David Bancroft Johnson papers, 1842-1971.

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David Bancroft Johnson papers, 1842-1971.

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Consisting of personal and professional papers of Johnson, his wife, Mai Rutledge Smith Johnson (1878-1978), and family, including his father, David Bancroft Johnson, Sr., a native of Maine, vice-president and mathematics professor at Franklin College in Mississippi, and president, LaGrange Female College in Tennessee; Civil War Letters of Mai Johnson's uncle, Benjamin Burgh Smith (d. 1904); Johnson's student correspondence, 1871-1877, from East Tennessee University (now Univ. of Tenn.), Knoxville; and materials pertaining to his educational work as principal of a boys' school in Knoxville, assistant professor of mathematics at East Tennessee University, 1879-1880, school principal in Abbeville, S.C., educator in New Bern, N.C., and superintendent of public schools in Columbia, S.C., 1883-1895; also letters of introduction to and references to meetings with Andrew Carnegie, Grover Cleveland, Henry Ford, J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Also includes items re the founding of Winthrop Training School, opened in 1886 in the chapel of Columbia Theological Seminary with financial support from the Peabody Education Fund and named for Robert C. Winthrop of Boston; the opening of Winthrop College in Rock Hill, 1895; the 1912 dispute between Johnson and University of South Carolina President Samuel Chiles Mitchell over distribution of Peabody funds, and the 1913 investigation of the controversy instigated by Gov. Coleman L. Blease; and draft notes and biographical sketch of Johnson's early life, c. 1955, by Archibald Rutledge. Papers of Mai Rutledge Smith Johnson include courtship letters and later correspondence with David Johnson; letters concerning their three children, Burgh Smith Johnson, David Bancroft Johnson, Jr., and Suzanne Rutledge Johnson, the latter two of whom suffered from diabetes, were both blind, and lived with their mother on the Winthrop campus; letters and poems, 1924-1954, written to Mai Johnson by her cousin Archibald Rutledge; and 6 volumes, 1956-1972, personal diary of Mai Johnson. Other correspondents include, Benjamin R. Tillman, James P. Kinard, Edwards S. Joynes, Samuel Green, and J.L.M. Curry.

2, 113 items and 6 v.

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7283196

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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