- Collection:
- Finding Aids
- Title:
- MS-058 William Weaver Turner Scrapbook
- Contributor to Resource:
- Davis, Mrs. Harry
- Date of Original:
- 1999-03
2000-10 - Subject:
- Troup County (Ga.)
Education--Georgia--Troup County
Archives--Collection management--Georgia--Troup County - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- finding aids
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- The collection consists of two scrapbooks that document Turner's life. The bulk of the materials in the scrapbook relate to Turner's judicial, political, and religious careers from 1870 to 1900. There is little information regarding either his personal life or his life before 1860 and after 1900. The documents found in the scrapbooks include newspaper clippings, correspondence, handwritten and typed notes, and photographs. The majority of the newspaper clippings are letters to newspaper editors written by Turner presenting his views on various topics such as politics, the economy, religion, and prohibition. Other newspaper clippings contain articles related to Turner's judicial, political, and religious careers, the Civil War, Jefferson Davis, and Confederate reunions. Other documents in the collection include a brief handwritten account of Turner's life and a typed summary of his participation in the Civil War. There is a duplication of the certificate of greeting written by Turner that was presented to Jefferson Davis during his brief visit to LaGrange on May 1, 1886. The scrapbooks also contain notes Turner took from church sermons. The scrapbooks are in poor condition; therefore, some loose documents were placed in folders. Loose photographs found in the scrapbooks were placed in the photo collection. W. W. Turner compiled the map of 1860 LaGrange hanging in the reading room in 1923.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://cdm17413.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/findingaids/id/319
- IIIF manifest:
- http://cdm17413.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/2/findingaids:319/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
- Troup County Archives
- Rights:
-
