Husband Dr. William Mount Johnson 1 2
Born: 10 Sep 1835 - Green Twp, Hamilton Co, OH 1 2
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Father: Henry Johnson ( -Aft 1885) 3
Mother: Ara Conger ( -1849) 3 4
Marriage: 6 Aug 1867 2
Wife Jennie J. Burchard 2
AKA: Jennie J. Birchard
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Father: Cyrus Birchard (1807-1900) 5
Mother: Margaret Clark ( - ) 6
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1 M William Mount Johnson 2
Born: 29 Jan 1870 2
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2 M Hon. Cyrus Victor Johnson 2
Born: 14 Feb 1873 - Woodcock, Crawford Co, PA 2
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Status: Twin
Spouse: Anna Mary Spaulding (1872- ) 6
Marr: 7 May 1901 6
3 M Henry Valentine Johnson 2
Born: 14 Feb 1873 - Woodcock, Crawford Co, PA 2
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4 M Carl Burchard Johnson 2
Born: 6 Mar 1877 2
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General Notes: Husband - Dr. William Mount Johnson
When he was nine years of age, his father, who had owned and worked a moderate-sized farm, in addition to carrying on the coopering business, making lard kegs for the pork packers of Cincinnati (then the great meat market of the world), sold his place and moved to the city. Soon after he became a member of a firm engaged in the grocery trade. The outcome of this undertaking was most unfortunate, the proceeds of the sale of the farm, together with every dollar he possessed, being swallowed up in the business failure that followed. These losses, coupled with the continued ill-health of his mother, made it necessary for the son to leave school at the early age of eleven years, and go to work in order to contribute to the support of his father's large family. From this time until he was fifteen years old he worked at painting chairs in two or three large furniture establishments. Twice during this time he quit work to attend school, each time enjoying only the limited advantages derived from three months' tuition in the public schools. These short months at school were his only respites from continuous labor, until after he was a man grown, and almost his only opportunities for acquiring an education, until, at the age of fifteen, he entered the "Poor Boys' College," a printing office. He was named for a physician, who had promised his parents, if they would suitably educate their son, to receive him at a proper age into his office, as a student of medicine. This, from causes already alluded to, they were unable to do. The early death of his mother still further interfered with his youthful plans and hopes. The lad, however, had his heart set on becoming a member of the medical profession, and by his own unaided efforts undertook to fit himself for the study of the healing art. He continued at the printing business until he was twenty-one years of age, at the same time, by attending night schools, by the aid of private instructors, by pursuing a judi-cious course of general reading, and such other means as he was able to avail himself of, he endeavored to overcome the loss of scholastic training, and to prepare himself for his chosen calling in life. At the expiration of this time, by steadily working at "the case," in addition to affording liberal pecuniary assistance to his father's family, he had succeeded in accumulating a sufficient fund to meet the expenses of a thorough course of medical instruction. In 1855 he began the study of medicine, under the tutorship of Dr. William Mount, of Cumminsville (Cincinnati). The next year he entered the Medical College of Ohio, from which institution he received his degree of Doctor of Medicine, March 1, 1859. In 1857, while yet a medical student, he was appointed assistant physician to the Lick Run Lunatic Asylum, later known as Longview Asylum, near Cincinnati. In the fall of 1859 having resolved, on account of failing health, to engage in a country practice, he resigned this position and came to Woodcock Borough, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, and soon after formed a partnership with Dr. A. Logan of that place, a business relation that was maintained for eleven years. After residing there for nearly twenty-five years, in the enjoyment of a large and successful practice, in the spring of 1884 he decided to remove to Venango, buying the beautiful residence of the late John H. Culbertson, with the intention of making it his future home. The Doc-tor was among the first to engage in the business of producing petroleum, beginning operations near Titusville, in the winter of 1859-60, and following it up for several years by ventures at different points in the valley of Oil Creek and vicinity, including one well at the once famous, but long since defunct, city of Pit Hole. The general result of these operations, did not, it is understood, tend to materially increase his bank account. He took an active interest in educational affairs; during almost the entire period of his residence at Woodcock Borough he filled the office of School Director and for twelve years was Secretary of the School Board. He was a member of several benevolent and fraternal organizations, including the F. & A. M., I. O. O. F., K. of P., R. A. He has always been an unwavering Republican in politics. [HCC 1885, 1118]