Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Johnson, Charles E 
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Author: History of Grundy County, 1914

Johnson, Charles E. – Although now a resident of La Salle County, Charles E. 
Johnson was so prominently identified with the agricultural interests of 
Grundy County for a long period of years that no history of the latter would 
be complete did it not give a review of his career.  A native of Sweden, he 
was born October 17, 1855, a son of Solomon and Bertha (Johnson) Johnson.  The 
family came to the United States in 1869, and first located in La Salle 
County, but in 1876 came to Grundy County, where the father purchased 210 
acres of land in Nettle Creek Township, and there spent the remainder of his 
life in tilling the soil, passing away in 1901, while the mother still 
survives him and makes her home with a daughter in La Salle County.

The educational advantages of Charles E. Johnson were secured in the public 
schools of his native land and La Salle County, Ill.  He had just reached his 
majority when he came to Grundy County, and continued to reside with his 
parents until 1881, when he entered upon operations of his own in Erienna 
Township, which was his home during the next twenty-four years.  In the 
meantime, however, he had purchased 120 acres of land in Nettle Creek 
Township, Grundy County, and to this he subsequently added fifty acres from 
his father’s farm, and on the latter property lived from 1905 until 1910, then 
moved to Morris.  In May, 1911, he retired from activities, rented his 
property to his son, Albert, and moved to Seneca, Ill., where he now makes his 
home.  Mr. Johnson’s ambition has ever been to acquit himself of life’s duties 
honorably before all men, to improve his capabilities and opportunities and to 
be of use in the world, and with this ambition he has won success.  He is a 
Republican in political faith, and has served efficiently as a member of the 
board of school directors.  With his family, he attends the Norwegian Lutheran 
Church.

On March 6, 1885, Mr. Johnson was married to Miss Edla Rosendahl, of Sweden, 
daughter of Patrick and Ingrid Lena Rosendahl, who came to Erienna Township in 
1884 and made their home with Mr. Johnson during the remainder of their 
lives.  Two children were adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Johnson:  Albert, who is 
conducting operations on his father’s farm in Nettle Creek Township; and 
Dorothea, living with her parents.

pages 839-840

Additional Comments:
Source:  History of Grundy County, Illinois, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. 
Publishers; 1914

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