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Oil portrait of Alexander Soule Johnson by artist Jerome S. Uhl. The subject was the son of Rev. Thomas Johnson who operated the Shawnee Methodist Mission in Johnson County, Kansas. He worked as a land surveyor in Johnson County and oversaw settlement of the region as land and tax commissioner of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway land grant. During the Civil War, Johnson served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Kansas State Militia and participated in the Price Raid. He was a lawyer and member of the first territorial legislature. Johnson took an active role in, and served as president of, the Topeka Club. This social group consisted primarily of prominent Topekans. Johnson's portrait hung in the organization's clubhouse until it disbanded in the early 1920s. The artist was a painter from Cincinnati, Ohio, who studied in Paris, exhibited in Europe, and painted portraits of a number of prominent Americans.
Creator: Uhl, S. Jerome
Date: 1906
Item Number: 225211
Call Number: 1983.2943.0
KSHS Identifier: 1983.2943.0
Collections - Museum
Community Life - Clubs and organizations - Social and Civic - Topeka Club
Date - 1900s - 1906
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Original Art - Picture - Portrait
People - Notable Kansans - Johnson, Alexander Soule, 1832-1894
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Type of Material - Objects and Artifacts
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