Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Johnson, Henry R 
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Author: History of Grundy County, 1914

Johnson, Henry R. – There are many level-headed farmers of Illinois who are 
now engaged in profitable agriculture, devoting their land to the growing of 
grain and stock, finding a ready market for these necessities of life.  Among 
those so engaged in Grundy County is Henry R. Johnson, who owns and operates 
the old Johnson homestead farm of 160 acres, in Saratoga Township, and also 
owns eighty acres in Lisbon Township in Kendall County, on which he has a 
tenant.  He was born in Big Grove Township, Kendall County, Ill., March 26, 
1867, a son of Ole H. and Caroline (Rierson) Johnson.

The parents of Mr. Johnson were born in Norway and the father came to Kendall 
County, Ill., when fifteen years old and went to work on a farm and owned land 
when he married.  The mother was brought to the United States by her parents, 
who were three months on the ocean when making the voyage, and they settled 
also in Kendall County, where she married Ole H. Johnson.  In 1872 they came 
to Saratoga Township, Grundy County and bought the farm on which their son 
Henry R. now lives.  Here the mother died in 1884.  The father left the farm 
in 1907, and now lives retired at Newark, Ill.  They had three children:  
Henry R.; Sidney and Lydia, both of Chicago, Ill., the latter being the wife 
of John Jefferson.  By a second marriage, Mr. Johnson had one child, now 
deceased, and no children have been born to his present marriage with 
Christina Williamson.

Henry R. Johnson remained at home until he married and then rented land in 
Saratoga and other townships in Grundy County until 1898, when he moved to 
Lisbon Township in Kendall County, where he continued until 1909, when he 
moved on the old homestead, which he now owns.  Live stock and grain, as 
mentioned above, claim his attention and his time is fully occupied.  On March 
25, 1890, Mr. Johnson was married to Miss Olivia Thompson, who was born in 
Lisbon Township, Kendall County, a daughter of Eric and Emgar (Dollar) 
Thompson, natives of Norway.  They have had the following children:  Edith, 
who is the wife of Charles Terry, of Nettle Creek Township; Esther; Orrin, who 
was accidentally drowned at the age of two and one-half years; and Alta.  Mr. 
Johnson and family attend the Lutheran Church.  In politics he is a Republican.

page 841

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

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