Ninth Generation (Continued)
Family of Isaac Miller Johnson (760) & Cornelia E. Mussey

1288. Henry Mussey Johnson (Isaac Miller8, Phineas7, Samuel6, Henry5, Isaac4, Isaac3, Isaac2, John1). Born Elyria, Ohio, on 3 Dec 1836. Died Live Oak, Fla., on 23 May 1909. Buried Live Oak, Fla.

They returned to Oberlin in 1884 and lived 10 years in the house on College Street owned by his father.

Sources: L18d, dx, Correspondent L18f.

He married Katherine Phillips, on 23 Oct 1861 in West Henrietts, N.Y. Born Attica, N.Y., on 3 Oct 1837. Died Live Oak, Fla., on 15 Jan 1936.

They had the following children:
i.  Edith Phillips. Born Oberlin, Ohio, on 14 Oct 1862. Died Springfield, Mass.
Unmarried. Grad. Oberlin College of Literature, 1884. Grad. Mass. Gen. Hosp. Tr. Sch. for Nurses 1888.

SML Comment: Death date given as July 6, 1862, in error.


ii.  Louisianan Mussey. Born Thibodaux, La., on 10 Sep 1867.


iii.  Thomas Winder. Born Terrebonne Parish, Louisianna, on 10 Mar 1871.
Sources: L18f.

He married Katherine Groover, on 16 Nov 1897 in Live Oak, Florida.


iv.  Phileta Rosa. Born Terrebonne Parish, La., on 8 Oct 1873. Died Phoenix, Ariz., on 1 Dec 1899.
Sources: L18f.

She married Ernest B. Fairfield, on 23 Oct 1891 in Oberlin, Ohio.


v.  Alice Henry. Born Houma, Louisianna, on 4 Oct 1876.
They lived at Rock Hill, South Carolina, Live Oak, Fla., and 1013 E. Powhattan Ave., Tampa, Florida.

Sources: L18f.

She married Aurthur Lee Phumphreys, on 19 Dec 1900 in Live Oak, Florida. Died Live Oak, Fla., on 27 Aug 1927.

1289. Albert Harrison Johnson (Isaac Miller8, Phineas7, Samuel6, Henry5, Isaac4, Isaac3, Isaac2, John1). Born Elyria, Ohio, on 19 Aug 1838. Died Salida, Col., on 4 Dec 1899. Buried Oberlin, Ohio.

He was a banker and President of the Arkansas Midland Railroad. They lived at Oberlin, Ohio. He was killed in train wreck on the D. and R. G. Railroad. His son, Albert, suffered three cracked vertebrae in the same accident.
"Albert H. Johnson was not only a conspicuous business man, possessed of marked executive ability, but a citizen of the highest character. He was very active in his church and had a Sunday school class of boys in Oberlin at the time of his untimely and tragic death, caused by a collision of a railroad sleeper in which be was a passenger in the West on the Denver and Rio Grande. He was killed while asleep in his berth. At the time of his decease, be was president of the Arkansas Midland R. R. Company, also at the time president of a bank in Helena, Arkansas, president of the Oberlin Gas and Electric Company. He was a great student of the Scriptures, and gave largely out of his abundance, to the College and organizations of the country' working for the common weal. He built the large and beautiful home in the south part of Oberlin, now standing. He has a son in Chicago, among the great city's most prominent business men and philanthropists. He is at the bead of a great insurance company and stands for the highest ideals." --- The preceding was taken from the Elyria Chronical-Telegram of Oct. 5, 1928.

Sources: L18d, dx, g, G64.

SML Comment: Death date corrected from 14 Dec 1899 given in the book; see notes for son Albert for confirmation.

He married Rebecca A. Jenkins, daughter of George K. Jenkins & Sarah Updegraff. Born Ohio on 5 Jul 1842. Died Cleveland, Ohio, on 8 Jun 1915. Buried Oberlin, Ohio.

Rebecca was graduated from Oberlin College in 1865.

They had the following children:
i.  Albert Mussey. Born Oberlin, Ohio, on 31 May 1872. Died on 9 Jan 1948. Buried Oberlin, Ohio.
Albert Mussey attended public school in Oberlin, Ohio at the Academy of Oberlin College and graduated from Civil Engineering at Cornell in 1895.
He was interested in railroading in eastern Arkansas on the Arkansas-Midland, which was owned by his father and, after his father's death on December 4, 1899, he became vice-president of the road and later sold it to the Missouri-Pacific.
In 1899, while traveling with his father in Colorado, the train they were on in the Canyon of the Arkansas River, was telescoped. His father was instantly killed; and lie had his back broken with total paralysis below the waist. He was in a wheel chair, and on crutches and canes for about a year. Since that time he has been able to get around, although he has a slight limp.
In 1902 Albert and his wife moved from Oberlin, Ohio, to Chicago, where lie lived for thirty years, becoming interested in banking, real estate, produce and insurance. For many years be was a director of the Continental-Illinois National Bank & Trust Company of Chicago, the largest bank in Chicago.
In about 1933 they moved to California and settled in Hollywood, having a home in Hollywood, a large ranch just outside the city of Oakland, California, where Mrs. Johnson (Bessie) was born, and a place known as Scotty's Castle in Death Valley which Albert built between the years 1920 and 1930. "Scotty's Castle," because of Death Valley Scotty, has been advertised all over the world.
The Christian Science Monitor of May 24, 1941, describes Scotty's Castle as 'the product of many years of effort, limitless artistic planning and work, and the expenditure of vast sums of money by Mr. Johnson.' Scotty and his partner, Albert Johnson have enjoyed together this dream castle wrought under impossible conditions far out on the edge of Death Valley, a very fine thing and startlingly, unexpectedly beautiful. The building is in provincial Spanish style, furnishings are in Italian and Spanish, modern and antique. The whole effect is one of exotic beauty and mellow antiquity. Located where it is, the place is unbelievable, even after one's eyes have seen it. Scotty has been given a permanent home in the Valley near the Castle.
Constructive generosity was always a characteristic of Albert Mussey Johnson. He was a man of fine Christian character, and with his wife, (Bessie) supported many religious activities. For years they held noon services for working girls in Chicago, and there they built a huge church for Paul Rader, the evangelist, with whom they worked. Albert Johnson supported foreign missions all over the world, and was extremely liberal in his contributions to the work among the American Indians. He sponsored in Shanghai, China, "The Door of Hope," a mission for rescuing slave girls.

Sources: G64, L18h, L18d.
Items from the Pasadena Star News Feb. 27, 1941, March 13, 1941, March 14, 1941, and the Christian Science Monitor of Boston, Mass., May 24, 1941.

SML Comment: Death date also given as Jan. 7, 1948.

He married Bessie Morris Penniman, daughter of Hiram Penniman & Carrie Gardner Morris, on 19 Nov 1896 in Oakland, Calif. Born Walnut Creek, Calif. Died Hollywood, Calif., in Apr 1943.

SML Comment: The Walnut Creek Historical Society advises that Bessie was not born at Walnut Creek, as reported in the Johnson Genealogy, but that the Penniman family lived in the Fruitvale area of Oakland at the time that Bessie was born. Bessie's mother, Carrie Gardiner MORRIS (1830-1912), was daughter of Darius MORRIS and Mary GARDINER, and second wife of Hiram PENNIMAN. Bessilyn Morris 'Bessie' PENNIMAN was born 16 Jan 1872 and died 22 Apr 1943.


ii.  Cliffe Updegraff. Born Oberlin, Ohio, on 3 Jul 1867. Died Hollywood, Calif., on 19 Mar 1943.
Cliffe was graduated from Wooster College, Ohio, N.D. 1896. A.M. hon. Oberlin 1925. Member Board of Trustees of Oberlin 1930-1936. She was prominent in social service work in Cleveland, Ohio, and also in Elyria, Ohio. She later went to California for her health. There were no children.

Sources: L18dx, L18f, G64.

She married Dr. Walter H. Merriman, in Cleveland, Ohio?

1290. Edward Payson Johnson (Isaac Miller8, Phineas7, Samuel6, Henry5, Isaac4, Isaac3, Isaac2, John1). Born on 15 Aug 1840.

They Mussey family is of Elyria, Ohio. Edward Payson kept the only drygoods store in Oberlin. He succeeded his father in the store, as one of the firm of Johnson and Whitney, and spent his life in that field. He was president of the Oberlin Bank Company for many years. He helped organize the Oberlin telephone Company and served as its president for some time. He was greatly interested in music and helped organize the "Oberlin Musical Union" and was its director for forty years. He was a member of the Prudential committee of the College, looking after its finances for twenty-three years. He was early a member of the Oberlin Home Missionary Association looking after its investments. He was an organizer of Sabbath schools in the surrounding country. Edward's wife was graduated with an A.B. from Oberlin College, Ohio, in 1891.

Sources: L18dx.

He married ----.

They had one child:
i.  Cornelia Mussey. Born Oberlin, Ohio, on 12 Feb 1869. Died Colorado Springs, Colo., on 18 Sep 1909.
Received A.B. from Oberlin College 1891.

Modified: 3/7/08
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