Title: Autobiographical notes.
Authors: Johnson, John Lipscomb, 1835-1915.
Year: 1958
Subjects: Johnson, John Lipscomb,
Abstract: John Lipscomb Johnson grew up on a Virginia plantation and later served as a teacher, Baptist minister, leader, and speaker, and father. He was born in Virginia in 1835, served in the Civil War as a chaplin, and in 1860 he married Julia Toy. They had eight children and this autobiographical sketch was written in response to a request from his grandson in 1910.
Contents: The environments of my youth -- Young life at Forest Hill -- The University of Virginia : education, courtship, and marriage -- One year in the field -- Three years in Lynchburg -- Three years in the twin cities -- Four years in four places -- Sixteen years at the University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi -- Leaving the University of Mississippi -- Up in Tennessee -- Six years in Columbus, Mississippi -- A Purnell place 1897-1900 -- The years at Clinton.