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Thomas P. Stoney papers, 1886-1987
SCHS Call # 100.00
Creator: Stoney, Thomas P. (Thomas Porcher), 1889-1973.
Description: 15 linear ft.
Biographical Historical Note: Berkeley County and Charleston, S.C. attorney and
politician. He began his legal career in 1911 working for prominent Charleston attorney
J.P.K. Bryan and subsequently practiced law independently and in partnership with
several other attorneys. Stoney began his political career by winning the race for South
Carolina ninth circuit solicitor in 1916, a position to which he was reelected in 1920.
Stoney was elected mayor of Charleston in 1923 and again in 1927. As a member of the
Democratic Party Stoney ran an unsuccessful campaign to unseat incumbent U.S. Senator
James F. Byrnes in 1936. Stoney remained active in politics throughout his life, working
for the election of Dwight D. Eisenhower and participating in the South Carolinians for
Independent Electors movement and efforts to block desegregation. Stoney became
increasingly alienated from the Democratic Party. Throughout his career he maintained
an aversion for the growing influence of federal power. He married Beverly Means
DuBose in 1915, and their children were Randell Croft Stoney, Theodore DuBose
Stoney, and Laurence O'Hear Stoney.
Scope and Content: The most significant portion of the papers consists of
correspondence (1909-1971) relating to many aspects of Stoney's personal and family life
and legal and political careers. Case and client records include papers pertaining to the
sale of Social Hall, The Bluff, and Airy Hall plantations (1920s-1930s); and papers of
genealogical interest (1921) pertaining to Laura Parker and Adam Wright, an African-
American couple married at Bellville Plantation in 1873 who later moved to Charleston.
Other case records also pertain to African-Americans. There are other papers (including
reports, newsletters, clippings, and other material) pertaining to Stoney's educational,
political, social, and fraternal memberships and affiliations. Organizations include Porter
Military Academy, University of the South (Sewanee, Tenn.), University of South
Carolina (especially in regard to the football program), Charleston Chamber of
Commerce, Charleston Athletic Club, and several Episcopal churches. Plantation and
farm records (1939-1971) include financial and property records pertaining to a farm in
Ladson (S.C.) and Kensington Plantation. Also included are the papers of Beverly Means
DuBose Stoney (Mrs. Thomas P. Stoney), Randell Croft Stoney, Theodore DuBose
Stoney, and Laurence O'Hear Stoney. Financial records include bills and invoices.
Among Stoney's miscellaneous legal papers is an account book (1912-1916) for legal
fees.
Other items include numerous speeches (1901-1962) by Thomas P. Stoney and
others; biographical information; his will (1921); a group of topical files (mostly printed
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material) concerning various subjects of interest including agriculture, the Bushy Park
Project (1950s), Interstate 95 (1960s), race relations, segregation, communism and
communist infiltration of or influence on civil rights groups and leaders, including the
NAACP and Martin Luther King, wartime fundraising (WW II), political campaigns,
opposition to desegregation, vice (prostitution, gambling, illicit liquor sales) in
Charleston, Stoney's service on the South Carolina Penitentiary Board (Dept. of
Corrections), states’ rights, unions (especially tobacco workers), urban renewal, Stoney
Field (a stadium named in his honor), the Supreme Court, and local and national politics,
especially the policies of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal.
Abstract: The most significant portion of the papers consists of correspondence relating
to many aspects of Stoney's personal and family life and legal and political careers.
Plantation and farm records (1939-1971) include financial and property records
pertaining to a farm in Ladson (S.C.) and Kensington Plantation. Also included are the
papers of Beverly Means DuBose Stoney (Mrs. Thomas P. Stoney), Randell Croft
Stoney, Theodore DuBose Stoney, and Laurence O'Hear Stoney. Records relating to
Stoney’s work at the law firms of Stoney & Cordes, Stoney & McGowan, Stoney,
Crosland & Pritchard, Stoney & Crosland, and Stoney & Stoney are also included.
Note: A portion of the papers of Thomas P. Stoney was processed and cataloged in 1996.
The rest of the collection, which had been stored in an offsite facility, was later brought
to SCHS. In May 2007 the processing of these additional papers was completed and they
were worked into the existing collection. The boxes and folders were rearranged and
renumbered. The finding aid reflects the new organization of the collection. Most of the
information contained in the following notes was compiled in 1996 and is offered as
valuable background and context for the collection.
Note: Photographs have been removed to the SCHS Visual Materials Collection.
Preferred Citation: Stoney, Thomas P. (Thomas Porcher), 1889-1973. Thomas P.
Stoney papers, 1886-1987. (100.00) South Carolina Historical Society.
Search Terms: Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969.
King, Martin Luther, Jr., Jr., 1929-1968.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
Stoney, Beverly Means Dubose, 1894-1976.
Stoney, Laurence O'Hear, 1921-1992.
Stoney, Randell Croft, 1916-1994.
Stoney, Theodore DuBose, 1918-1982.
Stoney, Thomas P. (Thomas Porcher), 1889-1973.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
South Carolina Penitentiary. Board of Directors.
University of South Carolina -- Football.
University of the South.
African Americans -- South Carolina -- 20th century.
Civil rights movements -- Southern States.
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Communism -- United States.
Democratic Party (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century.
Farms -- South Carolina -- Ladson.
Labor unions -- South Carolina.
Mayors -- South Carolina -- Charleston.
New Deal, 1933-1939.
Prostitution -- South Carolina -- Charleston.
Segregation -- United States.
States' rights (American politics)
Vice control -- South Carolina -- Charleston.
Belleville Plantation (Calhoun County, S.C.)
Charleston (S.C.) -- Politics and government.
Interstate 95.
Kensington Plantation (Berkeley County, S.C.)
South Carolina -- History.
South Carolina -- Politics and government.
United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Clippings.
Letters (correspondence)
Photographs.
Speeches.
Lawyers.
Politicians.
Series Outline:
Series 1 Thomas P. Stoney personal and business papers Subseries 1.1 Correspondence
Subseries 1.2 Case Records
Subseries 1.3 Financial Records
Subseries 1.4 Ladson Farm & Kensington Plantation Records
Subseries 1.5 Miscellaneous Papers
Subseries 1.6 Political Papers
Subseries 1.7 Speeches
Subseries 1.8 Topical Files
Series 2 Stoney Family Papers Subseries 2.1 Beverly Means Dubose Estate Papers
Subseries 2.2 Beverly Means Dubose Stoney Papers
Subseries 2.3 Randell Croft Stoney Papers
Subseries 2.4 Theodore Dubose Stoney Papers
Subseries 2.5 Laurence O’Hear Stoney Papers
Subseries 2.6 Stoney Family Papers
Series 3 Thomas P. Stoney Law Firm Records Subseries 3.1 Stoney & Cordes
Subseries 3.2 Stoney & McGowan
Subseries 3.3 Stoney, Crosland & Pritchard
Subseries 3.4 Stoney & Crosland
Subseries 3.5 Stoney & Stoney
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Series 1 Thomas P. Stoney personal and business papers
Subseries 1.1 Correspondence Notes on the Correspondence
The correspondence reflects many aspects of Stoney’s personal life and
political career. Most of the letters of the 1910s document his personal
interests, including a love letter to the future Mrs. Thomas P. Stoney.
There are also letters concerning his political activities. Correspondents of
this period include Governor Richard Manning, Mayor Tristam Tupper
Hyde, and Mayor John Grace.
The correspondence of the 1920s documents Stoney’s political activities
including his 1920 election as solicitor, and his 1923 and 1927 mayoral
races. The death of his father in 1922 is also mentioned. Also
documented is William J. Cordes’ relocation to Boston (Mass.) as the
manager of the Boston Retail Credit Co.
The correspondence of the 1930s documents Stoney’s struggle to redefine
himself after being mayor of Charleston. Apparently, he chose not to run
for reelection in 1931 and supported Burnet Maybank in the mayoral
campaign. Stoney sought appointment to the position of U.S. District
Attorney in 1932. The correspondence documents his pursuit of the
position by soliciting the support of every person who could possibly
influence the outcome. Also reflected is his disappointment at not being
appointed to the position. The correspondence of 1935 and 1936
documents Stoney’s challenge to incumbent U.S. Senator James F.
Byrnes. After being defeated in this race Stoney abandoned the pursuit of
office and focused on his legal career.
The correspondence of the 1940s reflects Stoney’s interest in his sons’
education and includes his advice to them while they attended the
University of the South (Sewanee). Stoney actively involved himself in
obtaining an appointment to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for
his son Theodore Dubose Stoney. During World War II Stoney involved
himself in activities related to fundraising for the war effort. After the
war, Theodore and Laurence O’Hear Stoney returned to join Stoney &
Crosland.
The correspondence of the 1950s documents Stoney’s political
involvement. He became heavily involved in South Carolinians for
Eisenhower in the 1952 presidential campaign. Also documented is his
involvement in the mayoral campaigns of William Morrison and J. Palmer
Gaillard. Many letters reflect Stoney’s concern for the issues of
desegregation and communism.
Letters and other material in the topical files concern the threat of
communist infiltration of the United States government and culture. The
correspondence on these subjects continues into the 1960s. Also reflected
in the correspondence and general papers is Stoney’s involvement in the
Episcopal Church and its struggles over segregation in the 1960s. (Stoney
was a member of Strawberry Chapel in Berkeley County). Because
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carbon copies of so much of Stoney’s personal correspondence exists, the
correspondence provides a very candid look at his views on various issues.
Many of Thomas Stoney’s interest spanned decades of his life. Gamecock
football was a passion begun during his days as a quarterback at the
University of South Carolina and continued throughout his life. Stoney
remained connected to his school ties except Catawba Military Academy.
He served on the board of trustees for Porter Military Academy, the
University of the South, and the University of South Carolina, and his
letters reflect his involvement with these institutions. The correspondence
series does not contain much significant correspondence about Kensington
Plantation, most of which is included in the Kensington/Ladson farm
series.
Subseries 1.2 Case Records Notes on Case records:
Case record files include a lawsuit brought by Frank Edmonds, an African
American taxi cab driver, against the City of Charleston Police for
refusing to allow “colored taxis” to service the taxi stand at the Fort
Sumter Hotel and Calhoun Street (1942), an autopsy report (with bullet)
for Duncan Cameron Meyers (1921), estate papers of Amos Meyers (d.
1899), Petition for Incorporation of the fraternal organization called
Starlight of Moss Hill Society in Adams Run, S.C., State Board of Health
inspection for “eating and drinking establishments” for Duffy’s pharmacy
located at 231 King St., a membership list and organization rules for the
Emanuel Starlight and Early Star Society, and transcripts of interviews
with witnesses to an illicit exchange of whiskey between Charleston
Police and Wallace K. Harley at Hampton Park (1924). Other items and
persons include papers pertaining to the murder trial of South Carolina v.
Harvey & Watson, a subscription contest to raise funds for the Orphan Aid
Society (Jenkins Orphanage), the electric railroad trestle over Noisette
Creek, the dismissal of a Morris St. Baptist Church deacon, Isle of Palms
property, a dispute over payment for books, auto repossession, sales of
plantation lands (including Social Hall, The Bluff, and Airy Hall), and a
train collision near Moncks Corner. Also included are records regarding
the marriage of Laura Parker and Adam Wright (African-Americans) at
Bellville Plantation near Orangeburg in November 1873. The couple later
moved to a location adjacent from Lang Syne Plantation. Their children
included Charles, Mimmie Sue, Augusta, Isabel and Evelyn Addison
Wright.
A legal fee account book (1912-1916) and an inventory and appraisement
of the estate of Alexina J. Chesnut Holmes (1858-1929) includes a “List of
Articles at 290 Meeting Street,” with information on portraits of Gibbes,
Holmes, and Elliott family members and the books in the library.
Subseries 1.3 Financial Records Financial records for both personal and case-related services include bills from
local contractors, carpenters, painters, automobile mechanics, printers,
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photographers, lumber yards, wholesale stores, grocers, pharmacists, morticians
and funeral directors, drycleaners, farm supply stores, clothiers, hat makers,
cobblers and shoe stores, furniture stores, and farmers raising poultry, produce
and other livestock. These often include the name of the business owner, client,
goods or service obtained, amount of money owed and location (city or street
address) of the business operation.
Subseries 1.4 Ladson Farm & Kensington Plantation Records Records consist of correspondence, invoices, contracts, deeds and other property
records, survey plats, payrolls, financial reports, and other items pertaining to a
farm in Ladson (S.C.) and Kensington Plantation.
Papers (1939-1955) pertaining to the operation of Stoney's Ladson farm include
correspondence (mostly carbon copies of typescripts) concerning finances, crops,
livestock, and other matters; forms and letters from the Agricultural Adjustment
Administration (U.S.D.A.) regarding crop acreage allotments; invoices for fish
meal and other items; accounts; and a contract with the South Carolina Power
Company to erect a rural electrical line extension. Correspondents include Phillip
Driggers, S. Porcher Stoney, Walter B. Metts, and other individuals and
businesses.
Papers (1941-1971) pertaining to Kensington Plantation include correspondence
(mostly carbons), property records, plats, payrolls, invoices for livestock feed and
other purchases, and other items concerning the purchase of the plantation by
Thomas P. Stoney, Malcolm E. Crosland (trustee), Richard D. Tucker, and
Edward K. Pritchard; surveying and mapping of the plantation; repair and
maintenance of rice fields for duck hunting (some damage to the rice field banks
being due to changes in the water level of the Cooper River caused by the Santee-
Cooper hydroelectric project); financial matters; repairs to a house; development
of the plantation as a farm; lumbering; raising of hogs and cattle; barley crops;
and general operations. Correspondents include Malcolm E. Crosland, S. Porcher
Stoney, and farm manager Clarence Murray.
Subseries 1.5 Miscellaneous Papers Notes on Miscellaneous papers
Miscellaneous papers of Thomas P. Stoney include material pertaining to clubs
and organizations, legal practice, hobbies, and other endeavors. Materials include
ledgers, ephemera, bills, plats, poetry writings, clippings, broadsides, print
materials, charters and stock certificates.
Individual items include legal diaries (1911 and 1922), a list of personal faults, a
child’s game with paper dolls and written instructions called “the Magic Dance”,
a small plaque honoring Stoney for service as President of the Charleston
Chamber of Commerce in 1954, certificates of entry into the American Kennel
Club Stud Book for two cocker spaniels (1931 and 1934), a list of persons holding
season tickets to Citadel football games (with addresses and business affiliations),
a map of Charleston with ward numbers penciled in, a distribution of expenses
for “The Charleston American” labeled as “South Carolina’s most progressive
newspaper”, a book of common prayer that belonged to Mrs. Thomas P. Stoney,
an agreement between the Planters Fertilizer and Phosphate Company and the
International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Local No. 863 (1956-
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1958), credit applications (1914-1915), draft board appeal records (1944),
psychology lessons, rent accounts, and a story entitled “Narrative of Cap’n Shine
Brown of Rockville."
Business and organization records include charters for the River Road Farm
Corporation, Coastal Speedways, Inc., Augustine’s, Inc., the Marlboro Trust Co.,
and the Southern Ice Co., as well as materials relating to Porter Military
Academy, Sewanee (University of the South), the University of South Carolina,
and football.
Ephemera include miscellaneous programs, bulletins, broadsides, business and
membership cards, tickets for admission, souvenirs of travel, train and ferry trips,
and a 1911 dues book belonging to William E. Baskin for the Gridiron
Benevolent Association, organized June 27th
, 1910.
A ledger labeled “Locations. Motion Picture Resources” contains listings and
descriptions of local locations suitable as settings for film. Sites include beaches,
bluffs and hills, country club, churches, hotels, prisons, historic buildings and
sites, plantations, parks, old slave quarters, ruins and dilapidated buildings, race
track and fair grounds, ships, street scenes and waterfronts.
Also included is the will of Thomas P. Stoney and biographical information on
Thomas P. Stoney,
Subseries 1.6 Political Papers Notes on Political Papers
Political papers relate to Thomas P. Stoney’s campaigns and offices,
including the solicitorship, his mayoral races and terms, and his U.S.
Senate race (1936). Other material relates to Charleston and Charleston
County politics and includes files on the mayoral races of J. Palmer
Gaillard and William McGillivray Morrison. The latter documents
Morrison’s 1951 mayoral race against fellow democrat O.T. Wallace.
Stoney’s involvement in the campaign is not specifically documented.
Papers relating to South Carolina state politics include files on the U.S. Senate
candidacies of T. Allen Legare (1962) and Strom Thurmond (1966).
Papers relating to national politics include files on the presidential
campaigns of Franklin D. Roosevelt (1932), Dwight D. Eisenhower
(1952), George C. Wallace (1968), and Barry Goldwater (1964). Included
is material concerning the work of South Carolinians for Dwight D.
Eisenhower, a group of persons who worked to develop support for
Eisenhower among a faction of the splintered Democrat party. Stoney is
listed as the representative of the ninth circuit on the Advisory Committee.
Some material pertains to a dinner given by South Carolinians for
Eisenhower in honor of his 1952 presidential victory. A speech given by
Thomas P. Stoney at the dinner is included in the series of speeches.
Papers relating to local and national politics also include chronologically arranged
files on miscellaneous political events, issues and persons, 1920s-1960s. These
include material pertaining to the Democratic Party, a third national party, and
Judge J. Waties Waring.
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Subseries 1.7 Speeches Includes speeches and addresses by various persons including James Allen, James
Byrnes, J. Palmer Gaillard, Ernest Hollings, T. Allen Legare, Cotesworth P.
Means, J.D.E. Meyer, A.R. McGowan, William M. Morrison, Strom Thurmond,
O.T. Wallace, and several unknown authors. Also includes Thomas P. Stoney’s
speeches from the 1920s through the 1936 Senate race.
Subseries 1.8 Topical Files Topics include agriculture, Charleston County Airport, Best Friend of Charleston
(train), 51 Broad Street (law office of Thomas P. Stoney), the Bushy Park Project,
Charleston Chamber of Commerce, Charleston County Bar Association,
Charleston County courthouse building (1950s), Charleston County Citizens’
Council (1960s), church affairs (Episcopal), civil defense, Communism and
socialism in the United States, Confederate Memorial Day, the murder of S.C.
state senator E.J. Dennis (1930s), Economics, John P. Grace, Johnson Hagood
Stadium construction (1940s and 1950s), Huguenots, Interstate 95, Port of
Charleston, health and charities, race and race relations, railroads, Social Security,
South Carolina Penitentiary Board records, States Rights Foundation, South
Carolinians for Independent Electors, Stoney Field, Supreme Court (U.S.),
Tourism, Unions, United Nations and international law, Urban renewal, vice and
crime in Charleston, and World War II fundraising.
Series 2 Stoney family papers, 1886-1987 Description: 1 linear ft.
Scope and Content: Included are estate records of Beverly Means Dubose, and papers
of Beverly Means Dubose Stoney (Mrs. Thomas P. Stoney), Laurence O'Hear Stoney,
Randell Croft Stoney, and Theodore Dubose Stoney. Stoney family papers include
correspondence, genealogical data, real property records, and wills. Early correspondence
includes a letter (26 April 1906) concerning the San Francisco earthquake.
Papers of Theodore D. Stoney include biographical data, correspondence (1939-1962),
and political papers, some concerning his 1950 campaign for the South Carolina House of
Representatives. Also documented is his appointment as an agent of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation (FBI) in 1943, including a letter from J. Edgar Hoover.
Many letters of 1906 have to do with the death of Dr. Randell Croft Stoney in San
Francisco. There are several letters of his written just before his death.
Note: Forms part of Thomas P. Stoney Papers.
Search Terms: Dubose, Beverly Means -- Estate.
Stoney, Laurence O'Hear, 1921-1992.
Stoney, Randell Croft, 1916-1994.
Stoney, R Croft, d. 1906.
Stoney, Theodore DuBose, 1918-1982.
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Legislators -- South Carolina.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Earthquake, 1906.
Stoney, Beverly Means Dubose, 1894-1976.
Stoney family.
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Letters (correspondence)
Subseries 2.1
Beverly Means Dubose estate papers, 1911-1950. Includes correspondence, appraisal, will, obituary and other items pertaining to
the estate of Beverly Means Dubose of Columbia, S.C.
Beverly Means Dubose was the mother of Thomas P. Stoney’s wife, Beverly
Means Dubose Stoney.
Subseries 2.2
Beverly Means Dubose Stoney papers, 1920-1936 Includes correspondence from Dr. Leon Banov relating to sanitation of property
on Sullivan’s Island, a letter regarding property insurance and letters from
Stoney’s children.
Other items include Beverly Stoney’s voting registration certificate (1939) as well
as correspondence, programs, and other ephemera relating to a dinner held in
honor of Queen Marie and Princess Ileana of Roumania in New York City (1926).
Bevery Means Dubose married Thomas Porcher Stoney on October 7, 1915.
Subseries 2.3 Randell Croft Stoney Papers, 1936-1949 Includes report cards from the University of the South (1936), a letter to Professor
William H. McKellar requesting assistance in obtaining the requisite credits for
coursework in public speaking, and receipts for repair work done at 32 Broad
Street and 61 Tradd Street.Also includes an obituary for Randell C. Stoney, 1994.
The eldest son of Thomas P. Stoney and Beverly Dubose Stoney, Randall Croft
Stoney attended Porter Military Academy and the University of the South,
graduating from the latter in 1939 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He began
working with Louis E. Storen in the real estate and insurance business in 1939.
While involved in this business he was elected alderman in 1947 and 1951. He
later won a seat on the Commission of Public Works in 1959 and served in that
capacity until 1984. Since he never worked at 51-53 Broad Street, only a few of
his items are in this collection. He died September 16, 1994.
Subseries 2.4 Theodore Dubose Stoney Papers, 1939-1962 Papers include biographical information, correspondence (1939-1962), and
political papers. Stoney’s early correspondence contains love letters and
information on law school. Also documented is his receipt of the Algernon
Sydney Sullivan Award from the New York Southern Society, and his
appointment to the FBI in 1943. Letters from 1950 and 1952 discuss his
campaigns for election to the South Carolina House of Representatives. There are
also letters from D.N. Rivers and Sol Blatt soliciting Theodore D. Stoney’s
support in their quests to become Speaker of the House. Stoney’s appointment as
Assistant U.S. District Attorney figures prominently in letters from 1953. Letters
of 1956 document his race for solicitor.
Documents pertaining to Theodore Stoney’s political activities include
correspondence and clippings relating to Stoney’s campaign for the South
Carolina House of Representatives in 1950 and race for solicitor against William
M. Morrison, Jr. in 1956.
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Ephemera include a brochure published by the South Carolina Bar Association
(1953), a Bulletin of Criminal Information and Missing Persons (1962), a radio
broadcast schedule for WHAN (June 1950), a ribbon labeled “Alternate Delegate”
for the South Carolina Democratic Convention (1962), and material relating to the
Parent Teacher Association of Bennett School.
Born in 1918 in Columbia, S.C., Theodore Dubose Stoney was the second son of
Thomas P. Stoney and Beverly Dubose Stoney. He attended Porter Military
Academy, the University of the South (A.B., 1940), University of Virginia
(LL.B., 1948), and the University of South Carolina. Stoney was a special agent
for the FBI from 1941-1944 and an ensign in the U.S. Navy from 1945-1946.
After being admitted to the South Carolina Bar, Stoney began to practice law with
his father and brother Laurence O’Hear Stoney. Theodore Stoney served as a
member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1951-1953;
Assistant U.S. District Attorney for the Eastern District, 1953-1956; and Solicitor
for the ninth circuit, 1956-1964.
Subseries 2.5 Laurence O’Hear Stoney Papers, 1944-1961 Papers include correspondence, receipts, military records, and programs.
Correspondence includes a letter from the Charleston City Police Department
relating to parking for Charleston County Agricultural Fair Association attendees
(1950), letters pertaining to taking the Bar Exam, and a letter (1961) from
Berkeley Grimball, headmaster at the Gaud School for Boys, in which he refutes
claims relating to University of the South’s attempt to bestow an honorary degree
to Tom Waring on the “basis of his stand on integration”. He goes on to address
issues relating to integration of both “Sewanee” and the Gaud School declaring
that “there will never be a Negro problem at Sewanee; for if standards for
admission are as high as we are led to believe, then a Negro student who could
qualify for Sewanee would be able to enter colleges in other areas where he would
have an easier social adjustment to make.” Grimball concludes by declaring that
he does “not plan to integrate the Gaud School now or ever.” Correspondents
include Christie Benet, T. Mumford Boyd, Chris Ortmann, Panchita H. Grimball,
Berkeley Grimball, and Samuel G. Stoney.
Receipts are for medical prescriptions, insurance payments and home repair.
Military papers relating to Stoney’s service in the United States Navy include
certificates, orders for deployment, a motor vehicle chauffeur’s permit, physical
exams, and reports for his qualifications to serve in various capacities.
The third son of Thomas P. Stoney and Beverly Dubose Stoney, Laurence O’Hear
Stoney was born in 1921 in Columbia, S.C. Stoney attended Porter Military
Academy, the University of the South (A.B., 1942), the University of Virginia
(LL.B., 1948), and the University of South Carolina. He served as a lieutenant in
the U.S. Navy during World War II (1942-1946). After admission to the South
Carolina Bar, he practiced law with his father and brother Theodore.
Subseries 2.6 Stoney Family Papers Papers include correspondence (1886-1987), genealogical data, real property
records, and wills.
Correspondence includes a letter (April 26, 1906) concerning the San Francisco
earthquake. Many letters of 1900 to 1906 are from Dr. Randell Croft Stoney
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(1845-1906) from various locations in California including Los Banos, Wawona,
and Yerba Buena Ranch) while serving in the 6th
Calvary of the U.S. Army. He
married and lived in San Francisco until his death in 1906 when he was involved
in a streetcar accident. Several letters of Randell Croft Stoney are written just
before his death.
Genealogical material includes a Stoney family crest, a photostat of a list of
individuals on “Honorary Guard over the Remains of Mr. Calhoun, “In
Memorium- Captain Wm. E. Stoney” a manuscript by Johnson Hagood, an
obituary for S. Porcher Stoney (1849-1922) the youngest son of Peter Gaillard
Stoney and Anna Maria Porcher, and miscellaneous family charts, notes, etc. on
the Stoney family lineage.
Property records relate to Ophir, Medway, Dean Hall, Pimlico, the Bluff, and
Gippy plantations.
Also includes the wills of Thomas P. Stoneys siblings Anna M. Stoney, S.
Porcher Stoney and Charlotte M. Stoney as well as two of his aunts, Charlotte
Matilda Croft, and Mary S. Croft.
Series 3 Thomas P. Stoney Law Firm Records Subseries 3.1 Stoney & Cordes
Subseries 3.2 Stoney & McGowan
Subseries 3.3 Stoney, Crosland & Pritchard
Subseries 3.4 Stoney & Crosland
Subseries 3.5 Stoney & Stoney
Subseries 3.1 Stoney & Cordes records, 1914-1917. Collection chiefly consists of correspondence and one file of case records.
Case records (1915-1916) concern an unusual disruption of a religious
service at Greenhill (or Green Hill; some documents say Greenland)
Baptist Church in Berkeley County (S.C.) near Eadytown.
Biographical/Historical Note: Thomas P. Stoney entered into a law
partnership with William J Cordes in 1914 and continued in that practice
until 1918.
Subseries 3.2 Stoney & McGowan records, 1923-1928.
Collection chiefly consists of correspondence and case records. Case
records concern a pension for Mrs. R.J. Walker, a widow of a Confederate
veteran; the estate of Davidina and Florida Fabian, sisters of Charleston
(S.C.); the case of James Jackson v. Thomas Pinckney, a dispute over
property at 7 Lily Street; a railroad accident in the Chicora Place area;
South Carolina v. Paul Fludd, a murder case; and Richard T. Crawford, a
worker on the Cooper River Bridge who was fatally injured (1928).
Biographical/Historical Note: Thomas P. Stoney entered into a law
partnership with A. Russell McGowan in 1923 and continued in that
practice until 1928.
Subseries 3.3 Stoney, Crosland & Pritchard records, 1930-1948 Collection chiefly consists of correspondence and case records.
Correspondence includes a series of semi-literate letters from persons
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seeking legal or financial help, as well as letters from incarcerated
persons.
Case records include papers pertaining to the estates of Julius Brittlebank,
Heloise C. Barbot, Elizabeth O'Neill Verner, John Richards Campbell,
Russell M. Doar, Melvin J. Hornik, Elizabeth Loney (Deloney?), Gabriel
Johnson, Frederick G. Gerard, August Heinrich Von Dohlen, and Abby D.
Munro. Estate records (1932) of Lucia T. Clement contain information on
Dungannon Plantation and the Clementia Mineral Springs. Estate records
of Samuel Bash and Harrison Riggs, black property owners, include some
genealogical information. Cases pertaining to real estate transactions
include records concerning Ararat, Woodboo, and other plantations in
Berkeley County sold to the S.C. Public Service Authority for the Santee-
Cooper Hydroelectric Project; Kiawah Island; Airy Hall Plantation; the
Calhoun Mansion on Meeting Street in Charleston (S.C.); and Little Goat
Island. Other cases pertain to illicit distilleries (moonshine operations);
"alien enemy" and disloyalty charges during World War II; and auto
accident injury claims, including cases involving Eva Jessye (Spears), and
Van Lingle Mungo, a black baseball player. Records (1935-1936)
concerning a black youth who fled the scene of an accident includes
petitions on the boy's behalf stating that he did so for fear of violence by
whites.
Case and client records which pertain to businesses include papers
pertaining to radio stations WCSC and WTMA; the Charleston Oil
Company; the South Carolina National Bank; Raybestos-Manhattan
(asbestosis in workers); Charleston Shipbuilding and Drydock Co.; the
American Tobacco Co. (union workers); and the Charleston Auto
Hospital. Weber v. Clement Furniture Co. (1937) concerns a lawsuit
against a collection agent who showed disrepect to a black lady.
Notable cases include records (1937-1938) concerning children who were
not allowed to attend a white school in Charleston County because they
were accused of being "half Indian" (includes information on the Miller
School, for children of "mixed blood"); records (1931-1938) concerning
charges against T. St. Mark Sasportas, a black attorney; and S.C. v. Jack
Green et al. (1932), a case concerning illegal lottery ticket sales (includes
data on the early lottery laws of South Carolina). Other persons named as
clients or in case records include John P. Grace, Alma Clark Hobson, and
Francis Kinloch Lesesne.
Biographical/Historical Note: Thomas P. Stoney, Malcolm E. Crosland,
and Edward K. Pritchard entered into a law partnership in 1930. The
practice continued under this name until Edward K. Pritchard left in 1948.
Subseries 3.4 Stoney & Crosland records, 1948-1954 Case records include correspondence, legal documents, photographs, and
other papers concerning the sale of the Brown Fellowship Society's
cemetery on Pitt Street (1940-1951); U.S. v. Moody W. Carver, a
Tennessean charged with concealing his membership in the Ku Klux Klan
(1952-1954); a case involving Alan H. Schafer (1914-2001), operator of
the "South of the Border" restaurant (1951); a case concerning injuries to a
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railroad worker in Jericho (S.C.); and U.S. v. Donald S. Brown et al., a
case against moonshiners (1951).
Collection chiefly consists of correspondence and case records.
Correspondence (1948-1954) includes a series of semi-literate letters from
persons [many of them African-American] seeking legal or financial help.
Biographical/Historical Note: In 1948 Edward K. Pritchard left the law
partnership of Stoney, Crosland & Pritchard, and Thomas P. Stoney and
Malcolm Crosland continued their partnership until the latter's death in
1954. Stoney's sons Theodore Dubose Stoney and Laurence O'Hear
Stoney also joined the partnership in 1948.
Subseries 3.5 Stoney & Stoney records, 1954-1968 Collection chiefly consists of correspondence (1954-1968) and case records. Case
records include material concerning claims of storm damage to the Old Exchange
Building (Charleston, S.C.) submitted by the DAR (1960); flooding and drainage
problems in Moreland Subdivision (1965); the acquisition of marsh lands near the
Charleston Navy Base from Miss Caroline S. Alston (1966; inlcludes some Alston
genealogy); St. James Goose Creek Church v. W.S.D. Avinger, a case concerning
church property; papers regarding the Sword Gate House on Legare Street; the
bankruptcy of Richard H. Millar (1950s), an iron worker and proprietor of "The
Iron Gate"; and case records (1956-1957) concerning the estate of Sarah L.
Simmons, and a family dispute over a Sully portrait of Mary Roane Ritchie
Simmons.
Biographical/Historical Note: After the death of his law partner Malcolm
Crosland in 1954, Thomas P. Stoney continued in the practice of law with his
sons Theodore D. Stoney and Laurence O'Hear Stoney.
Container Listing:
BOX 1
Folders 1-17 Correspondence, 1909-1919
BOX 2
Folders 1-18 Correspondence, 1920-1922
BOX 3
Folders 1-14 Correspondence, 1923-1926
BOX 4
Folders 1-11 Correspondence, 1927-1931
BOX 5
Folders 1-10 Correspondence, 1932
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BOX 6
Folders 1-13 Correspondence, 1933
BOX 7
Folders 1-16 Correspondence, 1934-June 1935
BOX 8
Folders 1-16 Correspondence, July 1935-1936
BOX 9
Folders 1-18 Correspondence, 1937-1939
BOX 10
Folders 1-16 Correspondence, 1940-May 1944
BOX 11
Folders 1-21 Correspondence, June 1944-1950
BOX 12
Folders 1-16 Correspondence, 1951-August 1953
BOX 13
Folders 1-18 Correspondence, Sept. 1953-1957
BOX 14
Folders 1-18 Correspondence, 1958-May 1961
BOX 15
Folders 1-17 Correspondence, June 1961-1962
BOX 16
Folders 1-19 Correspondence, 1963-1967
BOX 17
Folders 1-19 Correspondence, 1968-1971; and undated letters
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BOX 18
Correspondence arranged by topic, type, or correspondent
100/18/01 Letters and poems of Emily Doty
100/18/02 Genealogical correspondence (mostly re Stoney family)
100/18/03 Correspondence re John P. Grace Bridge
100/18/04 Invitations, etc.
100/18/05 Letters from incarcerated persons or their family members
100/18/06 Letters from Joseph E. Jenkins
100/18/07 Letters re military affairs
100/18/08 Correspondence with Herbert R. Sass re the Santee Club
100/18/09 Semiliterate letters
100/18/10 Letters re the papers of Thomas P. Stoney and SCHS
100/18/11 Correspondence with Billy Sunday
100/18/12-16 Correspondence re the University of South Carolina Alumni Association, 1923 -1929
(mostly re football and athletic program)
BOX 19
Case Records
100/19/01 Miscellaneous legal case records - includes legal fee account book, 1912-1916 (wrapped;
on shelf next to Box 19)
100/19/02 S.C. v. Harvey & Watson (a murder case; includes testimony)
100/19/03 Records re Frank Meacher (bigamy case?)
100/19/04 Records re electric railroad trestle over Noisette Creek, 1917
100/19/05 Re subscription contest to raise funds for the Orphan Aid Society (Jenkins Orphanage),
1924-1929 (includes letters of Rev. D.J. Jenkins)
100/19/06 Re dismissal of Morris St. Baptist Church deacon and debt to TPS, 1920s
100/19/07 Records re Isle of Palms property, 1920s
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100/19/08 Re a property dispute among African Americans, 1921
100/19/09 Records re dispute over payment for books (History of South Carolina), 1921-1923;
includes letter from Yates Snowden stating he was only the editor, not the author
100/19/10 Records re auto repossession, 1919-1921
100/19/11 Records re expelled black church member, 1919
100/19/12 Records of sales of plantation lands, 1920s-1930s, including Social Hall, The Bluff, and
Airy Hall
100/19/13 Records re train collision near Moncks Corner, 1925-1926
100/19/14 Inventory and appraisement of estate of Alexina J. Chesnut Holmes (1858-1929), ca.
1929; includes “List of Articles at 290 Meeting Street,” with info on portraits of Gibbes,
Holmes, Elliott, etc. family members (p. 69) and the books in the library
100/19/15 Papers, 1921, regarding the marriage of Laura Parker and Adam Wright (African-
Americans) at Bellville Plantation (Calhoun Co.); includes some genealogy
100/19/16-17 Financial Records: bills, etc. 1910-1929
BOX 20
Financial Records: bills, etc., 1920-1959
100/20/01 Bills, etc., 1920-1929
100/20/02 Bills, etc., 1930-1939
100/20/03 Bills, etc., 1930-1939
100/20/04 Bills, etc., 1940-1949
100/20/05 Bills, etc., 1940-1949
100/20/06 Bills, etc., 1950-1959
100/20/07 Bills, etc., 1950-1959
BOX 21
100/21/01 Bills, etc., 1960-1969
100/21/02 Medical bills of legal clients, personal
Ladson Farm and Kensington Plantation records 100/21/03 Ladson Farm records: correspondence, 1939
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100/21/04 Ladson Farm records: correspondence, 1940-1942
100/21/05 Ladson Farm records: correspondence, 1943-1955
100/21/06 Ladson Farm records: financial records
100/21/07 Ladson Farm records: miscellaneous records
100/21/08 Kensington Plantation records: papers re original purchase, 1940-1941
100/21/09 Kensington Plantation records: papers re Richard Tucker’s share, 1942
100/21/10 Kensington Plantation records: papers re transfers of parts of Kensington, 1941-1945
100/21/11 Kensington Plantation records: papers re rice field repair and maintenance, 1941
100/21/12 Kensington Plantation records: papers re rice field repair and maintenance, 1942
100/21/13 Kensington Plantation records: papers re S.C. Public Service Authority
100/21/14 Kensington Plantation records: general operations, 1941
100/21/15 Kensington Plantation records: general operations, 1942
BOX 22
100/22/01 Kensington Plantation records: general operations, 1943
100/22/02 Kensington Plantation records: general operations, 1944
100/22/03 Kensington Plantation records: general operations, 1944
100/22/04 Kensington Plantation records: general operations, 1945
100/22/05 Kensington Plantation records: general operations, 1946
100/22/06 Kensington Plantation records: general operations, 1947
100/22/07 Kensington Plantation records: general operations, 1948
100/22/08 Kensington Plantation records: general operations, 1948
100/22/09 Kensington Plantation records: general operations, 1949
100/22/10 Kensington Plantation records: general operations, 1950
100/22/11 Kensington Plantation records: general operations, 1951
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100/22/12 Kensington Plantation records: general operations, 1952
100/22/13 Kensington Plantation records: general operations, 1961-1971
100/22/14 Kensington Plantation records: payroll records
100/22/15 Kensington Plantation records: financial records
100/22/16 Kensington Plantation records: miscellaneous records
100/22/17 Kensington Plantation records: Illustrations (pencil and pen) of the stables at Kensington
and logo for the Charleston Polo Club at Boone Hall Plantation.
BOX 23
Miscellaneous Material
100/23/01 Miscellaneous personal and professional papers: academic records
100/23/02 Miscellaneous personal and professional papers: automobile records
100/23/03 Miscellaneous personal and professional papers: certificates, tributes, etc.
100/23/04 Clubs and organizations: Charleston Athletic Club
100/23/05 Clubs and organizations: St. Andrew’s Society
100/23/06 Clubs and organizations: Kiwanis, Rotary, etc.
100/23/07 Miscellaneous personal and professional papers: Insurance records
100/23/08 Miscellaneous personal and professional papers: Miscellaneous papers re legal practice
100/23/09 Miscellaneous personal and professional papers: Legal diary and notebook, 1911
100/23/10 Miscellaneous personal and professional papers: Legal diary, 1922
100/23/11 Miscellaneous personal and professional papers: List of personal faults
100/23/12 Miscellaneous personal and professional papers: memos, August, 1933
100/23/13 Miscellaneous items: include a Charleston Chamber of Commerce honorary plaque,
1954; business cards; Certificates of entry into the American Kennel Club Stud book for
cocker spaniels, 1931 and 1934; a list of persons holding season tickets to Citadel
football games (with addresses and business affiliations); a map of Charleston with ward
numbers penciled in; and a distribution of expenses for “The Charleston American”
labeled as “South Carolina’s most progressive newspaper”.
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100/23/14 Miscellaneous personal and professional papers: papers re Porter Military Academy
100/23/15 Miscellaneous personal and professional papers: prayer book of Mrs. T.P. Stoney
100/23/16 Miscellaneous personal and professional papers: public speaking lectures
100/23/17 Miscellaneous personal and professional papers: real estate records
100/23/18 Miscellaneous personal and professional papers: papers re Sewanee
100/23/19 Miscellaneous personal and professional papers: papers re University of SC and football
100/23/20 Miscellaneous personal and professional papers: wallet inscribed “1924 Thomas P.
Stoney Prosperity1928”
100/23/21 Miscellaneous personal and professional papers: will of Thomas P. Stoney
BOX 24
100/24/01 Miscellaneous items: biographical information on T.P. Stoney
100/24/02 Miscellaneous items: business records
100/24/03 Miscellaneous items: calligraphy
100/24/04 Miscellaneous items: credit applications
100/24/05 Miscellaneous items: draft board appeal records, 1944
100/24/06 Miscellaneous items: ephemera, etcc
100/24/07 Miscellaneous items: A ledger labeled “Locations. Motion Picture Resources” contains
listings and descriptions of local locations suitable as settings for film. Sites include
beaches, bluffs and hills, country club, churches, hotels, prisons, historic buildings and
sites, plantations, parks, old slave quarters, ruins and dilapidated buildings, race track and
fair grounds, ships, street scenes and waterfronts.
100/24/08 Miscellaneous items: newspapers: “The Seashore News”
100/24/09 Miscellaneous items: Nonpareil Athletic Club: bylaws, rules and minutes
100/24/10 Miscellaneous items: Miscellaneous notes, etc.
100/24/11 Miscellaneous items: Old Hickory Division: Reunion souvenir program, 1924
100/24/12 Miscellaneous items: patent on hydroplane boat, States Lee Libby, 1918-1919
100/24/13 Miscellaneous items: plats
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100/24/14 Miscellaneous items: poetry
100/24/15 Miscellaneous items: printed material
100/24/16 Miscellaneous items: programs, notices, etc.
100/24/17 Miscellaneous items: psychology lessons
100/24/18 Miscellaneous items: rent accounts
100/24/19 Miscellaneous items: resolution, in memory of Henry H. Howard
100/24/20 Miscellaneous items: SC Militia, 4th
Brigade: copies of 19th
century documents regarding
use of the state arsenal
100/24/21 Miscellaneous items: souvenirs of travel
100/24/22 Miscellaneous items: stock certificates, miscellaneous financial records
100/24/23 Miscellaneous items: Valedictory address, Porter Military Academy, 1898
100/24/24 Miscellaneous items: story: “Narrative of Cap’n Shine Brown of Rockville”, 1959
BOX 25
Political Papers
100/25/01 Political papers: materials relating to Stoney’s race for solicitor, 1916-1917 (folder
contains a silk ribbon with union bug “Allied Printing Trades Council, Charleston, S.C.”
100/25/02 Political papers: materials relating to Stoney’s race for solicitor, 1916-1917
100/25/03 Political papers: materials relating to Stoney’s race for solicitor, 1916-1917
100/25/04 Political papers: materials relating to Stoney’s race for mayor, 1923
100/25/05 Political papers: materials relating to Stoney’s race for mayor, 1923
100/25/06 Political papers: materials relating to Stoney’s race for mayor, 1927
100/25/07 Political papers: materials relating to Stoney’s race for mayor, 1927
100/25/08 Political papers: materials relating to Stoney’s mayorship of Charleston
100/25/09 Political papers: materials relating to Stoney’s race for senate, 1936
100/25/10 Political papers: materials relating to Stoney’s race for senate, 1936
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100/25/11 Political papers: materials relating to Stoney’s race for senate, 1936
100/25/12 Political papers: materials relating to Stoney’s race for senate, 1936
100/25/13 Political papers: materials relating to Stoney’s race for senate, 1936
100/25/14 Political papers: materials relating to Stoney’s race for senate, 1936
100/25/15 Political papers: materials relating to Stoney’s race for senate, 1936
100/25/16 Political papers: materials relating to Stoney’s candidacy for circuit solicitor, 1956
100/25/17 Political papers: miscellaneous political papers
100/25/18 Political papers: miscellaneous political papers
100/25/19 Political papers: miscellaneous political papers re: Democratic Party
100/25/20 Political papers: miscellaneous political papers re: third party
100/25/21 Political papers: miscellaneous political papers re: Judge J. Waties Waring
BOX 26
100/26/01 Political papers: materials relating to Charleston politics
100/26/02 Political papers: materials relating to Charleston politics
100/26/03 Political papers: materials relating to Charleston politics; includes lists of city officials
and employees, circa 1930.
100/26/04 Political papers: materials relating to Charleston politics re: 9th
Ward Association
100/26/05 Political papers: materials relating to Charleston politics - ward records
100/26/06 Political papers: materials relating to Charleston politics - ward records
100/26/07 Political papers: materials relating to Charleston politics - political verse
100/26/08 Political papers: materials relating to Charleston politics re: J. Palmer Gaillard mayoral
race, 1959
100/26/09 Political papers: materials relating to Charleston politics re: J. Palmer Gaillard
100/26/10 Political papers: materials relating to Charleston politics re: J. Palmer Gaillard, clippings
100/26/11 Political papers: materials relating to Charleston politics re: J. Palmer Gaillard
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100/26/12 Political papers: materials relating to Charleston politics re: J. Palmer Gaillard
100/26/13 Political papers: materials relating to Charleston politics re: Burnett Maybank
100/26/14 Political papers: materials relating to Charleston politics re: William Morrison mayoral
campaign, 1951
100/26/15 Political papers: materials relating to Charleston politics re: William Morrison
100/26/16 Political papers: materials relating to Charleston politics re: William Morrison
100/26/17 Political papers: materials relating to Charleston politics re: William Morrison campaign
for solicitor
100/26/18 Political papers: materials relating to Charleston politics re: Charleston County politics
100/26/19 Political papers: materials relating to Charleston politics re: Charleston County politics
Box 27
100/27/01 Political papers: materials relating to T. Allen Legare’s campaign for U.S. Senate, 1962
100/27/02 Political papers: materials relating to Bunett Maybank’s race for Governor
100/27/03 Political papers: materials relating to Strom Thurmond’s campaign for U.S. Senate, 1966
100/27/04 Political papers: materials relating to South Carolina State politics
100/27/05 Political papers: materials relating to South Carolina State politics
100/27/06 Political papers: materials relating to South Carolina State politics
100/27/07 Political papers: materials relating to South Carolina State politics
100/27/08 Political papers: materials relating to South Carolina State politics
100/27/09 Political papers: materials relating to South Carolina State politics
100/27/10 Political papers: materials relating to South Carolina State politics
100/27/11 Political papers: materials relating to South Carolina State politics
100/27/12 Political papers: materials relating to South Carolina State politics
100/27/13 Political papers: materials relating to South Carolina State politics
100/27/14 Political papers: materials relating to South Carolina State politics
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100/27/15 Political papers: materials relating to South Carolina State politics
100/27/16 Political papers: materials relating to South Carolina State politics
100/27/17 Political papers: materials relating South Carolina State politics – political verse
100/27/18 Political papers: materials relating to South Carolina State politics
100/27/19 Political papers: materials relating to Dwight D. Eisenhower’s presidential campaign,
1952
100/27/20 Political papers: materials relating to
100/27/21 Political papers: materials relating to Dwight D. Eisenhower
100/27/22 Political papers: materials relating to Dwight D. Eisenhower
100/27/23 Political papers: materials relating to Dwight D. Eisenhower
100/27/24 Political papers: materials relating to Dwight D. Eisenhower
100/27/25 Political papers: materials relating to Dwight D. Eisenhower
100/27/26 Political papers: materials relating to Barry Goldwater’s presidential campaign, 1964
BOX 28
100/28/01 Political papers: materials relating to Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal
100/28/02 Political papers: materials relating to Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal
100/28/03 Political papers: materials relating to George C. Wallace’s presidential campaign, 1968
100/28/04 Political papers: materials relating to George C. Wallace’s presidential campaign, 1968
100/28/05 Political papers: materials relating to George C. Wallace’s presidential campaign, 1968
100/28/06 Political papers: materials relating to national politics, 1914-1920s
100/28/07 Political papers: materials relating to national politics, 1930s (clippings)
100/28/08 Political papers: materials relating to national politics, 1930s
100/28/09 Political papers: materials relating to national politics, 1930s
100/28/10 Political papers: materials relating to national politics, 1930s (newsletters)
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100/28/11 Political papers: materials relating to national politics, 1930s (newsletters)
100/28/12 Political papers: materials relating to national politics, 1930s (newsletters)
100/28/13 Political papers: materials relating to national politics, 1940s
100/28/14 Political papers: materials relating to national politics, 1940s
100/28/15 Political papers: materials relating to national politics, 1940s
100/28/16 Political papers: materials relating to national politics, 1950s
100/28/17 Political papers: materials relating to national politics, 1950s
100/28/18 Political papers: materials relating to national politics, 1960s
100/28/19 Political papers: materials relating to national politics, 1960s
100/28/20 Political papers: materials relating to national politics, n.d
Box 29
100/29/01 Political papers-speeches and addresses: Alexander M. Bishop, 4 May 1934- “The Coast
of Carolina
100/29/02 Political papers-speeches and addresses: attributed to James Allen against city manager
form of government, 1920s
100/29/03 Political papers-speeches and addresses: attributed to James Allen against city manager
form of government, 1920s
100/29/04 Political papers-speeches and addresses: Governor Aycock (NC), 1901 “The South’s
Attitude toward the Negro” (excerpt)
100/29/05 Political papers-speeches and addresses: Lester L. Bates gubernatorial campaign speech
100/29/06 Political papers-speeches and addresses: James Byrnes address to USC graduates, 1935
100/29/07 Political papers-speeches and addresses: James Byrnes speech on government
expenditures, 1936 (radio address)
100/29/08 Political papers-speeches and addresses: James Byrnes speech at Democratic convention,
1936
100/29/09 Political papers-speeches and addresses: James Byrnes radio address- U.S. Senate Race,
1936
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100/29/10 Political papers-speeches and addresses: James Byrnes speech at Anderson, SC - U.S.
Senate Race, 1936
100/29/11 Political papers-speeches and addresses: James Byrnes speech- radio address on
government expenditures, 1936
100/29/12 Political papers-speeches and addresses: James Byrnes speech “Problems of the South”,
1939
100/29/13 Political papers-speeches and addresses: Mayor William Ashmead Courtenay inaugural
addresses, 1879; 1883
100/29/14 Political papers-speeches and addresses: J. Palmer Gaillard speeches, 1951-1959
100/29/15 Political papers-speeches and addresses: John H. Graham speeches- “The Ocean
Highway”, 1935 and undated speech relating to his House of Representatives Campaign
100/29/16 Political papers-speeches and addresses: [E.P. Grice] speech at Masonic lodge, n.d.
100/29/17 Political papers-speeches and addresses: Richard Hallum speech- “The Loyalty of the
Teachers of South Carolina”, 1935
100/29/18 Political papers-speeches and addresses: William C. Harllee U.S. Senate Race, 1935-
1936
100/29/19 Political papers-speeches and addresses: Ernest F. Hollings address at the Hampton
Watermelon festival, 1957
100/29/20 Political papers-speeches and addresses: R.M. Jeffries speeches, 1943
100/29/21 Political papers-speeches and addresses: Clem D. Johnston speech “There is Always a
New Horizon”, 1954
100/29/22 Political papers-speeches and addresses: T. Allen Legare U.S. Senate race, 1962
100/29/23 Political papers-speeches and addresses: J.C. Long campaign for Burnett Maybank, 1931;
undated senate campaign speech
100/29/24 Political papers-speeches and addresses: Wilfred Madden, Alderman for Ward 5, 1951
100/29/25 Political papers-speeches and addresses: Cotesworth P. Means speech to N. Charleston
Rotary Club, 1961
100/29/26 Political papers-speeches and addresses: Cotesworth P. Means candidate for state senate,
undated speeches
100/29/27 Political papers-speeches and addresses: J.D.E. Meyer, Republican party, undated
(1920s)
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100/29/28 Political papers-speeches and addresses: Senator McKellar – “The Crookedness of the
American Cotton Cooperation Association”, 1936
100/29/29 Political papers-speeches and addresses: A. Russell McGowan speeches, 1931-1934
100/29/30 Political papers-speeches and addresses: [William A. Morrison], undated campaign
speech
100/29/31 Political papers-speeches and addresses: William A. Morrison campaign for mayor, 1951
100/29/32 Political papers-speeches and addresses: William A. Morrison campaign for mayor, 1951
100/29/33 Political papers-speeches and addresses: William G. McAdoo speeches, 1922-1923
100/29/34 Political papers-speeches and addresses: Edmund Orgill speeches, 1951
100/29/35 Political papers-speeches and addresses: H.M. Pace- “An Interesting Section of South
Carolina”, 1934
100/29/36 Political papers-speeches and addresses: E.H. Pringle radio address, undated
100/29/37 Political papers-speeches and addresses: Nathan Rosen, re: O.T. Wallace campaign for
state senate, 1946
Box 30
100/30/01 Political papers-speeches and addresses: James Sherrer, alderman candidate, 1951
100/30/02 Political papers-speeches and addresses: Thomas P. Stoney campaign for solicitor, 1956
100/30/03 Political papers-speeches and addresses: Thomas P. Stoney mayoral race, 1920s
100/30/04 Political papers-speeches and addresses: Thomas P. Stoney mayoral race, 1931; mayoral
farewell address
100/30/05 Political papers-speeches and addresses: Thomas P. Stoney “Milorganite” and drainage,
1933
100/30/06 Political papers-speeches and addresses: Thomas P. Stoney speech to Florist Association,
1935
100/30/07 Political papers-speeches and addresses: Thomas P. Stoney U.S. Senate race, 1936
100/30/08 Political papers-speeches and addresses: Thomas P. Stoney U.S. Senate race, 1936
100/30/09 Political papers-speeches and addresses: Thomas P. Stoney U.S. Senate race, 1936
100/30/10 Political papers-speeches and addresses: Thomas P. Stoney U.S. Senate race, 1936
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100/30/11 Political papers-speeches and addresses: Thomas P. Stoney U.S. Senate race, radio
address, 1936
100/30/12 Political papers-speeches and addresses: Thomas P. Stoney U.S. Senate race, 1936
100/30/13 Political papers-speeches and addresses: Thomas P. Stoney U.S. Senate race, 1936
100/30/14 Political papers-speeches and addresses: Thomas P. Stoney U.S. Senate race, 1936
100/30/15 Political papers-speeches and addresses: Thomas P. Stoney U.S. Senate race, 1936
100/30/16 Political papers-speeches and addresses: Thomas P. Stoney U.S. Senate race, 1936
(speech notes)
100/30/17 Political papers-speeches and addresses: Thomas P. Stoney U.S. Senate race, 1936
(outline)
100/30/18 Political papers-speeches and addresses: Thomas P. Stoney U.S. Senate race, 1936
(partial draft)
100/30/19 Political papers-speeches and addresses: Thomas P. Stoney U.S. Senate race, 1936 (radio
address)
100/30/20 Political papers-speeches and addresses: Thomas P. Stoney U.S. Senate race, 1936 (radio
address, dictated)
100/30/21 Political papers-speeches and addresses: Thomas P. Stoney U.S. Senate race, re: state’s
rights, 1936
Box 31
100/31/01 Political papers-speeches and addresses: Thomas P. Stoney speech against the
Democratic party, 1952
100/31/02 Political papers-speeches and addresses: Thomas P. Stoney speech re: Eisenhower’s
candidacy, 1952
100/31/03 Political papers-speeches and addresses: Thomas P. Stoney comments on the S.C.
Democratic party versus the national Democratic party, 1952
100/31/04 Political papers-speeches and addresses: Thomas P. Stoney radio address, 1941
100/31/05 Political papers-speeches and addresses: Thomas P. Stoney speech re: Mayor Morrison,
1951
100/31/06 Political papers-speeches and addresses: Thomas P. Stoney speech re: state court system,
1959
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100/31/07 Political papers-speeches and addresses: Thomas P. Stoney speeches re: Murray-Wagner
social security bill, 1940s
100/31/08 Political papers-speeches and addresses: Thomas P. Stoney- miscellaneous speeches
100/31/09 Political papers-speeches and addresses: Strom Thurmond speech “The Tyranny of the
Judiciary”, 1957
100/31/10 Political papers-speeches and addresses: Francis E. Townsend, “Townsend Plan”
100/31/11 Political papers-speeches and addresses: McIvin A. Traylor, Democratic Victory
campaign, 1932
100/31/12 Political papers-speeches and addresses: O.T. Wallace radio talk for mayoral campaign,
1951
100/31/13 Political papers-speeches and addresses: unknown author, speech re: 1930 solicitor race,
1931
100/31/14 Political papers-speeches and addresses: unknown author, radio addresses re: Christmas
Seals, 1936, 1936
100/31/15 Political papers-speeches and addresses: unknown author, address to district convention
of AHEPA, 1954
100/31/16 Political papers-speeches and addresses: unknown author, Confederate Memorial Day
addresses
100/31/17 Political papers-speeches and addresses: unknown author, speech at Camden re:
Democratic platform, 1956
100/31/18 Political papers-speeches and addresses: unknown author, address to Fellowship Society,
1958
100/31/19 Political papers-speeches and addresses: unknown author, re: prohibition
100/31/20 Political papers-speeches and addresses: unknown author, speech re: J. Palmer Gaillard,
1959
100/31/21 Political papers-speeches and addresses: unknown author, “The Citizen is the City”
100/31/22 Political papers-speeches and addresses: unknown author, address re: Dedication of a
park in honor of J. Elmore Martin
100/31/23 Political papers-speeches and addresses: unknown author, re: Mayor William Morrison
100/31/24 Political papers-speeches and addresses: unknown author, address to Sumter Guards
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100/31/25 Political papers-speeches and addresses: unknown author, address re: South Carolina as a
two-party state
100/31/26 Political papers-speeches and addresses: unknown author, re: campaign for S.C. House of
Representatives
100/31/27 Political papers-speeches and addresses: unknown author, miscellaneous speeches
100/31/28 Political papers-speeches and addresses: unknown author, miscellaneous speeches
Box 32
Topical Files
100/32/01 Topical Files: Agriculture
100/32/02 Topical Files: Charleston Municipal Airport papers concerning the sale or donation of
land in Charleston County to the U.S. Air Force, and the joint use of an air base by civil
aircraft; includes correspondence of L. Mendel Rivers, 1950s
100/32/03 Topical Files: Best Friend of Charleston, 1963
100/32/04 Topical Files: 51 Broad St. (law office of Thomas P. Stoney)
100/32/05 Topical Files: Bushy Park Authority: records, 1950s, concerning a project to construct a
road, dike, bridge and canal in Berkeley County, affecting properties of Bushy Park, Cote
Bas, Dean Hall (Cypress Gardens), Bluff Plantation, Ararat Plantation, and Marrington
Plantation; includes photos of Dean Hall and Cypress Gardens. (Note: the Bushy Park
Authority was established to construct and maintain reservoirs to impound fresh water
from the Cooper River and to distribute these waters for industrial and domestic use.)
100/32/06 Topical Files: Charleston Chamber of Commerce
100/32/07 Topical Files: Charleston County Bar Association: includes papers (1940s) regarding a
lawsuit against T. Brooks Alford, and state legislation concerning the Bar grievance
committee
100/32/08 Topical Files: Charleston County courthouse building, 1950s
100/32/09 Topical Files: Charleston County Citizen’s Council, an organization “dedicated to law,
order, and the preservation of state’s rights” as well as preventing integration of
Charleston County schools, 1960s
100/32/10 Topical Files: Church affairs of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 1920s
100/32/11 Topical Files: Church affairs of Christ Church, 1920s
Box 33
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100/33/01 Topical Files: Civilian Defense (Charleston area), headquarters located at 56 Wentworth
Street, 1942
100/33/02 Topical Files: Communism and socialism- ties to Martin Luther King and the NAACP
100/33/03 Topical Files: Communism and socialism in the United States
100/33/04 Topical Files: Communism and socialism in the United States
100/33/05 Topical Files: Communism and socialism- re: American Bar Association syllabus on
communism entitled “Democracy and Communism in World Affairs”, 1963
100/33/06 Topical Files: Communism and socialism- re: American Bar Association syllabus on
communism entitled “Democracy and Communism in World Affairs” and the University
of South Carolina, 1963
100/33/07 Topical Files: Communism and socialism- Citizen’s Grassroots Crusade, 1953-1954
100/33/08 Topical Files: Communism- Highlander Folk School, Esau Jenkins, Leola Jones, Miles
Horton, Septima Clark, Bernice Robinson, James Dombrowski; testimony of Mrs. Wanda
T. Wilson of Wadmalaw Island re: activities of the aforementioned persons on Johns
Island.
100/33/09 Topical Files: Confederate Memorial Day
100/33/10 Topical Files: papers re: murder of Senator E.J. Dennis in Berkeley County, 1930
100/33/11 Topical Files: Economics
100/33/12 Topical Files: John P. Grace
100/33/13 Topical Files: re: construction of Johnson P. Hagood Stadium, 1940s-1950s
100/33/14 Topical Files: Huguenots
BOX 34
100/34/01 Topical Files: papers re: construction of I-95- correspondence, 1962-May 1963
100/34/02 Topical Files: papers re: construction of I-95- correspondence, June 1963
100/34/03 Topical Files: papers re: construction of I-95- correspondence, July, 1963
100/34/04 Topical Files: papers re: construction of I-95- correspondence, August -November, 1963
and 1964
100/34/05 Topical Files: papers re: construction of I-95- correspondence, 1963 and n.d.
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100/34/06 Topical Files: papers re: construction of I-95- correspondence of John H. White, Mr.
McMillan, and Mr. Pearman
100/34/07 Topical Files: papers re: construction of I-95- miscellaneous
100/34/08 Topical Files: papers re: construction of I-95- miscellaneous
100/34/09 Topical Files: papers re: construction of I-95- Carolina Highways magazine, article, June
1963
100/34/10 Topical Files: papers re: construction of I-95- spiral bound report by Arthur D. Little, Inc.
entitled “Evaluation of Two Alternative Locations of Interstate Route 95 in South
Carolina: report to the Highways and Bridges Committee, Greater Charleston Chamber of
Commerce”, January 1963
100/34/11 Topical Files: papers re: construction of I-95-spiral bound report entitled “A Re-
evaluation of the Location for Interstate Route 95 in South Carolina” by the South
Carolina State Highway Department, April 1963
BOX 35
100/35/01 Topical Files: Port of Charleston
100/35/02 Topical Files: Charleston County Bar Association Grievance Committee records- E.K.
Pritchard vs. A.R. McGowan and W.W. Elliott. Records pertaining to a grievance case
against A.R. McGowan brought to the Bar Association by E.K. Pritchard, 1930a
100/35/03 Topical Files: Charleston County Bar Association Grievance Committee records- E.K.
Pritchard vs. A.R. McGowan and W.W. Elliott: transcript of Grievance Committee
meeting
100/35/04 Topical Files: Charleston County Bar Association Grievance Committee records- E.K.
Pritchard vs. A.R. McGowan and W.W. Elliott, case records
100/35/05 Topical Files: Charleston County Bar Association Grievance Committee records- E.K.
Pritchard vs. A.R. McGowan and W.W. Elliott, clippings, etc.
100/35/06 Topical Files: Charleston County Bar Association Grievance Committee records- E.K.
Pritchard vs. A.R. McGowan and W.W. Elliott, printed case records
100/35/07 Topical Files: Charleston County Bar Association Grievance Committee records- E.K.
Pritchard vs. A.R. McGowan and W.W. Elliott, clippings, Photostats of evidence
100/35/08 Topical Files: Public health and charities
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100/36/01 Topical Files: Race and race relations: clippings, 1936. Some re: Edgefield Senator Smith
walking out of a Philadelphia convention in protest of the presence of African American
delegates.
100/36/02 Topical Files: Race and race relations: integration
100/36/03 Topical Files: Race and race relations: integration, segregation
100/36/04 Topical Files: Race and race relations: civil rights
100/36/05 Topical Files: Race and race relations: race relations
100/36/06 Topical Files: Race and race relations: clippings
100/36/07 Topical Files: Race and race relations: race and politics
100/36/08 Topical Files: Race and race relations: “The Herald”, African American newspaper, 1964
100/36/09 Topical Files: Railroads
100/36/10 Topical Files: Social Security
100/36/11 Topical Files: South Carolina Penitentiary Board
100/36/12 Topical Files: South Carolina Penitentiary Board, newsletters
100/36/13 Topical Files: South Carolina Penitentiary Board, clippings
100/36/14 Topical Files: South Carolina Penitentiary Board
100/36/15 Topical Files: South Carolina Penitentiary Board
100/36/16 Topical Files: South Carolina Penitentiary Board
100/36/17 Topical Files: South Carolina Penitentiary Board, photographs (originals moved to visual
materials)
100/36/18 Topical Files: South Carolina Penitentiary Board
Box 37
100/37/01 Topical Files: South Carolina Penitentiary Board
100/37/02 Topical Files: South Carolina Penitentiary Board
100/37/03 Topical Files: South Carolina Penitentiary Board
100/37/04 Topical Files: State’s Rights Foundation and South Carolinians for Independent Electors
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100/37/05 Topical Files: Stoney Field
100/37/06 Topical Files: Supreme Court, United States
100/37/07 Topical Files: Tariffs- Smoot-Hawley bill, 1930s
100/37/08 Topical Files: Tourism
100/37/09 Topical Files: Unions- Broadsides, etc.
100/37/10 Topical Files: Unions- Ballots, etc.
100/37/11 Topical Files: Unions- Bulletins, etc.
100/37/12 Topical Files: Unions- newsletters- Local 15 FTA-CIO
BOX 38
100/38/01 Topical Files: Unions- miscellaneous
100/38/02 Topical Files: Unions- newspapers, etc.
100/38/03 Topical Files: Tobacco workers
100/38/04 Topical Files: miscellaneous
100/38/05 Topical Files: United Nations and international law
100/38/06 Topical Files: urban renewal
100/38/07 Topical Files: urban renewal
100/38/08 Topical Files: urban renewal
100/38/09 Topical Files: urban renewal
100/38/10 Topical Files: vice and crime
100/38/11 Topical Files: vice and crime- prostitution
100/38/12 Topical Files: vice and crime- prostitution, letter and affidavit, 1920
100/38/13 Topical Files: vice and crime- prostitution, letters and testimony re: brothel, 1920-1921
100/38/14 Topical Files: vice and crime- prostitution and public health
100/38/15 Topical Files: vice and crime- prostitution, registration forms for U.S. Dept. of Justice,
Special Commissioner
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100/38/16 Topical Files: statements regarding abortions
100/38/17 Topical Files: vice and crime- letter re: gambling in Charleston, 1921
100/38/18 Topical Files: vice and crime- illicit liquor sales
100/38/19 Topical Files: World War II fund drive
100/38/20 Topical Files: World War II fund drive: notices, newsletters, etc.
100/38/21 Topical Files: World War II fund drive: goodwill dinner
100/38/22 Topical Files: World War II fundraising
100/38/23 Topical Files: World War II fund drive: community & war chest by-laws
100/38/24 Topical Files: World War II fund drive: community & war chest bulletins
BOX 39
100/39/01 Beverly Means Dubose estate records (mother of Beverly Means Dubose Stoney (Mrs.
Thomas P. Stoney)
100/39/02 Beverly Means Dubose estate records- correspondence, 1943-1948
100/39/03 Beverly Means Dubose estate records- correspondence, 1949
100/39/04 Beverly Means Dubose estate records- correspondence, 1950
100/39/05 Beverly Means Dubose Stoney papers: correspondence, 1920-1936. Beverly Means
Dubose Stoney married Thomas P. Stoney on October 7, 1915; includes information on a
trip she took in 1926 to a function in honor of the Queen of Romania
100/39/06 Beverly Means Dubose Stoney papers: miscellaneous items
100/39/07 Randell Croft Stoney papers. Randell Croft Stoney was the eldest son of Thomas P.
Stoney, he attended Porter Military Academy and Sewanee, graduating from the latter in
1939 with a BA degree. He began working with Louis E. Storen in the real estate and
insurance business in 1939. While involved in this business he was elected alderman in
1947 and 1951. He later won a seat on the Commission of Public Works in 1959 and
served in that capacity until 1984. Since he never worked at 51-53 Broad Street, only a
few of his items are in this collection. He died September 16, 1994.
100/39/08 Theodore Dubose Stoney papers: biographical information. Theodore Dubose Stoney was
born in 1918 in Columbia, S.C., he was the second son of Thomas P. Stoney. He
attended Porter Military Academy, the University of the South (A.B., 1940), University
of Virginia (LL.B., 1948), and the University of South Carolina. He served the FBI as a
special agent from 1941-1944 and as an ensign in the U.S. Navy from 1945-1946. After
being admitted to the South Carolina Bar, he entered the practice of law with his father
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and brother Laurence O’Hear Stoney. He served as a member of the South Carolina
House of Representatives from 1951-1953; Assistant U.S. District Attorney for the
Eastern District, 1953-1956; and Solicitor for the ninth circuit, 1956-1964.
100/39/09 Theodore Dubose Stoney papers: correspondence, 1939-1949
100/39/10 Theodore Dubose Stoney papers: correspondence, January – July 1950
100/39/11 Theodore Dubose Stoney papers: correspondence, August – December 1950
100/39/12 Theodore Dubose Stoney papers: correspondence, 1951
100/39/13 Theodore Dubose Stoney papers: correspondence, 1952
100/39/14 Theodore Dubose Stoney papers: correspondence, January – July 1953
100/39/15 Theodore Dubose Stoney papers: correspondence, August – December 1953
100/39/16 Theodore Dubose Stoney papers: correspondence, 1956
100/39/17 Theodore Dubose Stoney papers: correspondence, 1957-1962
100/39/18 Theodore Dubose Stoney papers: correspondence, undated
100/39/19 Theodore Dubose Stoney papers: miscellaneous
100/39/20 Theodore Dubose Stoney papers: miscellaneous
100/39/21 Theodore Dubose Stoney papers: miscellaneous- re: Theodore Dubose Stoney
appointment as Assistant U.S. Attorney
100/39/22 Theodore Dubose Stoney papers: miscellaneous- delegate ribbon
100/39/23 Theodore Dubose Stoney papers: political papers re: candidacy for state representative,
1950
BOX 40
100/40/01 Theodore Dubose Stoney papers: papers and speeches re: candidacy for State
Representative, 1950
100/40/02 Theodore Dubose Stoney papers: political papers re: House of Representatives re-election
campaign, 1952
100/40/03 Theodore Dubose Stoney papers: political papers – miscellaneous items relating to
solicitor race, 1956
100/40/04 Theodore Dubose Stoney papers: political papers – miscellaneous items relating to
solicitor race, 1956
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100/40/05 Theodore Dubose Stoney papers: political papers – miscellaneous items relating to
solicitor race, 1956
100/40/06 Theodore Dubose Stoney papers: political papers – miscellaneous items relating to
solicitor race, 1956
100/40/07 Theodore Dubose Stoney papers: clippings re: solicitor race, 7 May – 5 June, 1956
100/40/08 Theodore Dubose Stoney papers: clippings re: solicitor race, 6 June – 9 June, 1956
100/40/09 Theodore Dubose Stoney papers: clippings re: solicitor race, 10 June – 11 June, 1956
100/40/10 Theodore Dubose Stoney papers: clippings re: solicitor race, 12 June – 7 September,
1956
100/40/11 Theodore Dubose Stoney papers: open letters and letters to the public re: solicitor race,
1956
100/40/12 Theodore Dubose Stoney papers: photographs re: solicitor race, 1956
***Originals removed to SCHS visual materials.
100/40/13 Theodore Dubose Stoney papers: poetry re: solicitor race, 1956
100/40/14 Theodore Dubose Stoney papers: ribbon re: solicitor race, 1956
100/40/15 Theodore Dubose Stoney papers: speeches re: solicitor race, 1956
100/40/16 Theodore Dubose Stoney papers: ward lists re: solicitor race, 1956
100/40/17 Theodore Dubose Stoney papers: miscellaneous speeches (dated)
100/40/18 Theodore Dubose Stoney papers: miscellaneous speeches (undated)
100/40/19 Laurence O’Hear Stoney papers: correspondence, 1940s – 1960s
100/40/20 Laurence O’Hear Stoney papers: miscellaneous papers
100/40/21 Stoney family correspondence, 1886-1987; n.d.
100/40/22 Stoney family genealogical material
100/40/23 Stoney family miscellaneous papers including newspaper clippings and obituaries; a
transfer of property in Charleston County near Ladson station from S. Porcher Stoney, Jr.
to Henry A. Molony and Patrick Carter, 1922; Inheritance tax documentation for the
estate of Mary S. Croft, Charlotte M. Stoney, executrix, 1923; certificate of notary public
for Richard Smith Whaley Stoney, 1987; certificate of membership to the United
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Daughters of the Confederacy’s Black Oak Chapter for Miss Anna M. Stoney (residence
at 109 Church St.), n.d.
100/40/24 Stoney family papers: real property records relating to Ophir plantation and for lots in
Hendersonville, N.C. Also included is a flyer for the “National Cathedral Plantation Tour,
Charleston, S.C., April 8, 1947” with information pertaining to Medway, Dean Hall,
Pimlico, the Bluff, and Gippy plantations.
100/40/25 Stoney family papers: wills for Anna M. Stoney, S. Porcher Stoney, Charlotte M. Stoney,
Charlotte Matilda Croft, and Mary S. Croft.
BOX 41
100/41/01 Stoney and Cordes records: correspondence, 1914
100/41/02 Stoney and Cordes records: correspondence, 1915
100/41/03 Stoney and Cordes records: correspondence, 1916
100/41/04 Stoney and Cordes records: correspondence, 1917
100/41/05 Stoney and Cordes case records: Greenhill (Greenland?) Baptist Church (Berkeley
County, S.C.), 1915
100/41/06 Stoney and Cordes case records: loose pages from a docket containing summaries of
charges for cases in Berkeley County, Charleston, and Edisto. Individual defendants
include Elijah Bradley, Washington Brown, Ancient Order Knights of Damon, Henry
Brown, Ball Moultrie, Thomas Drayton, Annie Jones, James Richardson, Anthony
[Tentian?], Hattie O. Pugh, Peter Morelli, and Eugene Nelson. Circa 1914-1915.
BOX 42
100/42/01 Stoney & McGowan records: correspondence, 1923-1924
100/42/02 Stoney & McGowan records: correspondence, 1925
100/42/03 Stoney & McGowan records: correspondence, 1926-1928
100/42/04 Stoney & McGowan case records: confederate widow pension for Mrs. R.J. Walker, 1923
100/42/05 Stoney & McGowan case records: estate of the Fabian sisters, 1926
100/42/06 Stoney & McGowan case records: J. Jackson versus Thomas Pinckney, 1928
100/42/07 Stoney & McGowan records: W.L. Jackson (car accident), 1923
100/42/08 Stoney & McGowan records: testimony re: railroad accident in Chicora Place area, 1924
100/42/09 Stoney & McGowan records: South Carolina versus Paul Fludd (murder case), 1923
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100/42/10 Stoney & McGowan records: R.T. Crawford fatal injury, 1928
100/42/11 Stoney & McGowan records: miscellaneous items including receipts, printed case records
for L.B. Brooks vs. Central Baptist Church, Mary Magdalene Duc vs. Charles A. Duc,
and papers relating to election to the board of directors for Black Rawls Motor Company,
Inc.
BOX 43
100/43/01 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: correspondence, 1930
100/43/02 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: correspondence, 1931
100/43/03 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: correspondence, 1932
100/43/04 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: correspondence, 1933 (of note: Archibald
Rutledge letters, 1933-1934)
100/43/05 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: correspondence, 1934
100/43/06 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: correspondence, 1935
100/43/07 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: correspondence, 1936
100/43/08 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: correspondence, 1937
100/43/09 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: correspondence, 1938
100/43/10 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: correspondence, 1939
100/43/11 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: correspondence, 1940
100/43/12 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: correspondence, 1941 (includes letter from
Father Flannagan of Boys Town, Sept. 10, 1941)
100/43/13 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: correspondence, 1942
100/43/14 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: correspondence, 1943
BOX 44
100/44/01 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: correspondence, 1944
100/44/02 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: correspondence, 1945
100/44/03 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: correspondence, 1946
100/44/04 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: correspondence, 1947
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100/44/05 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: correspondence, 1948
100/44/06 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: correspondence, n.d.
100/44/07 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: correspondence, semi-literate letters, 1930
100/44/08 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: correspondence, 1931
100/44/09 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: correspondence, 1932
100/44/10 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: correspondence, 1933
100/44/11 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: correspondence, 1934
100/44/12 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: correspondence, 1935
100/44/13 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: correspondence, 1936
100/44/14 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: correspondence, 1937
100/44/15 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: correspondence, 1938
100/44/16 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: correspondence, 1939
100/44/17 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: correspondence, 1940
100/44/18 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: correspondence, 1941
100/44/19 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: correspondence, 1942
100/44/20 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: correspondence, 1943
100/44/21 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: correspondence, 1944
100/44/22 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: correspondence, 1945
100/44/23 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: correspondence, 1946
100/44/24 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: correspondence, 1947
100/44/25 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: correspondence, 1948
100/44/26 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: correspondence, no date
100/44/27 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: correspondence, letters from or concerning
incarcerated persons, 1930s
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100/45/01 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: estate records of Julius
Brittlebank, 1941
100/45/02 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: estate of Heloise C. Barbot,
1936-1941
100/45/03 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: estate of Abby D. Munro (d.
1913); concerns property on Bennett Street in Mount Pleasant bequeathed to an abolition
society
100/45/04 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: Mary Lattos v. H.L. Green
Company, 1937-1938; a slander suit for an accusation of shoplifting a box of animal
crackers
100/45/05 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: papers re: the closure of the
South Carolina National Bank of Charleston during the Depression and its effect on the
Charleston Oil Co., 1933-1934
100/45/06 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: papers re: damages to 52 S.
Battery (Battery Park Inn), 1944-1946
100/45/07 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: estate of August Heinrich Von
Dohlen, 1933-1940
100/45/08 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: papers re: Sam Wilson, a black
youth who fled the scene of an accident, 1935-1936; includes a petition on the boy’s
behalf stating that he ran away for fear of violence by whites
100/45/09 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: papers re: settlements for
damages to plantations caused by the Santee-Cooper hydroelectric project, 1930s-1940s
100/45/10 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: Freda Young et al. v. Lewis
Burk, 1931; concerns the radio station WCSC and includes information on its early
history
100/45/11 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: papers re: sale of Woodboo
Plantation (Berkeley Co.), 1939-1940
100/45/12 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: papers re: auto accident and
injuries to Eva Jessye (Spears), a famous choral director (Porgy & Bess), 1937-1938;
includes letters from her and her husband Charles Spears, Jr.
BOX 46
100/46/01 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: J.D. Schullen v. Raybestos-
Manhattan, Inc., ca. 1935; consists of testimony concerning asbestosis in workers
100/46/02 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: J.C. Stroble v. Charleston Co.
School District; concerns Stroble’s efforts to enroll his children in a white school (Adams
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Run area) in the wake of unsubstantiated charges that they were “half Indian,” and
includes some information on the “Miller School” for children of “mixed blood”
100/46/03 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: papers re: the sale of Little Goat
Island (near the Isle of Palms), 1930s; includes correspondence and plats
100/46/04 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: William Weston and H.W.
Conner v. Arnoldus Vanderhorst, 1937; case concerns the sale of Kiawah Island
100/46/05 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: papers re: the sale of Ararat
Plantation in Berkeley County, 1924-1938
100/46/06 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: papers concerning radio station
WTMA, 1937-1939
100/46/07 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: Wilson v. Guggenheim, 1946-
1948; concerns a yacht owned by S.R. Guggenheim
100/46/08 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: South Carolina v. Jimmy Brown,
1940 (vehicular manslaughter?)
100/46/09 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: Annie Droze v. Charleston City
Council, 1934; a hazard and injury claim
100/46/10 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: estate of Elizabeth O’Neill
Verner, 1948
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100/47/01 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: papers re: sale of and operations
at Airy Hall Plantation (Colleton Co.), 1930s-1940s
100/47/02 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: papers re: sale of and operations
at Airy Hall Plantation (Colleton Co.), 1930s-1940s
100/47/03 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: papers re: general operations at
Airy Hall Plantation (Colleton Co.), 1937-1942
100/47/04 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: papers re: general operations at
Airy Hall Plantation (Colleton Co.), 1940-1941
100/47/05 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: Bursley divorce case, 1930
100/47/06 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: papers re: sale of the Calhoun
Mansion (14-16 Meeting St.), 1934-1938
100/47/07 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: estate of John Richardson
Campbell, 1930s
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100/47/08 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: papers re: the Charleston
Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., 1936-1940
100/47/09 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: estate of Russell M. Doar, 1940s
100/47/10 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: estate of Melvin J. Hornik (died
1947), 1947-1949
100/47/11 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: estate of Elizabeth Loney
(Deloney?) of Goose Creek, 1940s
100/47/12 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: Daniel J. Martin injury case,
1940-1942 (a superintendant at Mepkin Plantation, employed by Henry Luce, injured in a
hunting accident)
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100/48/01 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: papers re: union workers of the
American Tobacco Co., 1943-1945
100/48/02 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: U.S. v. Gustaf Anderson tract in
Berkeley County, 1936; Susan Verdier Allston was a defendant; includes genealogical
info on Allston family
100/48/03 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: Claude S. Calvert v. Estate of
C.H. Calvert, 1936
100/48/04 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: estate of Lucia T. Clement,
1932; includes information on Dungannon Plantation (Charleston Co.) and the Clementia
Mineral Springs
100/48/05 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: Evidence (captioned photo
album) regarding a moonshine still at Four Hole Swamp, 1932
100/48/06 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: Papers concerning John P.
Grace, 1932-1941
100/48/07 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: papers concerning property at
“Sawmill” near Cordesville, estate of Rose Johnson, claimed by Lillian Hollbrook, 1934
100/48/08 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: estate of Gabriel Johnson, 1935-
1936; re: property in Moncks Corner
100/48/09 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: U.S. v. Mr. and Mrs. Kinsey,
1930; concerns illicit liquor sales at the Kinsey Store, possibly located in Charleston or
Meyers, S.C.
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100/48/10 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: K.M. Koger v. Van Lingle
Mungo, 1937-1939; concerns an auto accident injury claims against a black baseball
player
100/48/11 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: Everlena Korneckey v. Palmetto
State Life Insurance Co., 1934
100/48/12 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: papers re: Henry F. Marjenhoff,
a person of German descent accused of disloyalty during World War II (1942); includes a
little genealogy
100/48/13 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: Mitchell v. Freylinghuysen,
1934; concerns an auto accident at the corner of Hasell and Anson streets in Charleston
100/48/14 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: James Nelson v. E.C. Jones,
1937; concerns an elderly black man injured by a car while driving his mule and charcoal
cart on the King Street extension
100/48/15 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: papers, 1931-1938 re: T. St.
Mark Sasportas, a black lawyer, and charges over his mishandling of the estate of
Rebecca E. Smith (Sasportas died during this period, probably in 1938
100/48/16 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: S.C. v. Marian Hopkins, 1946
(assault case?)
100/48/17 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: U.S. v. H. H. Strickland et al.,
1936; concerns moonshine operations at Chinquapen Street (Charleston?)
100/48/18 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: papers, 1934, re: Alma Clark
Hobson, a black woman trying to obtain a birth certificate for her son Ernest; includes
some genealogy
100/48/19 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: Mrs. J.O. Weber v. Clement
Furniture Co., 1937; a lawsuit against a collection agent who showed disrespect to a
black lady
100/48/20 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: papers concerning the financial
affairs of the Charleston Oil Co., 1931-1935
100/48/21 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: papers concerning the Charleston
Auto Hospital on upper Meeting Street, 1933-1934 (a zoning matter)
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100/49/01 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: estate of Frederick G. Gerard,
1935-1939; concerns property on the corner of King and Tradd streets
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100/49/02 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: papers re: Francis Kinloch
Lesesne, 1924-1948; he was a disabled veteran of World War I; includes some
genealogical information
100/49/03 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: South Carolina v. Jack Green et
al., 1932; Green and others were charged with writing and selling lottery tickets; includes
information on the early history of lottery laws of South Carolina
100/49/04 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: papers re: Lawrence Venning’s
claim against the Guardian Casualty Co., 1931; he was a black man unjustly denied
insurance compensation
100/49/05 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: U.S. v. Hildegard Setteles, 1942;
an “alien enemy” case during WWII
100/49/06 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: Miscellaneous legal documents
and case records
100/49/07 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: papers, 1933-1934, re: estate of
Harrison Riggs, a black property owner of Charleston County; includes some genealogy
100/49/08 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: papers, 1941, re: estate of
Samuel Bash, a black property owner in Berkeley County; includes some genealogy
100/49/09 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard case and client records: printed case records
100/49/10 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: law firm office statements, 1932 (EKP)
100/49/11 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: law firm office statements, 1933-1934 (EKP)
100/49/12 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: law firm accounts, 1932
100/49/13 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: law firm accounts, 1935-1938
100/49/14 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: law firm accounts, 1939
100/49/15 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: partnership agreement, 1930
100/49/16 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: petition on behalf of Clarence Brown, 1932
100/49/17 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: memoranda of E.K. Pritchard re: “Prohibition,”
“Counterfeiting,” and the “District Attorneyship”
100/49/18 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: miscellaneous items including receipts, charters
for the Coastal Butane Gas Corporation (1940) and C.J. Prause & Company, Inc. (1932),
a National Life Insurance policy for William Williamson (1918), and a Kiwanis Club
resolution recognizing the service and untimely death in the line of duty of Louis
Behrens, Chief of the Charleston Fire Department.
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100/49/19 Stoney, Crosland, and Pritchard records: Ledger, 1945-1947
***Oversize, wrapped separately.
BOX 50
100/50/01 Stoney and Crosland records: general correspondence, 1948-1953
100/50/02 Stoney and Crosland records: semi-literate letters, 1948-1954
100/50/03 Stoney and Crosland case and client records: Papers concerning the sale of property
owned by the Brown Fellowship Society (a cemetery on Pitt Street), 1940-1951 (carried
over from Stoney, Crosland & Pritchard firm)
100/50/04 Stoney and Crosland case and client records: U.S. v. Moody Warren Carver, 1952-1954;
Carver, a Tennessee policeman was charged with making a false statement in concealing
his membership in the Ku Klux Klan
100/50/05 Stoney and Crosland case and client records: Luther Harrell McCoy and William E.
Harper, 1949-1952, two young men convicted of armed robbery. Includes a letter (April
6, 1950) from Thomas P. Stoney to the Superintendent of the S.C. State Penitentiary
describing a visit he made to the state penitentiary ca. 1920 from which he came away
“sick at heart” because of the terrible conditions there.
100/50/06 Stoney and Crosland case and client records: S.C. v. Charles Borden, 1952; Borden was a
black man who stole a cow from Thomas P. Stoney
100/50/07 Stoney and Crosland case and client records: papers, 1948-1949, concerning claims of
Mrs. Louise Graves, daughter of Rev. S. Alston Wragg, for possessions of her deceased
husband, Reed Graves, who was killed in World War II
100/50/08 Stoney and Crosland case and client records: papers, 1954, including an appraisal, plat,
and photographs, concerning property at Cosgrove Avenue at Meeting Street Extension
affected by the construction of the Ashley River Bridge
100/50/09 Stoney and Crosland case and client records: Mrs. Edings Whaley Wilson v. Carolina Art
Association, 1958-1951; concerns a lost manuscript entitled “Plantation Echoes
100/50/10 Stoney and Crosland case and client records: papers concerning property at 23 Doughty
Street (Charleston), 1949-1950; owned by the Muckenfuss sisters
100/50/11 Stoney and Crosland case and client records: papers re: a fatal auto accident on Ashley
Avenue, 1950
100/50/12 Stoney and Crosland case and client records: papers, 1951, concern a case against Alan
H. Schafer; includes information on the “South of the Border” restaurant in North
Carolina
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100/50/13 Stoney and Crosland case and client records: Feemster v. Bell, 1954; concerns a fatal
auto accident near the Cooper River Bridge
100/50/14 Stoney and Crosland case and client records: papers re: injury to a railroad worker in
Jericho, S.C., 1953
100/50/15 Stoney and Crosland case and client records: U.S. v. Donald S. Brown et al., 1951; a case
against moonshiners
100/50/16 Stoney and Crosland case and client records: Francis F. Coleman and Rebecca M.
Daniels papers re: Mt. Pleasant Property (includes genealogical information on McNeil,
Gaillard, and Wilder families
100/50/17 Stoney and Crosland case and client records: printed case records
100/50/18 Stoney and Crosland case and client records: ledger, 1948-1954
100/50/19 Stoney and Crosland case and client records: ledger, 1949-1954
BOX 51
100/51/01 Stoney & Stoney records: Correspondence, 1954-1959
100/51/02 Stoney & Stoney records: Correspondence, 1960-1968
100/51/03 Stoney & Stoney case records: Papers re business affairs of Ar-Tik Systems, Inc. (owners
of Dairy Queen), 1948-1960 (some records carried over from earlier law firms)
100/51/04 Stoney & Stoney case records: re: injuries to Robert Cathcart, 1958
100/51/05 Stoney & Stoney case records: papers re: storm damage claims to Old Exchange Building
by DAR, 1960
100/51/06 Stoney & Stoney case records: papers re: flooding and drainage problems in Moreland
Subdivision, 1965
100/51/07 Stoney & Stoney case records: papers re: condemnation (for highway construction) of
property on Dorchester Road, 1954-1955
100/51/08 Stoney & Stoney case records: Harleston v. Byrd, 1958, an auto accident case
100/51/09 Stoney & Stoney case records: papers re: acquisition of marsh lands near the Navy Base,
1966, from Miss Alston
100/51/10 Stoney & Stoney case records: St. James Goose Creek Church v. W.S.D. Avinger,
regarding church property, 1920s-1960s (some records carried over from earlier law
firms)
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100/51/11 Stoney & Stoney case records: papers re: Sams auto accident on Lockwood Boulevard,
1958
100/51/12 Stoney & Stoney case records: papers re: Sword Gate House property, 1940s-1960s
(some records carried over from earlier law firms)
100/51/13 Stoney & Stoney case records: papers re: Richard H. Millar bankruptcy, 1950s
100/51/14 Stoney & Stoney case records: papers re: estate of Sarah L. Simmons, 1956-1957
100/51/15 Stoney & Stoney case records: printed case records
100/51/16 Stoney & Stoney financial records: [1955-1957]
100/51/17 Stoney & Stoney records: miscellaneous items