Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Johnson, Peter 1840 - 
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   PETER JOHNSON. Among the citizens of Meeker county who owe their present adequate
fortunes entirely to their own ability and labor, there is probably none more widely
or more favorably known than the gentleman whose name heads this sketch. Ho is a
resident of the village of Dassel, where he has large interests, prominent among
which are his loan and real estate business, a lumher yard, his connection with the
woolen mill, and, greatest of all, the Tile Stove Manufactory, the product of which
is destined to supersede, to some extent in this country, the old, unsightly iron
stoves of the present.

   Mr. Johnson is a native of Sweden, born December 13, 1840, and the son of Maria
and John Olson, of Collinwood township. When a young man he learned the tailor’s
trade, and followed that avocation in his native land until 1864. Perceiving the
impossibility of acquiring any start in life in that country, he determined to seek
in the New World the fortune denied him at home, and accordingly crossed the stormy
Atlantic, and coming directly west, Worked at his trade in Chicago, Ill., Memphis,
Tenn., and St. Paul, Minn., remaining in the latter city until 1867. Leaving there,
that year, he traveled on foot to see the country, and on his arrival in Collinwood
township, this county, took up a homestead on section 12, and commenced its
improvement. He lived upon this place, engaged in the avocation of a farmer, until
1878, when he sold out and removed to Dassell, and opened his loan and real estate
office. From this time on he has been identified with the growth and development of
the town and county, and has grown in wealth and influence with them, and to-day is
one of the leading spirits in all enterprises that advance the interests or property
of Dassell.

   Mr. Johnson, while a resident of St. Paul, was united in marriage with Miss
Johanna Swanson, a native of Sweden. The ceremony which united them took place May
28, 1868, in the German Lutheran church, then on Ninth street.

   No one citizen has been more prominently identified with the growth and
development of the eastern part of Meeker county, than has Mr. Johnson, and every
enterprise, calculated to benefit either town or county, has always received his
hearty aid and encouragement. He is a man of the strictest honor and integrity, and
justly merits the high esteem in which he is held. He takes an active interest in
political matters, being a staunch Republican, and is one of the leaders of that
party in the locality in which he lives, and as such is well known throughout this
part of the State. Mr. Johnson was one of the delegates from this congressional
district in 1888, to the national convention at Chicago. A portrait of him will be
found elsewhere in this Album.


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


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