In the book's own words, not ours, with obvious scanning errors fixed. Families often supplied these stories to the publisher, so check key dates.
Born 1857
From History of Otter Tail County, Minnesota : its people, industries, and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families (1916)
JONAS GUSTAV JOHNSON.
[This passage is too damaged in the scanned book to reproduce. See the original book.]
Jonas Gustav Johnson received his education in the public schools of his native country, after which he came, in the year 1882, to.America and located in Otter Tail county, where he bought forty acres of land in Pida township. After two years on his farm, in Pida township. Mr. Johnson dpod of his land and then bought seventy acres of land in Erhards Grove township, a place to which he later added twenty acres of the best land in the community, which Jonas Gustav Johnson owns, [bnas < I. Johnson now engaged in general farming and stock raising on his well improved and modernly equipped farm.
Jonas GustaA Johnson is a prominent member of the Swedish Lutheran church at Pelican Rapids. Although Mr. Johnson is a man of public spirit and is a citizen interested in the development and promotion of the welfare of his community, he has preferred not to serve in public office but to give of his efforts as a private citizen.
As printed in History of Otter Tail County, Minnesota : its people, industries, and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families (1916). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
The printed record stops around 1916. We trace your line from there down to you, with every source cited.