ELIAS HORRY Elected warden September 1813. Elected interim intendant March 30, 1815, after Thomas Rhett Smith resigned; elected to full term September 18, 1815, re-elected September 16, 1816. Succeeded September 1817 by John Geddes.
Elected intendant September 4, 1820. Succeeded September 1821 by James Hamilton, Jr.
Born 1773, died September 17, 1834, buried at St. Paul's Episcopal Church [Cathedral of St. Luke and St. Paul].
Son of Thomas Horry and Ann Branford, married Harriet Vanderhorst 1797; married second Mary R. Shubrick 1817.
Educated at James Hamden Thomson's private academy, 1790 joined Charles Cotesworth Pinckney's office as a law student; 1793 admitted to South Carolina courts of Law and Equity.
Owned The Bluff, Wattahan, Milldam, Jutland, Camp Main, Camp Island, Newland, Midland and Millbrook plantations (Santee River) in Georgetown District and St. James, Santee, Parish.
Represented St. James, Santee, in State House during five General Assemblies, 1794-1804; and St. Philip's and St. Michael's Parish during two General Assemblies, 1830-1833. Adams, Jasper. An eulogium, pronounced 23d January, 1835, in the chapel of the College of Charleston … on the Life and Character of the Late Elias Horry, Esq. Charleston: by the author, 1835 (http://books.google.com)
Bailey, N. Louise. Biographical Directory of the South Carolina House of Representatives. Volume 4, 1790-1815. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1984.
Charleston Courier, September 17, 1816.
Charleston City Gazette, September 21, 1813; April 1, 1815; September 16, 1817; September 5, 1820; September 3, 1821.
Rogers, George C., Jr. The History of Georgetown County, South Carolina. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1970.
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Jasper Adams, An eulogium… Elias Horry, Esq.
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Courtesy of Glenn Keyes Architects
59 Meeting Street, known as the Branford-Horry House, was built between 1751 and 1767 for William Branford and his wife Elizabeth Savage on land she had inherited, a portion of Town Lots 87 and 88. The house passed to the Branfords' daughter Ann and her husband Thomas Horry, then to their son Elias Horry. He remodeled the building, adding a grand portico over the sidewalk.
Alice R. H. Smith, The Dwelling Houses of Charleston
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Ichnography of Charleston, South Carolina. Surveyed by Edmund Petrie for the Phoenix Fire Company of London, 1788.
This 1788 map shows 59 Meeting Street before the portico was added to the east façade. |
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Bishop Roberts and W. H. Toms, The Ichnography of Charles-Town at High Water. London, 1739
Northwest corner of Meeting and Tradd streets, 1739 |
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Sanborn Company Fire Insurance map, 1888
Northwest corner of Meeting and Tradd streets, 1888 |
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Sanborn Company Fire Insurance map, 1902
Northwest corner of Meeting and Tradd streets, 1902 |
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