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  Roger Kinney Warlick Biography Website

  Janet Stone

  Roger Kinney Warlick biography website of the Savannah Biography Collection.

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  Sarah Berrien Casey Morgan

  Evelyn P. Padgett

  Sarah Berrien Casey Morgan was born in Augusta, Georgia in 1846. Her parents were Henry R. Casey and Caroline Rebecca Harriss Casey. Sarah is sixth in descent from William Moore who was a member of the Assembly, 1733-1739. He was also a Colonel of Militia in the French and Indian Wars. Sarah was married to Captain Thomas S. Morgan and they had four sons. She was active in civic affairs and became an alderman of Savannah under Mayor Murray M. Stewart. Sarah died June 28, 1931 of pneumonia. She was buried in Magnolia cemetery in Augusta.

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  Sarah E. Frierson: A Biography

  Michelle Erlich

  Sarah E. Haupt was born in Savannah, Georgia around the early 1820's. She married George Frierson, a merchant from Macon, Georgia. They had five children, Florida, Norton, Louisa, Henry and George. Sarah spent most of her life devoting her time as a housewife and mother. She became a widow early, and remained so the rest of her life. Sarah raised all of her children to maturity. She died in her home at the age of sixty-six.

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  Savannah Biographies

  Armstrong State University

  A collection of unedited biographies written by history students.

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  Savannah Biographies Homepage

  Armstrong State University

  Homepage of the Savannah Biographies Collection

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  Savannah Biographies Images of Christ Church

  Roger K. Warlick

  Images of Christ Church and the Hoffman Family

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  Savannah Mayors Index

  Armstrong State University

  Index of Savannah Mayors included in the Savannah Biographies Collection.

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  Simon R. Mirault: A Biography

  Tommy Huskisson

  Simon R. Mirault appeared in Savannah around 1849, possibly earlier. He was a mulatto who probably brought this country from the West Indies, or more specifically from Santo Domingo. Simon was first employed as a pastry cook in 1849, later as a confectioner, and at the time of his death, as a cotton sampler. During this time he was in Savannah, he managed to accumulate a fair-sized estate. Simon R. Mirault died in 1875 at the approximate age of 60.

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  Subject Index to the Savannah Biographies

  Roger K. Warlick

  The Subject Index to the Savannah Biographies arranged alphabetically by the name of the person/subject of the biography. Notice subjects of the last two volumes, 24 and 25 are listed separately at the end of the alphabetical list.

  Some biographies are not available digitally due to lack of permission from the author; all are available in the 25 bound volumes housed in the Special Collections of Lane Library.

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  The Biography of Emily W. Lovell

  Maria P. Lovell

  This paper is an attempt to trace the history of a house located at 214 East Thirty-Fourth Street, Savannah, and the person who originally owned the land upon which the structure was built.

  The ownership sequence contains nine names, beginning with Emily W. Lovell, who owned the property before selling it to Pierre N. Holst, who built a two-story Colonial Revival home on it in 1906.

  Chapter two of the paper focuses on the important dates and events in Emily's life. Beginning with her Salzburger roots, documented evidence of the significant events in her life is presented along with colorful anecdotes provided by her granddaughter, Mary L. Cope Sweat.

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  The Doctors McKane

  Evelyn W. Parker

  It is a pleasure to introduce the Doctors McKane; Cornelius, and his wife Alice. They came from less than ideal beginning circumstances and rose to meet and master challenge after challenge. Even the projects they themselves considered failures benefitted others. Many of us hope to positively impact this world during our The Doctors McKane met and mastered that challenge.

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  The Elusive M.H. Saliha

  Craig Harney

  In poetry, in prose, in all human experience, it is the struggle that is revered. The emotion aroused in a bitter contest bet ween age-old rivals is exalted above any result it could produce. It is not the victory, but the battle; and in history the battle is research. It follows, therefore, that no sterile elucidation of material gathered could match the passion generated by the thrust and parry of the researcher attempting to pin his ever­ elusive fact to the wall.

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  The Life and Times of Edward Fenwick Neufville

  Adam Brian Butcher

  Edward Fenwick Neufville was born November 28, 1841. He was the son of Reverend Edward and Mary Neufville. Edward attended school at St. Timothy's in Baltimore, Maryland and College at Princeton. He enlisted in the Confederate Army in Georgia and later was commissioned an officer in the Confederate Marines. After the war, he became an Insurance Agent, a Realtor, and also had a law practice. Edward would marry twice. His first marriage was to Mary Drayton. After her death in 1882, he married Harriet Tattnall, his late wife's sister. This marriage lasted until Edward's death, September 9, 1890. He was 49 years old. Harriet died December 21, 1904. Edward's surviving daughter of his first Fenwick Neufville, married William B.J. Adams. They would have three children.

  marriage, Mary They would have

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  The Life and Times of Francis Grimball

  Victoria Boswell

  In 1820, there lived in Charleston County, South Carolina, a couple, Paul c. and Mary Ann Grimball. They had a son, Francis, born, Mason, SC in 1824.2 How this family found its way to Savannah I do not know. Sometime between 1820 and the taking of the 1850 Georgia Census, however, Mr. Grimball must have died; was not counted, by census-taker #1516, as living in the house with his wife.

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  The Life and Times of Henry Solomon (1826-1904)

  S. Viola Cliett

  Henry Solomon born London, England December 3, 1826 died Savannah, Georgia June,4, 1904. In 1851, H. Solomon immigrated to America. 1863 he lived in South Carolina. Between 1854 and by January 1864 his residence was Augusta, Georgia until 1870 when he appears in the Savannah City Directory. From 1873 until April, 1882, he was jointly in partner­ ship with his brother N. E. Solomon in the firm of Solomon .Brothers. July l, 1882 he formed the firm of Solomon and Son with his son Alexender Perry Solomon. He died at his residence 219 Jones Street.

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  The Life and Times of Mary Driscoll (1822-1915)

  Charles Floumay, Jr.

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  The Life and Tines of Williams Henry Cuyler

  Gail Moyer

  William Henry Cuyler was born on December 2, 1794, to Jeremiah and Margaret Clarendon Cuyler. William was on of eleven children. He served his native Savannah, Georgia, as a physical, an alderman and a judge of the Inferior Court of Chatham County. Dr. Cuyler never married. He died on November 12, 1869, at the age of seventy-four years and eleven months. He was buried in the family lot at Laurel Grove Cemetery in Savannah.

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  The Life of Abigail Minis: An Original Georgia Settler

  Julie L. Oliver

  Abigial Minis was perhaps the most distinguished member of a distinguished Savannah family dating from colonial days. A woman in a male-dominated age and society, a mother of nine children, then a widow at the time of the Revolution, she overcame all odds to become a respected and successful businesswoman and landowner.

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  The Life of Daniel R. Thomas

  Annette S. Mitchelle

  Daniel R. Thomas was born in 1843 and died April 7,1916. Married Jeane M. E. Had four children, two died before adulthood. The two that lived were John M. and Jennie T. Danlel R. Thomas wad a coal manufacturer and an insurance agent.He was a. member of the Independent Presbyterian Church. He became an Alderman ln Savannah ln 1883 to 1889 and again from 1893 to 1901. Daniel R. Thomas was affiliated with the following organizations: Director of Savannah and Ogeechee Canal Company, Commissioner of Sinking Fund, member of the Savannah Christian Society, and a member of the Masonic Temple.

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  The Life of Edward Jenkins Harden

  Susan Welch

  Edward Jenkins Earden was born November 19, 1813, in Bryan County, Georgia. He was married to Sophia Maxwell Harden and had seven children. While Teaching at Chatham Academy, he studied law and was licensed to practice in 1834. He became judge of the city court in 1845. From 1861-1865, he served as judge of the Confederate District Court of Georgia. At the conclusion of the war, he was appointed Corporation Lawyer for the city of Savannah, a position he retained until his death. In addition to his professional duties, he was the author of the notable work, The Life of Georgia Troup. He served as President of the Georgia Historical Society, President of the Board of Trustees of the Oglethorpe Medical College and a ruling elder of First Presbyterian Church. He died in Indian Springs, Georgia, April 19, 1873. He was buried the following day at Laurel Grove Cemetery, Savannah.

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  The Life of Edward Maffitt Anderson

  Mary E. Keaton

  Edward Maffitt Anderson was born on August 6, 1843 in Savannah, Georgia. He was the son of Edward Clifford Anderson and Sarah Williamson Anderson. Edward became a naval hero while serving as a midshipman aboard the C.S.S. Alabama. He was assumed dead when the Alabama was sunk off Cherbourg, France. He survived and returned to Savannah where he lived until his death on January 28, 1923. Although he was a loving son and brother, he never married and left no direct legal descendants.

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  The Life of Francis Henry Thomson

  W. Kemp Nussbaum III

  Francis Henry Thomson appeared to be a man who was best known for his swordmaking, church, family, and friends. He seemed to make some great investments as well as some that were not so great. He seemed inovative in his ideas, yet kind with the people around him. He was born Francis Henry Budd and died Francis Henry Thomson.

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  The Life of Israel K. Tefft

  Timothy J. Hacussler

  Israel Keech Tefft was born in Smithfield, Rhode Island on February 12, 1794. He was educated in Boston and settled in Savannah in 1816 where, he established a hardware business. In 1821 he became joint editor and proprietor of the Georgian. After quitting the business in the same year, Tefft took a position with the Bank of the State of Georgia, of which he was elected Cashier in 1848, a position he filled until his death on June 30, 1862. A man of history and literature, he was one of the founders of the Georgia Historical Society in 1839 and its first Corresponding Secretary. He also had a large personal library of autographs and valuable manuscripts. Tefft became an important civic and social leader in savannah and was an admirable family man as well. He and his wife, Penelope Waite Tefft, had three sons, all of when they both survived

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  The Life of Joseph F. Gammon

  Elizabeth K. Weeks

  Joseph F. Gammon, a native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and a carpenter by

  trade came to Savannah, Georgia during the first half of the nineteenth century,probably around 1827 and remained in Savannah until his death in 1865.

  He married a woman from Savannah with whom he apparently had six children; only one of whom- survived him. After the death of his first wife, Sarah, of pleurisy in 1853; he married Miss Elizabeth Whitten· of Newburyport, Massachusetts in 1854 but the marriage was a brief one as she died of consumption, or tuberculosis, in 1858! Fourteen months later, Gammon was married a third and final time to Miss Margaret McDod of Philadelphia, Pennsyl vania who survived him!'

  In addition to Joseph, his brother, Benjamin, and two sisters, susan and EliEbetb, also came from Nova Scotia to make Savannah their new home i. Benjamin, also a carpenter, and fifteen years his brother's junior!' inherited Joseph's carpentry tools!upon his death. "

  Professiaially, it is possible that Joseph and, perhaps, his brother

  Benjamin as well were involved in some aspect of ship building, it being one of the most important industries of Nova Scotia at the t i me coupled with Savannah's importance as a commercial port!'

  Although little information can be obtained concerning Gammon's professional life, he was evidently prosperous, having accumulated a personal estate worth,· at the time of his death, ·nearly $23,000, which included a good deal of real estate situated in the heart of Savannah '

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  The Life of Mathilda Beasley

  Mary Wells-Bacon

  Mathilda Beasley made many contributions, monetary and physical, to ease the burden of poor blacks in Savannah, especially black children. History attributes her with many titles. She was a spiritual and educational pioneer of her race. After these weeks of research her life remains largely a mystery to me. I know through reading and talking to others that the same has been true for my predecessors. Following is an account of her life as I know it thus far. In this paper her first name is spelled as she signed it.