Scope and Contents Constitution and by-laws; financial reports; proceedings at St. Louis, Missouri, December 3-7, 1889; county reports listing members and officers from Abbeville, Kershaw, Lexington and Oconee, 1908. Two issues of The Farmers' Union Sun (Columbia, S.C.), May 28 and June 11, 1908 (shelved with oversize S.C. newspapers). Receipt, September 12, 1905, Anderson Farmers Union Warehouse Company. Charter, April 15, 1905, from state of...

Introduction Dr. William Hayne Mills, a Clemson faculty member during the 1930s, was instrumental in obtaining this material from Joseph Wightman Reid, for many years Secretary of the South Carolina State Grange, E. M. Livingston and Mrs. Fred Patterson. The organization of the State Alliance followed that of the Patrons of Husbandry, the "Grange," a collection also held by this library. These two collections, together with the library's Benjamin Ryan Tillman collection, provide information about...

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Constitution and By-laws, adapted as amended, February 1953, and signed by the officers and directors.

Scope and Contents This original volume includes membership list, premium lists, constitution, minutes of meetings; two unattached pages, 1860; three undated newsclipping fragments; and one 1857 newsclipping pasted on fly leaf. The Agricultural Convention of South Carolina met in Columbia August 8 and 9, 1855, for the purpose of organizing a state agricultural society. The society promoted the improvement of agriculture in the state and sponsored what became the State Fair in Columbia. There is also a carbon...