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Size | 4.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 3000 items) |
Abstract | William Oscar Southard was born in 1851 in Brooklyn, N.Y., the son of Mr. and Mrs. Levi Southard. Southard married Sarah Caroline Bates (called Sallie) of Batesville, S.C., in 1874 and earned an M. D. degree from the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, Ga. He then established a family practice and pharmacy in Jonesville, Union County, S.C. The collection includes chiefly account books, 1880-1907, of William O. Southard in which he kept records on his patients. An alphabetical listing of patient names generally precedes the financial records in the books. Entries record charges for visits, obstetrical cases, prescriptions, and details of other medical care. Records show that Southard received payment in goods as well as cash for his services. One of the account books, 1880-1887, also includes lists of drugs purchased for Southard's pharmacy and formulas for remedies to treat diarrhea, dysentary, dropsy heart, and fever. The addition of August 2022 primarily consists of correspondence, financial documentation, Southard's certifications, and photographs. Materials range in date from 1834-1938. |
Creator | Southard, William O. (William Oscar), 1851-1916. |
Curatorial Unit | Southern Historical Collection |
Language | English. |
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William Oscar Southard was born in 1851 in Brooklyn, N.Y., the son of Mr. and Mrs. Levi Southard. As a teenager, William O. Southard moved to Cedar Springs, S.C., to live with his maternal aunt, Mrs. Spring. Southard married Sarah Caroline Bates (called Sallie) of Batesville, S.C., in 1874, and then enrolled in the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, Ga. Southard earned an M.D. degree and apprenticed with his brother-in-law, DuGar Bates. He then established a family practice in Jonesville, S.C., south of Spartanburg, S.C., in Union County. Southard operated a drug store in the same brick building as his medical offices, serving as his patients' physician, surgeon, and pharmacist.
Back to TopThe collection includes chiefly account books, 1880-1907, of William O. Southard, physician and pharmacist of Jonesville, S.C., in which he kept records on his patients. An alphabetical listing of patient names generally precedes the financial records in the books. Entries record charges for visits, obstetrical cases, prescriptions, and details of other medical care. Records show that Southard received payment in goods as well as cash for his services. One account book, 1880-1887, also includes lists of drugs purchased for Southard's pharmacy and formulas for remedies to treat diarrhea, dysentary, dropsy heart, and fever. The addition of August 2022 primarily consists of correspondence, financial documentation, Southard's certifications, and photographs. Materials range in date from 1834-1938.
Back to TopArrangement: chronological by last date appearing in item.
The collection includes chiefly account books, 1880-1907, of William O. Southard, physician and pharmacist of Jonesville, S.C., in which he kept records on his patients. An alphabetical listing of patient names generally precedes the financial records in the books. Entries record charges for visits, obstetrical cases, prescriptions, and details of other medical care. Records show that Southard received payment in goods as well as cash for his services. One account book, 1880-1887, also includes lists of drugs purchased for Southard's pharmacy and formulas for remedies to treat diarrhea, dysentary, dropsy heart, and fever.
Folder 1 |
1880-1887 |
Folder 2 |
1887-1891 |
Folder 3 |
1895-1896 |
Folder 4 |
1896-1897 |
Folder 5 |
1897-1900 |
Folder 6 |
1900-1906 |
Folder 7 |
1905-1907 |
Acquisitions Information: Accesssion 20230511.1.
Primarily consists of correspondence, financial documentation, Southard's certifications, and photographs. Materials range in date from 1834-1938.
Folder 8 |
1873-1875Includes financial receipts and correspondence. |
Folder 9 |
1882, 1884, 1887-1889Includes financial receipts and correspondence. |
Folder 10 |
1891Chiefly includes correspondence. |
Folder 11 |
1892-1893Includes financial receipts, correspondence and "Five Years in the Itineracy" by Rev. J. L. Harley. |
Folder 12 |
1894Includes financial receipts and correspondence. |
Folder 13 |
1895-1899Chiefly includes correspondence. |
Folder 14 |
1901-1906Includes financial receipts from the Bank of Jonesville. |
Folder 15 |
1901-1902Includes financial receipts and school records for L. Southard from Clemson College. |
Folder 16 |
1903Includes physician notes; slight correspondence; school assignments and school records for L. Southard from Clemson College. |
Folder 17 |
1904-1906Includes school assignments and records for L. Southard from Clemson College; financial receipts; slight correspondence regarding Miss. Southard's employment and Dr. Southard's office. |
Folder 18 |
1907-1909Includes correspondence, financial records and receipts. |
Folder 19 |
1910-1911Includes correspondence, financial records and receipts. |
Folder 20 |
1912Includes memos and receipts from Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company; a letter from Ambrose E. Gonzales inquiring about survivors of "the old Arsenal Cadet Corps"; and includes various correspondence. |
Folder 21 |
1913Chiefly correspondence to C. D. Southard. |
Folder 22 |
1913Battle Creek Idea: A Lecture on the Battle Creek System |
Folder 23 |
1914-1915Includes correspondence, financial records and Internal Revenue receipts. |
Folder 24 |
1916Includes correspondence including a letter regarding the death of Dr. William O. Southard. |
Folder 25 |
1916Includes correspondence to the Domestic Science Editors of Columbia, S.C. |
Folder 26 |
1917-1918Includes the program of the 113th Commencement, financial and school records, and various correspondence. |
Folder 27 |
1919-1922Includes financial receipts, holiday cards, and correspondence. |
Folder 28 |
1923Includes financial receipts, correspondence, and chiefly holiday cards. |
Folder 29 |
1923Includes financial receipts, correspondence, and chiefly holiday cards. |
Folder 30 |
1924-1926Includes financial receipts and correspondence. |
Folder 31 |
1929-1932Includes financial records and receipts, correspondence, and school records from Jonesville High School. |
Folder 32 |
1933Envelope of newspaper and postage stamp clippings, slight correspondence. |
Folder 33 |
1933-1934Includes financial receipts and correspondence. |
Folder 34 |
1935Includes financial receipts and correspondence. |
Folder 35 |
1935Includes financial receipts and correspondence. |
Folder 36 |
1936, 1938Includes financial tax receipts. |
Folder 37 |
1938Envelope of newspaper and postage stamp clippings. |
Folder 38 |
Postcards1884, 1896, 1905-1921. Chiefly, 1921. |
Folder 39 |
Postcards1923-1935, and undated. Chiefly, 1923. |
Folder 40 |
Greenville Female College, 1905-1908Postcards from friend and family of Greenville Female College (GFC). The GFC merged with Furman University in 1933. |
Folder 41 |
Southard Family PostcardsPostcards to and from Dr. W. O. Southard and Sarah (Sallie) Caroline Bates Southard. Also includes postcards from additional Southard family members. |
Folder 42 |
Local SitesPostcards depicting local sites from Jonesville, Union County, S.C. |
Folder 43 |
Family HistoryIncludes "Liscombs' Sketch of Original Members and Their Descendants" and correspondence written by S. C. Southard detailing family members and their biographies. |
Folder 44 |
"My Mother's Dream"Written by: Lila C. Budd. |
Folder 45 |
Additional Papers, 1834, 1896, 1900-1918Includes the dismissal paperwork for Dr. William O. Southard, Sarah Southard, and Caroline D. Southard from the Order of the Eastern Star; correspondence; financial receipts; the Will of Anthony Bates and the beneficiary for deceased sovereign's beneficiary certificate for Dr. William O. Southard. |
Folder 46 |
UndatedCorrespondence and financial receipts. |
Folder 47 |
UndatedCorrespondence and financial receipts. |
Folder 48 |
UndatedCorrespondence and financial receipts. |
Folder 49 |
UndatedCorrespondence and financial receipts. |
Folder 50 |
UndatedCorrespondence and financial receipts. |
Folder 51 |
1870Includes a letter to Mrs. Richard C. Springs. |
Folder 52 |
1872Includes transcribed correspondence. |
Folder 53 |
1873Includes transcribed correspondence. |
Folder 54 |
1874Includes transcribed correspondence. |
Folder 55 |
1875Includes transcribed correspondence. |
Folder 56 |
1880Includes transcribed correspondence. |
Folder 57 |
1888Includes transcribed correspondence. |
Folder 58 |
1896-1897Includes transcribed correspondence. |
Folder 59 |
Mary Jane Bates
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Folder 60 |
E.A. Brown
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Folder 61 |
Sallie C. Southard
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Folder 62 |
Dr. B. F. Bates, Jr.
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Folder 63 |
C. D. Southard
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Folder 64 |
Levi Southard
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Folder 65 |
Wood B. Brown
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Folder 66 |
Southard - Bates miscellaneous
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Folder 67 |
SouthardIncludes Southard family tree. |
Folder 68 |
Sarah Southard, Caroline Bates - estate
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Oversize Paper Folder OPF-5053/1 |
Dr. Southard's certificationsIncludes medical examiner licensure and his pharmaceutical, apothecary, and druggist licensure. |
Image Folder PF-5053/1 |
Images of the Southard FamilyCarte de visite, Black-and-White prints, and Black-and-white copy prints Includes inventory of identified individuals: William Monroe Geer and Eleanor Davis Southard; May Malvina Southard and Haddon Geer; Lawrence Geddings Southard; Dr. William O. Southard; and the silhouette of William Milhench. |
Image Folder PF-5053/2 |
Images of the Southard & Geer FamilyCarte de visite Includes inventory of identified individuals: servants named Lawerence and Lela; Levi Southard; Dr. William O. and Sarah (Sallie) Southard; Caroline Southard and her graduating class; |
Image Folder PF-5053/3 |
Lizzie Southard Taylor and Florence Bernistine (?)Carte de visite Cousins; Photography studio: Park Grove Galleria in New Jersey. |
Annie Sams and Lena McArthur of Miss, 1893Carte de visite Photography studio: Mills in Gaffney, South Carolina. |
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Miss Rotice SouthardCarte de visite Cream Bridge, NJ; Uncle Samuel Southard's daughter. Photographer: J.E. Smith in Bordentown, New Jersey. |
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Robert BestillCarte de visite Photographer: Atwood Unger in Union South Carolina. |
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Professor Campbell of Augusta, GeorgiaCarte de visite Photography Studio: Pelot & Cole's Photographic Gallery. |
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Professor L. D. Ford of State University, 2 March 1874Carte de visite "For Alfred E. Ford from his loving brother Lewis D. Ford." Photography studio: Bagle & Usher in Augusta, Georgia. |
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Professor DoughtyCarte de visite Photography Studio: Pelot & Cole's Photographic Gallery. |
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Dr. DeSaure (?) Ford of Augusta, GeorgiaCarte de visite Photography Studio: Pelot & Cole's Photographic Gallery. |
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Professor BainsCarte de visite Photography Studio: Pelot & Cole's Photographic Gallery. |
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Professor Eves (?)Carte de visite Photography Studio: Pelot & Cole's Photographic Gallery. |
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Professor Dugas (?)Carte de visite "Medical department of the University of Georgia. To W. O. Southard." Photography Studio: Pelot & Cole's Photographic Gallery. |
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Image Folder PF-5053/4 |
Unidentified individualsBlack-and-White copy prints Includes images depicting a mother and her children in a boat and family portraits. |