Edwin Lewis JOHNSON

1886 - 1963  (76 years)

• Name	Edwin Lewis JOHNSON
  Birth	11 Nov 1886	Minnesota
  	other sources say November 1885
  Gender	Male
  Death	25 Feb 1963	San Diego, San Diego County, California
  Notes	In the 1902 Fergus Falls city directory, he lives at home with his parents but is employed by his father’s brother’s meat market. He is not listed in the 1905 directory. He registered for the draft in San Diego on June 5th, 1917. He lived with his wife and child at 1543 7th in San Diego. He was a self-employed attorney with his office at 218 Owl Building in San Diego. He claimed 20 months of previous military service as a private in a hospital company in the U.S. Army. He was described as of medium height, slender build, with blue eyes and black hair. In the 1910 census, he and his wife and son lived in Coronado City where he was a solicitor for a retail grocery concern. In the 1920 census, he and his wife and son lived in San Diego. He was a criminal lawyer. In the 1930 census, he and his wife and son lived at 3445 32nd Street in San Diego in a house that they owned. Edwin was an attorney. From a highly affected profile of Edwin Johnson written about 1960, as posted with The Johnson Family Tree on Ancestry: After coming to San Diego in 1907 his first appearance by name in the city directory was as "Teamster, Coronado Beach Company."  A few months later he was helping internationally famous Glen Curtiss build his first hydroplane on North Island. The Johnsons lived on South Island. North Island and Coronado were connected by a very thin strip of sand.  The inlet on the bay side, protected on north and south by the two larger "islands", and by the sand strip from the open sea on the west, was known as Spanish Bight.  Here, Curtiss experimented with flying boats. When Ed was 15 years old he was through grammar school and was working in his home state of Minnesota as a "printer's devil." Before E.L.J. came to San Diego, at the age of twenty two, he had just completed two years in the army.  Before that, in addition to printing-office experiences, he had been a miner in the Black Hills and a farmer. As a young teamster in San Diego, working for John D. Spreckels and others who were developing Coronado, Ed Johnson kept a copy of Blackstone's commentaries under the seat of his wagon. Law practice for the senior Johnson commenced in 1911.  It included the successful defense for murder charged against one of his former bosses of the Coronado Beach days; also experiences as deputy district attorney from 1923 to 1926. His most interesting case was the one written up in "Master Detective" in 1950.  The facts, which had occurred 27 years before, concerned a successful prosecution in San Diego of a first degree murder charge without the availability of a corpse. The victim had just disappeared--forever.
  Person ID	I12935	Don Carlson's Tree
  Last Modified	9 Dec 2013

  
  

  Father	Carl Henrik Johannessen (Charles) JOHNSON,   b. 13 Dec 1851, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway d. 28 May 1916, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota (Age 64 years)
  Mother	Mary Christine Marie BJERTNESS,   b. 24 May 1862, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway d. 5 Jul 1935, Otter Tail County, Minnesota (Age 73 years)
  Marriage	17 Mar 1881	Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota
  Family ID	F933	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Loretta Wilhelmina ACHENBACH,   b. 6 May 1887, Meade County, South Dakota d. 29 Jul 1952, San Diego County, California (Age 65 years)
  Marriage	2 Sep 1907	San Diego County, California
  Children	1. Charles Ashley JOHNSON,   b. 20 Aug 1909, Coronado, San Diego County, California d. 9 Oct 2001, San Diego County, California (Age 92 years)
  Family ID	F9685	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Jul 2008