Conway_Whittle_Sams

Conway Whittle Sams

Conway Whittle Sams

American lawyer and historian

Conway Whittle Sams (August 25, 1864 - May 11, 1935) was an American lawyer and historian. In addition to authoring books on early Virginia history, he published Shall Women Vote? in 1913 to argue against women's suffrage.[1][2] Born in McPhersonville, South Carolina, he graduated from the University of Virginia in 1887 and lived much of his life and practiced law in Norfolk, Virginia.[3][4]

Selected bibliography

  • Sams on Attachment (1896) (legal treatise)
  • Shall Women Vote? A Book for Men (1913)
  • The conquest of Virginia: the forest primeval (1916)
  • Conquest of Virginia, the first attempt (1924)
  • Conquest of Virginia, the second attempt (1929)
  • Conquest of Virginia, the third attempt 1610-1624 (1939)

References

  1. [1]
    (6 June 1914). Literary Notes by Our Book Editor, Quebec Daily Telegraph
  2. [2]
    (13 December 1913). An Anti-Suffrage Extremist, St. Joseph News-Press
  3. [3]
    Virginia: A Guide to the Old Dominion, p. 249 (1940)
  4. [4]
    Bond, Lula Sams and Laura Sams Sanders. The Sams Family of South Carolina (Continued)., The South Carolina Historical Magazine, Vol. 64, No. 2 (Apr., 1963), pp. 105-113 ("Conway Whittle Sams, born August 25, 1864, McPhersonville, South Carolina, died May 11, 1935 ...")
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