Jigger Johnson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jigger Johnson

Date of Birth: 12-May-1871

Place of Birth: Fryeburg, Maine, United States

Date of Death: 30-Mar-1935

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Jigger Johnson

  • Albert Lewis Johnson (1871–1935), better known as Jigger Johnson (also nicknamed Wildcat Johnson, Jigger Jones, or simply The Jigger), was a legendary logging foreman, trapper, and fire warden for the U.S.
  • Forest Service who was known throughout the American East for his many off-the-job exploits, such as catching bobcats alive barehanded, and drunken brawls.Logging historians, such as Stewart Holbrook, Robert Pike, and others, have called him "the last lumberjack" of the old-fashioned type who "cut a swath of timber from Maine to Oregon" and "yelled like crazy devils every spring when they pounded the bars in Bangor, Saginaw, St.
  • Paul, and Seattle".The U.S.
  • Forest Service maintains the Jigger Johnson Campground in the White Mountain National Forest, which they named in honor of him.

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