Herbert Fisk Johnson Jr

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Herbert Fisk Johnson
(1899 - 1978)
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Born in Racine, Racine County, Wisconsin on 15 Nov 1899 to Herbert Fisk Johnson and Helen Converse. Herbert Fisk Johnson married Gertrude Rose Brauner and had 1 child. He passed away on 13 Dec 1978 in Wind Point, Racine County, Wisconsin.
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Parents
Herbert Fisk Johnson
1868 - 1928
Helen Converse
1869 - 1944
Spouse(s)
Gertrude Rose Brauner
1910 - 1991
Esther Jane Tilton
1904 - 1938
Children
Samuel Curtis Johnson
1928 - 2004
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Johnson was married three times. He married his first wife, the former Gertrude Brauner, daughter of Cornell University professor Olaf Brauner, in 1923.[3] They were the parents of three children, Karen (b. 16 May 1924), Henrietta (b. 16 April 1927) and Samuel Curtis Jr.(b. 2 March 1928). Herbert and Gertrude were divorced about 1931; their middle daughter Henrietta also died in 1931 (30 March).

He later married (31 December 1936) the former (Esther) Jane Tilton, the widow of William Clyde Roach of Indianapolis, Indiana. Jane died from an embolism on 30 May 1938 in Racine.[4] In 1941, Johnson married Irene Purcell, an actress. They remained married until her death in 1972.[5]
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Herbert Fisk "Hib" Johnson Jr.
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Herbert Fisk "Hib" Johnson Jr.
BIRTH15 Nov 1899
Racine, Racine County, Wisconsin, USA
DEATH13 Dec 1978 (aged 79)
Wind Point, Racine County, Wisconsin, USA
BURIAL
Mound Cemetery
Racine, Racine County, Wisconsin, USA
PLOTBlock 34
MEMORIAL ID94224860 · View Source
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Father of Samuel C. Johnson

"Herbert Fisk Johnson Jr. (1899-1978) was only 28 years old when his father died in 1928 and he became president of Johnson Wax. He remained president until 1965. During his tenure he turned the company from a small Midwestern family-owned business into a major national manufacturer. He hired Frank Lloyd Wright in 1936 to design and build the Johnson Wax Administration Building in Racine, and later Wingspread and the Johnson Wax Research Tower. In 1936 he led an expedition 20,000 miles by air through South America to study the waxy substance that accumulates on the leaves of the carnuba palm. Carnuba wax became the basis for the johnson products of the 1930s and 1940s that made the company one of the "Fortune 500." Appropriately, the carnuba palm is carved on the exterior of the Johnson mausoleum. Interred with Johnson is his third wife, Irene Purcell (1902 - 1972), who was a Hollywood actress in the 1930s."

Submitted by Deborah Crowell to http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wiracbio/zmound/johnsonmau.htm
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Herbert Fisk Johnson
1868\endash 1928

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Helen Clorine Converse Johnson
1869\endash 1944

Spouses
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Esther Jane Tilton Johnson
1904\endash 1938

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Irene Purcell
1902\endash 1972

Children
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Karen Andrea Johnson Boyd
1924\endash 2016

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Samuel Curtis Johnson
1928\endash 2004

Herbert married Esther Jane Tilton, daughter of Edward Wilkins Tilton Jr and Grace Virginia Sacra, on 31 Dec 1936 in Racine Co Wisconsin. (Esther Jane Tilton was born on 31 Jul 1904 in Oshkosh Winnebago Wisconsin, died on 30 May 1938 in Racine Co Wisconsin and was buried Mound Cemetery in Racine Co Wisconsin Find A Grave # 94304469 Plot Block 34.)