Albert Johnson Biography


	This biography appears on pages 906, 909 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. V (1915) and was 
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				ALBERT JOHNSON.  

	Albert Johnson, senior partner of the firm of Albert Johnson & 
Company, general mere chants, is one of the leading representatives of 
commercial activity in Minnehaha county, conducting a large and well 
appointed store in Crooks, where he established the business in 1904. 
He is a young man, alert, energetic, wide-awake and persistent, and has 
attained a measure of success that many a man of twice his years might 
well envy. He was born December 6, 1884, in the county in which he 
still resides, a son of Ben and Hanna Johnson, pioneer settlers of 
South Dakota, the family having been represented here since 1872, in 
which year the father located at his present place of residence, 
securing both a homestead and preemption claim. He has since been 
identified with the agricultural development of his section of the 
state and has borne an active and helpful part in the work of general 
progress. 

	The early life of Albert Johnson was spent in the usual manner of 
farm lads. As soon as old enough he began assisting his father in the 
work of the fields, alternating that labor with attendance at the 
public schools. Lessons of industry and integrity were early impressed 
upon his mind and have borne rich fruit in later years. He entered his 
present place of business in 1904, when a young man of twenty years, 
and has since conducted the store, each year bringing to him greater 
success. He carries a stock valued at about seventy five hundred 
dollars and he has the largest trade in Crooks. His patronage is well 
deserved because of his carefully selected line of goods, his 
reasonable prices and his earnest efforts to please his patrons. He is 
also a stockholder in the Crooks Farmers Cooperative Lumber Company and 
is recognized as a young man of sound business judgment and unfaltering 
enterprise.  

	On the 14th of July, 1910, Mr. Johnson was united in marriage to 
Miss Bessie Johnson, a daughter of Andrew and Nettie Johnson, also 
early residents of Minnehaha county. Her mother survives, but her 
father has passed away. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. 
Albert Johnson, Allan and Vivian. The religious faith of the parents is 
that of the Lutheran church and Mr. Johnson also holds membership with 
the Modern Woodmen of America. He gives his political allegiance to the 
republican party, but does not seek nor desire office, concentrating 
his energies upon his business affairs. He enjoys hunting and fishing 
when leisure gives him opportunity to indulge in those lines of 
recreation. He is a true son of South Dakota, loyal to her best 
interests and active in furthering measures and movements which he 
believes will prove of benefit to the community and state. He is 
thoroughly progressive in both public and private connections and is 
justly accounted one of the energetic young business men of the 
district in which his entire life has been passed.