Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Johnson, H. W.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Richland Township A-M


   H. W. JOHNSON farmer, P.O. Richlandtown, is prominent 
among the active and enterprising farmers of this county.  
His farm has been handed down to the fourth generation.  He 
was born in 1832 and in 1855 married Margaret, daughter of 
Jacob and Eliza Kratz, of Plumstead township, this county.  
The father of our subject was Charles Johnson and his mother 
was the daughter of Abel Strawn.  There were four children 
born to this couple:  Hampton W., Mary Ann (Walp), Oliver 
James and Anna Marie (Mrs. Louis Shelly), all of whom are 
living except Mrs. Walp.  The father died in 1879 and the 
mother in 1884.  Hampton W. has had five children:  Erwin T. 
(now a practicing physician in Leidytown, this county), 
Oliver K., Harvey E., Mary Jane and Charles (deceased).  Mr. 
Johnson's life has been that of a farmer, but he has held 
various positions of public trust.  He was school director 
for twelve years, a director of the Line Lexington Mutual 
Fire Insurance company of Bucks and Montgomery counties, 
president of Richlandtown turnpike company and in 1874 he 
was nominated by the republican party for representative and 
through over-confidence in his friends was beaten at the 
general election by twenty-two votes.