Henry Johns Biography


	This biography appears on page 750 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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				HENRY JOHNS. 

	Henry Johns, who has been a resident of Minnehaha county, South 
Dakota, for about three decades, owns and operates a farm on section 
11, Sioux Falls township. His birth occurred in Germany on the 21st of 
September, 1851, and both his parents are deceased. In the acquirement 
of an education he attended the schools of his native land and 
subsequently learned the cooper's trade, working at that occupation in 
Germany for ten years. In 1881, when a young man of thirty, he crossed 
the Atlantic to the United States and took up his abode in Syracuse, 
New York, while later he removed to Chicago, Illinois. In 1885 he came 
to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and continued work at his trade until 
1888, when he bought a tract of eight acres on section 11, Sioux Falls 
township. Ten years later he purchased seventy-two acres more which has 
since remained in his possession and which he now operates with the 
assistance of his son. Six acres are planted to alfalfa, twenty-four to 
corn and the remainder is pasture. Mr. Johns also feeds twenty head of 
cattle and fourteen head of hogs and in the conduct of his agricultural 
interests has won a well merited measure of success. 

	In 1881, at Syracuse, New York, Mr. Johns was united in marriage 
to Miss Dora Saggau, of Germany, who was called to her final rest in 
1905, her remains being interred at Sioux Falls. To them was born a 
son, Charles, who is the assessor of Sioux Falls township. He was 
married in June, 1907, to Ella Doerr, a native of Wentworth, Lake 
county, South Dakota, and a daughter of Henry Doerr, deceased, and has 
three children, Kenneth, Ray and Erva. Mr. Johns is a republican in his 
political views, but not bitterly partisan, being unprejudiced in his 
judgment of the fitness of any candidate. For twenty-four years he has 
held the office of treasurer of the school board, making a creditable 
record in that connection. Leaving the fatherland in young manhood, he 
eagerly availed himself of the opportunities afforded in the new world 
and has gained financial independence and the esteem of many friends.