Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Johnson, Joseph A 
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Author: Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County

JOSEPH A. JOHNSON is one of the large number of business men who came to 
Joliet from Sweden, and have since become an integral part of the citizenship, 
joining in movements for the benefit of the city and aiding in the development 
of local commercial interests. He was born in Rauqvella, Jonkoping, Sweden, 
December 6, 1867, a son of John Peter and Eva Johnson, who spent their entire 
lives in the same province, where the father engaged in farming. Further 
mention of the family appears elsewhere, in the sketch of Gustav V. Johnson.

Reared on the home farm, the educational advantages received by our subject 
were such as the local schools afforded. As he studied in school the geography 
of the world, he formed a resolution to seek a home in the land across the 
seas, believing that the new world presented greater opportunities for a young 
man than the old.  In 1886 he came to the United States with his brother, 
Gustav V., and settled in Joliet, where he followed any occupation whereby he 
could earn a livelihood. After three years, however, he began to turn his 
attention to the bricklayer's trade, which he learned in the works of the 
Illinois Steel Company. He followed this occupation until 1896 in the employ 
of others, but during that year he embarked in the stone and brickmason's 
business for himself, and has since taken contracts for work of this kind.

Since taking out his naturalization papers Mr. Johnson has voted the 
Republican ticket. He is a member of the North Star Association and the 
Swedish Lutheran Church. A man of energy and industry, he is working his way 
to a position of influence among the people of his own race in Joliet, and has 
also won the confidence of people of other nationalities by his upright course 
in life and the energy which he has shown in his business. He was married, in 
this city, in 1897, to Miss Amanda Abrahamson, who was born in Sweden, and by 
whom he has a daughter, Sylvia Benhat Margaret. The family residence is at No. 
309 Landau avenue.

Additional Comments:
Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County Illinois Containing 
Biographies of Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present, Biographical 
Publishing Company, Chicago, 1900


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