This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oQB.2ACE/1227.4 Message Board Post: Hi Katherine; There's a John Daniel Johnson, b. 1825, d. 1875, that is written up in the book "Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey (Francis Bazley Lee - 1910), but he started the Columbia Iron Works (in 1852 I believe); it doesn't say anything about the Johnson Company.... Please e-mail me if you;d like more information thx