| 1856 - |
Jan. 10 David Bancroft Johnson is born in La Grange, Tennessee |
| 1857 - |
David Johnson, Sr. died |
| 1864 - | Eight-year-old Johnson lost his left arm while jumping from a freight train |
| 1877 - | Johnson graduated with honors from East Tennessee University in Knoxville |
| 1877 to 1879 -
| Johnson was principal of a Knoxville boys’ school |
| 1879 - | Johnson received an M.A. degree from the ETU |
| 1879 to 1881 - |
Johnson was principal of the graded school system in Abbeville, S.C. |
1881 to 1883 - |
Johnson was principal of the graded school system in New Bern, N.C. |
1883 - | Johnson appointed Columbia, S.C. School Superintendent (held post through 1895) |
1884 to 1888 - |
President of the South Carolina Teachers Association |
1885 to 1894 - |
Johnson helped organize and was president of the Columbia Y.M.C.A. |
1886 - | Johnson received $1500 from the Peabody Education Board headed by Robert C. Winthrop to begin a teacher training school for women |
1886 - | Nov. 15 Johnson opened Winthrop Training School for Teachers in a chapel at Columbia Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Columbia with 19 students |
1887 - | Johnson’s new school graduated 14 students, South Carolina granted Johnson a charter, and the school moved to a house on Marion St. in Columbia |
1889 - | Johnson founded the South Carolina Association of School Superintendents |
1891 - | South Carolina General Assembly establishes the South Carolina Industrial and Winthrop Normal College and names Johnson the president |
1891 - | Johnson and teachers Mary Yeargin and Hannah Hemphill are appointed as a committee to visit potential sites and consider offers from towns competing to offer Winthrop a permanent home |
1893 - | Rock Hill named new home to Winthrop and the school changed its name to The Winthrop Normal and Industrial College of South Carolina |
1894 - | Johnson presided over the festivities of the laying of the cornerstone of Main Building (later Tillman) |
1895 - | Johnson began classes in Rock Hill on October 15 and instituted a four-year curriculum and a uniform dress code. North Dormitory (later Margaret Nance) was built |
1896 - | Crawford Infirmary constructed |
1898 - | First yearbook (Tatler) published |
1900 - | Enrollment tops 500 and Winthrop Kindergarten opens |
1901 - | South Dormitory (later McLaurin Hall) was built |
1901 - | Johnson gained membership in Phi Kappa Phi |
1902 - | On Aug. 6 Johnson married Mai Rutledge Smith, an 1898 Winthrop graduate |
1902 - | Organized the Rural School Improvement Association of South Carolina |
1902 - | Organized the Rural School Improvement Association of South Carolina |
1903 - |
D. B. Johnson’s first child David Bancroft Johnson, Jr. (1903-1973) born on May 21st |
1905 - | Johnson granted funds from Andrew Carnegie for Library (now Rutledge Building) |
1905 - | Johnson became a member of the National Geographic Society |
1905 - | Johnson received honorary doctorate from South Carolina College (later Univ. of S.C.) |
1908 - |
D. B. Johnson’s second son Burgh Johnson (1908-1967) born |
1909 - | Bancroft Hall and the Dining Hall (now McBryde) built |
1910 - | Johnson elected president of Southern Educational Association |
1910 - | Johnson elected president of the Normal School division of the National Education Association |
1912 - | Winthrop Training School (later renamed Withers) built |
1913 - | Tillman Science Building built |
1915 - | Johnson elected president of the National Education Association (presided through 1916) |
1916 - | Peabody Gymnasium built with funds Johnson obtained from Peabody Fund and enrollment tops 1000 |
1920 - | Johnson elected a member of the International Committee of the Y. M. C. A. |
1920 - | Roddey and Johnson Halls built and name changed to Winthrop College, the South Carolina College for Women |
1921 - |
D. B. Johnson’s third child Susanne Johnson (1921-1979) born on Apr. 21st |
1922 - | Winthrop honors Johnson by celebrating Founder’s Day on his birthday |
1923 - | Winthrop’s student newspaper the Winthrop Weekly News is renamed; in honor of Johnson to The Johnsonian |
1924 - | Breazeale Hall built |
1924 - | Johnson received honorary doctorate from Presbyterian College |
1926 - | Joynes Hall built |
1927 - | Johnson named South Carolina’s Most Distinguished Citizen by the; American Legion |
1928 - | Johnson died on December 26, 1928 |
1944 - | S.S. D.B. Johnson launched |
1950 - | Twenty-two years after his death, Johnson was chosen Educator of the Half Century by leading college and public school educators, newspaper editors and prominent laymen |
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