Johnson Cath Smith Crisalli family genealogy - Person Sheet
Johnson Cath Smith Crisalli family genealogy - Person Sheet
NameEugene Ralph JOHNSON10,568
Birth18 Feb 1885569,117,570
Death1947117
BurialNorth Elba, Essex County, NY117
Census1900, North Elba, Essex County, NY10
Census1910, Keene, Essex County, NY61
Census1920, Lake Placid, Essex County, NY3
Census1925, North Elba, Essex County, NY571
Occupation1925: farmer20
FatherCharles H. JOHNSON (1854->1910)
MotherEllen (1848->1920)
Misc. Notes
In the 1900 federal census, he was living with his parents and brothers Guy and Jesse. He was 15 years old, could read and write, and had been at school 6 months of the previous year.10

In the 1910 census, Charles H. Johnson was living in Keene (not far from Charles N. Corey and Charles H.’s mother, Martha), with Ellen, Eugene R., Guy R., Jesse R. He was 58, had been married 36 years. He was a farmer, owned his farm (mortgaged), could read and write. He gave his and his parents’ birthplaces as New York. Ellen was 59, also gave her birthplace and her parents’ as New York, and was listed as a housewife. She could read and write, and had had 4 children, all still alive. Eugene was 25, single, a laborer on a farm, could read and write, and had not been out of work in the previous year. Guy was 22, single, a laborer on a farm, could read and write, and had not been out of work in the previous year. Jesse was 20, single, a laborer on a farm, could read and write, and had not been out of work in the previous year.61

In the 1920 federal census, he was the head of household, rented, in Lake Placid. he was 35, single, could read and write, and was a laborer - general work. With him were his mother Ellen and brother Lee. He and his brother were laborers who did “general work.” His mother listed her father’s place of birth as France, and his language as French. 3

In the 1920 census, he was living on Ackerman Street in Lake Placid (no longer exists by that name), near the Thew family. He was listed as the head of household, rented, 35 years old and single. With him was mother Ellen (written over as Helen), who was 72 and widowed, and brother Lee, 40 and married but with no wife in sight.3

In the 1925 state census, he was listed as a boarder with the Eugene Thew family, and was age 38, a farmer, on the Cascade Road in Lake Placid.20


On his World War I draft registration card, he is 33, living in Lake Placid. Occupation: Lumberman, Preston Bros., Lake Placid. Nearest relative: Mrs. Charles Johnson, Lake Placid. Height tall, build slender, eyes brown, hair brown. Registered 9/12/1918.15

Buried with brothers Guy and Lee, and Milan.117
Newspaper article
Lake Placid News
March 14, 1947:
Included in an article on game law violators:
Eugene Johnson, 61, Lake Placid, charged with taking fish otherwise than by angling, operating tip-ups in water prohibited. Fined $10 and costs.

December 15, 1944:
Woman Hurt, Driver Fined After Accident
Eugene Johnson of this village was fined $15 for reckless driving and $5 for failing to notify the motor vehicle commission of a change of address. He was arraigned before Justice of the Peace Clarence Eccleston, being apprehended after an accident on Wilmington road which he failed to report. His truck left the road and struck a tree soon after he had picked up a passenger, Mrs. Eleanor Charlotte Mae Holt of Plattsburg. Mrs. Holt had a police dog with her and was refused transportation bythe bus to Plattsburg and hailed the truck for a ride. She received two broken ribs in the accident and is a patient at Lake Placid General hospital. The truck had not preceded far when the accident occurred.

October 16, 1942:
(Article on a public scrap drive that netted 93 tons in the village.)
The expenses of this campaign totaled $101.72. $30 was paid George and Bliss boathouse for the use of the scow with which to bring metal down the lake fromm camps. Use of a horse to drag it down to the docks cost $3 and the animal’s feed cost $3. Eugene Johnson was paid $34.20 for labor . . . Workmen were hired who were accustomed to handling heavy objects so that there would be less liability of accident, Mr. Lamb stated.

(Also mentioned in Alfred Peck article, q.v., Oct. 28, 1932)
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