Ernest R. Johnson Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1199-1200 in "History of Dakota 
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				ERNEST R. JOHNSON. 

	Ernest R. Johnson, an agriculturist residing on section 1, Wayne 
township, is extensively engaged in the dairy and stock business and 
owns two hundred and eighty acres of land which comprise one of the 
best improved farms in Minnehaha county. His birth occurred in Sweden 
on the 5th of July, 1880, his father being Claus Johnson, who still 
resides in that country. He acquired his education in the common 
schools of his native country and in 1899, when a young man of nineteen 
years, crossed the Atlantic to the United States. 

	Mr. Johnson first spent about eighteen months in Kansas and in 
1900 came to South Dakota, here working for two years as a farm hand 
for W. F. Kelley, of Minnehaha county. Subsequently he started out as 
an agriculturist on his own account, cultivating rented land in Wayne 
township. In 1909 he purchased two hundred and forty acres of land in 
Wayne township and later bought an additional tract of forty acres, so 
that his farm now embraces two hundred and eighty acres. He conducts an 
extensive dairy and stock business, raising Duroc Jersey hogs and 
shorthorn cattle, and his is one of the most highly improved farm. in 
the county. The property is located on the outskirts of Sioux Falls and 
the new and handsome modern residence and new barns are situated on one 
of the highest points sure rounding the city, thus affording a 
commanding view and being an ideal home site. 

	On the 22d of March, 1909, Mr. Johnson was united in marriage to 
Mrs. B. K. Thelin, formerly Miss Hannah Anderson, who is a native of 
Sweden and came to the United States in 1889. By this union there was 
one child who has passed away. By her first marriage Mrs. Johnson had 
five children, namely: Guy, Arthur, Milo, Alice and Mabel. 

	In politics Mr. Johnson is a stanch republican, while fraternally 
he is identified with the Modern Woodmen of America, belonging to Big 
Sioux Camp, No. 263. His religious faith is that of the Swedish 
Lutheran church, in which his wife also holds membership. He has never 
had occasion to regret his determination to establish a home in the new 
world, for here he found opportunities in the wise utilization of which 
he has won a place among the prosperous agriculturists and 
representative young citizens of his community.