Miss Louise Carolyn Johnson was born June 10, 1895 in Davis Junction, IL to John P. and Mary C. Johnson (both from Sweden). She graduated from Wheaton College in 1925 with a B.A. in Literature. She was  Corresponding Secretary and Sergeant at Arms for the Aelioian Literary Society. She earned a master's degree in library science from the University of Chicago (1944) and was a librarian and head of the reference division at the Rockford Public Library for 26 years, retiring in 1970.  She died at the Fairhaven Christian Retirement Center in Rockford, IL on August 17, 1992.  She was 97.