Gilbert, Frank T.  "Historic Sketches of Walla Walla, Whitman, Columbia and
Garfield Counties, Washington Territory; and Umatilla County, Oregon."
Portland, OR: Print & Lithographing House of A. G. Walling, 1882. p. a20.
 
AMBROSE JOHNSON

     James Johnson was born in East Tennessee and moved to Monroe Co., Illinois,
where he married Martha Allen, and reared a family of two sons and six
daughters.  One of the former, subject of this sketch, was born in Greene
county, Illinois, near Carrolton, December 26, 1824.  The family moved to
Macoupin county in the same states and there Ambrose attended school and grew to
manhood.  In 1847 the family moved to Iowa, and March 27, 1851, Ambrose married
Martha Simpson, daughter of James and Peggy Simpson.  He then settled down on a
farm in Keokuk county, Iowa.  Having lost his first three children, two boys and
a girl, he abandoned that country in 1862, and crossed the plains and mountains,
arriving in Walla Walla valley September 15, 1862.  The next month he settled on
the land he now occupies, four and one-half miles from Dayton.  It was three
years before he realized the agricultural value of this region, and began in
earnest to make a home here.  On the eleventh of October, 1868, his wife died,
leaving five children, two boys (twins) and three girls.  He was again married,
October 27, 1872 to Tabitha Johnson, who has borne him three daughters and one
son.  Mr. Johnson's place is ornamented with a fine growth of large and stately
poplars, which with other shade trees give it the appearance of coolness and
comfort very pleasant to see.  A view of his place is given on another page, but
on account of their location, does not show all of the many improvements
standing on the farm.  Mr. Johnson was brought up in the Christian, or
Campbellite faith, but, in 1876 he became convinced of the truth of the
doctrines proclaimed by the Seventh Day Adventist denomination, and has since
been a member of that church.  He has been elder of the church in Dayton since
its foundation.

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Submitted to the WA. Bios Project in August 2006 by Diana Smith.

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