Columbus (Ga.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
E.D. Murphy Collection
Collection
Identifier: MC 3
Scope and Contents
Murphy's collection includes copies of his writings about John S. Pemberton and the origins of Coca-Cola, a Civil War Fort in Phenix City, and a brief history of Columbus; his daughter's Civil War map of Columbus and Phenix City; and information about the death of his grandfather, Matt Murphy, a Columbus Marshall in 1874.
Dates:
1874 - 1984
G. Gunby Jordan Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 12
Scope and Contents
The papers contains correspondence and published reports about his business concerns, including the Columbus Railroad Company, Columbus Savings Bank, the Third National Bank, the Perkins Hosiery Mills, Bibb Manufacturing, Columbus Manufacturing, Columbus Power Company, Eagle & Phenix Mills and the General Fire Extinguisher Company. Other material relates to his campaign for County Commission; his activities on the commission, especially his advocacy of paved roads (1920s); his service...
Dates:
1884-1939
Henry L. Benning-Seaborn Jones Collection
Collection
Identifier: MC 6
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the collection deals with the financial transactions of (and especially debts owed to) Seaborn Jones, the records of his (and to a lesser degree Benning's) law practice, and the Civil War correspondence and records of Henry L. Benning. T he legal papers contain copies of suits and various estate proceedings for a wide variety of individuals; these items reflect other aspects of antebellum life in Georgia, particularly the institution of slavery. Jones's papers included a leather...
Dates:
1795 - 1845
Historic Columbus Foundation
Collection
Identifier: MC 17
Scope and Contents
he collection contains material collected by the HCF in the process of restoring various structures, as well as publications and other items produced by the Foundation. It was donated to the Archives in 1977. There are 18 original deeds and mortgages, 9 items relating to Abe Feinberg or his family, brochures, clippings, etc. about HCF or its properties. Also included are Dr. John Lupold's notes on an article for the Georgia Historical Quarterly on the history of the HCF as well as other...
Dates:
1840-2019
Kenneth H. Thomas, Jr. Collection
Collection
Identifier: MC 18
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of items relating to the Columbus area. These items include a variety of items relating to the Blackmar-Drake family; Columbus High School yearbooks (the Cohiscan); ledgers, daybooks and letterheads from several Columbus businesses; bound city annual reports including those from fire chiefs, school superintendents, police chiefs and voter registrations 1872-1899, photo albums, postcards and records of various social and civic groups. The photographs and postcards...
Dates:
1835-1953
Lamar-Chappell Collection
Collection
Identifier: MC 1
Scope and Contents
The collection consists primarily of the library (621 volumes) of Absalom Harris Chappell. This library reflects the varied legal and literary (classical and contemporary) interests of a scholarly antebellum attorney. Almost all of them were published before 1860, including a biography of Louis IX from 1668 and an edition of Diogenes from 1562. The collection also contains pamphlets (38, 7 written by A.H. Chappell) dealing with state and national politics, and family correspondence (14...
Dates:
1562-1861
Louise Jones DuBose Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 2
Scope and Contents
Her correspondence in this collection reflects her career as a reporter and includes letters from Julian and Julia Harris, as well as their photographs. It also documents her literary activites during that period. This collection includes some historical information about public education in Columbus (1927); material pertaining to her lecture in a program on Columbus Women (1975)--including her speech and some publicity; and a brief biography (typescript, 1p.) by Loretto Lamar Chappel,...
Dates:
1860 - 1990
Richard H. Hyatt Papers
File
Identifier: MC 224
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1970s-2000s
Stirling Price Gilbert Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 7
Scope and Contents
This collection includes his published autobiography, A Georgia Lawyer, His Observations and Public Service, now held in the Archives reference collection; a manuscript (circa 1948), diplomas of family members (4 items, 1853-1911); the Supreme Court of Georgia Memorial to Justice Stirling Price Gilbert (February 13, 1952); and two scrapbooks of newspaper clippings (1884-1946), many of which deal with his actions on the bench. His autobiography deals with his father, a country doctor in...
Dates:
1884 - 1952; 1853