Johnson, John, 1798-1856

Epithet: Lord Mayor of London

Epithet: witness of Wolley Ch iv.37

Epithet: of Add MS 28234

Epithet: (?) royalist pseudonym

Epithet: of Add MS 32720

Epithet: of Add MS 35671

Epithet: Captain; of Milbourn St. Andrew, county Dorset

Epithet: Captain; Royal Engineers

Epithet: Rector of Yaxham with Welbourne Norfork

Epithet: of Barbados

Epithet: of Add MS 40879

Epithet: of Add MS 32735

Epithet: ship and insurance broker

Epithet: Lieutenant; RN

John Johnson was born in Bergen, Norway on June 13, 1901, and his parents were Johan Johanneson Tøsse and Helena Johanneson; his mother's married name was the same as her maiden name. John had six brothers and two sisters. As a child, he lived in Bergen and went to school from age 7 to 14; he finished school and was confirmed in Norway. After school, he worked in a bakery delivering bread, as a gardener, and for one of the biggest tanneries in Norway. He also fulfilled his compulsory military service in the army. He left Norway aboard the "Bergensfjord" on July 22, 1923 and took the train from New York straight to Tacoma, where a cousin met him.

He changed his name from Johanneson to Johnson after arriving in the U.S. John worked at a lumber company in Tacoma digging ditches for a number of years and on the green chain at a sawmill for a while as well. He met his wife, Gudrun Blutcher, at a mixed choir of the Sons and Daughters of Norway, and they married on June 29, 1929 in a Lutheran church on 38th Avenue in Tacoma. Gudrun had come to the U.S. with her family in 1920, and her grandfather was German. They had two sons, Norman and Clarence. Norman, the older son, belonged to the Marines and was killed in the Korean War shortly after he arrived; he was 19 years old. Clarence is married and has four children; he has been a teacher and counselor and now works as a building contractor. John is active in Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Tacoma and has taken trips back to Norway in 1953 and 1968. He received his citizenship in 1937. He is a life member of Sons of Norway, joining in 1924 and again in 1943, and sang in the Norwegian Male Chorus for 54 years. He had a stroke during Thanksgiving 1979, and his wife died of cancer.

Lineage

Full Name: John Johannesen Johnson. Father: Johan Johanneson. Tøsse Mother: Helena Johanneson. Brothers and Sisters: Six brothers and two sisters, Jenny Larsen. Spouse: Gudrun Blutcher. Children: Norman Johnson, Clarence Johnson.

John Johnson, 'Johny of Norfolk' (d. 1833), was the grandson of the poet William Cowper's mother's elder brother, Roger Donne, and studied at Cambridge University.

William Cowper (1731-1800), poet, was born at Great Berkhampstead on 15 November 1731, the son of John Cowper, D.D., and Anne, daughter of Roger Donne of Ludham Hall, Norfolk. He was educated at Westminster School, before spending three years articled to a solicitor. He entered the Middle Temple in 1748, and was called to the bar in 1754, becoming a commissioner of bankrupts in 1759. As a result of his declining mental health Cowper was taken to a private house at St Albans for treatment in December 1763. After his recovery he resigned his commissionership of bankruptcy. He removed to Huntingdon in 1765, where he befriended John Newton, vicar of Olney, whom he assisted in his parish duties. Cowper suffered from a fresh bout of mania in 1773, but recovered to devote himself to literary work. A volume of his poems was published in 1782, and the publication of the Task in 1785 won him popular acclaim. As well as producing other volumes of poems, Cowper's translation of Homer's Iliad was published in 1791, and he edited an edition of Milton, which included his translations of Latin and Italian poems. He died on 25 April 1800.

Terrot Reaveley Glover (1869-1943) was born on 23 July 1869 at Bristol, the son of Richard Glover, a Baptist minister, of Clifton, Bristol. He was educated at Bristol Grammar School, before entering St John's College, Cambridge, in 1888 (B.A., 1891; M.A., 1895), where he was a fellow, 1892-1898 and 1901-1943. He was professor of Latin at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, 1896-1901. He became Cambridge lecturer in ancient history, 1911, and was proctor, 1914-1915 and 1919-1920, and orator, 1920-1939. He died in Cambridge on 26 May 1943.

John Johnson (1769-1833) was educated at Bungay School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He was ordained deacon and priest in 1793, and that year became curate of East Dereham, Norfolk, and Vicar of Hempnall. He was Rector of Yaxham and Welborne, 1800-1833. Johnson was the grandson of William Cowper's mother's elder brother, Roger Donne. He was friends with Cowper at Cambridge, and later cared for him in his final years. Johnson died at Yaxham on 29 September 1833.

William Cowper (1731-1800), poet, was born at Great Berkhamsted on 15 November 1731, the son of John Cowper, D.D., and Anne, daughter of Roger Donne of Ludham Hall, Norfolk. He was educated at Westminster School before spending three years articled to a solicitor. He entered the Middle Temple in 1748, and was called to the bar in 1754, becoming a commissioner of bankrupts in 1759. As a result of his declining mental health, Cowper was taken to a private house at St Albans for treatment in December 1763. After his recovery, he resigned his commissionership of bankruptcy. He removed to Huntingdon in 1765, where he befriended John Newton, Vicar of Olney, whom he assisted in his parish duties. Cowper suffered from a fresh bout of mania in 1773, but recovered to devote himself to literary work. A volume of his poems was published in 1782, and the publication of The task in 1785 won him popular acclaim. As well as producing other volumes of poems, Cowper's translation of Homer's Ili ad was published in 1791, and he edited an edition of Milton, which included his translations of Latin and Italian poems. He died on 25 April 1800.