Chiefly the ancestors and some of their descendants of the author Miles Beardsley Johnson. He was born 29 October 1923 in Mankato, Minnesota to Floyd Beardsley and Isabella Phelps Johnson. Miles served as a B-17 pilot over Western Europe during WWII. On 20 December 1952 he married Joyce Marie Rydell in Denver, Colorado. Both Miles and Joyce enjoyed careers as college professors and at the time of this publication Miles was a professor at State College, San Luis Obispo, California. Joyce was a professor of psychology and business at Questa College also in San Luis Obispo. Ancestors and relatives lived in Minnesota, California, Maine, Connectiuct, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin and elsewhere.