Brown County MN Archives Biographies.....Johnson, Christian C. 1843 - 
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Author: L. A. Fritsche

CHRISTIAN C. JOHNSON.

    It would be difficult to find a farm better tilled or better kept than that
of Christian C. Johnson, of Linden township, Brown county, for its owner has
always taken great pleasure in keeping everything in ship-shape. Air. Johnson
was born on March 25, 1843, in Feen, Denmark. His father died before he was
born, and his mother was married again. When eight years old he left home and
was reared by strangers. He received a good common school education, and early
in life took up farm work and has continued in agricultural pursuits to the
present time. In 1865 he came to America, landing in Quebec, Canada, but later
moved to Wisconsin, where his grandmother lived. In 1867 he located in Brown
county, Minnesota, and here worked out at various things and in different
places. He went to the eastern part of the state and worked on the river part of
the time on boats and log rafts. In 1875 he bought some railroad land in section
3, Linden township, Brown county, which land he later sold, having lost his
crops during the grasshopper plague which lasted three years in succession. He
says these insects even ate holes in his log house. The year following the hail
destroyed his crops and badly damaged his buildings. In the face of such
misfortune he was forced to sell because he could not meet his payments. But he
went to work again with a will and by saving his earnings was enabled to buy one
hundred and sixty acres in 1885. This land joined forty acres owned by his wife,
in section 26, Linden township, Brown county, and here he has since resided.
This was all new land and he placed all the improvements on it, his latest
improvement being a large barn, thirty by sixty-six feet, with a capacity for
twenty tons of hay.

     Mr. Johnson was married in this county, June 27, 1873, to Gunnell Ellefson,
who was born on October 8, 1852, in Fillmore county, Wisconsin. She is a
daughter of Elerf and Ellen Ellefson, both natives of Norway. The family located
in Brown county when Mrs. Johnson was a small child; in fact, they were among
the earliest settlers here. The Indians drove them out and they fled to Mankato
until the red men were subdued. Seven children have been born to Mr. and Mrs.
Johnson, six of whom are living, namely: Charley, married Inga Strum, a daughter
of Christ Strum, and they have four children, Cora, Helena, Ida, Carl; and Lina,
died when eighteen years old; Theodore married Nellie Eyedrum and they have
three children, Chester, Arthur and another; Christena is living at home; Albert
is at home; Oscar lives in Canada; Leonard resides in North Dakota.

     Politically, Mr. Johnson is a Republican. He and his family are members of
the Norwegian Lutheran church.


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Extracted from:
HISTORY OF BROWN COUNTY MINNESOTA
ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS

L. A. FRITSCHE. M. D.
Editor

With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records
of Many of the Old Families

VOLUME II
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana

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