page_title: Simon Johnson (deacon)
section_title: Social status
hierarchical_section_title: Simon Johnson (deacon) / Social status
caption_attribution_description: English: Illustration of the "Deacon Simon," by Porte Crayon from "Summer In New England" by D.H. Strother). Harper's New Monthly Magazine. Volume 21, Issue 121. June 1860. 452.
context_page_description: Deacon Simon Johnson was a political and religious leader in Gay Head, Massachusetts throughout the mid-nineteenth century. He also managed the Massachusetts Humane Society Gay Head Lifesaving Station, where he recruited volunteer rescue mission volunteers from a pool of either fishermen or whalers.
context_section_description: Due to his high social stature, Deacon Simon was mentioned by multiple writers who visited Aquinnah. In Harper's Magazine, David Hunter Strother, writing under his pen name "Porte Crayon," describes Simon Johnson as holding "authority by a mixed tenure- uniting the character of the Indian chief with that of the New England Deacon." Additionally, the Gazetter of Massachusetts mentioned Johnson and Zaccheus Howwoswee, listing them as "highly esteemed citizens."
caption: Illustration of the "Deacon Simon"
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