J. C. Johnson

As printed in 1910

J. C. JOHNSON (1869) is one of the well known and successful farmers of Jackson county, having resided here since he was a boy seven years of age. He now resides in Belmont township.

Mr. Johnson is a native Minnesotan, having been born in Houston county February 13, 1862. He is the son of John E. and Susan (Swanson) Johnson, who now reside on their old homestead in Wisconsin township. The former came from Norway in 1841 and until he became of age lived at Muskego, Wisconsin. He then located in Houston county, Minnesota, where he enlisted in the mounted rangers of Minnesota volunteers and served In the campaigns against the Indians. He took his homestead in Wisconsin township in 1868 and located on the place the next spring. The mother of our subject came from Sweden in

J. C. Johnson accompanied his parents to Jackson county in the spring of 1869 and until he was eighteen years of age lived with his parents on the Wisconsin township farm, receiving a common school education and assisting with the farm work. From the time he was eighteen years old until 1886 Mr. Johnston worked at the miller's trade in Jackson and Brownsburg. Then he bought land in Wisconsin township and engaged in farming there until 1901. He then sold out and bought his present farm of 200 acres on sections 28 and 21, Belmont township. He has a well improved farm and has prospered. He engaged extensively in the raising of cattle and hogs. Mr. Johnson has stock in the Belmont Creamery company and in the Farmers Cooperative Store comiMiny of Lakefield. He has held township and school offices during nearly all the time since he became of age. He is a member of the Lutheran church and of the M. W. A. lodge of Jackson, No. 1069.

Mr. Johnson was married January 10, 1885, to Sina Larson, a native of Dane county, Wisconsin and a daughter of Nels Larson. Her father took as a homestead claim the farm now owned by !Mr. Johnson in 1866. To Mr. and Mrs. Johnson have been born the following named children: Nellard, born February 9, 1886; Millie S., bom April 6, 1888, Albert M., born August 23, 1889; Sibyl J., bom March 1, 1891; Louis E., born December 8, 1892; Benton H., bom November 20, 1894, died November 28, 1894; Charles B., bora October 27, 1896; Robert W., born September 20, 1898; Julius K., born December 30, 1899; Susan A., bora May 7, 1901; Allen F., born April 19,

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.