THOMAS CARY JOHNSON
Monroe Co. WV
Virginia, Rebirth of the Old Dominion, Vol 5, pg 127, 1929


Thomas Cary Johnson, D.D. LL.D. is one of the best known 
scholars, theologians and educators in the South. His career 
has for thirty eight years been closely associated with the 
Union Theological Seminary at Richmond, where he has held 
various chairs in the faculty of instruction and has been 
the man chiefly instrumental in building up the splendid 
library of that institution.

Doctor Johnson was born at Fishbok Hill, Monroe Co. Va., 
July 19, 1859, son of Thomas and Minerva (Hinchman) Johnson.  
His father was a Confederate soldier and after the war lived 
on a farm in Monroe Co. until his death in Dec. 1894.  Hie 
was a director of his community bank.  Dr. Johnson's mother 
died in Feb. 1890.  Doctor Johnson was educated in local 
schools and in Hampden-Sidney College where he graduated 
with the A.B. degree in 1882.  Subsequently Hampden-Sidney 
bestowed upon him the Dr. of divinity degree in 1891 and 
the Doctor of Laws degree in 1899. He received diplomas 
in the schools of Latin, Greek and Mathematics at the 
University of Virginia, where he was a graduate student 
in 1883-1884.  In 1887 he graduated from the Union 
Theological Seminary of Virginia and spent the following 
year as a special student in Yale University.

During 1888-90 Dr. Johnson was a professor of Old and 
New Testament exegesis in the Theological School at Austin 
Texas. In 1890 he was ordained in the Presbyterian ministry 
and for one year was pastor of the third church at Louisville.

Dr Johnson began his long and notable service with the 
Union Theological Seminary in 1891, first as  professor 
of English  Bible and pastoral theology. He was professor 
of ecceastical history and polity from 1892 to 1913 and 
since August 20, 1913 has held the chair of systematic 
theology. He became librarian of the seminary in 1907.

He married December 26, 1894, Miss Ella Faulkner Bocock, of 
Appomattox, Virginia, the third daughter of Thomas S. Bocock, 
one of Virginia's able lawyers and for a number of years a 
member of Congress from the state until the outbreak of the 
Civil War and during the war he served in the State Senate.  
Mrs. Johnson, who died in April 1928 was a member of the 
Daughters of the American Revolution, the Society of Colonial 
Dames and the united Daughters of the Confederacy.  Dr. 
Johnson has three children: Thomas Cary Jr. now an associate 
professor at the University of Virginia; Elinor Holmes, an 
instructor in Queen's College at Charlotte, N.C. and Miss 
Ann Faulkner, at home.


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