H.
A. Johnson
H.
A. Johnson, manager and only resident member of the firm of Taylor, Crote &
Johnson, saw mill men and lumber dealers, is a native of Buffalo. N.
Y., where he grew to manhood, and where he
was engaged in the lumber business until he came to Chattanooga in 1881.
He was then engaged in buying and shipping walnut lumber, until 1884, at which
date he located permanently here. In 1872 he was united in marriage to Miss
Rosa Wright, a native of Fredonia, N. Y., to whom one child, a daughter has been
born. Our subject's parents, Amasa and Delpha (Smead) Johnson were natives of
Vermont. The mother died in 1865, and the father is now a resident of Michigan.
The mill owned and operated by Taylor, Crote & Johnson was built in 1881 by
Treice & Gillmore, which firm was succeeded by Woodward & Winchester in
1883, and by Treice & Johnson until the present firm was formed in the fall
of 1885. About forty hands are employed by this firm, and they saw 4,000,000
feet annually.
"Goodspeed's History of East Tennessee, Hamilton County." 1887