Biographical Sketch of William F. JOHNSON, Sussex Co., New Jersey

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William F. Johnson Biography


WILLIAM F. JOHNSON was born May 17, 1818, in Sussex county, N. J. and is a son 
of Joseph Johnson, who moved to Tompkins county. William’s father hired him out 
to the neighboring farmers from the time he was eleven years old until the age 
of twenty when he bought his time of his father, giving his note for $150, which 
his father traded for a house and lot, and which he afterwards paid. January, 
1838 he married Miss M. Hill, daughter of William Hill, of Tompkins county New 
York. He rented a farm and followed farming until 1840, when he came to Shenango 
and set­tled on one hundred acres, which he pur­chased of Mr. Huidekoper. There 
was a house on the tract and three acres im­proved. In 1847 he sold, and bought 
150 acres of John Eastlake and afterwards 850 acres more. In 1849 he commenced 
dealing in stock, and gradually increased the business, and in 1804 he drove ten 
droves in company with James Martin and Samuel Livingston, and one alone, on 
which his share of the profits was $6,000. In the fall of 1857 he took the 
contract for cutting and hauling the pine timber off from fifty acres of land 
for an Akron company, and the same season had charge of a gang of bark pealers 
about three months, for the same com­pany. He has never held any office ex­cept 
School Director, always profes­ing to be a business man rather than an office 
seeker.

 

Directory of Crawford County, PA, 1879-1880, page 312

Submitted by Teri Brown