Page Two of Finding Aid to the
John Gary Evans Papers, 1793-1940 (bulk, 1880-1934)
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Extent: 7.5 linear ft. (6 cartons)
Series List
· I (Boxes 1-5) - Correspondence, 1793-1940 (bulk 1880-1934).
· II (Boxes 5-6) - Spanish-American War Materials, 1897-1899.
· III (Boxes 6-8) - Miscellaneous, 1888-1938, nd.
Container List
SERIES I. Correspondence
Box Folder
Incoming
1 1-90 1818-1893
2 91-173 1893-1911
3 174-262 1911-1916
4 263-342 1916-1940, nd
5 343-350 1793-1940, nd (legal sized)
Outgoing
Bound Volumes Letter Copy Books:
1887-1890
1891-1893
1901-1902
1901-1903
1902-1903
1903-1907
1904-1905
1905-1906
1906
1906-1907
1907-1908
1908-1909
1909
1909-1910
1910
Bound Volumes
29 November 1887 - 15 December 1911
16 December 1911 – 21 June 1912
6 July – 29 November 1912
30 November 1912 – 19 April 1913
22 April 1913 – 30 April 1914
2 May – 30 November 1914
3 July – 30 November 1914
1 December 1914 – 9 July 1915
26 July 1915 – 9 June 1916
SERIES I. Correspondence (continued)
Box Folder
Bound Volumes 10 June 1916 – 23 May 1917
6 August 1918 – 7 August 1919
11 August – 16 December 1919
2 January – 30 October 1920
SERIES II. Spanish-American War Materials
Box Folder
6 352 The American Monthly Review of Reviews, October 1898
Bound Volumes Annual Report of Brigadier-General William Ludlow, U.S. Army, Military Governor of Habana, and Commanding the Department of Habana, For the Period July 1, 1899, to May 1, 1900, 1900
6 353 Annual Report of the Inspector-General to the Secretary of War for the Year 1898, 1898
6 354 El Contrato de Seguro de Vida, 1898
355 A Manual for Courts-Martial, and of Procedure Under Military Law, 1898
OS2[*] Military Commission, Rank of Colonel, 6 December 1890
Bound Volumes Military Laws of the United States, 1897
6 356 Military Notes on Cuba, ca 1898 (with fold-out maps and diagrams)
Bound Volumes Official Army Register for 1899, 1899
Bound Volumes Official Table of Distances for the Guidance of Disbursing Officers of the Army Charges With Payment of Money Allowances for Travel, 1897
6 357 Orders, 31 March to 5 April 1899
358 The Penal Code of the Islands of Cuba and Porto Rico, 1898
Bound Volumes Regulations for the Army of the United States 1895, 1895
359 Roster of Officers and Troops of the Seventh Army Corps, Camp Onward, Savannah, Georgia, December 1898
5 351 Speech re Spanish-American War Veterans’ Act, 1932
6 360 Subsistence Manual, 1898
SERIES III. Miscellaneous
Box Folder
6 361 “The Ancient and Honourable Lineage of Governor John Gary Evans,” nd
OS2 Articles of Incorporation for JGE et al to establish The Times Publishing Company in Aiken, South Carolina, 6 June 1892
7 362-369 “Biography of Martin Witherspoon Gary,” ca 1910 (8 FOLDERS)
OS2 Bond (William and Sarah Gulley (?)), 29 November 1806
7 370 Calling Cards, 1894, nd
OS2 Certificate of Admission for JGE to practice law in Georgia, 27 October 1885
7 371 Clippings, Dispensary Law (Tillman Liquor Law), 1888-1895
372 Miscellaneous, 1901-28, 1938
373 Commencement Address, “The Leesville College,” 15 June 1893
OS2 Land Deed (re Collins family land) (2 copies), 9 January 1804
OS2 Land Grant (100 Acres in Orangeburg to Nancy Collins), 6 May 1793
OS2 Land Grant (13 Acres in Barnwell District to Joseph Tyler), 12 July 1841
OS1 Newspaper Article Reprints, ca 1908, nd
OS2 Plat (duplicate), Proposed Re-Subdivision in Edgefield, South Carolina, March 1939
8 Cabinet-style Photograph Album (photographers listed, if identified):
2 girls, nd (H. Leidloff, Charleston, SC)
JGE, 1892 (Hall and Peddinghaus, Augusta, GA)
Young woman, nd (Theo. Endean, Cleveland, OH)
Old woman, nd
2 Young women, nd (Hall and Peddinghaus, Augusta, GA)
Baby sitting on bear skin, nd (Hall and Peddinghaus, Augusta, GA)
Young man, nd
N. G. Evans, Jr., aged 6 years, nd
SERIES III. Miscellaneous (continued)
Box Folder
8
Mary Ann Porter Gary, wife of Dr. Thomas R. Gary, L. P. Gary, nd (Pelot & Cole, Augusta, GA)
J. G. Evans as a student at Union College (2 copies), nd (Powers, Schenectady, NY)
Unidentified young man, possibly student at Union College (Powers, Schenectady, NY)
Woman, possibly Mary Ann Porter Gary, nd (Pelot & Cole, Augusta, GA)
Woman, possibly Mary Ann Porter Gary, nd (Augusta Photo Company)
Woman, possibly Mary Ann Porter Gary, nd
Dog, person cut out of photo, nd
Old home of General N. G. Evans at Midway, Alabama, immediately after the war, nd
JGE, nd
Older woman on porch, nd
Young woman, inscribed “Hello Mary ____, your Guardian Angel, April 20th, 1887, Edgeworth,” 1887 (Clinedinst, Baltimore, MD, Hanover, PA)
Young woman, nd (Otto J. Frank, New York, NY)
Young woman, nd (Geo. S. Cook, Richmond, VA)
Young woman, nd (Dana, Brooklyn, NY)
Young woman, nd (H. G. Hall, Augusta, GA)
Young woman, nd (Theo. Endean, Cleveland, OH)
JGE, nd (M. L. Cormany, Augusta, GA)
Carte de Visite-sized engravings of John Slidell, General Mc Clellan, Mason, General Mc Duffie, General Macruder, General Hardee, General Lee, nd (L. Prang & Co., Boston, MA)
Young man leaning on a pedestal, nd
Young man, nd (L. M. Jackson’s Studios, Providence, RI)
SERIES III. Miscellaneous (continued)
Box Folder
8
Young woman, nd (H. C. Hall, Augusta, GA)
Two men and two women posed in studio, nd (Nat. W., Taylor, Asheville, NC)
Samuel McGowan in uniform, inscribed “Miss Mary Martin Evans from her old friend and with this – Kind Regards, S. McGowan,” nd (Reckling, Columbia, SC)
Group of young people outside of church, nd (tintype)
[*] OS1 and OS2 indicate oversized folders.