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John Carlisle Kilgo was born to James Tillman Kilgo and Catherine Mason Kilgo on July 22, 1861 in Laurens, South Carolina. His father was a circuit preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Kilgo attended Wofford College but dropped out after his sophomore year. [1]
Laurens was established by an act of the General Assembly on March 15, 1785, as a location for commercial activities. It was one of the six counties created from the Old Ninety-Six District of South Carolina. [6] Laurens was originally named Laurensville. On December 15, 1845, a charter was issued with the name of Laurensville.
John Laurens Manning Irby (September 10, 1854 – December 9, 1900) was a United States senator from South Carolina. Born in Laurens , he attended Laurensville Male Academy (Lauren), Princeton College ( Princeton, New Jersey in 1870-1871, and the University of Virginia at Charlottesville from 1871 to 1873.
John Bolt Culbertson (September 16, 1908 – March 21, 1983) was a member of the South Carolina General Assembly, an advocate for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and one of the defense attorneys for the trial of the lynching of Willie Earle in Greenville, South Carolina.
Kate Vixon Wofford (October 20, 1894 – October 31, 1954) [1] was an educator from South Carolina. In 1922, she became the first woman in the state to hold elected office when she was elected superintendent of schools of Laurens County .
Joseph Austin Holmes was born on January 23, 1859, in Laurens, South Carolina. [1] [2] [3] He was one of 12 children, and attended Laurens Academy. [3] He graduated from Cornell University in 1881 with a Bachelor of Science in agriculture. [1] [3] Holmes also got a LL.D. from the University of North Carolina and a PhD from the University of ...
James Henderson Williams (November 10, 1740 – October 7, 1780) was an American pioneer, farmer, and miller from Ninety-Six District in South Carolina. In 1775 and 1776, Williams was a member of the state's Provisional Assembly. During the War of Independence, he held a colonel's rank in the South Carolina militia.
Wade Perrin, a black man from Laurens County, South Carolina, was first elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1868. He was one of five members of the General Assembly from Laurens County, alongside senator Y. J. P. Owens and representatives Joseph Crews, Griffin Johnson, and Harry McDaniels. [1]