58 THE F<)..Y DAYS AM) NOW ; 



Who does not remember the oki "Pendleton Messenger" and 

 Dr. F. W. Symmes, its editor, and the old "Farmer and 

 Planter," and Major George Seabourne, proprietor and pub- 

 lisher; Mr. E. B. Benson, the h)ng-time merchant, and old 

 Billy Hubbard, the jolly landlord; the ohl English dancing 

 master, Walon ; rich old Sam Maverick, the eccentric ; old man 

 Sid Cherry, the bachelor; old Tommy Christian, the town 

 marshal, and many other notables we have not space here to 

 mention ? 



The first farmers' society in the South was inaugurated at 

 old Pendleton in the year 1815, and was known as the "Pen- 

 dleton Farmers' Society," and, if we are not misinformed, the 

 second society of its kind in the United States, and the third 

 in Charleston^ in 1818, the first being in Philadelphia. The 

 first oflicersof the "Pendleton Farmers' Society" were James 

 C. Griftin, President ; Josiah Golliard, Vice-President ; Colo- 

 nel Robert Anderson, Secretary; Joseph V. Shanklin, Treas- 

 urer and Corresponding Secretarj^ Its honorary members 

 were General Thomas Pinkney, Honorable Wm. Lowndes, 

 Honorable C. C. Pinkney, R. S. Izzard, Esq., J. R. Pringle, 

 Esq., Doctor J. Noble, General Daniel Huger, Honorable 

 John C. Calhoun, Colonel J. Bonl'on, Colonel L. J. Allston, 

 Reverend Doctor Waddell, General John Blassengame, D. P. 

 Hillhouse, Doctor Isaac Auld, Doctor C. M. Reese, of Phila- 

 delphia. 



And among the earliest resident members were Thos. Pink- 

 ney, John L. North, Andrew Pickens, Benjamin Smith, John 

 Miller, Charles Galliard, John E. Calhoun, J. Taliaferro Lewis, 

 Doctor Thomas L. Dart, General J. B. Earle, William Hunter, 

 Benjamin Dupree, Joseph Gresham, L. McGregor, Samuel 

 Earle, Richard Harrison, Patrick Norris, J. C. Kilj)atrick, Jo- 



