First Home of Winthrop College

First Home of Winthrop College. The South Carolina College for Women. [Left Top]: This Chapel of the Columbia Theological Seminary, at Columbia, South Carolina, was occupied by the Winthrop Training School as a classroom for one year. 1886-1887.. The Winthrop Training School was organized in 1886 by D.B. Johnson, superintendent of the city schools of Columbia. The Trustees of the Columbia City Schools in 1886, who were also Trustees of The Winthrop Training School, were F.W. McMaster, chairman - John P. Thomas, Jr. R.L. Bryan - Edward S. Joynes - Wm. H. Lyles W.J. Duffie - W.C. Swaffield. In 1936 on request of The Winthrop College Alumnae Association, This building was given to Winthrop College by the Columbia Theological Seminary. In the same year it was moved to this location. Within, rest the remains of David Bancroft Johnson, Founder of Winthrop College and President for Forty-two Years., [Left Bottom]: President Johnson wed Mai Rutledge Smith, a native of Charleston, South Carolina, on August 6,1902. They had three children, David Bancroft Johnson, Jr., Burgh Smith Johnson, and Susanne Rutledge Johnson. Mrs. Johnson was a 1900 graduate of Winthrop and was employed at the school until 1969, After her death in 1978, at the age of 100, she was interred with her husband., [Right]: Erected as a stable and carriage house. Used as the Chapel while the Seminary was in Columbia 1830-1927 and listed such leaders as Howe, Thornwell, Palmer, Girardeau, Joseph Ruggles Wilson and John Leighton Wilson. The Book of Church Order of the Southern Presbyterian Church was prepared in this building by a Committee with J.B. Adger, Chairman, and James Woodrow, Secretary. In student services held here under the Leadership of Frank J. Brooke, Woodrow Wilson accepted and confessed Christ 1873. Presented to Winthrop College by The Board of Directors of Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia, on May 7 1936.