| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 1 | Title: | Sarah Evangeline Harvey Johnson Memory Books
| | | Creator: | Johnson, Sarah Evangeline Harvey | | | Dates: | 1890-1930 | | | Abstract: | Sarah Evangeline Harvey Johnson (1870-1930) 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. The collection consists of bound volumes (part diary and part scrapbook) belonging to Sarah Evangeline Harvey Johnson and Richard Selden Johnson, containing photographs, postcards, drawings, paintings, notes, stories, poems, and magazine and newspaper clippings. Also sketchbooks, a playschool manual, six stories and essays by Mrs. Johnson, and an incomplete volume belonging to Charles Noel Harvey. | | | Call #: | MS 3888 | | | Extent: | 8.70 linear feet (10 containers) | | | Subjects: | Johnson family. | Harvey family.
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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 2 | Title: | Alexander Bunts Family Papers
| | | Creator: | Bunts, Alexander Family | | | Dates: | 1770-1968 | | | Abstract: | Alexander Bunts was a Cleveland, Ohio, neurosurgeon, amateur historian, and Trustee of the Western Reserve Historical Society. He traced his descent from Virgil C. Taylor, an American Civil War soldier and Cleveland realtor, and from Levi Johnson, an early settler of Cleveland. The collection consists of correspondence, diaries, genealogies, autograph books and scrapbooks of Bunts family members, and several monographs collected by Dr. Bunts. | | | Call #: | MS 3590 | | | Extent: | 1.21 linear feet (3 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | Subjects: | Bunts family. | Taylor family. | Johnson family. | Sackett family. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 4 | Title: | Earle Levan Johnson Papers
| | | Creator: | Johnson, Earle Levan | | | Dates: | 1803-1967 | | | Abstract: | Earle Levan Johnson (1895-1947) was an Ohio state representative who became national commander of the Civil Air Patrol during World War II. The collection consists of correspondence, Civil Air Patrol files, regulations and directives, speeches, certificates, resolutions, miscellaneous printed material and personal memorabilia relating to Col. Johnson and the Civil Air Patrol. | | | Call #: | MS 3588 | | | Extent: | 4.21 linear feet (10 containers, 3 oversize volumes, and 1 oversize folder) | | | Subjects: | Johnson, Earle Levan, 1895-1947. | Doan family. | Johnson family. | Air defenses -- United States. | Aeronautics -- United States. | World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- United States.
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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 5 | Title: | Johnson Family Papers
| | | Creator: | Johnson Family | | | Dates: | 1811-1977 | | | Abstract: | John Cumming Johnson (1828-1892) moved to Memphis, Tennessee, from Franklin, Ohio, in 1854. In 1856 he married Mary Anne Elizabeth Fisher (1834-1883). They were active in many philanthropic enterprises, especially education. Johnson and his son, William Cumming Johnson (1870-1958), were involved in the cotton trade. William Cumming Johnson was a major stockholder in the Tennessee Fiber Company and had extensive real estate dealings in Florida. In 1877 he married Sarah Evangeline Harvey (1870-1930). Their son, William Cumming Johnson, Jr. (born 1904), married a great-granddaughter of Noah Mayo Farrin and Agnes Saline Faris Farrin. The collection consists of diaries of John and Elizabeth Johnson, correspondence of the Farrin and Johnson families, genealogical material on the Johnson, Fisher, Plume, Van Wagenen, Schenck, and Brown families, two memory books of William Johnson, Jr., an index to the memory books of Evangeline Johnson, and miscellaneous documents including clippings, estate papers of John and William Johnson, memorials for John and Elizabeth Johnson, and a key to the family code. Major topics of the papers include World War I and women's rights. | | | Call #: | MS 3782 | | | Extent: | 0.60 linear feet (2 containers) | | | Subjects: | Johnson family. | Farrin family. | Fisher family. | Plume family. | Van Wagner family. | Schenk family. | Brown family. | World War, 1914-1918. | Women's rights.
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