Harrison Co., WV: Bios - Louis A. JOHNSON
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Submitted by Valerie Crook

The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., 
Chicago and New York, Volume III
pg. 123-124
Harrison County

LOUIS A. JOHNSON, a Clarksburg lawyer, and an ex-
service man, has been a member of the West Virginia bar
for ten years. He was born at Roanoke, Roanoke County,
Virginia, January 10, 1891, son of Marcelus A. and Kath-
erine L. (Arthur) Johnson, and grandson of Caleb B. John-
son and James Louis Arthur, who were Virginia planters
and Confederate soldiers in the war between the states.

Louis A. Johnson was educated in the public schools of
Roanoke, finished his literary education in the University
of Virginia, and in 1912 received his law degree from that
institution. During his senior year he was assistant pro-
fessor of law. He was admitted to the Virginia bar after
graduation, and in September of the same year moved to
Clarksburg, where for nine years he has been junior mem-
ber of the law firm of Steptoe and Johnson. In 1916 Mr.
Johnson was elected a member of the House of Delegates
on the democratic ticket, and during the regular and
extraordinary sessions of 1917 was majority floor leader
and chairman of the Judiciary Committee, resigning as a
member of the Legislature in order to enter the Second
Officers' Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison,
Indianapolis, August 27, 1917. He was there commissioned
captain of infantry, spent some time in Camp Lee, and in
May, 1918, went overseas with the Eightieth Division. In
France he was in the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne cam-
paigns and with the Army of Occupation, being with the
Fourth, Fifth, Eightieth and Ninetieth Divisions.

He was discharged from active service June 8, 1919, with
the rank of major, and still retains his commission in the
Reserve Corps. Since his discharge he has continued his
practice of law with the firm of Steptoe and Johnson. Mr.
Johnson has served two terms as national committeeman
from West Virginia in the American Legion, and is now
vice president of the West Virginia Bar Association. In
addition, he is a member of the American and Harrison
County bar associations, the Masons, Odd Fellows and Elks.
February 7, 1920, he married Ruth Maxwell, daughter of
W. Brent Maxwell, of Clarksburg. They have one daugh-
ter, Lillian Maxwell Johnson.

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