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Below is a family biography included in the Biographical Annals of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania published in 1904 by T. S. Benham & Company and The Lewis Publishing Company; Elwood Roberts, Editor.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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ALBA BOARDMAN JOHNSON, of Rosemont, Pennsylvania, of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, February 8, 1858. He is descended from one of the oldest New England families, being a descendant in the eighth generation from Lieutenant Timothy Johnson.

Lieutenant Timothy Johnson (1) was born in England in 1444. He brought to Boston a company of British cavalry, and served in the Colonial and Indian wars. His children were John, born 1676; Timothy, 1679; Mary, 1682; Samuel, 1684; Mercy, 1687.

Captain Timothy Johnson (2), eldest son of Lieutenant Timothy Johnson, was born in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1679, and died in 1771. He was in the military service and fought at Louisburg. His children were: Samuel, Asa, William, Timothy, Ada; Sarah (married Captain Peter Osgood); and Martha (married first) Joseph Parker, and (second) Robert Russell.

Asa Johnson (3), son of Captain Timothy Johnson (2), died in 1749.

Benjamin Johnson (4) son of Asa Johnson (3) was born in June, 1744, and died October 21, 1832. He married Elizabeth Boardman, of Topsfield, Massachusetts, and they became the parents of nine children: 1. Boardman (below); 2. Hannah, born April 26, 1767; 3. John, born December 2, 1771; 4. Benjamin, born November 15, 1773; 5. Daniel, born January 11, 1776; 6. Elizabeth born November 27, 1778; 7. Mary, born November 8, 1780; 8-9. Samuel and Josiah Cummings (twins) born December 9, 1784.

Boardman Johnson (5)) eldest child of Benjamin (4) and Elizabeth (Boardman) Johnson, was born September 23, 1769, and died in 1858, He married Kezia Foster, and to them were born nine children: 1. Cyrus (see below); 2. Hannah, born August 23, 1793, married Samuel Silsbee, and died June 2, 1842; 3. Portius, born December 5, 1794, married Theis Croxford, and died January 20, 1846; 4. Charles, born July 20, 1797, married Betsy Wiggins, and died January 21, 1840; 5. Benjamin, born June 14, 1802, married Louisa Willington, and (second) Eliza Chadburn; 6. Mary Ann Johnson, born September 2, 1804, married Samuel A. Morse, and died June 20, 1842; 7. Laura Jane, born August 31, 1806, died May 3, 1829; 8. Augusta, born June 27, 1809, married Harvey Morton, and (second) Joseph Graves, and died November 21, 1834; 9. Samuel Johnson, born September 23, 1815, married Ann Mary Upton.

Cyrus Johnson (6), eldest child of Boardman (5) and Kezia (Foster) Johnson, was born December 29, 1799, and died May 4, 1853. He resided in Jackson, Maine. He married, January 10, 1823, Hepzibah Page, who was born March 25, 1802, and died February 22, 1886. They were the parents of thirteen children: 1. Samuel A., (see below); 2. Asa Foster, born October 28, 1823; 3. Erastus, born October 20, 1826; 4. Nathan, born March 8, 1829; 5. William, born May 8, 1834; 6. Kezia, born January 7, 1831; 7. James Brainerd, born May 30, 1841; 8. Henry White, born February 18, 1828, died December, 1878; 9. Hannah Silsbee, born January 2, 1833; 10. Charles Portius, born February 12, 1836; 11. George Meder, born April 21, deceased; 12. Mary Ann, born April 17, 1843; 13. Julia Augusta, born December 27, 1846.

Samuel Adams Johnson (7) of Ivyland, Pennsylvania, third child of Cyrus (6) and Hepzibah (Page) Johnson, was born in Atkinson, Maine, February 16, 1825. He married (first) December 24, 1849, Clorinda Lorena Driggs, of Vernon, Connecticut, by whom he had two children : Martha Lorena Johnson, born September 23, 1850, married William Real De Krafft, June 13, 1872, and had Esther, born August 1, 1873, died December 17, 1889; Elsie, born October 27, 1874, married October 18, 1900, to Rev. Charles R. Miller, pastor of First Presbyterian church of Catasauqua, Pennsylvania; William, born November 25, 1878; Harriet, born September 7, 1880; Marguerite, born July 8, 1886; and Mary Louisa Johnson, born November 9, 1854, married Albert A. Line, of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, died December 25, 1877. He married (second) July 22, 1855, Alma Sarah Kemp. She was born in Sullivan, New Hampshire, July 20, 1822, daughter of Benjamin and Abigail (Woods) Kemp, and granddaughter of Benjamin and Abigail (Nims) Kemp. Benjamin Kemp was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, a private in the New Hampshire militia, under Captain James Likens, in the regiment commanded by Colonel Thomas Bartlet. Samuel Adams and Alma Sarah (Kemp) Johnson were the parents of two children, Alba Boardman Johnson (8), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, February 8, 1858; and Hattie Augusta Johnson, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, January 4, 1862. She married, February 7, 1883, William Henry Hall, and has two children Alma May Hall, born January 12, 1884, and Samuel Payson Hall, born October 30, 1885. Alma Sarah (Kemp) Johnson died July 5, 1882, and Samuel Adams Johnson married (third) September 25, 1884, Helen Dickinson (Waite) Johnson.

Alba Boardman Johnson (8), son of Samuel Adams Johnson (7), received his education in the city of Philadelphia, in the public schools, and graduating from the Central High School in 1876. In the following year, at the age of nineteen, he entered the Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, as junior clerk, and became a partner in 1896, having been associated with the corporation during his entire active career. He makes his residence in Rosemont, Montgomery county, and takes an active part in promoting the interests of the community.

Mr. Johnson married, April 30, 1883, Miss Elizabeth T. Reeves, daughter of Biddle and Ruthanna Reeves, granddaughter of Joel Reeves, great-granddaughter of Henry Reeves. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson are the parents of three children: 1. Reeves Kemp, born February 26, 1884; 2. Alba Boardman, Jr.; 3. Ruth Anna, born January 6, 1896.

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This family biography is one of more than 1,000 biographies included in the Biographical Annals of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania published in 1904 by T. S. Benham & Company and The Lewis Publishing Company.  For the complete description, click here: Biographical Annals of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

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