Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Johnson, John M. 1846 - 
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   JOHN M. JOHNSON, the leading hardware merchant of the village of Dassel, was born
in the Kingdom of Sweden in 1846, and is the son of John and Gatrud Johnson. He
received his education in his native land, and remained there until the year 1864,
which found him crossing the stormy Atlantic to a new home in the United States. He
came direct to Minnesota on landing on these shores, and took up his residence in
Carver county, where he lived for a period of two years. From there he removed to
Minneapolis, of which city he was a citizen until 1871, when he took up a homestead
in Cokato township, Wright county, to which he moved. Two years’ residence satisfied
him, and selling out he purchased a farm in the same county, where he lived four
years, and then disposed of that and removed to the village of Dassel, where he
purchased an interest in the blacksmith shop of Erick Renquist, that being his
trade, and remained in partnership with him until two years later, when he bought
out Mr. Renquist. Alone he then carried on the business until 1882, at which date,
in company with L. W. Leighton, he established the second hardware store in the
village. The firm, thus formed, continued until January 1, 1887, when our subject
purchased his partner’s interest, and for more than a year was alone in the concern.
March 15, 1888, he admitted to a partnership John Osterman, and the present firm of
J. M. Johnson & Co. was formed.

   Mr. Johnson, although not partisan in his views, has decided opinions upon
political questions, and particularly in all local matters. His excellent business
tact and sterling uprightness have drawn upon him the attention of the community,
and ho was duly elected to a position upon the board of village trustees in 1882,
and was again chosen to fill that office in March, 1888. As a business man he is
active and enterprising, and he has a financial interest in both the woolen mill and
the foundry, both institutions of great value to the community.

   Mr. Johnson was united in marriage January 27, 1870, while living in Wright
county, with Miss Mary Clarquist, a native of Sweden, and daughter of Lewis and
Christine Clarquist, the latter of whom were early settlers on section 14, Dassel
township. Mrs. Johnson has a fine millinery establishment in the village, which she
instituted in 1884.


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Extracted from:
Illustrated Album of Biography
Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota
1888

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