Editing Russell Johnson (section)

==Early life==
Johnson was born in [[Ashley, Pennsylvania]], on November 10, 1924,<ref name=obit>{{cite news | last=Weber | first=Bruce | title=Russell Johnson, the Professor On 'Gilligan's Island', Dies at 89 | work =[[The New York Times]] |date = January 16, 2014  | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/17/arts/television/russell-johnson-the-professor-on-gilligans-island-dies-at-89.html |access-date= September 28, 2024 | url-access=subscription | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140201151810/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/17/arts/television/russell-johnson-the-professor-on-gilligans-island-dies-at-89.html| archive-date = February 1, 2014 | url-status = live }}</ref><ref name=201401wapo >{{cite news |last1=Bernstein |first1=Adam |title=Russell Johnson, actor who played the Professor on 'Gilligan's Island,' dies at 89 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/russell-johnson-actor-who-played-the-professor-on-gilligans-island-dies-at-89/2014/01/16/c56e161c-7ee5-11e3-95c6-0a7aa80874bc_story.html |access-date=September 28, 2024 | work = [[The Washington Post]] |date=January 16, 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140204035644/https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/russell-johnson-actor-who-played-the-professor-on-gilligans-island-dies-at-89/2014/01/16/c56e161c-7ee5-11e3-95c6-0a7aa80874bc_story.html | archive-date = February 4, 2014 | url-status = live}}</ref> to Russell Kennedy Johnson (1901–1932) and Marion Wenonah Smink Johnson (1902–1976).

Johnson was the eldest of seven siblings: Kenneth Walter Johnson (1925–2012), David Reed Johnson (1926–1976), Lois Marion Johnson (1927–1928), Lorraine Johnson Crosby (1928-2015), Marion Joan Johnson Reeves (1930–2010), and Paul Wesley Johnson (1932–1933).<ref name=201401wapo /> His father Russell died of lobar pneumonia and influenza on December 13, 1932, and his brother Paul also died of lobar pneumonia on January 5 the following year. His mother Minnie remarried after 10 years
to Thomas S. Lewis.

As a teenager, Johnson attended [[Girard College]], a private boarding school for fatherless boys, located in [[Philadelphia]].<ref name=obit/>