Solomon James Johnson collection, 1864-1972.

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Solomon James Johnson collection, 1864-1972.

Personal documents including U.S. Treasury Dept. personnel file, correspondence, and letters of recommendation from government officials (1864-1885); affidavit (1972) of the search for the death records of his father, Hanson Johnson, and a document settling Hanson Johnson's estate; and photographs of Solomon Johnson, his wife Elizabeth Cunningham Johnson, and their children.

1 box.

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United States. Department of the Treasury

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The Department of the Treasury was created by an act of Congress (1 Stat. 65), approved September 2, 1789. The orginal act established the Department to superintend the manage the National finances. This act charged the Secretary of the Treasury with the preparation of plans for the improvement and management of the revenue and the support of public credit. It further provided that the Secretary should prescribe the forms for keeping and rendering all manner of public accounts and for the ma...

Johnson, Elizabeth Cunningham

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Johnson, Solomon James, 1844-1885

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African American barber to Abraham Lincoln and U.S. Treasury Dept. clerk, of Washington, D.C. From the description of Solomon James Johnson collection, 1864-1972. (Moorland-Spingarn Resource Center). WorldCat record id: 70960422 ...

Johnson, Hanson

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