Harriette Kershaw Leiding
Harriette Dubose Kershaw Leiding (June 26, 1874 – March 20, 1948), known socially as Mrs. Leiding, was an American writer, clubwoman, and gallery director, based in Charleston, South Carolina. She wrote several local histories, including Street cries of an old southern city; with music and illustrations (1910), Historic Houses of South Carolina (1921), and Charleston, Historic and Romantic (1931).
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- Name
- Harriette Kershaw Leiding
- Born
- 26 June 1874
- Birthplace
- Sewanee, Tennessee, U.S.
- Died
- 20 March 1948
- Place of death
- Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.
- Occupation
- Writer, gallery director, local historian, clubwoman
- Nationality
- United States
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Harriette Dubose Kershaw Leiding (June 26, 1874 – March 20, 1948), known socially as Mrs. Leiding, was an American writer, clubwoman, and gallery director, based in Charleston, South Carolina. She wrote several local histories, including Street cries of an old southern city; with music and illustrations (1910), Historic Houses of South Carolina (1921), and Charleston, Historic and Romantic (1931).
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Her photographs are in the Charleston Museum.
Gippy Plantation on the Western Branch of the Copper River was photographed in 1921.
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Ingleside Plantation was outside Charleston, South Carolina
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Key facts
• Name — Harriette Kershaw Leiding • Born — 26 June 1874 • Birthplace — Sewanee, Tennessee, U.S. • Died — 20 March 1948 • Place of death — Charleston, South Carolina, U.S. • Occupation — Writer, gallery director, local historian, clubwoman • Relatives — Joseph B. Kershaw (grandfather) Wilmot Gibbes de Saussure (grandfather)
Early life
Early life
Harriette Kershaw was born in Sewanee, Tennessee, and raised in Camden and Sumter, South Carolina, the daughter of Rev. John Kershaw and Susan B. de Saussure Kershaw of the De Saussure family. Her paternal grandfather, Joseph B. Kershaw, was a major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, and later a politician. Her maternal grandfather, Wilmot Gibbes de Saussure, was also a Confederate general and a politician. She graduated from the Peabody College for Teachers in 1894.
Career
Career
Leiding wrote four books of local history and folklore about Charleston, emphasizing a romantic, nostalgic view of the Southern city. She also wrote shorter essays, and the lyrics to a 1913 song, "Calling to Thee", with music by Eugene Wyatt. • Illustration — Readable pdf of Historic Houses of South Carolina Leiding was director of Gibbes Art Gallery. She donated "extraordinarily" large stone crab claws to the Charleston Museum, which also holds a collection of her photographs. She was a member of the South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Society. In 1915, she was local chair of the Southern Commercial Congress, when it met in Charleston, and she was active in the Woman's Committee Council of Defense during World War I, the Charleston Civic Club, the State Federation of Women's Clubs, the Art Association of South Carolina, and many other organizations. "She has been with all the big civic movements inaugurated in Charleston," noted a 1915 profile. "As a patriotic and civic worker she is earnest, active, and always on the job," according to a 1918 article.
Personal life
Personal life
Kershaw married Charleston businessman Herman Gustavus Leiding. She died in 1948, at the age of 73, at her home in Charleston.
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Sewanee.
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• Illustration — Readable pdf of Street cries of an old southern city; with music and illustrations (1910) • Street cries of an old southern city; with music and illustrations (1910) • "Charleston Gardens" (1914) • "The Great or Broad Seal of the Confederacy" (1921) • Historic Houses of South Carolina (1921) • "Inscriptions from the Church Yard at Wiltown Bluff" (1926) • Charleston, Historic and Romantic (1931)
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- 1.While her gravestone gives 1878 as her birth year, newspaper obituaries consistently gave her age at 73 in March 1948; and she gave 1874 as her birth year on her 1919 passport application, via Ancestry.
- 2.A.C. Armstrong & Son. The American Catalogue. November 22, 1911.
- 3."Street cries of an old southern city,". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
- 4.R.R. Bowker Company. The Publishers Weekly. November 22, 1911.
- 5.Leiding, Harriette Kershaw. Historic houses of South Carolina. Philadelphia, London, J. B. Lippincott Company. 1921.
- 6.Flippin, P. S. Charleston, Historic and Romantic. By Harriette Kershaw Leiding. (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1931. 293 pp. Illustrations. $3.50.). Journal of American History. 19. 1. 105–106. 1932-06-01. 0021-8723.
- 7.Leiding, H.K. (Harriette Kershaw), 1878-1948. Charleston Museum.
- 8.Mrs. Leiding Dies; Formerly of Sumter. The Item. 1. March 22, 1948.
- 9.Funeral Held for Mrs. H. G. Leiding, Charleston Writer. The Columbia Record. 16. March 23, 1948.
- 10.George Peabody College for Teachers. George Peabody college for teachers. Reopening of the college, alumni lists, progress of scholarship campaign, Knapp school of country life. 43. 1913.
- 11.Dance, Daryl Cumber. Shuckin' and Jivin': Folklore from Contemporary Black Americans. Indiana University Press. November 22, 1978. 978-0-253-35220-0.
- 12.Leiding, Harriette Kershaw. The Great or Broad Seal of the Confederacy. The State. 6. May 16, 1921.
- 13.Library of Congress Copyright Office. Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical Compositions. Part 3. Library of Congress. 256. November 22, 1913.
- 14.Museum, College of Charleston. Bulletin of the College of Charleston Museum. The College. November 22, 1910.
- 15.Notes and Reviews. The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine. 43. 2. 129. April 1942.
- 16.Woman's Committee Council of Defense Happenings for Week. The Greenville News. 9. July 7, 1918.
- 17.Chairman for Charleston. The Tennessean. 3. November 21, 1915.
- 18.Leiding, Harriette K. Charleston Gardens. Art and Progress. 5. 7. 259–263. May 1914.
- 19.Leiding, Harriette K. Inscriptions from the Church Yard at Wiltown Bluff. South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine. 27. 2. 104–106. April 1926.
- 20.Herman G. Leiding. The Columbia Record. 3. July 17, 1952.
- 21.Mrs. Harriette Leiding of Charleston. Florence Morning News. 17. March 21, 1948.
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