Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Johnson, M. D., LL. D., Milbank 
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Source: California and Californians, Vol. IV, Published 1932, Pages  85 - 86
Author: The Lewis Publishing Company

     MIILBANK JOHNSON, M. D., LL. D., was born at Columbus, Texas, son of Jehu 
Warner and Philadelphia Borden Johnson. His grandfather was Gail Borden, an 
inventor of note. Doctor Johnson was educated in private schools and graduated 
in 1890 from the University of Southern California as a Bachelor of Science. 
In 1917 this university, in recognition of his public service, conferred upon 
him the honorary LL. D. degree. He graduated in medicine from Northwestern 
University in 1893 and that alma mater honored him in 1920 by conferring its 
honorary LL. D. degree upon him. In 1894 Doctor Johnson was a special student 
at Johns Hopkins and later in European hospitals. After a year's work abroad 
he returned to the United States and entered upon eight years of a large and 
very successful private practice in Los Angeles.

     In the past twenty years many institutions and organizations have claimed 
his aid and energies. From 1897 until 1901 he was professor of physiology and 
clinical medicine in the Medical School of the University of Southern 
California. For twelve years, from 1901 until 1913, he was chief surgeon of 
the Southern California Edison Company and brought its medical department to 
such a state of efficiency that the company well justified the description 
often made of it, that it was a "corporation with a soul." For four years 
Doctor Johnson gave up all private interests and devoted his entire time to 
the service of the Municipal Charities Commission, of which he was the first 
chairman. In 1917 Doctor Johnson became assistant medical director of the 
Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company, of which he has long been a director, 
and later became chairman of its Claims Committee. He is a trustee of the 
Insurance Federation of America and is a member of the Los Angeles County 
Medical Society, of the Southern California Medical Association and of the 
American Medical Association. He has written much on medical topics and on 
social economics.

     Doctor Johnson was, from 1900 until 1904, a member of the Los Angeles 
Board of Health. In 1916 he was elected to the Board of Freeholders of Los 
Angeles to revise the city charter. During the war he was a member of the 
California Military Welfare Commission and was the author of the California 
plan of vice control for the protection of soldiers and sailors. He is a 
former president of the California Conference of Social Agencies and is a 
member of the American Conference for Social Work.

     Doctor Johnson, with two or three others, organized the Automobile Club 
of Southern California and he was its first president, serving for the first 
two years of its existence. During those years the club built the first "good 
road" in California and started the campaign which has placed California 
foremost in the extent and quality of its highways.

     In 1890, while at Northwestern University as a student, Doctor JohnŽson 
was one of five to found what is now the largest medical fraternity in the 
country, the Phi Rho Sigma. He is a Knight Templar and thirty-second-degree 
Mason, also a Shriner and was a director of the California Society of the Sons 
of the American Revolution. He is also a member of the Society of Colonial 
Wars: He is president of the Southwest Museum of Los Angeles.

     Doctor Johnson is a Republican. He is a member of the California 
Landmarks, Midwick Country and University Clubs, as well as of many other 
social and civic organizations. On September 8, 1920, he married Isabel 
Simeral, of Cleveland, Ohio.

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