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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  ANDREW JOHNSON is one of the early settlers of Westside township. He owns

three hundred acres of land in one body on sections 10 and 11, where he has a

fine home. He has lived on his present farm over a quarter of a century.



  Mr. Johnson is of Swedish birth, having first seen the light of day in

Westerjemtland on June 18, 1849. His father was a laborer, John Peterson by

name, who was born in 1826 and died in his native land in 1882. Our subject's

mother, Annie (Anderson) Peterson, was born in 1823 and died in Sweden in 1868.



  In his native country Andrew Johnson lived until 1878, working out at farm and

railroad work from the time he was old enough to be of any service whatever. In

the year last mentioned he went to Norway and during the next two years worked

on a railroad seventy miles north of the city of Christiana. He then sailed for

the new world and landed in New York city on May 31, 1880. Coming direct to

Nobles county, he took employment on the section at Adrian, and was so engaged

two years, spending the harvest seasons working in the fields of Westside

township. He then moved onto the farm where he has ever since resided. His wife

was the owner of the eighty where the home was builded. Two years later he

bought another eighty acres and later purchased the rest of his property. There

was only a "shack" on the farm when he first located on the place; now he has

one of the finest farm homes in the township. He engages extensively in

stockraising, breeding thoroughbred Duroc-Jersey swine and well graded cattle

and sheep.



  Mr. Johnson was married in the fall of 1881 at Luverne, Minn., to Hannah

Isaacson, a native of Norway. To them have been born the following named

children: Laura, born Aug. 27, 1884; William, born Oct. 9, 1886; Amanda, born

July 17, 1889; Oscar Raymond, born Oct. 14, 1891; Lottie, born Dec. 9, 1894. By

a former marriage Mrs. Johnson is the mother of the following named children:

Isabel (Mrs. John Isaacson), of Allison, Butler county, Iowa, born Dec. 7, 1875;

Christina (Mrs. Iver Erickson), of Crookston, Minn., born March 5, 1877; Ida

(Mrs. Charles Miller), of Bristdw, Butler county, Iowa, born Jan. 25, 1879;

Annie (Mrs. Carl Anda), of Turtle Lake, McLean county, N. D., born July 1, 1882.

Mr. and Mrs. Johnson are members of the Norwegian Lutheran church of Adrian.



  Mr. Johnson is a self educated man, having had not a day's schooling in his

life, his early days having been spent in earning a livelihood. By careful home

study in later years he has made himself a fairly well educated man. He has

always taken an active interest in the affairs of the community in which he has

resided so many years. He served on the Westside township board five years, and

during three years of that time was the chairman. He is now the township

treasurer and has held the office two years. He is also treasurer of school

district No. 61, having held that office continuously for the last twenty-six
years.



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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NOBLES COUNTY

MINNESOTA

BY

ARTHUR P. ROSE



NORTHERN HISTORY PUBLISHING COMPANY 



WORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA 

PUBLISHERS

1908



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