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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the T. D. Johnston Papers, #1777, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Dorothea Weaver (Mrs. Verne) Rhoades of Asheville, N.C., 1944 and October 1950.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, May 2009

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• American poetry--North Carolina--19th century.
• Asheville (N.C.)--History.
• Democratic Party (N.C.)--History--19th century.
• Dillard family.
• Johnston, T. D. (Thomas Dillard), 1840-1902.
• Johnston, William.
• Law--Study and teaching--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Lawyers--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• North Carolina--Politics and government--1865-1950.
• Pearson, Richmond Mumford, 1805-1878.
• South Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Civilian relief.
• Spartanburg (S.C.)--Social conditions.
• Sunday schools--South Carolina--History--19th century.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Civilian relief.

Thomas Dillard Johnston (1840-1902) was a lawyer and businessman of Asheville, N.C. Johnston held various political offices, including mayor of Asheville, 1868; state representative, 1870-1874; state senator, 1876; and United States representative, 1885-1889. Johnston was born in Waynesville, N.C. and was educated at Colonel Stephen D. Lee's school and the University of North Carolina, 1858-1859.

The papers of T.D. Johnston consist chiefly of political and business correspondence in the 1870s when he was a leading Democratic member of the North Carolina legislature. Also included are Johnston's notes on the law lectures of Richmond Mumford Pearson; antebellum papers of his father, William Johnston of Waynesville in Haywood County, N.C., including a book of poems written to members of the family (on microfilm); minutes of the Spartanburg, S.C., Methodist Sunday School Relief Society, 1861-1863; a scrapbook, 1862-1864; and a typed copy of the Dillard family history. Also include are the papers, 1880s and 1890s, of Annie Johnston, who married William Trotter Weaver of Asheville, N.C., in 1887. The collection does not relate to T. D. Johnston's career as a United States representative, 1885-1889.