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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)
LEONARD JOHNSON.
Among the successful farmers of Compton township. Otter Tail county, Minnesota, is Leonard Johnson, who owns two hundred and forty acres in this township.
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John Anderson, the father of Leonard Johnson, received military training in his native country, but farmer practically all of his life. For eleven years he was the overseer of a large tract of land. He died on November 29, [899, and his wife in June, [903. They were members of the Lutheran church and the parents of six children, of whom Andrew is deceased. Two of the children, Leonard, the subject of this sketch, and Gustav. came to America. The other children, John Gustaf, August and Matilda O. live in Sweden.
Leonard Johnson was educated in the public schools of his native land. He came to America shortly after his marriage on February 18, 1881. Mr. Johnson was accompanied to America by his wife. They landed in New York City on April 24. 1881, and came directly to Otter Tail county, Minnesota. Mr. Johnson purchased eighty acres of land in section 19, of Compton township. After living on the farm for twenty-one years, he has gradually increased its acreage until he now owns two hundred and forty acres. He paid six dollars and seventy-five cents an acre for the original tract of eighty acres, which consisted of wild land. Later he paid two thousand dollars for eighty acres which he purchased from his brother in 1899. He moved to the second farm two years later.
To the marriage of Leonard Johnson and Mary Anderson, there have been born eight children, all of whom are living, Allilda O.. Emma M., Selma J., John I. Gustav A., Hulda E.. Alma W. and Oscar W.
In 1 9 1 3 Mr. Johnson rebuilt his residence and in 1905 built a new barn. Leonard Johnson not only carries on general and mixed farming, but has made a specialty of stock raising, and has been very successful. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson and family are members of the Lutheran church in Compton township.
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.
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