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Author: BYNUM, Turner, Jr.

Biography:

BYNUM, Turner, Jr. (1808-32: ancestry.com)

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. (ancestry.com 24 July 2025; 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