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Born 1828
From The history of Jasper county, Missouri : including a condensed history of the state, a complete history of Carthage and Joplin, other towns and townships : together with numerous portraits of prominen (1883)
JOHN A. JOHNSON was born in Sweden, Jan. 10, 1828, and came to
America in 1873. He has been twice married; the first time he married Annie Catrena, in October, 1849, who was born in Sweden, and died childless in 1856, in the fatherland. He was again married in September, 1878, to Mrs. Annie Dolstrom, who was born in Sweden, in September, 1831, and came to this country in 1865, having three children, and two dead, by her former husband. Both are members of the Lutheran Church. The subject of our sketch has a farm of 360 acres in Twin Grove township, about 160 of it being improved. Last season thirty-five acres were sown to wheat, averaging twenty-one bushels to the acre, besides oats and corn. There is a young orchard of apple, each, and plum trees. Mr. Johnson is a man full of business enterprise, and in many years the whole farm, under his care, will be thoroughly tilled and yielding abundant crops.
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