NEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY MANUSCRIPT FINDING AID
RG5632.AM: Barwick-Johnson Families
Papers: 1895-1982; mostly 1895-1963
Lincoln, Lancaster County, Neb.:
Size: 0.2 cu.ft.; 1 box
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
This collection consists of papers relating to the Barwick and Johnson families. The main family members represented includes Cynthia (Johnson) Barwick, Leonard Barwick, and Steven Barwick. Also included is information on the Roberts Family. Leonard Barwick was quarterback for the 1904 UNL football team. He married Cynthia Johnson in 1907. He worked as a tombstone salesman for a number of years and then went to work for McGraw-Hill as a Business Week field staff member in their Midwest Division. Steven Barwick, son of Leonard and Cynthia Barwick, was a professor of piano and music literature at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Ill.
Note: The photo component for this collection [RG5632.PH] consists of various photographs of the Barwick and Johnson families. Ask a Reference staff member for assistance with the photos. Additional artifacts relating to the Barwick and Johnson families are held in the collections of the NSHS Nebraska History Museum. Not all artifacts are on display. Interested researchers must contact the Museum Collections department to make an appointment.
ADDED ENTRIES:
Barwick, Cynthia Johnson
Barwick, Leonard
Barwick, Steven
Barwick family
Johnson family
Roberts family
TMM 02-17-2009
02-02-2010 Revised TMM