Personal Life
Johnson married Jane Augusta Washington Thornton Beck in Beijing, China (then called Peking). Second daughter of Wyoming pioneer George T. Beck, she was born October 21, 1900, in Cody, Wyoming. She died February 28, 1991, in Washington, D.C. at age 91. They were married in Peking and were then registered at the US Consulate in Tientsin, China, October 10, 1931.
He made the cover of Time in 1933.
Both Nelson and Jane are buried in Rock Creek Cemetery near the Old soldiers' home in N.E. Washington D.C.
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