[3][4] She was a descendant of Bezaleel Wright, who served in Captain Abijah Child's company, Colonel Thomas Gardner's regiment, at the siege of Boston.

[3] On September 24, 1860, at Madison,[6] she married Daniel Harris Johnson,[2] a lawyer of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.

[4] In that capacity, she participated in their deliberations in Washington, D.C., Louisville, Kentucky, St. Louis, Missouri, Madison, Wisconsin, and San Francisco, California.

[3] She was involved in the associated charities of Milwaukee, strongly favoring efforts to aid and encourage others to become self-supporting, rather than mere almsgiving.

She was not a professional literary woman, but she wrote short articles and brief stories for publication, and numerous papers to be read before the societies, conferences, clubs and classes with which she was affiliated.