Bio of JOHNSON, E. B., Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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Vol III, pg 363-364
E. B. JOHNSON
E. B. Johnson is advertising manager for the National School Equipment Company
and the Northwestern School Supply Company, representative business interests of
this city and state. He was born in Pennsylvania, a son of Seth and Mary J.
(Baldwin) Johnson, natives of that state.
When he was but one year of age E. B. Johnson was brought by his parents to
Minnesota and located at Kasson, Dodge county. His parents lived in that town
six years and then moved on a farm, where E. B. Johnson grew to young manhood.
He attended the district school in the vicinity of the home farm and
subsequently enrolled in the University of Minnesota, taking a scientific
course, and was graduated with the class of 1888, with the B. S. degree.
Immediately after graduation he became registrar at the University of Minnesota
and for seventeen years he was active in that capacity. In 1905-6 he was
associated with the H. W. Wilson Company, publishers of Cumulative Indexes. In
the spring of 1906 he became secretary of the Alumni Association, a position in
which he was active fourteen years. He was associated with the University a
total of thirty-seven years, from the fall of 1883 to the summer of 1920. In the
fall of 1919 he became associated with the Northwestern School Supply Company.
In 1889 was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Johnson and Miss Eva V. Wood and to
their union two children have been born: Elizabeth, who is the wife of L. P.
Lamoreaux; and Donald, who is attending school.
Since attaining his majority Mr. Johnson has been a progressive republican and
he was one of the men who remained loyal to Theodore Roosevelt after the Bull
Moose campaign of 1912. He has never sought nor desired political preferment,
but he is essentially public-spirited and gives his hearty cooperation to every
movement which tends to promote the moral, intellectual and material welfare of
the community. Mr. Johnson has devoted considerable time to literary work and
has written and had published sev­eral books, among them being: A history of the
University of Minnesota; History of Football at Minnesota; The Handbook of
Alumni Work; and An Optimistic Equation and Other Optimism. In 1901 he
established the Minnesota Alumni Weekly and was its editor for twenty years. He
was the first president of the National Association of Alumni Secretaries and
the only president of that organization elected to serve a second term. He is a
member of the Automobile and Rotary clubs.