The Johnson Families of Jasper County, Missouri

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Both Mr. and Mrs. Johnson are well and favorably known in Jasi>er county, as are their three sons: Harold, Willis and Millard. These sons are.settled in the county, and our subject and wife are happy in their five grandchild] en, — LeRoy, Mina, Bessie, Earl and Mildred. The family are leading members of the Methodist church, and Mr. Johnson is a Knight Templar, having been connected with the Masonic order for many years. In politics he is a Republican, and is one of the representative men of the county.

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CHARLES W. JOHNSON, farmer and stock-raiser, postoffice Carthage, was born in Washington county, Ark., Jan. 1, 1839, and was there reared to manhood. In his youthful days he was of delicate health. During the war, though of strong union sentiment, himself and two brothers were conscripted into the Confederate service. He was discharged shortly on account of poor health, and his brothers managed to escape with much difficulty. In 1862 the entire family fled to Kansas, and located near Fort Scott, where our subject was engaged in freighting for United States Government contractors. While at that business he was attacked on Cabin Creek by the Rebel Gen. Cooper, and the entire train of about 100 teams and wagons was captured. This was one of the richest hauls the Confederates made in the Southwest. Our subject and his brothers sustained a loss of several hundred dollars. In the spring of 1866 he became a resident of Jasper county. He was married here Nov. 20, 1867, to Miss Dicy Ralston, a native of Jasper county, Mo., daughter of Nathan Ralston, deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson have two children, Martha L. and Carl N. His farm consists of 128 acres, 100 of which are in cultivation; it is well situated and is live and a half miles from Carthage.

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ETHELBERT D. JOHNSON.

The subject of this sketch is not only a well-known business man of Webb City, Jasper county, Missouri, but is a native of the great commonwealth in which he is achieving an enviable material success. Mr. Johnson was born in Warrington, Warren county, Missouri. July 6, 1852, a son of Thomas W. and Eliza Jane ( Archer) Johnson. The family is of Scotch descent. His grandfather, Townson Johnson, was an agriculturist, who early located in North Carolina, and removed thence to Franklin county, Missouri, where he and his wife, who was Miss Rebecca Dyson, both lived out their days. Thomas W. Johnson was born in Franklin county, Missouri, in 1829, and died in Union, that county, April 16, 1876. During all his active years he was a wagon-maker. Eliza Jane Archer, who became his wife, was born in North Carolina, and in early life removed to Warren county, Missouri. She is still living in Franklin county, and was sixty-eight years of age on the 20th of September, 1901. Her father, Thomas D. Archer, a native of Virginia, married Nancy Cahall, who was of Scotch-Irish extraction.

The subject of this sketch attended the public schools at Union, Franklin county, Missouri, until he was about nineteen years old. then, after devoting himself for three months to special instruction in teaching, gave up the idea of being a pedagogue and accepted a position as manager of a livery business on a mail route. Later for a time he was inspector of railway cars at Kansas City, Missouri, for one of the great lines centering there. On the 2d of August, 1890, he went to Joplin, Jasper county, to accept a position as office man and warehouse man, and in 1894 he was promoted to the local agency of the Waters, Pierce Oil Company, at Webb City, a position which he has since held with much success.

On the 6th of March, 1877, Mr. Johnson married Mrs. Minnie E. (Gish) Ross, a daughter of William Gish, of Tipton. Moniteau county, Missouri, and they have one son, George F. Johnson, who is attending school and assisting his father as opportunity offers. Mr. Johnson is a member of the Woodmen of the World and of the Knights and Ladies of Security. He is a man of much-enterprise and public spirit, is not without political influence, and gives his aid eagerly to all movements promising the advancement of local interests.

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C. J. JOHNSON, proprietor Joplin Boiler Works. He was born in Richmond, Ya., Sept. 15, 1834. His father Johnnie Johnson, was born in Virginia, in 1810 and died in Dec, 1857. His mother, Mary (Sharp) Johnson, was also a native of the Old Dominion, born in 1805, died in Feb., 1861. When ten years of age, subject moved with his parents to St. Louis. Soon after he commenced to learn the trade of boiler maker with Mr. Cady, of the Femium Boiler Shops and continued with him about seven years, then worked for a half decade in the Rhone Machine and Boiler Works of St. Louis. He then crossed the plains to Colorado, and engaged in trading for a time. He returned to the states in the fall of 1859, and embarked in the grocery business at Galena, Ark. At the breaking out of the war he entered the Confederate service under Gen. Chetam, and served about eighteen months. He participated at Hollow Springs, Memphis, and Columbus, Tenn., and others of importance. Having served out the time for which he enlisted, he was discharged, and shortly after went to Cairo, Ill.,

Chillicotbe, Ohio, where his father worked at his trade, that of shoemaker; In the spring of 1869 our subject commenced to learn cigar making, and continued there about ten years. He then came west to Fort Scott, Kansas, and engaged in trade for two years. In February, 1882, he came to Joplin,. and established his present business. Mr. K. was married in Chillicotbe, Ohio, in April, 1875, to Miss Mary A., daughter of Aaron and Mary Schmidt, of Chillicotbe. Mrs. K. was born in that city, Feb. 14, 1858. They have two children: Mary Elizabeth, born Dec. 3, 1876, and Charles, born July 28, 1878. He manufactures the celebrated " Joplin Belle," "Genuine Havana," '' LaCriolla" and " Board of Health," etc. See page 483.

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B. W. JOHNSON, farmer and stock-raiser, post-office Bower's Mills, was born in Blount county, Tenn., Jan. 15, 1852. His parents, W. T. and C. J. Johnson, were also natives of Tennessee. Subject was reared on a farm and attended the common schools. [He finished his education in Ewing and Jefferson colleges, Blount county, and Laurel Hill Academy. In May, 1875, he went to Texas and engaged in shipping cattle for a time from Texas to St. Louis. He came to Missouri in July, 1875, locating in Lawrence county, where he engaged in feeding and shipping stock; then came to his present location in February, 1879, and has since been engaged in farming and handling stock. He has a farm consisting of 240 acres, 185 in good cultivation, well fenced, excellently watered, etc. He has a fine dwelling, and though a young man, is counted one of the most worthy and successful farmers of Sarcoxie township.

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WILLIAM R. JOHNSON, post-office Golden City. He was born in Hawkins county, Tenn., Jan. 15, 1855, and was reared and educated there. He is a son of Wilson and Marinda Johnson, natives of Tennessee. Our subject was the oldest of nine children and worked at home upon the farm until twenty-two years of age; he then attended the St. Clair Academy in Tennessee, for some time. He was married June 7, 1877, to Sallie Creasey, daughter of John and Sarah Creasey, who were natives of Virginia. Mrs. Johnson was the second of three children, and was born in Franklin county, Va., March 3, 1860, and was reared in Tennessee. Mr. Johnson moved to Jasper county Oct. 13, 1882, and located on section 21. Mr. Johnson has two children: Lartha A. N. and Alvin T. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson are members of the Baptist Church, and in politics Mr. Johnson is a Republican, and is considered an honest, straightforward gentleman.

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JOHN A. JOHNSON was born in Sweden, Jan. 10, 1828, and came to

America in 1873. He has been twice married; the first time he married Annie Catrena, in October, 1849, who was born in Sweden, and died childless in 1856, in the fatherland. He was again married in September, 1878, to Mrs. Annie Dolstrom, who was born in Sweden, in September, 1831, and came to this country in 1865, having three children, and two dead, by her former husband. Both are members of the Lutheran Church. The subject of our sketch has a farm of 360 acres in Twin Grove township, about 160 of it being improved. Last season thirty-five acres were sown to wheat, averaging twenty-one bushels to the acre, besides oats and corn. There is a young orchard of apple, each, and plum trees. Mr. Johnson is a man full of business enterprise, and in many years the whole farm, under his care, will be thoroughly tilled and yielding abundant crops.

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