DARKE COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: JOHNSON, THOMAS W. (A.W. Bowen & Co., 1894)
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A PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF DELAWARE AND RANDOLPH COUNTIES, IND.
A.W. Bowen & Co., 1894  -  Page 1083-1084

        THOMAS W. JOHNSON, an intelligent and enterprising citizen of
Jackson township, is a native of Randolph county, Ind., born April 30,
1863, and a descendant, paternally, of a prominent pioneer family, the
ancestors of which came to America from Ireland and Germany respectively, a
number of years ago. Wesley Johnson, father of Thomas W., also a native of
Randolph county, was born June 25, 1834, the son of Jacob and Mary M.
(Vattenbaker) Johnson, natives of Ireland and Germany. He married April 29,
1857, in this county, Sarah Hindsley, who was born in Darke county, Ohio,
February 26, 1842, daughter of Stephen and Anna (Mitten) Hindsley. The
Hindleys were natives of North Carolina, from which state John Hindsley,
father of Stephen, immigrated to Indiana at a very early period. To Wesley
and Sarah Johnson have been born the following children: Malinda, wife of
R. W. Harshman; Lillie V., died at the age of nineteen; Thomas W., subject
of this mention; Joseph G.; William S.; Bertha A., wife of Henry Wilson,
and Alfretta, who lives under the parental roof. Immediately after his
marriage, Wesley Johnson located in Jackson township, where he still
resides, owning at this time a fine farm consisting of 117 acres.
        Thomas W. Johnson's early education was acquired in the common
schools, and later he attended the Normal college, of Danville, Ind., with
the object of preparing himself for the teacher's profession. During the
school year of 1887-88, he pursued his studies in the Ohio Wesleyan
college, and in 1889 attended the State Normal school at Terre Haute, Ind.,
in both of which well known institutions he made substantial progress in
the higher branches of learning. He entered the teacher's profession with a
mind well disciplined for the work, and his success as an instructor is
attested by the fact of his having taught ten terms in Jackson township
alone. Mr. Johnson and Miss Gertrude, daughter of William R. and Elizabeth
(Pogue) Warren, were untied in the bonds of matrimony on the 23d day of
August, 1890, a union blessed with the birth of two children, Claude W.,
whose birth occurred January 11, 1892, and Ralph W., born April 27, 1893.
        Politically Mr. Johnson is an earnest supporter of the democratic
party, and as such has been an important factor in a number of local and
general campaigns. He was elected trustee of Jackson township in 1890, the
duties of which office he discharged in a manner highly creditable to
himself and satisfactory to the public, irrespective of party affiliation.
He is a member of lodge No. 152, I.O.o.F., of Union City, takes an active
interest in public affairs, and is one of Jackson township's representative
men. Mrs. Johnson is a member of the Methodist church, in which she is
highly respected.


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