Samuel Curtis Johnson and his wife, Caroline Fisk, moved to Racine from Kenosha in 1882, when Samuel became a salesman for the Racine Hardware Company, selling parquet flooring. Four years later, at the age of 53, Johnson bought out the flooring business and established the firm that became famous for Johnson’s Wax. Caroline died in Racine in 1908, and Samuel died here in 1919, but both are buried in Kenosha’s Green Ridge Cemetery. Their only son, Herbert Fisk Sr. (1868-1926), took over the company, but he died only nine years after his father. He established Johnson’s first foreign subsidiary in England in 1914 and inaugurated a profit-sharing program in 1917. Believing in community responsibility, he helped organize the local Community Chest. "The goodwill of the people is the only enduring thing in any business," he said in 1927. "It is the sole substance...The rest is a shadow!" He is buried here with his wife, Helen Converse (1868-1944), and a granddaughter.