Title: Patricia Clark Papers

Date/Date Range :   1752-1989 (bulk 1752-1860)

Extent: 0.5 linear feet

Abstract:

This collection contains Patricia Clark's research and articles documenting Andrew Johnson, his history, estate, and family through letters, articles, photographs, and clippings.

Call number: MS-2680

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Aquisition Information:

This collection was donated to Special Collections on May 9, 2005

Access Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Copyright:

The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of Item], Patricia Clark Papers, MS-2680. The Special Collections Library of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Collection consists of a single folder of material divided into two series: Andrew Johnson Project and Articles; and Research.

Patricia Pumphrey Clark grew up in Arlington, Virginia, and graduated form Madison College with a B.A. degree in education, a major in social science. She taught school for over five years before marrying G. Wayne Clark, a physicist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. From 1955 to 1958, Clark worked for the Virginia Historical Society. In the 1960s, she received her master's degree in history from the University of Tennessee. She was an assistant research director and editor of the Papers of the Andrew Johnson Project at the university. She won the first Phillip M. Hamer award given by the Society of American Archivists, and has been published many times, including the Florida Historical Quarterly, the Virginia Magazine of History, and Biography.

The research and articles of Patricia Clark document Andrew Johnson, his history, estate, and family through letters, articles, photographs, and clippings. Series I is based on Clark's research. It contains the articles that she wrote for Beacham Press and the Andrew Johnson Project History.

Items 3 through 11, Series II, consist of her research tracing the Johnson family into the collateral families and more histories of associated families, such as the Stover family of Bluff City or the McDonough family (Johnson's mother's family).

Artist George P.A. Healy exhibits the Newberry Library's collection of his paintings through a series of photographs in Items 5 and 6, while excerpts from the 1830-1831 Mayor's Book [of Greeneville] can be found in Item 9.

• Clark, Patricia.
• Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875.
• Presidents -- United States -- History.