Adolph B.
Johnson (1849–1911) was the son of a
Swedish couple
who died in Hudene Parish, Sweden. He
emigrated to the United States in 1867.
Margaret
"Maggie" Dorris (1861–1933) was born in Van Buren
County,
Arkansas, but by 1880
she was living in her mother's home on Sears
Street in Denison, Texas.
In 1881
she married Adolph Johnson. By 1887, Adolph had
set himself up as a
"merchant tailor" at 108 West Main Street. That
year, the Denison
City Directory said that he lived above the
shop. Four years later, in
1891, he
and Maggie were rooming at 321 West Morton
Street. Later they acquired
the
property and lived there until Adolph's death in
1911. Maggie was still
living
there in 1930.
Adolph
Johnson had a brother named Emil Johnson
(1860–1951).
He arrived in
the United States from Sweden in 1885. His first
wife was Marie L.,
with whom
he had as many as six children. By 1891 he had
joined Adolph in the
Denison
tailor shop. In 1893, Emil married Adda
B. McMillan (1858–1911). In 1895, they had a
daughter,
Luella. The 1910
Census found the couple living in St. Louis,
Missouri, where Emil
worked as a
tailor. Adda passed away in 1911, as did Emil's
brother Adolph. By 1913
Emil
was back in Denison, living alone at 412 South
Fannin Avenue.
Adolph
and Maggie Johnson had five
children: Eva
Johnson Puckett (1884–1949); Lottie Johnson
Rockwell Anderson (1886–1958); Charles A.
(1882�1954); Harry
(1890–?); and
Adolph Benjamin Jr. (1885–1958). By 1909,
Charles had
joined his father in
the merchant tailor shop, now called A. B.
Johnson & Son. The
store had
moved to 228 West Main Street. The 1910 Census
listed Adolph as a
tailor in
"own store"; Charlie was a tailor in "father's
store"; and
Lottie was a saleslady in a millinery shop. That
year Eva had married Justus
Garfield Puckett, a clerk in a
railroad office, and the couple lived a few
doors away from Adolph and
Maggie.
On
November 6, 1911, Adolph Johnson
passed away. He
was buried in Denison's Oakwood
Cemetery, as was his wife Maggie.
In 1913,
according to the City
Directory, Charles A.
Johnson was a merchant tailor at 409 West Main
and was living with his
mother
at 321 West Morton. His uncle Emil had returned
to town and was working
with
him in the tailor shop. At this point, Lottie
Johnson was a
stenographer at W.
D. Collins Safe & Fixture
Company. She boarded at 331 West Heron Street.
Charles
was living in Sulphur
Springs, Texas, when
he registered for the draft for World War I. On
July 12, 1919, he
married Mary C. Curran (1882–1975) in Denison.
Mary
had moved there from Parsons, Kansas, with her
widowed mother after
1905.
Charlie
spent
the rest of his life working as a men's
tailor in downtown Denison. He and Mary lived at
622 West Owings
Street. He
died of a cerebral hemorrhage on January 1,
1954. Mary lived a long
time after
that, passing away in Houston, Texas, at age 91,
on January 6, 1973.
Both were
buried in Calvary
Cemetery in Denison. They had one
child, Mary V. Johnson.
