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Author: L. A. Fritsche

JAMES JOHNSON.

     James Johnson, a well-known farmer of Eden township, this county, and one
of the early settlers of the neighborhood in which he lives, is a native of the
kingdom of Denmark, but has been a resident of the United States since 1862 and
a citizen of Brown county since 1868. He was born on October 18, 1843, son of
Ole and Carrie Johnson, both natives of Denmark, who came to this country in
1873 and settled on an eighty-acre farm in Eden township, where they spent the
remainder of their lives. Ole Johnson died in 1895, He and his wife were the
parents of eight children, of whom the subject of this sketch is the fourth in
order of birth, the others being Jens, Marron, Fred, Andrew, Margaret, Marcella
and Chris.

     James Johnson was reared on a farm in his native land. At the age of
fourteen he quit school and went to work as a carpenter and was thus engaged,
working in the neighborhood of his home, until he was eighteen years old, when,
in 1862, he came to America. Landing at Quebec, he proceeded directly to Minia,
Wisconsin, whore for a year he worked on a farm. He then went to Greenbay,
Wisconsin, where he resumed work at his trade and was presently, in 1863,
employed by the government in the work of constructing fortifications and was
thus employed until the close of the war, after which he went to Oshkosh, in the
neighborhood of which city he was for a time employed at farm labor, presently
going to St. Paul, where for three years he worked at his trade. He then
re-entered the government service and for nearly a year was again engaged in the
work of constructing fortifications, after which he returned to St. Paul, where
he worked at his trade until 1868, in which year he came to Brown county and
bought two hundred and forty acres of land M Eden township, where, with the
exception of about ten years, he has lived ever since, long having been regarded
as one of the most substantial farmers of that neighborhood. In 1873 Mr. Johnson
left the farm and moved to Sleepy Eye, where for two years he worked at his
trade as a carpenter, after which he returned to the farm.

     In 1870 James Johnson was united in marriage to Margaret Knudson. She died
not long afterward, and in 1872 he married, secondly, Carrie Hansen, who was
born in Denmark, daughter of Ole Hansen and wife, who came to this country in
1862, settling at Racine, Wisconsin, where they lived until 1866, in which year
they came to this county, bought a quarter of a section in Eden township and
there established their home. Ole Hansen and wife were the parents of twelve
children, of whom Mrs. Johnson is the eldest. To Mr. and Mrs. Johnson eight
children have been born, as follow: Jacob, who married Hannah Hansen, and lives
in Sleepy Eye; Albert, who married Lucy Nerma, and lives at Mankato; Julius, who
married Miss Heth, and lives in Eden township; Anna, who married Everett
Petersen and lives in Douglas county; Sophia, who married Charles Lee and lives
in North Dakota; Louis, who married Katie Morton and lives at Brook Park; James
married Emma Brent and lives at Evan; Frank, who married Pracy Hass and makes
his home with his parents on the old home farm, assisting in the management of
the same. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson are members of the Union church and take an
interested part in all neighborhood good works. Mr. Johnson is a Republican and
ever has given a good citizen's attention to local political affairs.


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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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