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Note: FRED W. HOSS The Sunday Chronicle, Sunday, May 21, 1922
JOHNSON CITY, Tennessee -- Henry Johnson, founded Johnson City in 1856. In middle life, the staunch pioneer of commerce and industry came from the Mother State of Tennessee--old North Carolina--who just 60 years before had ceded to the Government of the United States her own Washington County, and called it "Tennessee." Mr. Johnson slowly crossed the trail to the rugged Allegheny ranges, following the same trail blazed just 100 years before by Daniel Boone.
Henry Johnson's last camping place was a little cleared spot in the woods by the newly-built branch of railroad that reached the tremendous distance from Chattanooga to Bristol, and with a name as long as the road--East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad Company. Around Henry's camping place is now built the City of Johnson City.
Henry Johnson died on February 25, 1874, at the age of 64.
He was married to Mary Ann Hoss, daughter of John Hoss.
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