Edward Crosby Johnson II (January 19, 1898 – April 2, 1984) was an American businessman and lawyer who founded Fidelity Investments.
Biography
Edward Crosby Johnson II was born in Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts, on January 19, 1898, to Samuel Johnson, a partner in the dry-goods firm C.F. Hovey and Co. and Josephine Johnson (née Forbush).[1] Johnson came from a family of New England Puritan ancestry.[2] He graduated from Milton Academy in 1916, and enlisted in the United States Naval Reserve as a second class radioman during World War I from August 1917 to July 1918. He graduated from Harvard College in 1920 and Harvard Law School in 1924.[3][4]