This book has no cover, and no index, and no author. I bought it on Ebay; it just has the insides, but it is full of Indiana biographies. I am not researching this family, just thought I would share. I do not know anymore about these families or these surnames. NOTE: I don’t know if there is any additional mention of this family in the book, it has no index. I do not want to sell this book. I am typing the biographies from it. Typed by Lora Radiches: Surnames in this biography are: Johnson, Wood, Wheeler, Tusten, Lambert, Moran, Tglehart, de Bullet, Dalton, EDWARD MEAD JOHNSON, president of Mead Johnson Company of Evansville, is unquestionably one of the most successful and public-spirited businessmen of Southern Indiana. Born on a farm, his rise in the business world makes a most colorful story. He was born near the Village of Dundaff, not far from Carbondale, Pennsylvania, April 23, 1852, son of Sylvester and Louisa (Wood) Johnson. As a matter of record the following digest of the family genealogy is included. Sylvester Johnson was born November 28, 1800, near New London, Connecticut, and died in 1883 at Crystal Lake, Pennsylvania. He was a businessman, interested in several enterprises, and also operated a farm. He married in September, 1831, Miss Louisa Wood, born April 13, 1809, and died at Crystal Lake, Pennsylvania, also. Sylvester Johnson was the son of Stephen Johnson, born November 14, 1772, and died April 19, 1863, at the age of ninety. He married at Plainfield, Connecticut, October 31, 1798, Miss Experience Wheeler, who was born October 31, 1772, and died April 6, 1850. The Wheeler family is said to be the founders of the town of Stonington, Connecticut. Stephen Johnson was the son of Sylvester Johnson, born September 21, 1728, and died January 2, 1815. The Johnson family had not distinguished themselves in history or in the business world until the generation of Mr. Mead Johnson and his brothers, but they were always of the hardy, true American stock of hard working, God fearing, useful citizens that make the real back-bone of the development of our great nation. It is from the ranks of modest folks like these that true eminence springs. The Wood family history, however, is a little more colorful. Louisa Wood, mother of Edward Mead Johnson, was the daughter of James Wood, who was born about 1777 at Goshen, New York, and died in 1836 at Newburgh, New York. James Wood was the son of Joseph Wood, who was born December 1, 1744, and died September 13, 1825. Joseph Wood was the son of Timothy Wood, who was born at Huntington, Long Island, July 17, 1683, and died in 1780. Timothy Wood was one of the early settlers of Goshen, Orange County, New York. He was the son of Jonas Wood, Jr., who was born in 1640 and died in 1712. Jonas Wood was a lieutenant of Suffolk County troops in 1684 and in 1690 he was elected one of three commissioners “to take care of all affairs rellaitting to ye publicke good of the towne,” as recorded in the minutes of the town meeting. He held several other public offices at various times. His father was Jonas Wood, Sr., who was born in 1595 in Yorkshire, England, and came to Stamford, Connecticut, in 1630, thence to Hempstead, Long Island. He died in Huntington in 1689, at the age of ninety-four. It was concerning Joseph Wood, great-grandfather of Mr. Johnson, that history has considerable to record, as he was a major in the Revolutionary war and one of the leading citizens of Goshen at that time. He married Elinor Tusten, daughter of Benjamin Tusten, Sr., another of the leading families of Goshen in Revolutionary times. The only brother of Elinor Tusten, Benjamin Tusten, Jr., was a physician and a lieutenant colonel in the Revolutionary war, and died in a terrible bloody battle of that war, in which his entire army was destroyed by a combination of British and Indians who outnumbered the Goshen defenders heavily. This was known as the Minisink Battle. Edward Mead Johnson grew up on the farm as one of eleven children and received his early education in the country schools. His first job, outside the farm, was as a schoolteacher in a rural school. After a year of teaching he worked with the official engineering corps of a coal company at Carbondale. He financed his way through the University of Michigan by his own earnings in engineering work and graduated with a degree in law in 1876. He decided, however, to enter the business world instead of the legal. The opportunity soon presented itself when his brother, R. W. Johnson, who had started in the drug business in Poughkeepsie, New York, gave him employment with his firm. This business had operated under the name of Seabury & Johnson. He later joined with another brother, James W. Johnson, in founding, in 1893, the Johnson & Johnson Company, which has since become world famous as manufacturers of drugs and pharmaceutical supplies. Headquarters of this company were established in New Brunswick, New Jersey. In 1900 E. Mead Johnson withdrew from the Johnson & Johnson Company to establish the Mead Johnson Company in Jersey City, New Jersey. By 1911 this firm began to specialize in infant diet materials, including Dextri-Maltose (malt sugar), the infant food for which the company is chiefly known today. During the war the demand for Dextri Maltose was greatly increased and the Mead Johnson Company turned to wheat and corn to augment the supply, which made it more desirable for the factory to be located nearer the grain producing areas. Mr. Johnson selected Evansville as the best spot for his new factory, which he located here in 1915, production starting in May, 1916. Mr. Johnson has been a resident of Evansville since 1916 and as such he has always shown a keen interest in the business and civic welfare of the community. Seeing the strategically position of Evansville as a river shipping point, the harbor there being free from ice the year round, he contributed a half million dollars to the building of what is known as the Mead Johnson Terminal for handling water, rail and truck freight, with warehouse and handling facilities of the latest design. This great civic asset was opened to the public with general celebration on February 27, 1981. On that day the Evansville Courier carried a ten-page special section devoted to the details of the event. The terminal was never planned by Mr. Johnson as a profit-making venture for his company or himself, as he hardly expected it to pay its own expenses, but to meet an urgent civic need. The use to which the terminal has been put since it was opened has more than justified Mr. Johnson’s faith in constructing it as a means of enlarging the commerce of the city. Another expression of his civic interest is to be found in his donation of the Public Health Nursing Association Building and much of its furnishings, and many other similar cause -which he has assisted. Besides his manufacture of baby food, of which 10,000,000 packages annually are distributed, Mr. Johnson is a stockholder in several banks and has property in Florida and Michigan. Mr. Johnson married in 1884 Miss Francine Lambert, daughter of John Lambert, who was a native of France and who served in the Confederate army during the American Civil war. To this union were born three children: Edward Mead, Jr., born in 1890 and died November 2, 1930, was vice president of the Mead Johnson Company at the time of his death. He married Katherine Moran, of San Antonio, Texas, and had a son, Edward Mead III, born in 1917. The second son of Mr. Johnson, Sr., is Lambert D., born in 1892, who is now vice president and treasurer of the Mead Johnson Company and who married Evelyn Tglehart, of Evansville, and their three children are Lambert, Jr., born in 1921; Edgar Iglehart, born in 1924; and Gloria, born in 1926. The third son of Mr. Johnson is James Wood, who served with the Aviation Corps during the war but is now giving most of his time to literary work. He married Camille de Bullet, a French woman, and they purchased and occupy the house formerly occupied by Premier Clemenceau during the war, which was built during the reign of Louis XVI but recently modernized. They have two children: Francis, born in 1922, and Camille, born in 1929. Mr. Johnson, Sr., subsequently married Helena Dalton, a native of Brooklyn, New York, daughter of John and Helena Dalton. Mr. Johnson has been an independent in politics. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity.