Literature

Promoter, publisher. Born in Appenzell, Switzerland, Tobler became that canton’s governor until he was removed from office in a power…

Industrialist, journalist. Tompkins was born in Edgefield on October 12, 1851, the eldest child of Dewitt Clinton Tompkins and Hannah…

Writer, diplomat, historian. Trescot was born on November 10, 1822, in Charleston, the son of Henry Trescot and Sarah McCrady.…

Playwright, scholar, educator, administrator. Jon Tuttle was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1959. He moved to New Mexico…

The newspaper occupied various buildings, dating from the first site when it had offices in a structure known as the “old police station,” but was printed in a livery stable. The daily survived a fire in 1912 and eventually moved into a fourteen-thousand-square-foot building in the county’s industrial park in 1992.

Unitarianism in South Carolina had several religious and philosophical sources: an indigenous Arminianism, commonsense realism, Anglican latitudinarianism, and English and New England Unitarianism.

Teacher, composer, author. Walker was born on May 6, 1809, near Cross Keys, Union District, the son of Absalom Walker…

Historian. Wallace was born in Columbia on May 23, 1874, the son of William Henry Wallace and Alice Amanda Lomax…

Botanist, planter, patriot, politician. Walter was probably born in Hampshire, England. His aunt Frances Knight died there in 1784. She…

A department of the main library of the Medical University of South Carolina, the Waring Historical Library is the primary…

Ornithologist. Wayne was born in Blackville on January 1, 1863, where his parents, Daniel Gabriel Wayne and Harriott Ward, had…

Author. Wells was born in Charleston, the daughter of Scottish immigrants Robert Wells and Mary Rowand. Her father was a…

Poet, educator. Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, on June 3, 1958, Wentworth is the daughter of John Heath and Mary Tully.…

U.S. senator. Lewis Trezevant Wigfall was born in Edgefield District on April 21, 1816, the son of Levi Durand Wigfall…

Chronicler, letter writer. Born on February 7, 1757, on Yonge’s Island, St. Paul’s Parish, Eliza Wilkerson was the third child…

Congressman, governor. Williams was born in Cheraw (later Darlington) District on March 8, 1776, the son of David Williams, a…

Poet, novelist, memoirist. The exact year of Woolsey’s birth is not known–estimates vary from 1895 to 1900–but what is certain…

Journalist, author. Workman was born on August 10, 1914, in Greenwood, the son of William D. Workman and Vivian Watkins.…

Historian, library administrator. Wright was born on March 1, 1899, in the crossroads village of Phoenix in Greenwood County, the…

Young’s career followed the pattern of many suffragists. After active participation in Baptist missionary societies, she joined the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1886. Suffrage appealed as an avenue to temperance goals.