BIO: John A. 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, pages 664 & 665.
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  JOHN A. JOHNSON, who is a general farmer and stock raiser, in Pike township, 
owns seventy-five acres of valuable land two and one-half miles southwest of 
Curwensville.  He was born February 24, 1869, in Greenwood township, Clearfield 
county, Pa., and is a son of Elah and Hannah (Troy) Johnson.
  Elah Johnson was born in Penn township, Clearfield county.  He became a 
millwright and later owned saw mills in different parts of the county, and also 
a farm of 160 acres.  He was a lifelong Democrat and served out one term as 
county commissioner in Clearfield county and a number of terms as school 
director in Penn township.  He was a member of the Society of Friends.  His 
death occurred June 21, 1888, at the age of seventy-seven years, and his burial 
was at Grampian.  He was twice married, first to Elizabeth Horn, a daughter of 
Samuel Horn.  She was survived by one daughter, Hannah E. McClure.  His second 
marriage was to Hannah Troy, who was born December 26, 1832, in Brady township, 
Clearfield county, a daughter of Samuel and Katherine (Miles) Troy, and eleven 
children were born to this union, namely:  Florence; Elizabeth A., who is the 
wife of William Hoover, of Bell's Landing, Pa.; Manassah, who lives in 
Michigan, married Lillie Thompson; S. Miles, who lives in Bell township, 
married Henrietta Passmore; A. G., who is a resident of British Columbia, 
married Ida White, who is now deceased; Lewis K., who resides in Greenwood 
township, married Jennie Bartelbaugh; Ellis I., who moved to British Columbia; 
Millard F. and Mary, both of whom are deceased; John A.; and Lydia Alice, who 
is now deceased.
  John A. Johnson attended school in Greenwood township and afterward went to 
lumbering and still later engaged in mining.  After he married he lived first 
at Grampian and then came to his present farm in Pike township, which was known 
as the Richard Freeman farm, originally belonging to the grandfather of Mrs. 
Johnson.  At present there is no open coal bank on the place and all the land 
is under cultivation except about forty acres still in valuable timber.
  Mr. Johnson was married on July 2, 1891, to Miss Alice Freeman, who was born 
in Pike township, Clearfield county, Pa., March 1, 1876, a daughter of William 
and Ara Belle (Bloom) Freeman.  Mr. and Mrs. Johnson have had three children:  
Hazel, who died at the age of nine years; and Everett and Mildred, both of whom 
attend the Summit Ridge school where they are bright and attentive pupils.  The 
family attends church at Grampian.  Mr. Johnson is a member of the Sons of 
America and of the Order of the Moose, at Curwensville.  He is an independent 
Democrat in his political views and while living in Penn township served on the 
election board and has been a school director for two years in Pike township.