page_title: Joel H. Johnson
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Joel H. Johnson / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Joel H. Johnson, a Latter-day Saint (LDS) missionary and hymn writer, most famous as the author of "High on the Mountain Top" (hymn #5 in the 1985 LDS hymnbook, English edition).
context_page_description: Joel Hills Johnson was a Latter Day Saint missionary and hymn writer, known for being the author of "High on the Mountain Top". Johnson was also the founder of Enoch, Utah.
context_section_description: Johnson was a polygamist and married five women. He married Anna Pixley Johnson on November 22, 1826. He married Susan Bryant on October 20, 1840. He married Lucina Alzina Bascom, age 29 and Janet Fife, age 17, on October 25, 1845. Both Bascom and Bryant later divorced from him. Bryant died April 7, 1896 in the Mormon colonies in Mexico and Bascom died October 5, 1885 in Provo, Utah Territory.  In 1861, at age 58, he married 20-year-old Margaret Threlkeld. Johnson fathered 25 children and was the brother of Benjamin F. Johnson. Johnson maintained a journal in which was found the earliest source for the interpretation of "hot drinks" in the Word of Wisdom meaning coffee and tea. Johnson has been included in a list of "75 significant Mormon poets."
caption: Johnson later in life
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