Lane Library's special collections: The Savannah Biographies

The Savannah Biographies is a collection of unedited biographies written by history students of Armstrong  State University (now Georgia Southern University, Savannah, Georgia Campus) for Dr. Roger K. Warlick's Historical Methods course. The papers were written between 1975 and the spring term of 1994. Dr. Warlick's original introduction is below.

This index to The Savannah Biographies is arranged alphabetically by the subject's name. The author is the student-biographer, the date is the term (Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall) when the biography was written and volume refers to the 25 bound volumes housed in the Florence Powell Minis Room of Lane Library (Spe Coll F 294 S2 S38.) Copies of the biographies were also given to the Georgia Historical Society.

Find digitized copies of selected biographies in the Digital Commons @ Georgia Southern University, link to Digital Commons just below. Digitized biographies in the list below are indicated by the name in bold, find these in the DC.

These volumes contain biographies of 19th and 20th century Savannahians written by history students of Armstrong State College. These biographies are of ordinary people from all walks of life who in some small way contributed to the history of the city of Savannah. They were prepared in partial fulfillment of requirements for Historical Methods Course 300/500 taught by Dr. Roger K. Warlick, head of the History and Political Science Department.

No attempt was made to edit these papers in any way and they are presented here exactly as submitted by the authors. Some enclosures, primarily bulky documents, were missing from the original papers and therefore are not contained herein.

It is the hope of the compiler that this collection of biographies not only will provide some pleasure to the casual reader, but also will prove to be of some value to the future researcher.