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From: Mark Gramps Meinhart <>
Subject: [OHMEIGS] John W. Johnson Bio
Date: 5 Mar 2001 07:00:36 EST

Johnson, John William, was born in Wales Nov. 15, 1842. His parents came to
this country in 1844, and after a brief sojournd in Cumberland, Md., settled
in Pomeroy, Ohio, where they continued to reside, and where he was educated in
the public and private schools. His parents desired to see him enter the
ministry, but the breaking out of the Civil War interfered, and he became
chief assistant to Capt. (afterward Col.) C. W. Moulton, assistant
quartermaster, United States Army, a brother-in-law of Senator and General
Sherman, in which capacity he was employed throughout the war, with
headquarters first at Gallipolis, and latterly at Cincinnati. At the close of
the war he spent one year in Harvard Law School, then entered the Cincinnati
Law School, and was graduated therefrom in 1867. Immediately thereafter he
formed a partnership with Col. C. W. Moulton, under the firm name of Moulton &
Johnson, which continued until the [p.273] association with Warner M. Bateman,
when the firm became Moulton,. Bateman & Johnson. Upon Mr. Bateman's
appointment as United States District Attorney, and consequent retirement from
the firm, T. A. Blinn was admitted, the firm name becoming Moulton, Johnson &
Blinn, which partnership expired by limitation in 1876. Lipman Levy succeeded
Mr. Blinn, the firm thereafter being known as Moulton, Johnson & Levy until
the death of Col. Moulton, in January, 1888, since which time it has been that
of Johnson & Levy. Mr. Johnson married Belle, daughter of Charles E. Morse, of
Maine, a descendant of Gen. Warren, of Bunker Hill fame.

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