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I gotta get on ancestry and poke around and maybe that find a grave too. I'll have to ask wt1 to show me how to use it...lol

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JAMES H. JOHNSON was born at Bath, June 3, 1803, engaged in the
mercantile business at the Lower Village in 1817, was appointed
deputy sheriff in 1824, and served two years, then resumed the
mercantile business at Lisbon, in company with Ira Goodall, Esq., and
remained at that place eleven years, married in 1828, Jane Hutchins,
daughter of Col. James Hutchins of Bath, and had six children, of whom
only one is living. Col. Johnson was appointed paymaster of the 32d
State militia regiment, in 1826, and afterwards served as adjutant,
and then colonel of the same regiment. In 1836 he was elected State
representative from the town of Libson, and served two years, was then
chosen as State senator for two years, and afterwards was elected to
the Governor's council, in which office he served two years. In 1839
he returned to Bath and engaged largely in the lumber business, owning
the saw-mill and nearly all the water-power of the village. In 1844 he
was elected member of Congress, and again in 1846, serving two terms in the House of Representatives. In 1847 he married Miss Sophia Orne Edwards of Springfield Mass. They have three children, two sons and a
daughter. The eldest son, J. Howard, graduated as a civil engineer
at the scientific department of Dartmouth College in 1870 and the
ensuing year he went to Peru and entered into the employment of
Henry Meiggs, the railway king of South America. In 1874 and 1875 he
surveyed and built the highest known railway in the world, which
connects Arequipa with Dwyco, which was called the City of the Sun,
when the Incas ruled Peru. In 1877 he married Miss Martha B. Childs,
of Cleveland, Ohio, and they reside at Lima, Peru, where Mr. Johnson
owns a large ice factory. His eldest daughter married William G. White
of Chicago, and his youngest daughter married Dr. N.C.B. Haviland, of
Rochester VT.