Windsor

JOHNSON, William Edward

Men of Vermont: Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters & Sons of 
Vermont. Ullery. Brattleboro: Transcript Publishing Company, 1894, pp 224-225

William Edward JOHNSON, of Woodstock, was born 26 June 1841 in Woodstock 
[Windsor County, Vermont], son of Eliakim and Harrie[t?] A. (COLLAMER) 
JOHNSON. The subject is the grandson of the late Hon. Jacob COLLAMER. He 
received his preparatory education at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden 
[Sullivan County], New Hampshire, and entered Dartmouth College, from which 
he graduated in the class of 1862. He studied law with Gov. P. T. WASHBURN 
and Hon. Charles P. MARSH of the firm of Washburn & Marsh, and was admitted 
to the bar of Windsor County at the May term, 1865. He has from that time on 
been actively engaged in the practice of his profession at Woodstock. A 
noticeable thing in his legal work is the large number of cases referred to 
him for decision, and for findings of fact, more perhaps than to any other 
lawyer in the state. Mr. JOHNSON has proved his business capacity, and is a 
director in the Woodstock National Bank, the Woodstock Hotel Company, and the 
Aqueduct Company. Republican party; was elected to the state Senate in 1888. 
From 1872 to 1874 he was state's attorney for Windsor County. On 20 August 
1866 at Woodstock [Windsor County, Vermont] he [William Edward JOHNSON] was 
married to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Philo and Elizabeth M. (FITCH) HATCH. 
Of this union there is one child, Margaret L.

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