John Milton Johnson, Sr.

Birth Date

1812-01-15

Death Date

1886-05-18

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Kentucky physician, scientist, writer, and soldier. Livingston County, Kentucky, native. Son of James Johnson and Jane Leeper Johnson. Married to Elizabeth P. Eaver Johnson in 1830. Father of James L. Johnson, Antonia Johnson, Laura H. Johnson, Eliza T. Johnson, John M. Johnson, Jr, and Betty H. Johnson. Graduated from the Kentucky School of Medicine. Practiced medicine in various locations in western Kentucky from 1833 to 1856. Researched and published articles in medical journals on milk sickness from 1840 to 1845. Physician in Paducah in 1860. Served in the Confederate States Army as a surgeon and medical director from 1861 until the end of the war. He lived in Atlanta, Georgia, from 1862 until his death.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Crittenden County, District 2, p. 264B-265A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, Paducah, District No. 2, p. 890.
National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Lineage Book (NSDAR, vol. 118, 1915), 56.
John Fiske and James Grant Wilson, ed., "John Milton Johnson," Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, vol. 3 (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887), 445.
William B. Atkinson, M. D., ed., The Physicians and Surgeons of the United States (Philadephia: Charles Robson, 1878), 589-90.
Wallace P. Reed, ed., History of Atlanta, Georgia: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers (Syracuse: D. Mason & Co., 1889), 313.

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