Author: BYNUM, Turner, Jr.
Biography:
BYNUM, Turner, Jr. (d 1832)
A native of Columbia SC, he was in his mid-twenties in 1832 when he was persuaded to become the editor of a newspaper, The Sentinel, to attack the Unionist position of The Greenville Mountaineer. He was killed in a duel by the editor of the Mountaineer, Benjamin Franklin Perry, who was appointed Governor of the State over thirty years later. (Patricia McNeely, "Dueling Editors" in Words at War, ed. Sachsman et al [2008]) HJ
Other Names:
- T. Bynum, Jr.
Books written (1):
Columbia [SC]: printed by Sweeny and Sims, 1827