The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1913-08-29
An. JOHNSON TO REMAIN IN NASHVILLE.

every occasion and in every way, to
succeed. Such has not been my prac-
tice during the twenty years OF my
business experience. The rumor
that am to give up any of my bust
ness interests in Nashville is abSo-
lutely false and without a particle
of truth. My success in Nashville
has been phenomenal and exceeded
my expectation. The people have
given me hearty support, and have
not only trusted me with their fun-
erals but have signally honored me
on many occasions, When first
opened business, the opposition said
/ would not succeed; but have sue
ceeded They said / would not re-
main here, but having acquired the
most centrally located and best busi-
ness property, right down in the CEN
ter of the city, they quit such false
rumors and raised the cry that was
not born in Nashville and appealed
to every specie Of prejudice known
to burden the rapid progress / was
making. Instead of retarding my
progress, every knock has been a
boost and / have revolutionized the
undertaking business in Nashville
and given the public the highest
class service of any competitor in
the business and done the business
at the most reasonable price.
There should be in the breast of
every parent desire to help their
offspring. This is an age when every
father wishes to keep his son. Every
white man of business ability, either
takes his son as partner, or sets him
up in business when the boy de-
velops a capacity for business. Tho
/ thinking men Of the Negro race are
doing the same thing. Nashville has
taken the lead in that direction. 1t
has been a common comment how
that DR.. r. H. Boyd Is placing his
mantle upon the shoulders of his
son; how Hon J. c. Napier upon his
nephew, DR.. e. W. d. Isaac upon his
son, and we might name others who
are doing the same.
Some twenty years ago, I establish
ed modest undertaking establish
ment and a small newspaper in Mo-
bile. Ala, both OF which grew from
small to magnificent dimensions.
Seven years ago with two young
boys, ! gave up business in Mobile
and brought my boys to Nashville
and went into the undertaking bust
ness, and placed my boys in Meharry,
These boys are well known to the
Nashville public. The younger son,
A. N. Johnson, Jr., is engaged in
the practice of medicine, having
passed the Board of Medical Examin-
/ 2
time under an older physician aud
in hospital service before seeking GEN
eral practice.
My older son, Lorenzo q. Johnson,
decided that he wanted to engage in
D the undertaking business, following
: the same profession as his father.
: He recently married, as is we'll
: known, and as father should do,
f l began to prepare to put him in
n business that he might prove him.
e self man and nave mans chance.
l. Upon the solicitation of the own.
l. ers of the undertaking and printing
a business, which established in Mo.
n bile, some years ago, 1 came tc
4 Mobile to negotiate for its purchase
| and launch my son on November LIST
n After reaching Mobile, where l have
= lived the most of my life, and where
= the people know and love me best
- / was induced to take charge of the
, entire business at once, which l did
= Buying the stock of the Peoples Un
u dertaking Co., the Acme Drug Store
i the Mobile Weekly Press and Pres
Publishing Co.'S am necessaril!
detained in Mobile to readjust tn
S machinery of these concerns and pu
~ them in running order, which mus
n necessarily take some time. This i
ge possibly much detail, but all my lii
a. | have concealed nothing in bushes
e. affairs and trusted the public VII
a. give me support.
10 The Joilnson-Allen Undertaken
w Company, of Mobile, Is composed 10
h. A. N Johnson, president; G. w. A
% len, vice president; L. E. johnson
~ secretary; and is owned by A. I
40 Johnson, L. E. Johnson, A. N. Johl
son, Jr., C. w. Allen and ]. B. Allen
'n- incorporated under the laws of I'll
Ne State of Alabama, and is absolutel
II and entirely separate and distin,
en- from A. N. JOHNSON UNDERTAI
get ING COMPANY, of Nashville, Ten
ne In this age Of progress a ms
lid with business qualifications will 1
of vest in any place where it promis
nd him success, and with the pattern
he love that is in every decent man
re- breast, l have acquired the Mob
ing business, to which my son is soon
is attach himself It was in Mob
not where | learned the business, whe
eff l met success, where l made smi
lad fortune and where thousands Of p'
be pie love me and esteem me and a
TO glad to give me and my son busine
and This method of creating false ]
ded .mors is in keeping with other for
his of opposition by people who want
succeed by other methods than his
~ class service Instead of giving
- business in Nashville, have j
begun the fight and with the h
IN of my sons / shall be more able
eek render service of the superior ki
nan than in the past.
and My son, Lorenzo e. Johnson, is
anne charge Of my business, and fully
his pable to render any service in
,om- dertaking. There are four gradua
FaIo, and licensed embalmers in my Ma
lose Vile business and they are expe
laps in their profession. My absence b
the in Mobile is no longer than the vt
its ton of the successful business m
won and the thinking people will apl