Johan Lindström Saxon

Johan Lindström Saxon (February 17, 1859 – November 7, 1935) was a Swedish journalist, publisher and vegetarianism activist.

Biography

Saxon was born in Gällersta Parish, Örebro, to Lars Johan Lindström and Kristina Lovisa Olsdotter. He was educated at Örebro county high school and in 1880 started working for the newspaper Nerikes Allehanda in Örebro. He edited the newspapers, Arboga-posten (1881), Nya Arboga Tidning (1881–1884), Jämtlandsposten (1885–1856) and Norrlänningen (1887–1890). He was a member of the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy and the Swedish Peace and Arbitration Association. It is estimated that he delivered 1,000 speeches on total abstinence. His temperance book I Blatt Band published in 1907 was widely read in Sweden. He was editor of its magazine Vegetarianen. Saxon also assisted in founding the Norwegian Vegetarian Society. He was congress president of the International Vegetarian Union (1920–1923).