Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-04-24
A Mighty Factor Of Good.
HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE OLDEST
WORKING SOCIETY OF FARMERS
IN AMERICA.
[From tho Anderson Journal. ]

April, prints o faithful ;llustrntion of
the old Farmers Hall at Pcndleton,
in connection with the following in
tcresting sketch of the Pendlctoh
Farmers Society:
In looking up the history of Farm
ers' Societies in this country, the first
on record was the Philadelphia, which
was organized before the present
century, and the next on record was
formed at Pcndlcton, S. c., in 1915.
Now for a long time it was thought
that the South Carolina Society, at
Charleston, S. c., was the next old
est society to the one ut Philadelphia,
but we now find in the old .Souhc,w
Farmer, published by John Skinner,
in Baltimore, in 1918, that on the
sixth of June, that year QS1s,) the
South Carolina Agricultural Society
ratified its constitution and elected
the following officers: President,
Gen. William r. Davic; Vice Prcsi-
dents, Col. Francis II. IIugcr, Col.
John Taylor, Col. John j. Chappcll,
Col. Wade Hampton, and three years
before the South Carolina Society
was formed, in the year 1915, the
Pcndlcton Farmers Society was
formed by clccting James G. Griffin,
President; Josiah ID. Gaillard, Vice
President; Col. Robert Anderson,
Secretary and Treasurer; JOS. v.
Shanklin, Corresponding Secretary.
HONORARY MEMBERS.
Gen. Thomas Pinckncy, ST. james
Santcc; Hon. Will Lowndcs, G. G.
Pinckncy, Jr., r. S. Izard, Esq, J.
r.. Pringlc, Esq, DR.. j. Noble, Gen.
Daniel lIuger, Charleston; Hon. J.
G. C'u.":'" Washington, ID. c.; Col.
j. Bon Pon, ST. J.".>., .%sT"ntcc; Col.
l.. j. Aston, ST. Stephens, Ala; Roy.
DR.. Waddcll, Athens, Ga; Ger.
John Blassingamo, Grccnvilc; ID. p.
IIillhousc, Washington, Ga; DR..
Isaac Aud, Edisto Island; DR.. G. M.
Reese, Philadelphia.
RESIDENT MEMBERS IN 1915.
Thomas Pinckncy, Jr., John l..
North, Andrew Pickens, BENJAMIN
Smith, John Miller, Sen, Charles
Gaillard, John l.. Calhoun, j. Talia-
ferro Lewis, DR.. Thomas l.. Dart,
Gen. j. b. Earle, William Hunter,
Benjamin DuPre, Sen, Joseph Girls
ham, i. McGrcgor, Samuel Earle,
Richard Harrison, Patrick Norris, j.
@. Fitzpatrick, Joseph Earle, n. w.
Farrar, G. w. Miller, Samuel Cherry,
John Taylor, James G. Griffin, Col.
Robert Anderson, Thomas Stribling,
John Green, Josiah ID. Gaillart..
RESIDENT MEMBERS IN 1916.
John Maxwell, B. II. Perry, Will
liam Hubbard, e. b. Benson, George
Reese, ST., George w. Liddcll, j. b.
Perry, John Martin, n. Farrar, War
rcn r.. Davis, William CASTOR, Jos.
Reed, ELAN Sharpe, ID. Sloan, Jr.,
Samuel Warren, Leonard Simpson,
Major Lewis, Samuel Taylor.
RESIDENT MEMBERS IN 1917.
William Steel, James Lawrence,
Francis Burt, John Hunter, w. s..
Adair, William Taylor, William An
dcrson, Joseph Mitchell, Thomas
Lorton, Rev. James IIillhousc, Benz.
Dickson, Richard Lewis, J.T. White
field, J. b. Hammond, John Holbert,
Robert Lemon.
RESIDENT MEMBERS IN 1918.
John Hall, David Cherry, Hon.
John Gallard, U. S. S., Charles
Story, Mckenzie Collins, George
Taylor, Theodore Gaillard, Samuel
Gassaway, r. A. Maxwell, Jesse p.
Lewis, DR.. F. w. Symmcs, George
Reese, Jr., Joseph Whitncr, James
Faris, James 0. Lewis, Thomas M.
Sloan, Henry McCrcary, David X.
Hamilton.
Among the noted members Of this
society who have died since the war
are Maj. George Scaborn, who was
proprietor of the old Earmer an0
Planter, published at Pcndleton, and
Maj. II. F. Simpson, member Of
Congress and an able writer on sub
jccts pertaining to agriculture.
Hon. Thomas G. Clemson, Minis
ter to Austria under President
Buchanan, noted mincralogist and
chemist for the Confederate Govern
mcnt, soon after the war, while
President of the Pendlcton Farm
ers' Society, first began agitating
the subject and feasibility of estab-
fishing State Agricultural College,
which eliminated in his bcqucathing