BIO: A. J. JOHNSON, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, page 915.
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  A. J. JOHNSON,* division superintendent of the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg 
Railroad, who came to DuBois, Pa., in 1905, is a railroad man whose training in 
this line began in boyhood.  He was born September 4, 1861, at Morefield, O., 
and is a son of William and Mary Johnson.
  A. J. Johnson was ten years old when his parents moved to Uhrichsville, O., 
and there he went to school until old enough to work in a grocery store, where 
he remained about three years.  In 1875 he became an employe of the Panhandle 
division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, at Dennison, O., and while working as a 
messenger boy had the courage, perseverance and ambition that made him master 
the art of telegraphy.  He became an expert operator and received promotion in 
the offices of that company and continued until 1888, when he became train 
dispatcher for the Cincinnati Southern Railway.  One year later he entered the 
employ of the Sciota Valley Railroad as train dispatcher, residing at that time 
at Columbus, O., and he continued with that road until it became a part of the 
Norfolk & Western system.  In 1893 he became division superintendent of the 
Northern division of the B. R. & P. Railroad, being then located at Rochester, 
N. Y., and from there was transferred to his present location in 1905, when he 
established his home at DuBois.
  In September, 1882, Mr. Johnson was married to Miss Anna Miser, a resident of 
Columbus, O., and they have three children, namely:  George, an employe of the 
B. R. & P. Railroad, at New Castle, Pa., who married Laura Hicks and has one 
child, Ruth; Hazel V., who is the wife of W. R. Landis, of DuBois, and has one 
son, Wilbur A., and Ethel M., who resides with her parents.  Mr. Johnson is 
identified fraternally with Lodge No. 797, F. & A. M., at Rochester, N. Y., and 
Lodge No. 349, Elks, at DuBois, Pa.  He belongs also to the Acorn Club at 
DuBois.