F. D. JOHNSON,
Head of the "Southern Jewelry House," has been a resident of Lynchburg
since 1881. He founded his business in Culpeper, Virginia, in
1854, and continued in business there until his removal, in 1881, to
Lynchburg. In 1882 he admitted to partnership his son, J. B. Johnson.
A long record of more than thirty years strictly honorable
business dealings, combined with unsurpassed excellence in goods
manufactured and dealt in, has given the present firm a reputation
and a business that is no unimportant factor in the reputation of
Lynchburg as a commercial center of the South. The wholesale,
retail and manufacturing departments of the house are filled with
orders representing every State of the South as well as Virginia;
and as far as Massachusetts on the north, Colorado and
Mexico to the west and southwest, the well tested goods of this firm
command a market, which competitors in other localities are not able
to draw away from Lynchburg. The firm supplies all the colleges of
the South with medals, badges, etc., and makes a specialty of engraving
monograms, and other designs, catalogues of which are furnished
on application. Other specialties of the firm are diamonds, watches,
clocks, silver and plated ware, spectacles and eye-glasses, gold and
silver-headed canes and umbrellas. All designs are manufactured
under careful supervision on the premises and warranted to be as
represented. The "F. D. Johnson Watch" has a well deserved reputation
as one of the best time-keepers in the country. Headquarters
of firm: 802 Main street, Lynchburg.
