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Born 1870
From An illustrated history of Jackson County, Minnesota (1910)
A. E. JOHNSON (1872), farmer and land owner of Delafield township, has lived in that precinct ever since he was two years of age. lie was born at St ought on, Wisconsin. Mareli 28. 1870. His father, Erick Johnson, was born ill Norwa.v and came to the Ignited States about 1805. He located first in Wisconsin and came to Jackson county in 1872, where he died in 1891. The mother of our subject was Ingcbor Johnson. She died in 1806.
The subject of this biography came to.Jackson county with his parents in.Tune. 1872, and has ever since lived in Delafield township. His father took a homestead claim of eighty acres on section 24, and on that farm young Johnson grew to manhood. He attended the district schools and worked on the farm for his father. In 1895 he took charge of the home farm, and, his mother dying the next year, he then engaged in farming on his own account. In 1903 he located on his present ])lace. having planted the grove and erected the buildings thereon. He is a member of the M. W. A. lodge of Windoni.
Jlr. Johnson was married in Belmont township September 11, 1897. to Belle Sogge. a native of Belmont and a daughter of Ole G. Sogge. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Jolmson, named as follows: Eldon, born June 9, 1898; Gehardt, born August 24, 1899; Benora, born March 3, 1901; Alma, born March 22, 1902; Lillian, born October 24. 1906.
As printed in An illustrated history of Jackson County, Minnesota (1910). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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