Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....Johnson, Perry 1849 - 
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

PERRY JOHNSON.

   Perry Johnson, farmer, Camden, Indiana, was born on March 28, 1849, in
Carrollton township, Carroll county, and is a son of Allen and Susan (Sloan)
Johnson. He grew up on a farm, deprived of the advantages of attending school,
and at the age of sixteen years started out in the world, without a dollar, to
earn his own living. His first employment was at wood cutting and ditching,
which he worked at by the month, and at the age of twenty-one he made his home
with Mahlon Robinson, remaining with him until twenty-eight years old, when he
was married and moved to his own farm of forty acres in the woods, which he
cleared, drained and improved, to which he has added, until he now owns one
hundred and six acres of fine farm land. Politically, Mr. Johnson has been a
life-long supporter of the Democratic party, and for many years took an active
interest in politics, serving twice as trustee of Washington township, and was
never defeated when running for office. Fraternally, he is a member of Morris
Lodge No. 477, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he is the oldest
member, having, joined on February 6, 1875, is Past grand, and a member of the
grand lodge, and both he and his wife are members of the Rebekah Lodge. Mr.
Johnson is a large stockholder in the Deer Creek Co-operative Telephone Company,
of which he held the office of treasurer for a number of years.

   Allen and Susan (Sloan) Johnson, parents of the subject of this sketch, were
natives of Virginia, where they grew up and were married prior to coming to
Indiana. They located in Carroll county on a rented farm and cleared leased
ground. Mr. Johnson was always a poor man, but a hard worker. Mr. and Mrs.
Johnson were the parents of twelve children, only two of whom are living in
1915, Perry and Warren.

   Perry Johnson was united in marriage on October 28, 1875, with Malinda
Stephens, daughter of Samuel and Malinda (Smith) Stephens. She was born on
February 6, 1852, in Washington township, Carroll county. To Mr. and Mrs.
Johnson have been born three children, only one of whom is living in 1915, Alice
B., born on September 6, 1877. She was graduated from the public schools and
afterward became the wife of Pearl Campbell, a farmer in Washington township.
Mr. and Mrs. Campbell are the parents of six children, Elsie, Orvil, Leona,
Dorothy, Opal and Lloyd.

   Samuel Stephens, father of Mrs. Perry Johnson, was a native of Pennsylvania,
and his wife, Malinda (Smith) Johnson, was a native of Ohio, where they were
married, coming later to Indiana and locating in Washington township, where they
spent the remainder of their lives. They were the parents of four sons and four
daughters.

   Mr. Johnson is genial and unassuming in, manner and is classed as one of the
influential farmers of his locality.


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Biographical Section of

HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA

ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS
BY
JOHN C ODELL
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

ILLUSTRATED
1916
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana


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