Christopher 'Kit' FitzSimons photographs and 1925 obituary; Allison Ph.D. notice

Upper-left photograph (oval cabinet portrait)

[Photographer’s blind-stamp:] COOK

Christopher Fitz Simons - 1880

Upper-center clipping — lead of obituary column (small, brown-edged)

Christopher FitzSimons.

Like autumn leaves swirling in the blast, men in God’s good time are gathered in His hand and swept into eternity. As a bright leaf, here and there, glistens among the dun myriad hurrying by, the lives of men who have loved and served their fellow[s] shine forth to illume the shadows of a selfish world.

The measure of a man is the measure of his service to mankind, and the knightliest of all who serve are those who give themselves joyously — with never a faltering step, never a backward glance — to kindred, friends, community and state.

Of these was “Kit” FitzSimons, whose untimely death is mourned to-[day. Untimely, because…]

[Continues into the larger clipping below. The pencilled date ‘Oct 11, 1925’ is written in the album margin alongside this column; ‘Oct 8, 1925’ alongside the larger clipping at right.]

Upper-center clipping — continuation (a separate column from the cottonseed-oil obituary)

[…] crushing 25,000 to 30,000 tons [of cottonseed] an- / nually, and all the various [products] all the / Carolina could more […] [the State]. Plants / cottonseed produc[ing in] the crude form, and it / here produc[ed] Savannah and other centers / is [shipping] and conversion into products / for the retail trade. Altogether, there / are some eighty units of all kinds in the / company organization extending from / Virginia down the Atlantic seaboard / through Florida, across the Gulf to Mexi- / co, and up through Texas and Arkansas.

The story of the development of the / cottonseed oil industry is an American / epic, and from no more suitable a place / could it have started its career into the / “big business” field, than South Carolina. / In Columbia the first commercial plant / for manufacture of cottonseed oil was / operated in 1801 by Dr. Benjamin Waring, / and twenty-seven years later, a large mill / was established by Gov. David Rogerson / Williams on his Darlington County prop- / erties. For many decades the seed was / considered a necessary nuisance in the / growing and marketing of cotton. When / enough seed were saved for the next / year’s crop, the rest were piled on barges / and sunk in the rivers. It was customary / to build gins on stream banks so the / seed could be dumped there and washed / out to sea.

Even after the discovery that cotton- / seed made excellent fertilizer and feed / for cattle, it was a hard job to persuade / the farmers to use them. Prejudice / against use of the oil as a human food / was merely another problem that had / to be overcome.

Nowadays, this rejected humble little / black seed […] / of the entire [crop?] / for his cot[ton] / cash he ha[s] / heavily on […] / for fertilizer / [feed]. […]

[Pasted slip:] STEPHENSON FINANCE CO. / [address illegible]

[Pasted ad fragment:] Sullivan Motor Co.

Upper-right photograph (man in hat with baby)

Christopher Fitz Simons and his 1st grand- child! Nathalie Fitz Simons.

Middle-left photograph (young cadet, carte-de-visite)

[Photographer’s blind-stamp:] COOK

Christopher Fitz Simons - at Charlotte Military Institute

Larger middle clipping — body of the obituary

C. FITZSIMONS DIES AT HOME

Widely Known Citizen Ill Short Time

BURIAL IN MAGNOLIA

Pioneer and Recognized Author- ity in Cottonseed Oil Industry, Friend of Aspiring Youth.

Christopher FitzSimons, widely [kn]own citizen of Columbia and for [yea]rs a recognized authority in the [cotton]seed oil industry, died at his [reside]nce, 1117 Barnwell street, yes- [terday] afternoon at 5 o’clock after an [illne]ss extending over a week.

[Funeral services will be held…] [remainder of column folded under or torn]

[Pencilled annotation in the album margin beside this clipping:] Oct 8, 1925

Middle-center oval photograph (small portrait of a boy)

Christopher FitzSimons May 15 - 1892

[This is Christopher FitzSimons (5th in the line, b. 1892), Kit’s son, husband of Nathalie Heyward and father of the baby Nathalie shown in the upper-right photograph.]

Middle-right photograph (young woman, head-and-shoulders)

Nathalie Heyward — w/o of Christopher Fitz Simons Jr.

Lower-left photograph (young man in dark jacket, uncaptioned)

[Small carte-de-visite of a young man with a bow tie; no caption beneath. Likely Kit FitzSimons as a youth, in a sitting separate from the Charlotte Military Institute cadet portrait above it.]

Lower-right clipping with photograph — column 1

Allison Back After Getting Ph.D.: Notes Justification Do[ctrine]

[Photograph of Christopher FitzSimons Allison Jr. accompanies the article. Body of the clipping is folded and largely illegible in the scan; the visible reverse side, upside down, carries ‘Today’s Pitchers’ baseball line-ups (AMERICAN / NATIONAL / SOUTHERN / INTERNATIONAL).]

Captions in the compiler’s hand at lower right

Christopher Fitz Simons Allison m Martha Allston Parker

Christopher Fitz Simons Allison Jr. James Parker Allison

(Christopher F.S. Allison Sr. a son of Susan[na] [illegible — possibly Middleton …])