Johnson family : papers, 1859-1971.

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Johnson family : papers, 1859-1971.

Consists of correspondence, including copies of the Civil War letters of George W. Johnson, provisional governor of Ky. for the Confederacy. The correspondence consists of letters received by Mrs. William H. Coffman (Anne Payne), a granddaughter of George W. Johnson. The correspondence deals with family news, genealogical data, and politics. The papers also include information on related families, genealogical scrapbooks, and newspaper clippings. Prominent correspondents include Lyman Abbott, Dean Acheson, Herbert Agar, Martin Agronsky, Joseph Alsop, Alben Barkley, Chester Bowles, Mary Breckinridge, Virgil Chapman, Bert Combs, John Sherman Cooper, Basil W. Duke, Elbert Hubbard, Cordell Hull, Henry Jackson, Keen Johnson, George W. Johnson, Robert S. Kerr, William Lindsay, John B. McMaster, Mike Mansfield, Henry Morgenthau, Emmet O'Neal, Ambrose H. Sevier, John Sparkman, Adlai E. Stevenson, Thomas Underwood, and Lawrence Wetherby.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7603743

The Filson Historical Society

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