Papers Associated with Augusta, Georgia

Collection

Collection number: MS-153

Scope and Contents

Materials of persons associated in some way with Augusta, Georgia. Contains letters, receipts, and postcards

Dates

1823 - 1906

Creator

Murray, Miledge Galphin (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Material is fragile

Biographical / Historical

Material donated by Milledge Murray to the Georgia Room Augusta-Richmond County Library on April 29, 2013.

Some of the persons mentioned in these letters were prominent Augusta citizens others are included because of their connection to the Augusta Arsenal:

John P. King (d. March 19,1888) was a lawyer, judge, United States Senator, and the forty-year president of the Georgia Rail Road and Banking Company

Joseph B. Cumming (d, May 15, 1922) was a prominent Augusta lawyer and gifted speaker.

Charles C. Jones Jr (1831-1893). is considered the foremost Georgia historian of the nineteenth century. He spent his final years at Montrose (The Alan Fuqua Center) in Augusta, Georgia.

Extent

1 box

Language

English

Additional Description

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