Son of Rev. William & Elisabeth (Laymon) Johnson, he was born in Indiana on 31 Oct 1837. The family migrated to Iowa in 1840, and were pioneers of Oregon in 1846, before it was a territory. He was an attorney, being admitted to the Oregon Bar in 1857, and in 1858 moved to Seattle where he was elected Auditor of King County. He married Mary E. Post in Oregon in 1861, and had the following children:
Clara Mary; Thurston; Horatio Blair; and Miles Standish Johnson.
He owned and edited the Lafayette Courier newspaper from 1864 to 1868.
He served as Adjutant General for the Washington Territory in 1861, being influential in the Pig War on the San Juan Islands among other Territorial events. He was widely known in the political circles in Oregon, being part of the major liberal movement in Oregon. It was alleged in the newspapers of Colorado that he fled Oregon to avoid being elected to the United States senate. He removed to Colorado about 1873, and entered into real estate with August Bartlett as a partner in a brokerage firm. By 1874, he had gone from Pueblo to the Adjutant General's office in Washington D.C., where he was appointed to collect "a few million dollars on outlawed Indian claims in Texas," and while there was petitioning appointment to United States postal agent for Colorado.
He and Mary Elizabeth (Post) Johnson divorced, and he later married Hannah (Jamison) Johnson, the widow of William Otto Johnson. Together they had Frank L., who died at age 2 in 1888, and Arthur Frederick born in 1891.
In April 1890, he was advertising a four month old "tame and playful" mountain lion for sale, when he resided in Glenwood Springs. The Aspen Daily Chronicle reports in June of the same year that Marshal Bishop then killed the pet and sold the scalp to the county treasurer for the bounty of $10, proclaiming Bishop as "a man of considerable gall."
He struggled with alcohol addiction and in 1892, enrolled in the Keeley Institute in Colorado Springs. The paper reported, "in whom it is said the change is so great that it is necessary to carry a valet [wallet] for purposes of identification." So impressed was he by what the institute was able to do for him, he was supportive of opening a branch in Aspen - which opened a month later in June of 1892.
He was the author of Philosophy of History Related to Worship (1907).
He was Worshipful Master of the Hiram Lodge No. 92, A. F. and A. M., and Aspen Knights of Labor. He was also listed on the G. A. R. Register for 1894:
Johnson, Jasper W., brigadier and adjutant, Washington territory, Aspen
He died at a sanitarium in Pueblo, where he was brought from Denver some time before, following a nervous breakdown due to overwork from which he never fully recovered.
Clara Mary; Thurston; Horatio Blair; and Miles Standish Johnson.
He owned and edited the Lafayette Courier newspaper from 1864 to 1868.
He served as Adjutant General for the Washington Territory in 1861, being influential in the Pig War on the San Juan Islands among other Territorial events. He was widely known in the political circles in Oregon, being part of the major liberal movement in Oregon. It was alleged in the newspapers of Colorado that he fled Oregon to avoid being elected to the United States senate. He removed to Colorado about 1873, and entered into real estate with August Bartlett as a partner in a brokerage firm. By 1874, he had gone from Pueblo to the Adjutant General's office in Washington D.C., where he was appointed to collect "a few million dollars on outlawed Indian claims in Texas," and while there was petitioning appointment to United States postal agent for Colorado.
He and Mary Elizabeth (Post) Johnson divorced, and he later married Hannah (Jamison) Johnson, the widow of William Otto Johnson. Together they had Frank L., who died at age 2 in 1888, and Arthur Frederick born in 1891.
In April 1890, he was advertising a four month old "tame and playful" mountain lion for sale, when he resided in Glenwood Springs. The Aspen Daily Chronicle reports in June of the same year that Marshal Bishop then killed the pet and sold the scalp to the county treasurer for the bounty of $10, proclaiming Bishop as "a man of considerable gall."
He struggled with alcohol addiction and in 1892, enrolled in the Keeley Institute in Colorado Springs. The paper reported, "in whom it is said the change is so great that it is necessary to carry a valet [wallet] for purposes of identification." So impressed was he by what the institute was able to do for him, he was supportive of opening a branch in Aspen - which opened a month later in June of 1892.
He was the author of Philosophy of History Related to Worship (1907).
He was Worshipful Master of the Hiram Lodge No. 92, A. F. and A. M., and Aspen Knights of Labor. He was also listed on the G. A. R. Register for 1894:
Johnson, Jasper W., brigadier and adjutant, Washington territory, Aspen
He died at a sanitarium in Pueblo, where he was brought from Denver some time before, following a nervous breakdown due to overwork from which he never fully recovered.
Son of Rev. William & Elisabeth (Laymon) Johnson, he was born in Indiana on 31 Oct 1837. The family migrated to Iowa in 1840, and were pioneers of Oregon in 1846, before it was a territory. He was an attorney, being admitted to the Oregon Bar in 1857, and in 1858 moved to Seattle where he was elected Auditor of King County. He married Mary E. Post in Oregon in 1861, and had the following children:
Clara Mary; Thurston; Horatio Blair; and Miles Standish Johnson.
He owned and edited the Lafayette Courier newspaper from 1864 to 1868.
He served as Adjutant General for the Washington Territory in 1861, being influential in the Pig War on the San Juan Islands among other Territorial events. He was widely known in the political circles in Oregon, being part of the major liberal movement in Oregon. It was alleged in the newspapers of Colorado that he fled Oregon to avoid being elected to the United States senate. He removed to Colorado about 1873, and entered into real estate with August Bartlett as a partner in a brokerage firm. By 1874, he had gone from Pueblo to the Adjutant General's office in Washington D.C., where he was appointed to collect "a few million dollars on outlawed Indian claims in Texas," and while there was petitioning appointment to United States postal agent for Colorado.
He and Mary Elizabeth (Post) Johnson divorced, and he later married Hannah (Jamison) Johnson, the widow of William Otto Johnson. Together they had Frank L., who died at age 2 in 1888, and Arthur Frederick born in 1891.
In April 1890, he was advertising a four month old "tame and playful" mountain lion for sale, when he resided in Glenwood Springs. The Aspen Daily Chronicle reports in June of the same year that Marshal Bishop then killed the pet and sold the scalp to the county treasurer for the bounty of $10, proclaiming Bishop as "a man of considerable gall."
He struggled with alcohol addiction and in 1892, enrolled in the Keeley Institute in Colorado Springs. The paper reported, "in whom it is said the change is so great that it is necessary to carry a valet [wallet] for purposes of identification." So impressed was he by what the institute was able to do for him, he was supportive of opening a branch in Aspen - which opened a month later in June of 1892.
He was the author of Philosophy of History Related to Worship (1907).
He was Worshipful Master of the Hiram Lodge No. 92, A. F. and A. M., and Aspen Knights of Labor. He was also listed on the G. A. R. Register for 1894:
Johnson, Jasper W., brigadier and adjutant, Washington territory, Aspen
He died at a sanitarium in Pueblo, where he was brought from Denver some time before, following a nervous breakdown due to overwork from which he never fully recovered.
Clara Mary; Thurston; Horatio Blair; and Miles Standish Johnson.
He owned and edited the Lafayette Courier newspaper from 1864 to 1868.
He served as Adjutant General for the Washington Territory in 1861, being influential in the Pig War on the San Juan Islands among other Territorial events. He was widely known in the political circles in Oregon, being part of the major liberal movement in Oregon. It was alleged in the newspapers of Colorado that he fled Oregon to avoid being elected to the United States senate. He removed to Colorado about 1873, and entered into real estate with August Bartlett as a partner in a brokerage firm. By 1874, he had gone from Pueblo to the Adjutant General's office in Washington D.C., where he was appointed to collect "a few million dollars on outlawed Indian claims in Texas," and while there was petitioning appointment to United States postal agent for Colorado.
He and Mary Elizabeth (Post) Johnson divorced, and he later married Hannah (Jamison) Johnson, the widow of William Otto Johnson. Together they had Frank L., who died at age 2 in 1888, and Arthur Frederick born in 1891.
In April 1890, he was advertising a four month old "tame and playful" mountain lion for sale, when he resided in Glenwood Springs. The Aspen Daily Chronicle reports in June of the same year that Marshal Bishop then killed the pet and sold the scalp to the county treasurer for the bounty of $10, proclaiming Bishop as "a man of considerable gall."
He struggled with alcohol addiction and in 1892, enrolled in the Keeley Institute in Colorado Springs. The paper reported, "in whom it is said the change is so great that it is necessary to carry a valet [wallet] for purposes of identification." So impressed was he by what the institute was able to do for him, he was supportive of opening a branch in Aspen - which opened a month later in June of 1892.
He was the author of Philosophy of History Related to Worship (1907).
He was Worshipful Master of the Hiram Lodge No. 92, A. F. and A. M., and Aspen Knights of Labor. He was also listed on the G. A. R. Register for 1894:
Johnson, Jasper W., brigadier and adjutant, Washington territory, Aspen
He died at a sanitarium in Pueblo, where he was brought from Denver some time before, following a nervous breakdown due to overwork from which he never fully recovered.
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