Lizzie : The Life and Times
Elizabeth ( Lizzie ) Johnson was a student , teacher, cattle queen,wife, and financer. She has accomplished all of these titles and more successfully. Elizabeth Johnson has also been an amazing role model to many people around the world. Years pass by and the name of Elizabeth Johnson continues to be well known and for good reason at that.
Early in Life
Elizabeth Johnson was born in the year of 1840. Lizzie ,as she was also known, was along with her 6 other siblings raised with exceptional education for their time and went to school at the Johnson Institute (the school her father established).Then later accepted her degree at the Chappell Hill Female Collage.
Teaching
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She purchased 10 acres of land in Austin for $3,000. Lizzie was also the first known woman to ride the Chisholm trail with her cattle. Near this time Lizzie sold cattle to make money and did save some of this which later comes to make up part of her fortune. Lizzie did have knowledge of cattle from when she was a girl and her father owned cattle though at such a young age she did not show much interest in running cattle drives.
Around two years later she married on June 8, 1879 to Hezekiah G. Williams at the age of 39. This age was considered old to marry but Lizzie certainly did not marry sooner for the lack of people interested. Elizabeth, though unlike most women at this time, had asked her fiance to sign papers saying that she could in fact keep her property and cattle separate from his . Hezekiah also had his own cattle that they would ride on trails together after being married. She was also imagined to be a influence in some of the choices her husband made with his business though he may not have known of this. In fact Lizzie and Hezekiah attempted at establishing a town but sadly the project failed and the town was erased from all maps and
Elizabeth ( Lizzie ) Johnson was a student , teacher, cattle queen,wife, and financer. She has accomplished all of these titles and more successfully. Elizabeth Johnson has also been an amazing role model to many people around the world. Years pass by and the name of Elizabeth Johnson continues to be well known and for good reason at that.
Early in Life
Elizabeth Johnson was born in the year of 1840. Lizzie ,as she was also known, was along with her 6 other siblings raised with exceptional education for their time and went to school at the Johnson Institute (the school her father established).Then later accepted her degree at the Chappell Hill Female Collage.
Teaching
Lizzie taught first at the school she once …show more content…
She purchased 10 acres of land in Austin for $3,000. Lizzie was also the first known woman to ride the Chisholm trail with her cattle. Near this time Lizzie sold cattle to make money and did save some of this which later comes to make up part of her fortune. Lizzie did have knowledge of cattle from when she was a girl and her father owned cattle though at such a young age she did not show much interest in running cattle drives.
Around two years later she married on June 8, 1879 to Hezekiah G. Williams at the age of 39. This age was considered old to marry but Lizzie certainly did not marry sooner for the lack of people interested. Elizabeth, though unlike most women at this time, had asked her fiance to sign papers saying that she could in fact keep her property and cattle separate from his . Hezekiah also had his own cattle that they would ride on trails together after being married. She was also imagined to be a influence in some of the choices her husband made with his business though he may not have known of this. In fact Lizzie and Hezekiah attempted at establishing a town but sadly the project failed and the town was erased from all maps and