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We are compelled
our condition five time
Experience
In return ior your Ban]
depos. G' aranty, nam
he
B. C. MATTHEWS, Pi
items 1, 2 and 3 of the will, with in
structionS how to dispose of the pro
perty.
Item 13-Exempts the executor
from iabilitv for loss to the estate
by reason of errors in judgment or
mistakes.
Item 14-Authorizes the executor
to expend such funds as may be re
quired to keep the dwelling and farm
at Fort Hill in good repair.
The codicil is witnessed by R. M.
Jenkins, C. W. Young and R. H.
Mounce.
The foegoing is an abstract of the
leading features of the will of Col.
Clemson, taken from the will itself,
as copied for the use of the executor.
We publish it as a matter of public
interest to our readers, as it is to
them and the people of the entire
State in its beneficient and philan
thropie bequests. No fitter or more
enduring monument could be erected
to the memory of John C. Calhoun,
the greatest and purest statesman of
America, than the foundation of a
college on his old homestead for the
training of the youth and future gen
erations in the walks of the leading
industries of the world-agriculture
and mechanics. In this effort Col.
Clemson has paid the highest tribute
to Mr. Calhoun, and at the same time
opened out a path to useful know
ledg'e which will prove a perpetual
remembrance of 'his generosity to
wards the people of his adopted
State.
Estimated Value of the Bequests.
The amount likely to accrue to the
State for the college has been various
ly estimated by conjecture. From a
talk with Col. Simpson, who is a
good lawyer and accountant, and who
from his position as executor, has
access to sources of ts'te information,
we can speak with some degree of
certainty. Col. Simpson informed us
that the property, consisted largely of
stocks and bonds of incorporations of
this and other States and personal
bonds well secured. Upon a rough
estimate of the principal and interest
on such investments and premiums
now rated on same he felt satisfied
the residuary fund for the college 9,ver
and above the Fort Hill tract of land,
and after the payment of specific leg
acies and all expenses, would be $70,
000 or upwards. He said there was
.a tract of land in Maryland, near the
line of the District of Columbia,
which had been negotiated for sale
at $10,000, but sale not completed
from some cloud on the title. If Col.
Cemson owned t'his whole tract,
which is likely true, the fund for the
ollege would be $80,000; if he owned
one-half interest in the land the fund
would be $70,000 for the college over
and above legacies and expenses. In
either view the bequest is worthy of
the cause and should be accepted and
applied as directed in the will, and
should be liberally supplemented by
t~he State.
'From the length of this article we
shall defer to a future issue the dis
cussion of this new feature as bear
ing on the agricultural college ques
tion. but we promise to be no laggard
in the good work.
* ** * ***
* THOMAS G. CLBMSON.*
*By Col. R.L W. Simpson.*
Mr. Editor: There seems to be so
little known about the life and pur
pose of Mr. Thomas G. Clemson in
pnnection with the donation of his
property to the State for the purpose
f founding an industrial college. in
stice to his memory and his purpose
feel it to be my duty to state the
ts and let the people judge.
A short while before Mr. Calhoun's
eath his friends in Charleston, see
g his declining health, subscribed
berally to purchase or charter a
eht to send him on a cruise. think
t.hereby to restore him to his usual
or. Before this laudable purpose
d be carre in eet, Mr. Cal
artered b
by law to swear to and
s each year. We are th
d National Bank
(ing business we offer yo
ely, plQnty of our own mi
Natioi
esident.
houn died. I can not speak accurate
ly of the amount subscribed, but ac
cording to my recollection it was be
tween $30,000 and $40,000. After his
death it was agreed by his subscribers
to this fund to apply it to the pay
ment of Mr. Calhoun's debts. He was
not a. rich man and largely in debt at
the time of his death. This purpose
was ca.ried into effect. Mr. Calhoun's
debts were paid, and his children re
leased their interest in 'his estate in
favor of their mother, Mrs. Floride
Calhoun, and her afflicted daughter,
Miss Cornelia Calhoun. Subsequ-ently
Mrs. Floride Calhoun sold Fort Hill
plantation and the negroes, formerly
the property of John C. CalhAun, to
her son, Col. A. P. Calhoun, for the
sum in round numbers of $40,000, for
whieh he gave his bond and mortgage.
Mrs. Floride Calhoun was the reside
with her son, but there arose an un
fortunat difficulty between the moth
er and son, and Mrs. Calhoun pur
chased a home in Pendleton and resid
ed there to the time of her death, and
it was there she had her friend and
relative Mr. Armistead Burt, to write
her will, in which she willed and de
vised her Pendleton property to her
grandsons, sons of William and John
Calhoun, then deceased, and the bond
and mortgage of A. P. Calhoun on the
Fort Hill plantation, tihree-fourths
thereof, to Mrs. Clemson, her daugh
ter, and one-fourth to Mrs. Lee, her
granddaughter, with the provision
that if the bond and mortgage were
given in exchange for the land, it was
to go to Mrs. Clemson and her daugh
ter, Mrs. Lee, in the same proportion.
Some time after the close of the
war and after the death of Mrs. Flo
ride Calhoun and Col. A. P. Calhoun,
Mrs. Clemson began proceedings to
foreclose the mortgage on the For.
Hill plantation. After a great deal
of litigation, accounting, etc., the
court ordered the plantation to be
sold. Mr. Clemson attended the sale
at Walhalla, and bid in the land (Fort
Hill) for Mrs. Clemson and his
daughter, Mrs. Lee, for the sg~m of
$15,000, considered at the time the
full value of the land. The cost and
expenses of the litigation connected
with t'his foreclosure proceedings, ow
ing to the complicated questions in
volved and the number of attorneys
employed, amounted to $8,000. These
costs and expenses, instead of being
paid out of the proceeds of the sale
of the land, were paid by Mr. Clem
son out of his own private funds.
Mr. and Mrs. Clemson resided at
Fort Hill. After the death of their
two' children, Mrs. Lee and Calhoun
Clemson, they entered into an agree
ment to make wills in each other's
favor and the survivor was to devote
their joint property to the State to
found an industrial college. Mrs.
Clemson having nothing to will but
her three-fourths of the Fort Hill
plantation, while Mr. Clemson had
quite a sum of money which he had
fortunately saved after the war.
It was also a 'part of this agree
ment that Mr. Clemson was to will
out of his private property the sum of
ten 'thousand dollars to th?ir grand
daughter, the only surviving child of
their daughter, Mrs. Lee, and their
object in making this donation to
their granddaughter was that they
c'ouldl donate their property to the
$tate free of any claim or eq'uitable
riht that she. the granidehild. igiht
have to thie For~t Hill plantation..
:I :he man tune the Fort Hill
rlantation had been divided according
o the terms of Mrs. Calhoun 's will,
setting off three-fourths to Mrs. Clam
on and one-fourth to Mrs. Lee or her
dauhter. They hering agreed to do
nate this three-fourths to the State,
they considered the eight thousand
dollas pa.id to his granddaughter,
wich subsequently he increased to
ifteen t:housand dollars. would be in
disnutably the full value of the land.
Mr Clemnson always considered that
the For't ill plantation. or three
fourths thereof, was legally and right
flly his prpry as far as any
claims that the C.alhouns might set
up, .and therefore was his to d~o as he
No. It
iy the N
Pu lish statements of
oroughly examined by
: Examiners
u the very best form of
oney in the business.
ial Bai
R. D. SMITH
pleased with, he having paid $23,000 a
therefor. e
These facts are all matters of ree- ii
ord except as to the agreement to e
compensate their granddaughter, and, i
let the Fort Hill plantation be freed p
from any claim that might be set up f
by the Calhouns or others thaL they,
Mr. and Mrs. Clemson, were donating
that which they did not have a moral
right to donate. I was a witness to b
these facts and to the purpose they
had in view.
There is, therefore, no foundation
for the statement that Mr. Clemson
had settled Calhoun's property to the
State and then given his name to the,
proposed institution. I wrote Mr.
Clemson's will and I state positively
that if any one is responsible for his
name given to the college I am that
one. Mr. Clemson wanted to give the
name of Calhoun to the proposed in
stitution, but I insisted that it should
bear his name, because I knew of the
transactions by which his grand
daughter was to be compensated for
the full value of the plantation and
that which he was donating to the
State was his individual property and
Mr. Calhoun had nothing whatever to
do with the property or the donation.
But it was Mr. Clemson's purpose and
desire to name the college Calhoun
and no,t Clemson. . .
I was his confidential attorney and
managed all of Mr. Clemson 's affairs I
for two years preceding his death. I ~
visited him once every week, and
spent the day with him and he lived
the life of a dignified, heart broken I
hermit. During .his last sickness he
talked to me about religion and asked 3
his friend and attending physician, i
Dr. T. J. Pickens, to pray for him,
ejd he asked me to bring a minister
to see him, and I carried the Rev. 6
,Mr. Cl'arkson to see him. fIe told I
me that during the several e'onversa
tions he had with Mr. Clemson he.
confessed his faith in Christ and said
that Christ was able to save as great Y
a sinner as he was. It was Mr. t:
Clarkson 's opinion that he was a con- f<
~verted and saved man.
Mr. Clemson was a strong believer
in Mr. Calhoun and his political doe
trines. During the early part of the
war, while residing at his home Weir
the city of Washington, he was noti- i
fled by a friend that he was to be ar-'
rested next day on account of his
sympathies for the south. Thereup
on 'he and his son, Calhoun Clemson,
escaped and that night crossed the
Potomac river in a skiff and then
walked to Richmond and tendered
their services to President Davis. d
Mr. Clemson was attached to the nitre
and mining works in the department a
of the trans-3Iississippi, and his son
was given a cormission in the regulara
army. Mr. Clemson served in the de
parthent to which he was attachedi
to the end of the war. He then came a
to Pendleton and later to Fort Hill
where he resided to the day of his
deat.h.
His daughter. Mrs. Lee, died in
New York, and seventeen days there
after his son, Calhoun Clemson, was
killed in a railroad accident at Sene
a, S. C. Not a great while after the
death of their two children, Mrs.
Clemson died suddenly. For ten years
after the death of his wife and child
ren Mr. Clemson lived a lonesome,
desolate life and his death was o'ne of
theC saddest scenies I ever witnessed.
fn rmvn conversations with him he
iphrsed me as one whoi thoroutchly
unesto theC C(onditions in wichi the
people were left by the results (of the
war. Having graduated from the
school of mines in Paris he was firmly1
impressed with the conviction that an
industrial education would alone meet
the conditions then existing and he
was vitally interested in helping to
establish such an institution for the i
benefit of the rising generation.I
R. W. Simpson.
Pendleton, June 3. 1909.
Homer Folks of New York City
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re in the United States at the pres
nt time 75,000 eases of tuberculosis
1 advanced stages of the disease, ev
ry one of whom should be isolated
a hospitals, but there are at the
resent time only 5,0OD hospital beds
)r tliese eases in the entire country.
PROSPERITY OIL MILL CO.
The annaal meeting of the stock
olders of the Prosperity Cotton Oil
[ill Co., will be h'ld in their office at
rosperity, S. C., Tuesday, June the
5th, 1909, at 10:30 a. m.
H. J. Rawl,
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785 1909
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125th Year Begins October 1St.
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ddress.
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