Dates

• Existence: 1818 - 1905

Biography

Benjamin F. Johnson (1818-1905) was an early pioneer for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and active in early Utah government.

Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin) Johnson was born on July 28, 1818, in Pomfret, New York. He was the tenth of Ezekiel Johnson and Julia Hills' sixteen children. Baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at age thirteen, Johnson then migrated to Kirtland, Ohio soon after in 1833. There he began a close friendship with Joseph Smith, Jr. that lasted until Joseph's death. He went on to serve his first mission for the Church in 1840 to the Eastern States and Canada.

Johnson traveled with the early members of the Church to Nauvoo, Illinois, and then to Salt Lake City, Utah in 1848, where he lived for four years. Johnson received a call to establish a settlement in Santaquin, Utah, and then to serve a mission in Hawaii. During his time in Utah, he served fourteen terms in the Utah State legislature and was a framer of the Utah constitution.

Johnson moved with his family to Mesa, Arizona in 1892, where he died on November 18, 1905.

Citation:

FamilySearch, via WWW, Feb. 17, 2017 (parents Ezekiel Johnson and Julia Hills; tenth of sixteen children; baptized at 13; close friend of Joseph Smith; mission in 1840; move to Nauvoo, Illinois; founded settlement in Santaquin; mission in Hawaii; served 14 terms on Utah legislature; helped frame Utah constitution)

I knew the prophets, c1976: t.p. (Benjamin F. Johnson) introd. (held various offices in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; b. July 28, 1818; d. 1905)

Benjamin Franklin Johnson family, [2010], ©2010: t.p. (Benjamin Franklin Johnson) p.2 (born July 28 1818 in Pomfret, New York) p.4 (June 1833 moved to Kirtland, Ohio) p.11 (arrived in Great Salt Lake Valley October 18, 1848 and settled in Salt Lake City) p.12 (mail carrier in 1851) p.31 (November 18, 1905 died in Mesa, Arizona)

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