Wayne-Daviess County IN Archives Biographies.....Wright, John  October 25, 1819 - 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

New Garden Township
p. 658

John Wright Johnson was born in Guilford County, N. C., Oct. 25, 1819, a son 
of William and Deborah (Coffin) Johnson. When he was quite small, his father 
died and his mother came with her family to Wayne County, Ind., and settled in 
Boston Township. They subsequently removed to Fountain City where his mother 
died, when he was eighteen years of age. Of her five children, but one is 
living---our subject. Levi, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, died 
on the 12th day of January, 1884, being one of the oldest ministers in the 
Indiana Conference. He learned the carpenter’s trade, serving an 
apprenticeship of two years with J. W. Hiatt, and afterward worked at his 
trade in Fountain City fifteen years. He then removed to Jo Daviess County, 
Ind., and engaged in farming until 1869, when he returned to Fountain City. In 
1881 he became associated with his son in the drug and notion business. Mr. 
Johnson was married in 1840 to Naomi, daughter of Micajah and Hannah Morgan. 
They had two children---Micajah M., a resident of Nebraska, and Adeline, 
(deceased). Mrs. Johnson died in 1845, and in 1846 Mr. Johnson married Clerky 
H., daughter of Benjamin and Annie Thomas. They have had six children; but 
four are living---B. T., Luther L., Dr. L. C. and Anna Bell. Mr. Johnson was 
licensed as a preacher in the Wesleyan Methodist church in 1847, and in 1852 
he was ordained minister in the same church and traveled in the itinerant 
evangelical field for fifteen years, and on account of failing health he 
retired from the local relation of the church.


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