When Charles Milo Johnson was born on 1 September 1861, in Clifford, Clifford Township, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, James R Johnson, was 39 and his mother, Mary Jayne Robinson, was 28. He married Calista M. Ash on 8 January 1885, in Holdrege, Phelps, Nebraska, United States. He lived in North Yakima, Yakima, Washington, United States in 1910. He died on 30 December 1917, in Yakima, Yakima, Washington, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Yakima, Yakima, Washington, United States.