Abstract The Poe Family Papers are important for documenting the Santee-Cooper Power and Navigation Project; the Poe family, including Edgar Allan Poe; the history of Greenville, SC and its public utilities; the economic development of South Carolina, especially in the central and northwest portions of the state; the history of South Carolina public utilities in general; and Black housing in the state.The Poe Family Papers consist of account books, bills, budgets, charts and diagrams,...

Scope and Contents This collection documents the legal, financial, personal, and family affairs of Richard Wright Simpson, Thomas Green Clemson, Anna Calhoun Clemson, and Gideon Lee, for his deceased wife Floride and their daughter, Isabella Lee, who was Clemson's only grandchild. The Lee's contested Clemson's will. The papers, and original documents, are resources Simpson and other legal representatives used to prepare for the court cases and estate settlement following Thomas Greene Clemson's death on April...

Description: This series contains three folders of material related to Henry Aubrey Strode, President of Clemson College, 1890-1892. The folders contain a small amount of correspondence between Strode and Richard W. Simpson, the attorney who probated the Thomas Green Clemson estate and the first president of the Board of Trustees, about the operation of the college. Also included is biographical information about Strode’s interest in mathematics and academia; Confederate Army records which catalog...