Levi Johnson, 1903 - 1904
Johnson was born on the 29th May 1850 in Macclesfield, Cheshire. In 1869, at the age od nineteen, he moved to Wednesbury where he became a licensed victualler trading under the name of Johnson & Phipps. His other business interests included the cycle trade and the Star Motor Company. In 1876 Johnson moved to Wolverhampton to live at 43 Waterloo Road, and obtained a seat on the Council representing St John's Ward as a Conservative. He served on a number of committees for twenty years including those for finance and housing, both as chairman. During this time he recommended to the committees that rates be lowered and expenditure reduced. He was elected as alderman on the death of Samuel Theodore Mander and held the office of mayor from 1903 to 1904, during which time his daughter was born. To commemorate her birth his colleagues presented him with a silver cradle. In November 1926 he became an honorary Freeman of the Borough, and in 1934 he was presented with an oil portrait. To mark fifty years of municipal service he was presented with a King James silver tea and coffee service. He died in 1937 in Llandudno, aged eighty-seven.

J Jones The Mayors of Wolverhampton Vol 2 (Whitehead Brothers, Wolverhampton)
F Avery (ed) 1948 The Book of the Century (Grove Publishing Co England) pp 4, 6, 59 and 66
Obituary Express and Star 12th August 1937
Photograph Index – Y1/JOH and Y1/JOHA.