William O. Southard Account Books (#5053) 1834-1938

Collection Number: 05053

Collection Title: William O. Southard Account Books (#5053) 1834-1938

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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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Restrictions to Access: No restrictions. Open for research.

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Preferred Citation: [Identification of item], in the William O. Southard Account Books #05053, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Provenance: Received from Anne Geer of Pittsboro, N.C., in April 2001 (Acc. 98906). Addition received from Anne Geer and Sarah Geer in August 2022 (Acc. 20230511.1).

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Mary Malvina Southard Geer Papers (#5005), Southern Historical Collection, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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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.

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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. The addition of August 2022 primarily consists of correspondence, financial documentation, Southard's certifications, and photographs. Materials range in date from 1834-1938.

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1. Account Books, 1880-1907.
2A. Papers and Photographs, 1834-1938 (Addition of August 2022)

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7 items.

Arrangement: chronological by last date appearing in item.

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

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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	1873-1875 Includes financial receipts and correspondence.
Folder 9	1882, 1884, 1887-1889 Includes financial receipts and correspondence.
Folder 10	1891 Chiefly includes correspondence.
Folder 11	1892-1893 Includes financial receipts, correspondence and "Five Years in the Itineracy" by Rev. J. L. Harley.
Folder 12	1894 Includes financial receipts and correspondence.
Folder 13	1895-1899 Chiefly includes correspondence.
Folder 14	1901-1906 Includes financial receipts from the Bank of Jonesville.
Folder 15	1901-1902 Includes financial receipts and school records for L. Southard from Clemson College.
Folder 16	1903 Includes physician notes; slight correspondence; school assignments and school records for L. Southard from Clemson College.
Folder 17	1904-1906 Includes 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	1907-1909 Includes correspondence, financial records and receipts.
Folder 19	1910-1911 Includes correspondence, financial records and receipts.
Folder 20	1912 Includes 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	1913 Chiefly correspondence to C. D. Southard.
Folder 22	1913 Battle Creek Idea: A Lecture on the Battle Creek System
Folder 23	1914-1915 Includes correspondence, financial records and Internal Revenue receipts.
Folder 24	1916 Includes correspondence including a letter regarding the death of Dr. William O. Southard.
Folder 25	1916 Includes correspondence to the Domestic Science Editors of Columbia, S.C.
Folder 26	1917-1918 Includes the program of the 113th Commencement, financial and school records, and various correspondence.
Folder 27	1919-1922 Includes financial receipts, holiday cards, and correspondence.
Folder 28	1923 Includes financial receipts, correspondence, and chiefly holiday cards.
Folder 29	1923 Includes financial receipts, correspondence, and chiefly holiday cards.
Folder 30	1924-1926 Includes financial receipts and correspondence.
Folder 31	1929-1932 Includes financial records and receipts, correspondence, and school records from Jonesville High School.
Folder 32	1933 Envelope of newspaper and postage stamp clippings, slight correspondence.
Folder 33	1933-1934 Includes financial receipts and correspondence.
Folder 34	1935 Includes financial receipts and correspondence.
Folder 35	1935 Includes financial receipts and correspondence.
Folder 36	1936, 1938 Includes financial tax receipts.
Folder 37	1938 Envelope of newspaper and postage stamp clippings.
Folder 38	Postcards 1884, 1896, 1905-1921. Chiefly, 1921.
Folder 39	Postcards 1923-1935, and undated. Chiefly, 1923.
Folder 40	Greenville Female College, 1905-1908 Postcards from friend and family of Greenville Female College (GFC). The GFC merged with Furman University in 1933.
Folder 41	Southard Family Postcards Postcards to and from Dr. W. O. Southard and Sarah (Sallie) Caroline Bates Southard. Also includes postcards from additional Southard family members.
Folder 42	Local Sites Postcards depicting local sites from Jonesville, Union County, S.C.
Folder 43	Family History Includes "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, 1900-1918 Includes 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	Undated Correspondence and financial receipts.
Folder 47	Undated Correspondence and financial receipts.
Folder 48	Undated Correspondence and financial receipts.
Folder 49	Undated Correspondence and financial receipts.
Folder 50	Undated Correspondence and financial receipts.
Folder 51	1870 Includes a letter to Mrs. Richard C. Springs.
Folder 52	1872 Includes transcribed correspondence.
Folder 53	1873 Includes transcribed correspondence.
Folder 54	1874 Includes transcribed correspondence.
Folder 55	1875 Includes transcribed correspondence.
Folder 56	1880 Includes transcribed correspondence.
Folder 57	1888 Includes transcribed correspondence.
Folder 58	1896-1897 Includes transcribed correspondence.
Folder 59	Mary Jane Bates
Folder 60	E.A. Brown
Folder 61	Sallie C. Southard
Folder 62	Dr. B. F. Bates, Jr.
Folder 63	C. D. Southard
Folder 64	Levi Southard
Folder 65	Wood B. Brown
Folder 66	Southard - Bates miscellaneous
Folder 67	Southard Includes Southard family tree.
Folder 68	Sarah Southard, Caroline Bates - estate
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-5053/1	Dr. Southard's certifications Includes medical examiner licensure and his pharmaceutical, apothecary, and druggist licensure.
Image Folder PF-5053/1	Images of the Southard Family Carte 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 Family Carte 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, 1893 Carte de visite Photography studio: Mills in Gaffney, South Carolina.
	Miss Rotice Southard Carte de visite Cream Bridge, NJ; Uncle Samuel Southard's daughter. Photographer: J.E. Smith in Bordentown, New Jersey.
	Robert Bestill Carte de visite Photographer: Atwood Unger in Union South Carolina.
	Professor Campbell of Augusta, Georgia Carte de visite Photography Studio: Pelot & Cole's Photographic Gallery.
	Professor L. D. Ford of State University, 2 March 1874 Carte de visite "For Alfred E. Ford from his loving brother Lewis D. Ford." Photography studio: Bagle & Usher in Augusta, Georgia.
	Professor Doughty Carte de visite Photography Studio: Pelot & Cole's Photographic Gallery.
	Dr. DeSaure (?) Ford of Augusta, Georgia Carte de visite Photography Studio: Pelot & Cole's Photographic Gallery.
	Professor Bains Carte de visite Photography Studio: Pelot & Cole's Photographic Gallery.
	Professor Eves (?) Carte de visite Photography Studio: Pelot & Cole's Photographic Gallery.
	Professor Dugas (?) Carte de visite "Medical department of the University of Georgia. To W. O. Southard." Photography Studio: Pelot & Cole's Photographic Gallery.
Image Folder PF-5053/4	Unidentified individuals Black-and-White copy prints Includes images depicting a mother and her children in a boat and family portraits.

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Collection Number: 05053 Collection Title: William O. Southard Account Books (#5053) 1834-1938