Summary Information

Title: Thomas S. Johnson Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1787-1964

Creator:

• Johnson, Thomas S., 1839-1927

Call Number: Oshkosh Mss Z; PH Oshkosh Mss Z

Quantity: 4.8 c.f. (12 archives boxes and 1 oversize folder) and 157 photographs (1 archives box and 2 folders)

Repository:

Housed at the Archives & Area Research Center, Polk Library, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

UW-Oshkosh Polk Library / Oshkosh Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Abstract:

Papers of Johnson, a Presbyterian minister from Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, including personal and family papers. Personal correspondence covers his fifty-year ministerial career at Assembly Presbyterian Church in Beaver Dam, his education at Carroll College and Princeton University, his teaching career at Blairstown Academy, and his service during the Civil War with the United States Christian Commission and as a chaplain with the 36th and 127th Regiments, United States Colored Troops, 1864-1866. Additional military papers include a handbook of the 127th Regiment, USCT, containing detailed reports; sermons; articles; and an edited autobiography of Moses Ordway, founder of the first Presbyterian church in Wisconsin. Also included are scattered diaries, 1850-1909; personal account books, 1823-1923; and miscellaneous account books of the Assembly Presbyterian Church. Family papers include clippings, genealogies, an account book of his father, Baker Johnson, prior to his immigration to Wisconsin, an account book of William N. Johnson (Oxford, Wisconsin), writings of Mary S. Johnson and a photocopied scrapbook she made about the Monona Lake Assembly. There is also extensive correspondence of Thomas S. Johnson's sister, Caroline, who taught at several Presbyterian colleges and academies and was a missionary to African-American children at West Point, Mississippi. Other surnames in the family materials include Beach, Elliot, and King. Photographs consist of portraits of Johnson and his relatives including Baker Johnson, Mahlon Johnson, and Joseph F. Tuttle; views of the Assembly Presbyterian Church and other churches and family homes; reunions of the Mahlon Johnson Association; and cartes-de-visite of Johnson's Civil War associates.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-osh000z

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