Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States
Ancestors 
Daughter of Benjamin Tucker Tanner
and Sarah Elizabeth (Miller) Tanner
Sister of
Henry Ossawa Tanner, Isabella (Tanner) Temple, Mary Louisa (Tanner) Mossell, Carlton Miller Tanner, Sarah (Tanner) Moore and Bertha (Tanner) Stafford
Wife of
Charles E Dillon
— married
1886 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Wife of
John Quincy Johnson
— married
25 Feb 1894 in Macon, Alabama, United States
Died
at age 36
in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States
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Biography
Halle (Tanner) Johnson was born in Pennsylvania.
Halle (Tanner) Johnson is Notable.
Dr. Halle Tanner Dillon Johnson was the first female physician to pass the Alabama state medical examination and was the first woman physician at Tuskegee Institute. [1]
Halle Tanner was born free in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1864. She was the daughter of Sarah Elizabeth Miller and African Methodist Episcopal bishop Benjamin Tucker Tanner. Her brother, Henry Ossawa Tanner, became a noted artist. Shortly after Halle was born the Tanners moved to Philadelphia, where the children were educated.
In June 1886, she married Charles Dillon who died from pneumonia about two years after their marriage. In 1887, they had a daughter named Sadie.
Johnson married a mathematics professor at Tuskegee, the Reverend John Quincy Johnson, in 1894, and she ended her career there when they moved to Columbia, South Carolina. Her husband became president of Allen University, a private school for black students. They then moved to Hartford, Connecticut, Atlanta, Georgia, and Princeton, New Jersey for his education in theology; they had three sons together, John Quincy Jr., Benjamin T., and Henry Tanner. In 1900, the Johnsons moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where John became a minister at Saint Paul's AME Church.
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