Ada-Shoshone County ID Archives Biographies.....Johnson, Frank Fisk 1862 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1920)

Frank Fisk Johnson

FRANK FISK JOHNSON, whose active connection with the business interests and
development of Boise is best stated in the fact that he is the vice president of
the Boise City National Bank and the president of the Idaho Power Company, comes
to the west from Wisconsin, his birth having occurred in Shawano, that state, on
the 15th of November, 1862. His father, Albert Johnson, was born in Pittsfield,
Massachusetts, November 4, 1837, a son of Benjamin F. Johnson and a
representative of one of the old New England families. Albert Johnson was a
civil and mining engineer who removed to Wisconsin in i860 and in 1864 became a
resident of Colorado, where he was later appointed surveyor general of the
state. His last days were passed in the home of a daughter in Minneapolis,
Minnesota, where his death occurred November 11, 1912. On the 17th of October,
1861, he had wedded Elizabeth S. Fisk, of Fort Howard, Wisconsin, who was born
at Green Bay, that state, on the 9th of October, 1841, and died May 21, 1906, at
which time she and her husband were making their home in Spokane, Washington.
She was a daughter of Joel S. Fisk, a very prominent citizen of Green Bay and of
Fort Howard, Wisconsin. By her marriage she became the mother of two children,
the younger being a daughter, Mrs. Annie R. Jones, now living in Minneapolis,
Minnesota.

   Frank F. Johnson, the elder, was reared at Georgetown, Colorado, and his
education, largely acquired in the schools of that state, included a course in
the Denver high school, which, however, was supplemented by a course in the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in which he pursued the studies of
chemistry and mining. Returning to Colorado, he took part as a civil engineer in
government survey work and also gave some attention to cattle raising in that
state. In 1887 he removed to Idaho, arriving at Murray on the 21st of March of
that year. There he engaged in the banking business, serving as assistant
cashier of the Bank of Murray. In 1891 he founded the Bank of North Idaho at
Murray and has been continuously, actively and successfully identified with the
banking business in this state throughout the period of his residence within its
borders. He sold the Bank of North Idaho in 1895. In the meantime, or in 1892,
he had removed to Wallace, Idaho, where he organized the First National Bank, of
which he became president, remaining an active factor in the financial circles
of that city until 1910, when he disposed of his interests in the bank of
Wallace and removed to Boise. Here he became cashier of the Boise City National
Bank and in 1915 was elected to the vice presidency, in which capacity he has
since served, his opinions and activities being an influencing factor in shaping
the policy of the institution, which is one of the strong financial concerns of
the state. He has also been the president of the Idaho Power Company since 1916
and is thus identified with another of the important corporate interests of the
state. He is likewise the president of the First National Bank of Twin Falls,
Idaho, which he organized in March, 1905. and associated with him in the
founding of that bank was John M. Maxwell, who has continuously served as its
cashier and manager. Another associate in the establishment of the Twin Falls
bank was Samuel H. Hays, now mayor of Boise, also Philip Weisner, now deceased,
and I. B. Perrine. Mr. Johnson was also one of the organizers of the Farmers
State Bank of Nez Perce, Idaho, in which undertaking he was associated with L.
N. Swift, who has continuously been its president, and F. W. Katenbaugh. In
large measure, as indicated, Mr. Johnson has contributed to the establishment
and development of the banking interests of the state, recognizing at all times
that the bank is most worthy of credit and support that most carefully
safeguards the interests of its depositors. His progressiveness therefore has
been tempered by a safe conservatism and results achieved have been most
satisfactory to the general public as well as to the stockholders.

   On the 17th of April, 1888, Mr. Johnson was married to Miss Marie L. Gieson,
a native of Wisconsin, and they have three children: Albert Donnan, who was born
October 14, 1889, and became a second lieutenant in the Three Hundred and
Eighteenth Engineers, on duty in France; Clara Louise, who was born March 16,
1891, and is the wife of Pasco B. Carter, of Boise; and Ellsworth Egbert, who
was born January 14, 1896. Both sons are graduates of Harvard College and the
only daughter is a graduate of the Dana Hall School for Young Ladies at
Wellesley, Massachusetts.

   In politics Mr. Johnson is a republican but not bound by party ties. He
served as treasurer of Shoshone county, Idaho, in 1891 and in 1892 but has never
been a politician in the sense of office seeking. However, in 1904 he served as
chairman of the republican county committee of Shoshone county. He is a member
of and ex-president of the Boise Commercial Club and a trustee of the Children's
Home Finding Association. Fraternally he is a Knight Templar Mason and a member
of the Mystic Shrine and he is also connected with the Benevolent Protective
Order of Elks, being a past exalted ruler of the lodge at Wallace. During the
period of the war he was very active in support of all interests upholding
national plans, was the state chairman of the first Liberty Loan campaign in
Idaho and was state treasurer of the American Red Cross for three years or until
the office was abolished. His life work has reached out along many lines of
usefulness which have been highly resultant and as a business man and citizen he
stands among the foremost representatives of Idaho.


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