1875 SJT JOHNSON Corsicana TEXAS letterhead UNITED STATES MARSHAL Navarro County

Description

PLEASE READ BEFORE BUYING:
I sell ONLY ORIGINAL items and NOT ANY reproductions.
TWO SCANS ITEMS ARE SHOWN
of
2 PIECES.
This sale is
for
two
LETTERHEAD$
from
the year
of
1875.
It is
from
SHERiFF & U.S.
M
AR$HALL
S. J. T. J
O
HN$
O
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( SAMUEL J
O
HN
TH
O
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J
O
HNS
O
N )
of the
O
FFiCE
of the
SHERiFF
of
NAVARR
O
C
O
UNTY
TEXA$
in
C
O
RSiCANA , TEXA$
during the year of
1875.
This
2 page letter
is
hand
written
and
si
g
ned
as and
by
S. J. T. J
O
HNS
O
N,
DPT U. S. MARSHALL .
CONDITION:
It has normal letter folds and is in excellent condition.  The little "EBAY ITEM" thing is just a
loose piece of paper that is not attached to the letterheads. This item is sold AS IS.
HiST
O
RiCAL N
O
TES:
SAMUEL JOHN THOMAS JOHNSON:  A man of high character and good
family, he was born in Georgia either in 1827 or 1832 in a family of nine
children.  After serving as a
CAPTAIN IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY
,
he and his brothers, Jerry E. W. and W. D. settled in Dresden where they
operated a mercantile store until
S. J. T. was elected sheriff.
Besides being sheriff,
he was appointed
a U.S. Marshal in February of 1874.
He put pressure on the
PISGAH RIDGE outlaws
who fled, two
them, Ham Anderson and A. Barrickman were killed by Comanche County
officers.
On January 3, 1874, two deputies left the jail door unlocked and 3
prisoners escaped but, were shortly apprehended.  Three weeks later,
someone tried to burn down the courthouse by dumping five 5-gallon cans
of coal oil under the county clerk's door and lighting it but, the sheriff foiled
the attempt.  With future Governor Lawrence Sullivan Ross, then sheriff
of
McLennan County, he organized a sheriff's convention in
Corsicana August 14, 1874, setting up the Texas Association of Sheriffs.
He
was a commissioner to the
North Central and South Exposition
at
New
Orleans in 1885
and was a representative at Queen Victoria's Golden
Jubilee
in 1886.
He was a founder of
Trinity University.
His brothers,
Wiley and
Douglas, owned Johnson Brother's Clothing Store in Corsicana.  He was an
Uncle of Congressman Luther A. Johnson, and lived at the family residence
at 320 W. 6th Avenue.
He died November
11, 1916
and was buried in the
Oakwood Cemetery in Corsicana, Texas.
The approximate size of the letterheads are
8" X 1
0 1/2".
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