Genesee-Oakland County MI Archives Biographies.....Johnson, Joseph 1776 - 1849
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Jeff Johnson jeffrymj@gmail.com October 21, 2007, 3:05 pm

Author: L.H. Everts & Co., 1877

From the book in my possession,  "1817 History of Oakland County, Michigan" 

L.H. Everts & Co., 1877

Transcribed by Debra Jean Faust

Joseph Johnson, the father of the person whose name appears at the head of 
this article, was born in Horseneck, Connecticut, in 1776, and at an early day 
located in Greene county, New York. About 1805 he removed with his wife and 
four children-two sons and two daughters-to Delaware county. The sons were 
Orrin, the eldest, who died when but twelve years of age, and Daniel F., who 
was born January 29, 1801, in the old town of Canton (now Cairo), Greene 
county, New York. The daughters were Mahala, now the wife of Charles Husted, 
of Watertown, Tuscola county, Michigan, and Mindwell, now the widow of 
Alexander Merwin, of Groveland township, Oakland county, Michigan. In the 
latter part of 1823, Joseph Johnson removed with his family to Genesee county, 
New York, and in the fall of 1836 came to Michigan, and settled in the town of 
Atlas, Genesee county, where he died in 1849, at the age of seventy-three 
years. His wife, who was born in 1770, died at the age of eighty-eight. Mr. 
Johnson was drafted during the war of 1812, but being temporarily crippled was 
not called upon to serve. One of his brothers, however, enlisted from Delaware 
county, New York. Mr. Johnson was raised a farmer, but had acquired a 
knowledge of several trades, and worked considerable in a machine-shop, at 
blacksmithing, etc.



Additional Comments:
Joseph was buried at Hadley Cemetery in Oakland County where is son Daniel F 
Johnson lived.  A second part to this biography can be found under Daniel's 
name (Oakland County biographies) since it goes into more detail about his 
life.

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