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1 Utah L. Rev. 7 (1949)
Judge Tillman D. Johnson

handle is hein.journals/utahlr1 and id is 11 raw text is: Judge Tiliman D. Johnson James A. Howell His record is at once the cause' for our praise and his own best reward. A short time before his- appointment as District Judge of the United States for the District of Utah, Tillman D. Johnson furnished the biographical data of his life to appear in a publication called the History of the Bench and Bar of Utah, so that whether he exact language is his or not, it is factually an autobiograph up to that time. It reads as follows: TILLMAN DAVIS JOHNSON Residence, 520 23rd Street; office First National Bank Building, Ogden. Born January 8, 1858, in Tennessee, Son of C. M. and Catherine (Davis) Johnson. Married July 27, 1881, to Fanny McCall. of Tennessee Graduated from Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee, 1880; studied law. in* offices of Avent & Avent, Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Admitted to the bar of Utah at Ogden, 1890. Engaged in the general practice of law in Ogden since 1890. In 1911 formed partnership with his son, Wade M. Johnson, under the firm name of Johnson & Johnson, which continues to date. Had charge of Government Indian Schools at Fort Bennett, S. D., and later at Fort Hall, Idaho, 1886-9. Member of Utah Legislature, 1899. Democratic candidate for Congress, 1912. Member of W.O.W., Utah State and Weber County Bar Associations. Democrat.* True it is, this is a mere skeleton of the facts of the life of'Judge Johnson, which must be clothed with flesh and blood that we may have a clear picture of the man he is. The facts, however, at least suffice to place him in the proper period of the history of the development of the law and lawyers in Utah. He is not of the first, but of the second period in that development. To the first period belong those giants of the Pioneer Days, who con- cealed their lack of knowledge of the fundamental principles of the law by an awe inspiring use of forensics, so that they seemed to the public to be great men, as indeed, they were, though the soundness of their law might well be questioned. On the contrary, Judge Johnson is of that second period, when the men who constituted the Bar in Utah were well trained in the law. They were not, as a rule, graduates of any law school, as is the case with practically all of -the lawyers today, which I shall term the third period of the lawyers of Utah. They were usually graduates of some sort of college, as was the case with Judge Johnson, in other words, educated in the Arts, but their training in the law was obtained in practical work in'some law office under the tutelage of an experienced lawyer, as was also the case with him. They generally entered upon the practice of law through some other profession or business, usiqlly the teaching profession, as was true of. Judge Johnson, whose preliminary training in the law was the teaching of Indian youth, *History of the Bench and Bar oF -ftab, published by Interstate Press Association (1913).

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