[Portrait of Nancy Maria Donaldson Johnson]

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[Portrait of Nancy Maria Donaldson Johnson]

[ca. 1875?]

https://www.loc.gov/item/2018645040/

Photograph shows Nancy Maria Donaldon Johnson (1794-1890), posed facing left, wearing a day cap with lace lappets. Johnson and her sister Mary Donaldson, were active in the American Missionary Association. Additionally, in 1862, both women volunteered to teach freed slaves at Port Royal, South Carolina as part of the Port Royal Experiment. In addition to teaching and missionary work Nancy was an inventor. She patented the first hand-crank mechanism for ice cream freezers in 1843. Her husband, Walter Rogers Johnson (1794-1852), was a scientist, serving as the first Secretary of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1848. The couple married in 1823 at Medfield, Massachusetts, eventually establishing residence in Washington, D.C. They adopted two children, Walter W. Johnson (1836-1879) and Mary Maria Stroud (1834-1921). The family is buried at Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.

1 photograph : albumen print on card mount ; mount 11 x 6 cm (carte de visite format)

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SNAC Resource ID: 11676825

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Johnson, Nancy Maria Donaldson, 1794-1890

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Nancy Maria Donaldson Johnson married Walter Rogers Johnson (1794-1852) in Medfield, Massachusetts in 1823. The couple adopted two children, Walter W. Johnson (1836-1879) and Mary Maria Stroud (1834-1921). Walter Johnson was a scientist and the First Secretary for the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She started as a housewife, and later went on to be a very successful inventor. Johnson lived in Philadelphia in 1843 when she filed for her patent for the first hand-cranked ...