Person Record
Metadata
Name |
Dyson, Samuel (1908-1988) |
Spouse |
Dyson, Helen Porter |
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1.14.47-48 - Letter
Letter dated 5/20/1930 to Mr. Shalkenbach which is from Anne B. Call telling him that "they" had a special meeting which she (and others) were not notified of. By the time the members read a report of the meeting over thirty trees and shrubbery has been torn away from the cliff leaving it open to erosion. The committee consisted of Mr. Dyson, Frank Brown and Jesse Stimpson but none of them admits to designating which trees to be removed. Mrs. Ca...
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1.15.43-48 - Letter
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30.37.1-18 - Correspondence
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4.1.1-176 - Letter
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6.3.1-186 - Letter
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6.9.1-113 - Correspondence
Correspondence (D, E) of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated 1935-1954. 6.9.2-3 contains correspondence from the State of Alabama Department of Archives and History acknowledging receipt of 3 volumes of Meeting Minutes of the Exective Council of the Fairhope Industrial Association on 1/28/1937.
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7.20.1-192 - Letter
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7.22.1-110 - Letter
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8.7.1-116 - Correspondence
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8.9.1-114 - Correspondence
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9.20.1-82 - Correspondence
Miscellaneous correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, 1977-1979. Includes reimbursement receipts for FSTC officers. Also includes (9.20.68-69 and 9.20.71-72) a resume of Sam Dyson and the text of a speech by Robert Mason honoring Dyson.
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FSTC-V0004 - Video, Digital
Video titled "First Thursday in Fairhope" dated September 6, 1984, hosted by Judy Stone. The video is part of the "First Thursday" series produced by Alabama Public Television (APT, University of Alabama Television Services). Run time is 30 minutes. Filmed in 1984 during Fairhope's Centennial, the video includes information on Fairhope's founding as a single tax colony, the Organic School of Education, the Jubilee phenomenon, businesses, organ...
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FSTC-V0015 - Video, Digital
Video interview dated September 16, 1994 with Gale Rowe who came to Fairhope with his parents in the late 1930's. He graduated from Fairhope High School in 1943 (where he met Eloise Nichols whom he later married), served in the Navy during WWII and the Korean War, and in between service stints, graduated from the University of Alabama in 1948. Upon retirement, the family returned to Fairhope where he was active in the Fairhope Single Tax Corpor...
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FSTC-V0017 - Video, Digital
Video interview dated August 15, 1994 with Sam Dyson who was born in Fairhope on February 16, 1908. His parents came to the United States on June 30, 1900 from Bolton, England, and settled in Philadelphia where they met Joseph Fels and read the Henry George book. Progress and Poverty. As a result, they moved to Fairhope in 1904, built a house on Fels Avenue, and his father, Marmaduke Dyson, started a construction company. Marmaduke Dyson serve...
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FSTC-V0029 - Video, Digital
Video interview with Jeanette Bonner on March 7, 1997 by Flo Coleman Schneider and Ruth E. Rockwell. Mrs. Bonner is the great granddaughter of John and Nancy Lewis, the freed-slave couple who raised their family in this area. Nancy Lewis, then a widow, sold the improvements on the land to the Fairhope Industrial Associaton in 1895. Ms. Bonner is the daughter of Louise Lewis. She discussed living in the same house on McDonald Lane her enti...
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ix_1_1-55 - Correspondence
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PMG_14064 - Article
Fairhope Courier Centennial Edition article dated October 19, 1994 titled "Fairhope's first families Dyson legacylives on in Fairope buildings." Includes photographs and information about Marmaduke Dyson, a builder and businessman in Fairhope, Alabama and his sons, Sam Dyson, Raymond Dyson and George Dyson. From the Paul M. Gaston Collection, Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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PMG_14081-14087 - Biography
Biography of Sam Dyson collected and edited by Helen Payne. From the Paul M. Gaston Collection, Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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PMG-1926-001-033 - Yearbook
1926 Yearbook titled "The Senior Book" of the Organic School (School of Organic Education) in Fairhope, Alabama. (The school's annual would later be called The Cinagro.) Includes names of faculty, students in freshman through senior year, information about sports and acitivities, the school calendar, and advertisements. Seniors are: Marie Beiser Marvin Berglin Elouise Carter Grace Curtis Ethel Davis Samuel Dyson Elise Gilmore Lyle ...
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PMG-4247-4271 - Correspondence
Twenty-two pages of assorted documents dated in the 1980s from Sam Dyson, a member of the FSTC who served as president in 1977 and 1978. Includes correspondence, Christmas greetings, a speech dated January 26, 1988 titled "The Role of the FSTC in the National and International Single Tax Movement," newspaper clippings, an article about the contributions of the Gaston family titled "A Founding Family whose Creative Work and Dynamic Personalitie...
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