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Born 1854, Seneca county
From History of Wapello County, Iowa, and representative citizens (1901)
LBERT WRIGHT JOHNSON, who has been a resident of Ottumwa, Iowa, since 1878, is at the present time identified with the firm of Samuel Lilburn & Company, packers and shippers of butter and eggs. He was born in Seneca county, Ohio, December 10. 1854.
Mr. Johnson was reared and educated in Northern Ohio, and was graduated from Baldwin University with the class of 1876. Upon leaving college, he entered upon the study of law, and soon after coming to Ottumwa, in 1878, was admitted to the bar of Iowa. In addition to the practice of law, he served as principal of the Ottumwa High School during 1879 and 1880. He relinquished the legal profession in 1885, having become interested in the firm of Samuel- Lilburn, & Company in
As printed in History of Wapello County, Iowa, and representative citizens (1901). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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