[4] Her activities in Brooklyn included holding prayer-meetings throughout the city, visiting the saloons and appealing to the saloon-keepers, as well as distributing literature.

She also was a leader in the campaign waged by the Union which secured the closing of the 3,000 saloons in that city on Sunday, on the strength of an obsolete statute which had been revived by the temperance women.

She addressed temperance meetings in Brooklyn, Ossining, Round lance, New York, at Orchard Beach and Lake Sebago, Maine, at Ocean Grove, New Jersey, and elsewhere, and in churches in many of the Eastern cities.

She was the first American woman to go abroad in temperance work, and owing to her success, she in 1879, resigned her office in the National WCTU, to continue her endeavors in the foreign field.

In her book Glimpses of Fifty Years, Willard said of Mrs. Johnson that she was one of "the first persons who befriended and advised me in the unknown field of Gospel Temperance".

[6] Johnson broke her leg after falling in her home,[7] and died three months later at the Harbor Sanitarium, Manhattan, August 10, 1928.