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Johnson (Family : Johnson, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1905)

 Family

Biography

The Benjamin F. Johnson family was a prominent family among early members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and pioneers of Utah and Arizona.

Benjamin F. Johnson (1818-1905) was a missionary, member of the Council of Fifty, private secretary to Joseph Smith, Utah territorial legislator, and a colonizer of Utah and Arizona. The Benjamin F. Johnson family began in 1841 when Johnson was married to Melissa Bloomfield LeBaron. He would later marry an additional seven wives: Mary A. Hale, Sarah Melissa Holman, Susa Adelaide Holman, Sarah J. Spooner, Harriet N. Holman, Flora Clarinda Gleason, Eliza Perkins Dean Saunders. The Johnson family lived in Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Utah, Arizona, and Mexico, helping to establish several communities including Santaquin, Utah, Mesa, Arizona, and Colonia Diaz, Chihuahua, Mexico.

Citation:
Johnson family journals and correspondence, 1885-1914(descendants of Benjamin F. Johnson)

Familysearch, via WWW, May 3, 2022, (Benjamin F. Johnson (1818-1905); missionary, member of the Council of Fifty, private secretary to Joseph Smith, Utah territorial legislator, and a colonizer of Utah and Arizona; began in 1841 when Johnson was married to Melissa Bloomfield LeBaron; additional seven wives: Mary A. Hale, Sarah Melissa Holman, Susa Adelaide Holman, Sarah J. Spooner, Harriet N. Holman, Flora Clarinda Gleason, Eliza Perkins Dean Saunders; family lived in Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Utah, Arizona, and Mexico)

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Benjamin F. Johnson family correspondence and ephemera

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 9512
Scope and Contents Letters of the Benjamin F. Johnson family spanning 1864 to 1915. Letters were often written from Latter-day Saint communities within Utah and Arizona, particularly Richfield, Utah, and Mesa, Arizona, and usually to or from women. Includes a small number of ephemeral items such as receipts, a small decorative card with a poem, a small broadside with a song for the Babbitt family reunion in 1909, and a handwritten poem. All items were found in a leather wallet owned by Benjamin F. Johnson,...
Dates: 1864-1915
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Johnson family journals and correspondence

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197225535167]
Identifier: MSS 3095
Abstract

Contains letters to James Francis Johnson from his father, Benjamin Franklin Johnson, and the journals of Benjamin Franklin Johnson. The collection has some legal documents pertaining to the death of James Francis Johnson.

Dates: 1885-1914
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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Home and Family 1
Immigration and American Expansion 1
Latter Day Saints -- Arizona -- Correspondence 1
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Legal instruments 1
Mesa (Ariz.) 1
Polygamy -- Arizona 1
Saint George (Utah) 1
Social Life and Customs 1
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