David Bancroft Johnson papers, 1842-1971 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary: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