) was D.B. Johnson’s half-sister.
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Nashville Gas Company Records - Accession 879 - M398 (449)
Nashville Gas Company Records and Piedmont Natural Gas
Accession 879 - M398 (449)This series consists of the history of the Nashville Gas Company of Nashville, TN and eight annual reports of the Piedmont Natural Gas Company of Charlotte, North Carolina ranging from 1984 to 1992. Piedmont Natural Gas Company acquired Nashville Gas Company in March 1985.
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National Association of Teacher Educators of Vocational Home Economics Records - Accession 394
National Association of Teacher Educators of Vocational Home Economics
Accession 394This collection consists of records related to the National Association of Teacher Educators of Vocational Home Economics (NATEVHE). The collection consists of Constitution and Bylaws, minutes, reports, correspondence, committee lists, program notes, newsletters, financial records, and membership records. The NATEVHE was founded to facilitate colleague relationships among home economics teacher educators. The organization was formerly known as the National Association of Teacher Educators of Home Economics, an affiliate of the American Vocational Association. The name changed in 1980. Throughout the following series description, papers before April 1980 are referred to as NATEHE. In addition to financial records and membership lists, the collection contains a limited quantity of membership lists, reports, program notes, and newsletters.