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Born 1862
From A genealogical and biographical history of Keokuk County, Iowa .. (1903)
ALBERT P. JOHNSON, B. C. E, M. D.
Albert P. Johnson, M. D., is a leading physician of Sigourney, Towain which state he was born, in the village of Lancaster, Keokuk county,
May 29, 1862, and lie is the son of Charles A. and Mary G. (Gray) Johnson, who are mentioned above.
The rearing of Dr. Johnson was among farm surroundings and his education was obtained in the public schools, later becoming an instructor himself in the country neighborhoods. After a year of teaching he entered the Iowa State Agricultural College, where he graduated in the department of civil engineering in November, 1886. Prior to this, however, he had spent two years engaged in surveying in Wyoming and New Mexico, and immediately after graduating was offered and accepted the principalship of the schools of What Cheer, Iowa. Two more years were devoted to civil engineering in the upper peninsula of Michigan, and then he was prepared to put into operation a plan which had been his desire from youth, that of studying medicine. In 1889 he entered the Missouri Medical College at St. Louis, Missouri, and graduated therefrom in 1891, locating at Sigourney, where he has since remained. In 1892 he took a post-graduate. course in the Post-Graduate School of Medicine, at St. Louis, and thus thoroughly equipped, has built up a large and lucrative general practice.
Dr. Johnson is not only educated in his special line, but, as we have seen, is thoroughly competent to fill other professional positions. He is a deep thinker and great student and keeps abreast of the discoveries in his science, and is an active and useful member of Keokuk county, the South-eastern Iowa and the Iowa State medical societies, and is also a member of the insane commission for Keokuk county. In politics he is a Republican, but his strenuous life leaves little time for activity in that direction. His fraternal connection is with the Knights of Pythias. In 1891 Dr. Johnson was united in marriage with Miss Viola Passig, of Sigourney, and one son has been born to this union, namely Alcuin Passig.
As printed in A genealogical and biographical history of Keokuk County, Iowa .. (1903). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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