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Born 1864
From An illustrated history of Jackson County, Minnesota (1910)
JAMES C. JOHNSON (1897), of Jackson, was born in Olborug, Denmark, March 4, 1864, the son of Christ and Marie (Jensen) Johnson. He received a common school education in his native country and lived there until he was nineteen years of age.
Mr. Johnson came to America in 1883 and located at Spencer, Iowa, where he lived fourteen years, being employed at various kinds of labor. He moved to Lakefield in 1897 and for two years was employed as a grain buyer. He then moved to Jackson and that village has been his home ever since.
[This passage is too damaged in the scanned book to reproduce. See the original book.]
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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