South Carolina Occupation and Business Records

United States South Carolina  Occupations

Cotton
The cotton industry was very important to South Carolina's economy. Cotton mills experienced tremendous growth in the state following the Civil War. An 1880 directory describes the state's cotton mills:


 * The Cotton Mills of South Carolina. Their Names, Location, Capacity and History [From the News and Courier, of Charleston, S.C.] Charleston, S.C.: The News and Courier Book Presses, 1880. Digital version at Google Books.

Doctors

 * Waring, Joseph Ioor. A History of Medicine in South Carolina, 1670-1825. 3 vols. Spartanburg, S.C.: Reprint Co., 1964-1971. FHL has vols. 1 &amp; 3:

This directory includes many South Carolina doctors:


 * Atkinson, William Biddle. The Physicians and Surgeons of the United States. Philadelphia: Charles Robson, 1878. Digital version at Google Books.

Davis indexed the South Carolina entries:


 * Davis, Robert S. "Biographical Sketches of Some South Carolina Doctors, 1878," The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research, Vol. 26, No. 2 (Spring 1998):95-96.

Government Officials

 * Cheres, Langdon. South Carolina Governors: With Drawings of Arms of Some of the Colonial Governors of South Carolina, 1702-1766. Microfilmed 1952:

Gunsmiths

 * Whisker, James B. Gunsmiths of the Carolinas, 1660-1870. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1993.

Indigo

 * Smith, Henry A.M. "Old Charles Town and Its Vicinity, Accabee and Wappoo Where Indigo Was First Cultivated, with Some Adjoining Places in Old St. Andrews Parish," The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Jan. 1915):1-15; Vol. 16, No. 2 (Apr. 1915):49-67. Digital versions at JSTOR ($).

Inventors
Comfort created an index of South Carolina residents who received United States patents for inventions:


 * Comfort, Jan. "South Carolina Inventors and Inventions 1790-1873," The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research, Vol. 25, No. 3 (Summer 1997):123-136.

Lawyers
For histories, see:


 * Brooks, U.R. South Carolina Bench and Bar. Columbia, S.C.: The State Company, 1906. Digital version of Volume 1 at Google Books.
 * Canady, Hoyt P. Gentlemen of the Bar, Lawyers in Colonial South Carolina. New York: Garland Pub., 1987.

For biographies, see:


 * O'Neall, John Belton. Biographical Sketches of the Bench and Bar of South Carolina. 2 vols. Charleston, S.C.: S.G. Courtenay &amp; Co., Publishers, 1859. ; digital version of Volume 1 at Internet Archive; digital version of Volume 2 at Google Books. Ancestry ($) has created a database covering both volumes.

Metalworkers

 * Scarborough, Quincy. Carolina Metalworkers: Coppersmiths, Pewterers, Tinsmiths of North Carolina and South Carolina. Fayetteville, N.C.: Q. Scarborough, 1995.

Plantations
Rice plantations formed much of South Carolina's economy. Slaves performed manual labor at plantations before the Civil War. See South Carolina African Americans.

Professors
Biographies of several early university professors (born 1700s and early 1800s) appear in:


 * LaBorde, M. History of the South Carolina College, From Its Incorporation December 19, 1801, to Nov. 25, 1857, Including Sketches of Its Presidents and Professors. Columbia, S.C.: Peter B. Glass, 1859. Digital version at Google Books.

Silversmiths
For a history, see:


 * Burton, E. Milby. South Carolina Silversmiths, 1690-1860. Charleston, S.C.: Charleston Museum, 1942.