William Allen Johnson (October 27, 1816 – January 20, 1901) of Westfield, Massachusetts, US, was a builder of pipe organs during the later half of the nineteenth century.
In 1819, the Johnson family moved to Hawley, Franklin County, Massachusetts, then shortly afterward to Westfield, Massachusetts, following William's father's trade as a millwright Young Johnson first attended a private school, then the public school.
At the end of his apprenticeship, Johnson formed his own construction business, doing considerable work in the Westfield area.
During a slack period of construction work in the winter of 1843–1844, Mr. Johnson decided to build a small parlor organ.
The firm built a total of 860 tracker action pipe organs throughout the United States and in Canada and Bermuda before it ceased operations in 1898 William A. Johnson died on January 20, 1901, at the age of 84. all information in this article comes from this book: