Newspaper clipping: 'Backward Glances' — Agricultural Society of South Carolina, 1913
Book 2, Page 237 ·1913
Transcription
Backward Glances
News our grandfathers read in The News and Courier Jan. 12, 1913.
The Agricultural Society of South Carolina held its 128th annual meeting yesterday afternoon at the Chamber of Commerce, the meeting being followed by the annual dinner of the Society, held at the Commercial Club.
The officers of the Society were unanimously re-elected as follows: Capt. S. G. Stoney, president; W. G. Hinson, vice president; L. D. Chisolm, secretary and treasurer; Major T. G. Barker, solicitor; executive committee, Capt. S. G. Stoney, C. R. Valk, Capt. Thos. Pinckney, Major J. S. Horlbeck, Samuel Lapham, Major T. G. Barker, A. B. Murray, Reid Whitford, T. J. Hamlin, W. McL. Frampton, D. C. Heyward, Earle Sloan, Arthur Lynah, S. L. Simons and F. W. Towles; agricultural committee, W. G. Hinson, chairman; Capt. Thomas Pinckney, Major J. S. Horlbeck, Major T. G. Baker, D. C. Heyward, Sandford Bee and George F. Von Kolnitz.
The Masonic Board of Relief of South Carolina, under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of the State, met last night and elected the following officers for the ensuing year: I. W. Hirsch, president; A. L. Barton, vice president; John Harleston, secretary; L. Berkman, secretary. This is the 35th time Mr. Hirsch has been complimented with the office of president of this organization.
AI Notes
A clipped column from a Charleston newspaper’s “Backward Glances” feature, recounting news that had appeared in The News and Courier of January 12, 1913 — the 128th annual meeting of the Agricultural Society of South Carolina and a meeting of the Masonic Board of Relief. The “Backward Glances” rubric customarily reprinted items from fifty or so years prior, placing the clipping itself around 1963. The clip is pasted neatly to the album page; the right edge is slightly torn at the top. Full-resolution recrop confirms the transcription is complete. Notes: (1) the second “secretary” in the Masonic Board listing (L. Berkman) is likely a paper typo for “treasurer” — the customary fourth office in such a board. (2) “Major T. G. Barker” (solicitor + executive committee) and “Major T. G. Baker” (agricultural committee) are the same person — Theodore Gaillard Barker; the second “Baker” without the “r” is a typesetting variant. Major Barker’s widow Louisa Preston King is a FitzSimons family connection; see book-001/p240 for his identification.
The Agricultural Society of South Carolina, founded in 1785, is one of the oldest agricultural societies in the United States; its 128th meeting in January 1913 marked the dignified continuance of a Lowcountry planter-merchant institution that had survived the Civil War and Reconstruction. Capt. S. G. Stoney (Samuel Gaillard Stoney, 1854–1926) and Maj. T. G. Barker (Theodore Gaillard Barker, 1832–1917 — Confederate cavalry adjutant under Wade Hampton, then prominent Charleston attorney) are both FitzSimons family connections: Stoney was a cousin through the FitzSimons–Stoney marriages, and Barker’s wife Louisa Preston King was kin through the Hampton-Preston line.