| | Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | Johnson Family Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Johnson Family | | | | Dates: | 1870-1956 | | | | Abstract: | John Cumming Johnson moved to Memphis, Tennessee, from Franklin, Ohio, in 1854. In 1856 he married Mary Anne Elizabeth Fisher. They were active in many philanthropic enterprises, especially education. Johnson and his son, William Cumming Johnson, were involved in the cotton trade. William Cumming Johnson was a major stockholder in the Tennessee Fiber Co. and had extensive real estate dealings in Florida. In 1877 he married Sarah Evangeline Harvey. She was the daughter of Charles T. Harvey, a New England structural engineer, and Sarah Van Eps Harvey. "Eva" Harvey married William Cumming Johnson in 1897 and settled in Tennessee, where she was a homemaker and mother. The Johnsons had four sons, Harvey B., Richard Selden, William C. Jr. and Burton Hayley. Lilian Wycoff Johnson, the sister of William Cumming Johnson, was one of the South's pioneer women educators. She served as president of the Western College for Women at Oxford, Ohio, founded the West Tennessee Normal School (now Memphis State College), and established a center for social and cooperative work on the Cumberland Plateau at Summerfield, Tennessee which was called KinCo. It later became the Highlander Folk School. The collection consists of portraits and views of the Johnson family of Memphis, Tennessee, including William Cumming Johnson, his wife Sarah Evangeline Harvey Johnson, his sister Lilian Wycoff Johnson, their family, friends, residences, and travels. Also included in this collection are views of KinCo Farm and Highlander School near Monteagle, Tennessee, founded by Lilian Wycoff Johnson. | | | | Call #: | PG 250 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Johnson family -- Photograph collections. | Johnson, John Cumming, 1828-1892 -- Photograph collections. | Johnson, William Cumming, 1870-1958 -- Photograph collections. | Johnson, Sarah Evangeline Harvey, 1870-1930 -- Photograph collections. | Johnson, Lillian Wyckoff, 1864-1956 -- Photograph collections. | KinCo (Monteagle, Tenn.) -- Photograph collections. | Highlander Folk School (Monteagle Tenn.) -- Photograph collections. | Women educators -- United States -- Photographs. | Women college teachers -- United States -- Photographs. | Women college administrators -- United States -- Photographs.
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