Primary Job Title Founder Primary Organization 
JCI Ventures
Gender Male
Born in 1847 to pioneer Vermont farmers, Warren Seymour Johnson grew up in poverty on a homestead in western Wisconsin. Life was hard. Johnson had to make his own clothes out of canvas and dye them with ink for color. Living with scarcity did nothing to diminish his burning desire to learn, however. Self-taught, with little formal schooling, he had
a gift for discovery. Even as a young boy, he kept a book in which he sketched and described mechanical, chemical and electrical inventions. Despite his lack of education, he became a surveyor, a country school teacher, a superintendent of schools and, from 1876 to 1883, a professor at the State Normal School in Whitewater, Wisconsin.
