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Born 1871
From An illustrated history of Lyon County, Minnesota (1912)
CHRIST JOHNSON (1892) is the owner of 240 acres of land on section 2 5, Lyons township, and is one of the prosperous farmers of the precinct. He has lived in the county twenty years.
Mr. Johnson was born in Denmark February 24, 1871, the son of Jens and Margretta (Anderson) Olson. When eighteen years of age he came to America with his brother, Andrew, worked in a stone quarry at Joliet, Illinois, one year and then became a resident of Lemont, Illinois. He spent two years working on the Chicago drainage canal and in 1892 came to Lyon county.
Upon his arrival Mr. Johnson bought an eighty-acre farm on section 31, Sodus, farmer it four years, and then traded for a 160-acre farm on section 25, Lyons, where he has since lived. Later he bought another eighty acres adjoining and now has a fine farm of 240 acres. Mr. Johnson has served three years as a member of the Township Board of Supervisors.
The marriage of Mr. Johnson to Margaret M. Neill occurred in Sodus township on July 29, 1897. Mrs. Johnson was born in Sodus township on April 9, 1874, and is the daughter of Hugh and Elizabeth (Marshall) Neill, of Marshall. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson have three children: Vera M., born February 18, 1900; Dwight N., born September 12, 1903; Alice H., born March 6, 1905.
As printed in An illustrated history of Lyon County, Minnesota (1912). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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