Pike-Fayette County KyArchives Biographies.....Johnson, John November 20, 1879 - unkn ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/kyfiles.html ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Kelly Courtney-Blizzard http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000022 July 7, 2005, 4:22 pm Author: Judge Charles Kerr History of Kentucky, five volumes, edited by Judge Charles Kerr, American Historical Society, New York & Chicago, 1922, Vol. V, p. 349, Pike County JOHN M. JOHNSON. The men now occupying the offices of Pike County are particularly well fitted for their special duties and are making a record which is attracting wide-spread attention. Without exception they are men of the highest character and ability, and are working to render a service that ranks among the best in the state. One of them deserving of special mention is John M. Johnson, a county official, and one of the most dependable citizens of Pikeville. He was born at Regina, Pike County, November 20, 1879, a son of George W. and Nettie (Coleman) Johnson, now residents of Regina. The Johnson family came to Pike County when it was first opened for settlement, some of its members being natives of North Carolina and others of Virginia. George W. Johnson and his wife are members of the regular Baptist Church. In politics he is a republican. All of the six children born to him and his wife still survive, except one, and of them John M. Johnson is the second in order of birth. Growing up in his native county, John M. Johnson attended first the local schools and later Pikeville College, and then for several years was numbered among the capable educators of this region. Entering the commercial field, he became a traveling salesman for Ketchem White & Company of Ashland, Kentucky, and later represented the Kentucky Grocery Company of Pikeville, remaining on the road in all eleven years. He is thoroughly acquainted with all of Pike County, and knows personally many of its people, with whom he maintains the friendliest relations, calling them by their first names, as they do him by his. When he came before the public for election as the candidate of the republican party he received an overwhelming support from members of both parties, and was elected the county clerk by a large majority. In 1921 he was elected sheriff on the republican ticket without opposition, received the largest number of votes in the primary ever received in the county, 5,834. He has proven himself a very capable as well as popular official, and no trouble is too great for him to take to accommodate his constituents. In August, 1907, Mr. Johnson was united in marriage with Miss Cora Roberts, a daughter of Rice Roberts, a coal operator and farmer of Elkhorn. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson have six sons, namely: Russell, Buford, Robert, Jack, Walter and Ralph. Very prominent as a Mason, Mr. Johnson belongs to the Blue Lodge of Pikeville and the Mystic Shrine at Ashland. He is also a member of the Elks of Catlettsburg. (Picture on facing page) File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/pike/bios/johnson311gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/