1.2.1 Noah Johnson  
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9 Jul 1795, Chester, Vt. |
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11 Jun 1875, Ludlow, Vt. |
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(Capt. John, Isaac, Nathaniel, John, Edward, John, John.) |
[p. 37-40] Noah Johnson was born in Chester, Vt., July 9, 1795. His father died when he was about fourteen years of age. He was the oldest of a family of six children. For two years before his father's death much of the management of the farm ws left to Noah. He, with his next younger brother, Leonard, had most of the work to do, as their father was in very poor health. At the death of his father, the farm passed into the hands of Moses Pollard, and Noah went to live with his uncle, Asa, till twenty-one, and learned the carpenter's trade. He helped his mother what he could. When working at his trade (he was an old-style carpenter) he did not regard hours, but worked from dawn till dark. He became a minister. He built a church and ppreached in it several years in Sherburne, Ct. From there he preached in Rutland and Shewsbury, Vt. In 1853 Mr. Johnson and family moved to Green Garden, Ill., where he lived and preached thirteen years. In 1866 he moved to Ludlow, Vt., where he lived till his death, June 11, 1875.
Mr. Johnson was a man of very positive character, always outspoken, and did not hesitate to stand out against what he believed was wrong, no matter how many were against him. During the Civil War he was preaching in Green Gardenm Ill. He was opposed to the war, believing the trouble could be settled without bloodshed. He was very positive and did not hesitate to talk it. The public mind, too, was very sinsitive on that subject. On one occasion, some over-zealous citizens carried a rope to church, with which "to hang the preacher." This Union sentiment during the was was very jealou; all right enough, but unreasonably severe at times; savors too much of mob rule. I was in the army, in the Great Kenawa Valley, West Virginia, at the time of the assassination of President Lincoln. When the news reached camp the excitement was intense. We were told in camp that on the boat coming up the river that day, when the news was given out that the President had been assassinated, one man said he was "glad of it," whereupon the men on the boat seized him and threw him under the paddle wheel.
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