"[3] Frank lived at the White House as a teenager, alongside the five young children of his much older sisters, Martha Patterson and Mary Stover.

[3] At the time of the 1870 census he was enumerated as Franklin Johnson and was working as a "clerk in store" at Greeneville.

[5][8][9] According to the Andrew Johnson Biographical Companion, the newspaper was "doubtless established to support his father's candidacy for Senate.

"[3] His partner in this was Thomas Maloney, who had worked as a private secretary for his father and who married his niece Lillie Stover in 1875.

[14] Apparently within a year she had left the marital home and moved back in with her parents "because of her husband's drinking.

[15] Johnson later worked as a farmer in Carter County, Tennessee, until the heirs of Andrew Johnson came into possession (apparently due to foreclosure on a mortgage) of a cotton mill at Union, Sullivan County, Tennessee, now called Bluff City, which he managed.