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About Lycurgus Lier Johnson
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Lycurgus Leonidas Johnson was one of the largest cotton planters and slaveowners in antebellum Arkansas. Around 1860, he built an imposing, seventeen-room Greek Revival mansion along the banks of the Mississippi River at his Lakeport Plantation in Chicot County.
Lycurgus Johnson was born on March 22, 1818, the eldest of nine children born to Joel Johnson and Verlinda Offutt Johnson of Scott County, Kentucky. The Johnsons were among the most prominent families in early Kentucky. Johnson’s paternal grandfather, Robert Johnson, was a political, educational, and religious leader in the Bluegrass State; he had been instrumental in establishing Transylvania Seminary (later Transylvania University) at Lexington, the Rittenhouse Academy in Scott County, and the Kentucky Society for Promoting Useful Knowledge. One of Lycurgus’s uncles, Richard Mentor Johnson, served as vice president under Martin Van Buren. Another uncle, Benjamin Johnson, became a distinguished Arkansas jurist and a leading figure in the state’s Democratic political dynasty known as “The Family.”
Johnson’s father, Joel, came to Chicot County in the southeasternmost reaches of the Arkansas Delta in 1831 and established a plantation called Lakeport along the Mississippi River. Within fifteen years, Lakeport was one of the most prosperous cotton-growing operations in the Delta, and Johnson became one of the wealthiest and most influential men in the state. Like many early planters, he spent only part of the year in Arkansas, returning to his family in Kentucky for about half the year.
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Lycurgus Lier Johnson's Timeline
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1818
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Scott County, Kentucky
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1852
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1856
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1876
Age 58
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Wilmington, Delaware
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