BIOGRAPHY: C. M. Johnson; Chenango co., NY
surname: Johnson, Weir

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SOURCE: Directory of Crawford County, PA, 1879-80, pages 294-295

C. M. JOHNSON  was born in Chenango county, New York, February 22nd, 1822, and 
is a son of Lyman Johnson, who came to Crawford county [PA] and settled in 
Greenwood township in the fall of 1834, on one hundred and twelve acres; built 
a log house, cleared some of the land and followed chair making for twenty 
years. C. M. left home at the age of sixteen about 1844; built a hotel at 
Adamsville and kept it about four years, when it burned down, February 23d, 
1857, in 1855 he opened a store and run both it and the hotel until the fire. 
He then bought a farm near Adamsville and followed farming for seven years, 
when he again tried the merchantile business in Adamsville for one year and 
sold out to Stewart & Trimble, and bought another farm of one hundred and 
thirteen acres, in Greenwood township, where he lived for five years, and then 
moved to Atlantic and bought out J. M. Nelson's property and goods and built a 
house which he afterwards sold to Jesse Weaver. In 1874 he built a hotel, 
which he still keeps. In 1873 he bought a steam mill and manufactured barrels 
and staves which he continued until 1878, and then commenced the manufacture 
of butter tubs, which he still carries on. In 1837 he bought a canal boat and 
boated for about a year, and in 1857 bought two more boats and ran them for 
two years. He has at different times sold patent-right churns, washing 
machines, Wood's mowers, plows, cultivators, and finally wound up with selling 
Cincinnati buggies. He married in December, 1852, Miss Ellen, daughter of John 
Weir, of West Fallowfield.