Tift family research files

Descriptive Summary
Title: Tift family research files
Creator: Fair, John D.
Inclusive Dates: 20th Century
Language(s): English
Extent: 3 Linear Feet (3 boxes, 1 oversized folder)
Collection Number: ms4075
Repository: Hargrett Library

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Collection Description

Historical Note

The Tift family has its roots in Colonial Connecticut in shipping and trade, as well as the American Revolution.

Nelson Tift (1810-1891) was a businessman, Georgia House of Representatives and U.S. Representative (1868-1869) who settled along the Flint River after working with the family businesses along the east coast, realizing the potential of lumber and cotton in South Georgia for ship building material. He facilitated trade in the area that, with the help of the Georgia Southern and Florida Railway, led to his founding of the city of Albany.

For more information, see the article Nelson Tift (1810-1891) in the New Georgia Encyclopedia and his congressional biography.

Henry Harding Tift (1841-1922) was an industrialist who established a lumber operation on that same RR further north of Albany on a high point near the Fall Line, and founded the city of Tifton, Georgia. The city of Tifton grew, and the county of Tift was created as business flourished with the connection to Atlanta and the country beyond.

For more information, see the article Henry Tift (1841-1922) in the New Georgia Encyclopedia.

Materials in this collection were the product of research for Dr. John Fair's book The Tifts of Georgia: Connecticut Yankees in King Cotton's Court, published by Mercer University Press.

Scope and Content

This collection contains notes, correspondence, and copies of documents relating to the Tift family in Georgia, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Georgia.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Tift family research files, ms4075, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

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Related Materials and Subjects

Subject Terms

Related Collections in this Repository

For more material related to this collection see the Tift family papers, ms4074.

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Series Descriptions and Folder Listing

 

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Albany - writing

 

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Anthony, Craig

 

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Baker County

 

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Beebe, Carolyn

 

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5

Brewster - Mayflower

 

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Brumby, Mike

 

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Burrows genealogy - Tifts

 

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8

Charts

 

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Connections - Albany

 

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Civi War and the Tifts

 

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Connections - Tifton

 

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Davis, Robert Scott

 

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Dean, Jane

 

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Dews, Bobby

 

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Genealogy - Connecticut

 

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Genealogy - Rhode Island

 

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Gray, James R.

 

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Harrold family

 

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Interviews - Tifts

 

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Interviews - typed

 

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Introduction - books

 

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Key West

 

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Lee, William G.

 

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Lyons, Sue

 

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McGough, Eliz., Ona, Susan

 

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Mallorys of Mystic

 

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Maps

 

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Mitchell, Nelson Tift

 

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Myers, Henry Tift

 

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Mystic newspapers

 

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New England trip

 

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Oliver, Julia

 

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Pictures

 

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Pound, Jerome

 

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Pritchett, C.B.

 

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Porter, Catherine Tift

 

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Pynchon, Frances

 

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Rawson, Charles

 

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Sherman, David

 

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Sherman, Mercer

 

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Tefft, Israel

 

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Tefft, Tim Nathan

 

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Tefft genealogy

 

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Terrell family

 

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Tift, Amos

 

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Tift, Amos C.

 

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Tift, Annie

 

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Tift, Asa

 

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Tift, Bessie Willingham

 

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Tift, Charles

 

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Henry Harding Tift

 

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Tift, Edmund

 

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Tift, Henry Harding II

 

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Tift, Henry Harding III

 

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Tift, Henry Harding IV

 

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Tift, Jerome Pound

 

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Tift, J.M.

 

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Tift, Lucius

 

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Tift, Maurice W.

 

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Tift, Nelson - journals

 

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Tift, Nelson

 

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Tift, Orville

 

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Tift, Richard A.

 

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Tift, Thomas Willingham

 

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Tift, Tommy

 

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Tift-Jones, Katherine

 

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Tift College

 

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Tifton

 

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Warner, Hiram

 

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Willinghams

 

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I. Tifts of Georgia

 

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Writings of other authors

 

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Notes

 

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Research publication materials

 

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The Tifts of Georgia

 

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Tift bibliography

 

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Miscellaneous correspondence

 

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Family tree poster

 

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Family history poster