George Wesley Johnson papers Bulk, 1831-1888 1829-1939

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George Wesley Johnson papers Bulk, 1831-1888 1829-1939

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Correspondence, daybooks, in the early 1840s, ledgers, notebooks, accounts, bills, receipts, orders, promissory notes, postal records, and other papers (chiefly 1831-1888) of George Wesley Johnson and of his family. The material pertains to Tennessee agriculture, purchases of goods in Philadelphia and other northern cities before and after the Civil War, Wake Forest College, the University of North Carolina, Greensboro Female College, economic conditions after the Civil War, and the mercantile activities of the Johnsons.

10.0 linear feet; 7 boxes, 2,620 items and 77 vols.

David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

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Wake Forest College

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Johnson, George Wesley, fl. 1837-1855.

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George W. Johnson was a postmaster in Farmington, North Carolina from 1838-1856. He also served the public as a justice of the peace, general merchant, and farmer. His brother and business partner was James M. Johnson. Another brother, Hiram, also had a financial interest in the mercantile establishment. George W. Johnson's son, Francis Marion Johnson, was a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From the guide to the George Wesley Johnso...

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Greensboro College (N.C.)

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