Southern school (early 20th century) LINING HOUSE, CHARLESTON pastel on paper, framed unsigned sight size: H17 1/2" W11" *Note: Lining House, 106 Broad St. (Brother John Lining House) - When William Harvey and his wife Sarah sold the property to Charles and Elizabeth Hill, it was described as having a "Large Dwelling House thereon erected." The Hills were the parents of Sarah Lining, wife of Dr. John Lining. Charles Hill died after making his will in 1734, leaving the property to his wife Elizabeth, who married the Rev. Samuel Quincy in 1747, then of Dorchester and later of Bewly, Hampshire. She subsequently died, bequeathing the property to her daughter Sarah Lining, and in 1757, Jacob Motte, as her trustee, conveyed the property to the daughter. On March 5, 1757, Quincy gave a quit claim to John and Sarah Lining. On the same date, they conveyed the property to John Rattray. Lining's residences and the locations at which he conducted his scientific experiments have not been documented. In 1733, Dr. Lining advertised his address as Broad Street "opposite Mr. Crokatt's." Dr. John Lining (1708-1760), a native of Scotland came to Charles Town at the age of 22, and in 1737 began the first weather observations made with scientific instruments that were systematically reported on the American continent. He also conducted experiments on himself in human metabolism (1740); these are believed to have been the first such experiments made anywhere. He corresponded with Benjamin Franklin of Philadelphia on the subject of electricity and carried out Franklin's famous kite and key experiment in a local thunderstorm. Dr. Lining also made studies on yellow fever and wrote one of the first published accounts of that disease. The results of Dr. Lining's experiments were published in the "Transactions of the Royal Society of London", and in "Gentleman's Magazine", resulting in correspondence between Lining and European scientists. Lewis Timothee, a protege of Benjamin Franklin, operated his newspaper from this house after he replaced Thomas Whitmarsh who passed away in 1734. When Lewis died in 1738, his widow Elizabeth, with the help of her half-grown son Peter, continued the paper as the first woman editor and publisher in America. Later, Peter Timothy, aided by his wife the former Ann Donovan, made the "South Carolina Gazette" a major Patriot organ. For that reason, it was suspended during the British occupation, 1780-83. In 1783 the widowed Ann Timothy revived the paper as the "Gazette of the State of South Carolina", which, after her death in 1793 was continued by her son Benjamin Franklin Timothy until 1802. During the Timothy family ownership, the paper was published in this house. In addition, the apothecary of Dr. Andrew Turnbull occupied the building, some time between his arrival in Charles Town in 1781 and his death in 1792. His was the first of a series of drug stores in the building and when Schwettman's, the last establishment, closed in 1960, the apothecary shop interior was moved to the Charleston Museum. Dr. Turnbull previously had founded the Greek colony, New Smyrna, in East Florida. He refused to renounce his loyalty to the Crown, but remained in South Carolina after the British evacuation in 1783. His wife Maria Garcia, a native of Smyrna, is believed to have been Charleston's first Greek resident. The Lining House was in danger of demolition in 1961, when the Preservation Society of Charleston bought and restored it. The Society sold it in 1972 for use as a private residence.