Above: A. M. Johnson (second from left), president of the Lookout Water Company, standing in front of the office, 274 Market Street, Chattanooga, 1881.
Right: The Johnson home in town at to-day's Chestnut and Thirteenth streets. Built in 1867 to replace that one destroyed in the war, the family occupied it until the St. Elmo mansion was built in 1887.
Below: Penelope Allen snapped a picture of the family car (at left) downtown, 1928.
Chattanooga, of course, was where the Johnson / Whiteside family lived and worked before developing a rural farm that eventually became St. Elmo; in the city Col. A. M. Johnson and his many descendants continued to conduct business.On this page near seventy images spanning one hun-
Johnson House of St. Elmo
in memory of
WILLIAM JOSEPH BURNETTE
1918 - 2007
dred years (but principally ranging from 1880s to 1950s) illus-trate the world of which they were cognizant.*
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