Herbert Fisk Johnson Jr.

The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art on the Cornell campus, designed by renowned architect I. M. Pei, is named in his honor.

SC Johnson & Son is an American multinational corporation, privately held manufacturer of household cleaning supplies and other consumer chemicals based in Racine, Wisconsin.

In 1936, he hired Frank Lloyd Wright to design the Johnson Wax Administration Building for his company in Racine, Wisconsin.

[5][6]: 12  The Administration Building, designed in a variation of the streamlined Art Moderne style,[7] opened on April 23, 1939.

The trip was to learn more about the carnauba palm tree (Copernicia prunifera) of north eastern Brazil which produced carnauba wax, one of the main products of his company, and to determine whether groves of these trees could produce enough to meet future demand.

This led to investments in Brazil, establishment of a subsidiary in 1960, and eventually to the foundation of the Serra das Almas Private Natural Heritage Reserve to protect an area of the caatinga biome including wild carnauba palms.

He next married (December 31, 1936) the former (Esther) Jane Tilton, the widow of William Clyde Roach of Indianapolis, Indiana.