"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE

MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
GREGG TOWNSHIP
PAGE 343

REV. JESSE BROOKS JOHNSON was born in this county, January 20, 1847, and is a 
son of Brooks S. and Anna B. (Green) Johnson, natives of North Carolina, who came
to this section about 1835, and settled in Adams Township, where Mrs. Johnson ended
her life in 1858;  Mr. Johnson is still living, aged eighty-five years.  Rev. Mr. Johnson
was reared at home and is the youngest son of eight children.  He early acquired a good
education, and afterward taught for some time, instructing in penmanship for five years.
He grew up in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and being a gifted speaker, naturally
leaned toward the ministry;  he afteward, however, affliated with the Christian Church
in 1867, and was ordained Elder in 1870, in which denomination he has continued to
preach efficiently.  October 20, 1859, he married Mary E., daughter of Allen R. Seaton,
and to this union have been bestowed six children--Lieusely, Charles S., Melvin A., 
Carrie, Ernest F. and Oliver.  The mother of this family came to her death March 29,
1882, aged forty-three years, a member of the Christian Church.  Mr. Johnson removed
to his farm in 1871, comprising 107 acres;  but he has never neglected the service of
God and the welfare of his fellow-man.  During 1883, he was pastor of Mount Pleasant
Church at Hall.  He is a noted temperance orator and Sabbath school worker, an up-
right man, a persuasive preacher, and belongs to the Masonic fraternity.

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