Jan 24, 2012

Willard E. Ford - Nephi Merrill Johnson House


193 South 100 West Street

This one-story, brick bungalow with gable roof, home was built by Willard Ford before 1918.  It was originally a small two room native brick house. Nephi and his mother, Julia Shumway Johnson, purchased the two rooms in 1918.  Nephi and his wife Jane Mace,  incorporated them into a new addition.  Nephi was elected mayor of Kanab in 1923, and was instrumental in improving the culinary water system by obtaining a wooden pipeline.  He died in 1925 and his wife, Jane, established the first Telephone Office in this home. Present owner is Paul B. Harrison.