Edward Crosby Johnson II (January 19, 1898 – April 2, 1984) was an American businessman and lawyer who founded Fidelity Investments.
[2] He graduated from Milton Academy in 1916,[3] and enlisted in the United States Naval Reserve as a second class radioman during World War I from August 1917 to July 1918.
[7] Diana B. Henriques wrote in 1995: "...those who knew Ed Johnson sensed...an openness to the new and the exotic.
Most of all, there was a very un-Bostonian passion for the quick, rude, sharp-witted world of Wall Street.
[11] He died in Cataumet, Massachusetts, of Alzheimer's disease in 1984, and his funeral was held at Milton's Universalist First Parish Church.