Grundy-Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Johnson, Robert H January 8, 1842 - 
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Author: WW Stevens, 1907

Robert H. Johnson, residing in the village of Channahon, has always devoted 
his time and energies to fanning. He was born in Joliet, January 8, 1842, his 
parents being Adam and Mary (Hamilton) Johnson. The father was a native of 
Ireland, born in the year 1808, and, leaving the Emerald isle, he crossed the 
Atlantic to Canada, ‘whence he afterward made his way to Lockport, Illinois, 
where he remained for a year. He then went to Joliet, where he spent some 
time, after which he took up his abode upon a farm in Troy township. There he 
carried on general agricultural pursuits for a period, and later settled on a 
farm in Channahon township in 1850. He afterward tilled the soil there and 
continued the further improvement of the property until 1866, when he gave up 
general farming and removed to the village of Wilmington, where he spent his 
remaining days, being called from this life on the 6th of February, 1874. His 
family numbered six children, of whom Robert H. was the fourth in order of 
birth, and three of the number are now living, the sisters being Mrs. Isaac 
Drew, who resides in Joliet; and Mrs. Mary Noble, living in Lincoln, Kansas.

Robert H. Johnson has spent his entire life in Will county. No event of 
special importance varied the routine of farm life for him in his boyhood 
days, during which period he worked in the fields through the summer months, 
while in the winter seasons he was engaged in wrestling with the tasks of the 
schoolroom. After he had put aside his text-books he gave his undivided 
attention to farm work until he entered military life, joining the Union army 
on the 6th of August, 1862. He enlisted as a member of Company A, One 
Hundredth Illinois Infantry, under Captain Stewart, went to the front and did 
active duty on the field, making a creditable record for valor and fidelity. 
He participated in practically all of the twenty-one engagements in which the 
regiment took part and served with distinction. When the country no longer 
needed his aid he returned home and resumed agricultural pursuits.

On the 3d of September, 1870, Mr. Johnson was united in marriage to Miss Julia 
Douglas and unto them have been born two children: Mrs. Lillian Calis, of Troy 
township; and Mrs. Emma Tabler, who is living in Grundy county. Mrs. Johnson’s 
parents came to Illinois from the state of New York in 1856 and settled in 
Kankakee county. She is one of twelve children, six of whom are yet living, 
namely: John, a resident of Lexington, Illinois; William, who makes his home 
in Wilmington; Mrs. Susan Dixon, of Chicago; Mrs. Belle Page, who resides in 
Wichita, Kansas; and Mrs. Mary Corey, of St. Louis, Missouri.

Following his marriage Mr. Johnson took up farm work with renewed energy and 
continued actively in that line of business until 1901, when he removed to the 
village of Channahon. He now owns ten acres of land within the corporation 
limits and has a pleasant home there. By his former toil and activity he 
accumulated a comfortable competence that now supplies him with all of the 
necessities and some of the luxuries of life. In politics he is an earnest 
republican, thoroughly in sympathy with the principles of the party. He is now 
serving his second term as village mayor and has also been highway 
commissioner for two terms. As chief executive officer of the town he is 
exercising his official prerogatives for an economical yet progressive 
administration, and his course has been one of benefit and of progress to the 
village.

Source: "Past and Present of Will County, Illinois" by W.W. Stevens, 1907, The 
S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, Chicago, Pages 659

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