Johnson, J. Edward (John Edward), 1890-1976
Dates
- Existence: 1890 - 1976
Biography
J. Edward Johnson (1890-1976) was an attorney in California.
John Edward Johnson was born on October 2, 1890 in Murray, Utah to John Johnson and Edla Wilhelmina Lundell. He attended school as a child in Benjamin, Utah, and later high school in Provo. He continued his education at Brigham Young University, where he served as student body president. In 1915 he graduated with a bachelor's degree and took the position of principal at Snowflake Academy in Arizona, remaining in the position until 1917. In 1916 he married Mary Elma Huish, and they had four children.
In 1917 Johnson moved to California to study law, and graduated from the University of California with his juris doctorate in 1920. He worked primarily as a property and banking lawyer, eventually helping to establish the law firm Johnson, Ruggeri and Harmon in San Francisco in 1931. In 1933 his wife Mary died; he remarried the following year to Ethel Lavon Brockbank in Salt Lake City, and they had four children together. Johnson died on April 4, 1976 in Berkeley, California.
Citation:
History of the Supreme Court justices of California, 1850-1950, 1963-66: t.p. (J. Edward Johnson of the California Bar)San Francisco County Biographies, via WWW, July 7, 2010: (J. Edward Johnson; b. Oct. 2, 1890; attorney; member of the San Francisco and the California State Bar Associations)
FamilySearch, via WWW, July 7, 2010: (John Edward Johnson; d. Apr. 4, 1976)
Ancestry.com, via WWW, Nov. 11, 2013 (John Edward Johnson; b. Oct. 2, 1890 in Murray, Utah; parents: John Johnson and Edla Wilhelmina Lundell; attended grade school in Benjamin, Utah, high school in Provo; received bachelor's of art from Brigham Young University, 1915; principal of Snowflake Academy in Snowflake, Ariz., 1915-1917; m. June 22, 1916 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Mary Elma Huish (1886-1933), four children; received J.D. from University of California, 1920; property and banking lawyer in Calif., established law firm Johnson, Ruggeri and Harmon in San Francisco in 1931; m. Aug. 31, 1934 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Ethel Lavon Brockbank (1903- ), four children; d. Apr. 4, 1976 in Berkeley, Calif.; member of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Democratic Party)
UPB files, Nov. 11, 2013 (J. Edward Johnson; BYU student body president, 1915)
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
J. Edward Johnson papers
Collection includes a 216 p. typescript entitled "Zion and Her Law" with a 71 p. appendix and 24 p. index. Also includes a typescript of an 11 p. talk given by Johnson in 1965 on Latter-day Saint Church doctrine, and TLS's concerning the provenance of the collection.
J. Edward Johnson papers
Contains a draft of a biography of George H. Brimhall, which includes Johnson's personal recollections of Brigham Young University. Also contains a loose leaf manuscript of the biography composed by J. Edward Johnson entitled "George H. Brimhall: An Attempted Approximation of His Genius, Accomplishments, Stature," and a letter from Johnson concerning the manuscript. Materials date from approximately 1975.