Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 8th ed., 1888,
Jefferson Co.

WILLIAM PAYNE JOHNSON was born near Georgetown, in Scott County, August 31,
1851, and is a son of L. L. and Irene (Elley) Johnson.  The Johnsons are a
prominent family in Scott County, and very early settlers there. Our
subject is a grand-nephew of Colonel Richard M. Johnson, Vice-President of
the United States under Van Buren.  He was liberally educated.  In 1867 he
entered Washington-Lee University, Lexington, Va., where he remained two
years, having spent two years previously in the Kentucky Military
Institute.  In 1870 he began reading law under Madison C. Johnson, at
Lexington, Ky.  He was licensed to practice by the Court of Appeals in
1872, and at once came to Louisville, where he practice until 1876, and
for a part of the time was a partner of Judge A. T. Pope.  In the latter
year, he, with his brother-in-law, Judge S. B. Toney, took charge of R.
Burge's estate, which they wound up satisfactorily.  The subject has been
for some time in the tobacco business with Theodore Schwartz, Jr., his
partner.  The firm at present is William P. Johnson & Co., and they are
the proprietors of the Enterprise Tobacco Warehouse.  Mr. Johnson was
married on the 5th of April, 1876, to Emma Moore Burge, daughter of the
late R. Burge, Esq., long a prominent and well known citizen of Louisville.

Johnson Elley Pope Toney Burge Schwartz Burge
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Georgetown-Scott-KY Fayette-KY VA

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