Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Johnson, William 1827 - 
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Author: History Grundy County 1882

William Johnson, farmer, P. O. Morris. The subject of this sketch is a native 
of Knox County, Ky., born April 1, 1827. Subject is the third of a family of 
seven children of John and Charlotte Johnson; parents were both natives of 
Ashe County, N. C. When subject was but two years old, his parents removed to 
Indiana, where they lived one and a half years, coming to Illinois in 1831, 
and settled in Iroquois County. Here subject was raised until nineteen years 
old, when he, with his mother, came to Grundy County in 1845, his father 
having died in Iroquois County April 7, 1842. He has lived in Grundy County 
ever since; first settled in Hog Run, near the settlement of David Bunch. 
Subject now lives in Norman Township, where he now owns a farm of 160 acres of 
land, eighty acres in Section 13 of Norman, and eighty acres in Section 18, of 
Wauponsee Township; residence four and a half miles southwest from Morris. 
Subject was married in Grundy County December 14, 1850, to Miss Harriet Dean, 
daughter of John and Maria Dean; she is a native of England, born September 
20, 1833. They have a family of five children, all born in Grundy County - 
John W. Johnson, born August 9, 1852, married to Miss Lydia B. Dix, of Nettle 
Creek Township; Maria Johnson, born October 10, 1854, married to Malbone W. 
Bennett; Scott Johnson, born June 4, 1857, married to Miss Emma Helman; Elrac 
Johnson, born April 20, 1861; Willie Johnson, born November 17, 1867; 
politics, Republican, and one of the organizers of Republicanism in Wauponsee 
Township. His mother, Charlotte (Hart) Johnson removed to Minnesota in 1854 
with two sons and two daughters, where she died September 8, 1878. Mrs. 
Johnson's parents were formerly of England, and residents of Grundy County for 
over twenty years, and now living in Macon Co., Mo.

Additional Comments:
Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. 
Historical Publishers.

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