Marshall County KS Archives Biographies.....Johnson, William 1863 - 
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Author: Emma E. Forter (1917)

WILLIAM JOHNSON.

    William Johnson, first trustee of Lincoln township and the proprietor of a
well-improved and profitably operated farm of two hundred and forty-one acres in
that township, is a native of the kingdom of Sweden, but has been a resident of
this country and of Marshall county since he was twenty-one years of age. He was
born on March 28, 1863, son of Par and Mary Johnson, also natives of Sweden, who
spent all their lives in their native land.

    Reared on a farm in his native land, William Johnson remained there until he
was twenty-one years of age, when, in 1884, he came to this country and
proceeded on out to Kansas, arriving at Frankfort, this county, on April 3 of
that year. Upon his arrival here he secured employment at farm labor in Rock
township and was thus engaged there for two years, receiving from fifteen
dollars to twenty dollars a month for his labor. In 1888 he married and for two
years thereafter rented a farm in Rock township, later renting a farm in Noble
township, where he lived a year, at the end of which time he bought a farm of
eighty acres one mile east of his present farm. He later moved to a farm in
section 16 of Murray township and after two years of residence there bought a
farm in Rock township, where he made his home for five years, or until 1897,
when he bought the farm on which he is now living and where he ever since has
made his home, he and his family being very comfortably situated there. In
addition to his general farming Mr. Johnson has given considerable attention to
the raising of graded live stock, making a specialty of Shorthorn cattle and
Duroc-Jersey hogs. He has made excellent improvements on his place and has one
of the best-kept farms in that part of the county. Mr. Johnson is a Republican
and has for years taken an active part in local civic affairs. He was trustee of
Noble township for one year and when Lincoln township was organized was elected
trustee of that township and was re-elected for three terms without opposition,
his term of service expiring on January 1, 1916. Mr. Johnson also has been a
member of the school board for twelve years and in other ways has done his part
in advancing the interests of the community in which he lives.

    In 1888, four years after coming to this country, William Johnson was united
in marriage to Ida Johnson, who also was born in Sweden and who had come to this
country in 1886, and to this union seven children have been born, namely: Clara,
born in 1889, who married John Olson and is now living at Seattle, Washington;
Thorsten, 1890; Albert, 1892; Esther, 1894; Florence, 1898; Leonard, 1902, and
Ebba, 1903. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson are members of the Swedish Lutheran church and
for years have taken an active part in church work and in other neighborhood
good works.


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History of Marshall County, Kansas: its people, industries, and institutions
by
Emma E. Forter

Indianapolis, Ind.: B.F. Bowen & Co. (1917)


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