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Subject: Re: Georgetown Business Records
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 18:57:00 EDT


Thank you, Ruby,

(my g-grandmother's name (!!) Ruby May Congdon, from Georgetown, George
Congdon's daughter), for this wonderful response, copied from the History of
Georgetown County. That took some time, and I am grateful. It is SO hard,
trying to do this research from afar (Boston).

I am HOPING to get to Georgetown for the Nov. 16 Historical Society meeting.
Can anyone tell me if there is anything interesting planned around that time
in Georgetown, that I should think about attending or visiting?

Also, can anyone tell me if they're familiar with the Georgetown public
library's policy on interlibrary loan (out of state)? The library is not
online, and I have not gotten around to calling during the day. I have been
told that other libraries participate in loaning microfiche, as well; if
anyone has any pearls of wisdom to throw my way, I'd be grateful.

Thanks,
Kerry Wood
Boston
researching: CONGDON, HAZARD, LOHR, TAYLOR, HUCKS, ALLSTON of Georgetown and
Charleston, SC

In a message dated 09/13/2000 5:50:38 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
writes:

<< This is what the book says: George Reynolds Congdon (1834-1909) and
Benjamin
Ingell Hazard were partners in the firm of Congdon, Hazard and Company, a
business with many ramifications in the 1880's. Both were of Rhode Island
families who members had been drawn to Georgetown by the coasting trade.
Congdon was the son of William P. Congdon (1806 - 1880) who had come from
Newport, Rhode Island, as a boy of thirteen or fourteen to work with Joseph
Thurston and John Stevens. He had strongly opposed nullification and had
left
the region during the Civil War only to return and establish himself in
trade
once again. Benjamin Ingell Hazard, whose wife was a native of Taunton,
Massachusetts, had come to Georgetown in 1848 from Rhode Island. He was in
the mercantile line before the war
and during the war engaged in the manufacture of salt at Murrell's Inlet.
After the war he joined first with W. P. Congdon and then with G.R. Congdon
in the firm mentioned above. From his profits he was able to provide his
son
Walter with the best possible education. After attending the Winyah Indigo
Society (it's still here in Georgetown) his son went to Princeton, returned
to read law in the office of Richard Dozier (another street name) and was
admitted to the bar in 1881. From: The History of Georgetown County, South
Carolina by George C. Rogers, Jr. University of S.C Press, 1970. I hope
that helps. There are other references to them on other pages also, but
this seemed most appropriate. Ruby Hart, Georgetown, SC >>

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