Guide to the Joseph Forney Johnston Letters MSS.2015
Johnston, Joseph Forney
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Finding aid prepared by Martha Bace and Donnelly Lancaster Walton
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
January 23, 2009
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
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Joseph Forney Johnston Letters
- Unit ID:
MSS.2015
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.1 Linear feet (5 letters, 5 pages)
- Dates:
1910
- Abstract:
Five letters (three holographs and two typescripts), written on United States Senate stationery, by Joseph Forney Johnston from March 26, 1910 to April 10, 1910, regarding his support of the Telepost Bill.
Scope and Contents note
This collection consists of four letters (two holograph and two typescripts) written on United States Senate stationery by Joseph Forney Johnston from March 26-April 8, 1910 to various people regarding his support of the Telepost Bill. The fifth letter (typescript) dated April 10, 1910, also written on United States Senate stationery, was written by his secretary, Thomas B. Stallings. This letter also states the Senator's support of the Telepost Bill.
- Processing Information:
Processed by
Martha Bace, 2008
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation
Joseph Forney Johnston Letters, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, University of Alabama.
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
unknown
Biographical/Historical note
Joseph Forney Johnston, son of Dr. William Johnston and Nancy Forney, was born in Lincoln County, North Carolina on March 23, 1843. He moved to Alabama in his teenage years and was attending a military high school in Talladega when the Civil War broke out. he enlisted in the 11th Alabama Infantry Regiment but was serving as captain of the 12th North Carolina Infantry at the close of the war. He was wounded in battles at Chicamauga, Spottsylvania, New Market and Petersburg. After the war he studied law under General W. H. Forney in Jacksonville, Alabama and was admitted to the bar in 1866. He moved to Selma, Alabama and practiced law there for seventeen years. He moved to Birmingham, Alabama where he became the president of the Sloss Iron and Steel Company in 1887. He served as governor of Alabama from 1896 until 1900. The he was elected to the United States Senate in 1907 and served until his death on August 8, 1913 in Washington, DC.
Joseph Forney Johnston letters Box SC0004 Folder 2015.1
Letter from Joseph Forney Johnston, Washington, D. C., to Miss, March 26, 1910 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/19974
Letter from Joseph Forney Johnston, Washington, D. C., to J. H. Van Pelt, March 28, 1910 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/19975
Letter from Joseph Forney Johnston, Washington, D. C., to John N. Webb, March 29, 1910 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/19976
Letter from Joseph Forney Johnston, Washington, D. C., to J. M. Elliott, Jr., Gadsden, Alabama, April 8, 1910 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/19977
Letter from Thomas B. Stallings, Washington, D. C., to A. O. Granger, Montreal, Canada, April 25, 1910 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/19978