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Born 1821
From The history of Clinton County, Ohio, containing a history of the county; its townships, cities, towns, etc.; general and local statistics; portraits of early settlers and prominent men; history of the (1882)
LEWIS JOHNSON, farmer, P_ 0. Wilmington, was born in this county November 13, 1821. He is a son of Louis and Mary (Bangham) Johnson, natives of Virginia, and both members of the Society of Friends. Lewis Johnson was a firmer of this county, and died when our subject was but six weeks of age. Mrs. Johnson subsequently married John Coats, and departed this life in Sligo, Adams Township, in 1805. He was educated in the primitive schoolhouses of his boyhood days, and has always followed farming as a vocation. He has cleared fifty acres of land by his own individual labor, and once owned 194 acres, but now owns a farm of 115 acres, having given his children the remainder. He is a Bepublican in politics. He was married,
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As printed in The history of Clinton County, Ohio, containing a history of the county; its townships, cities, towns, etc.; general and local statistics; portraits of early settlers and prominent men; history of the (1882). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Their biographies name Lewis Johnson: Edward Lewis Johnson (b. 1863)
The printed record stops around 1882. We trace your line from there down to you, with every source cited.