Title: Autobiographical notes
Description: 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.
People: John Lipscomb Johnson (1835-1915)