Carl D. Johnson Biography


	This biography appears on pages 213-214 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. V (1915) and was 
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				CARL D. JOHNSON. 

	Carl D. Johnson is the junior partner in the hew firm of 
McFarland & Johnson, attorneys at Watertown, and while one of the 
younger representatives of the profession has already attained a 
position which many an older practitioner might well envy. He was born 
in Raymond, South Dakota, February 11, 1886, a son of Alexander C. and 
Ida R. Johnson who in the year 1879 came to what was then Dakota 
territory. The father secured a homestead and tree claim but later 
disposed of that property and is now in the employ of the Northwestern 
Railroad Company at Chicago as passenger traffic manager. 

	Carl D. Johnson spent his youthful days under the parental roof, 
mastering the branches of learning taught in the public schools and 
afterward attending the Shattuck Military Academy at Faribault, 
Minnesota, where he pursued a preparatory course. Subsequently he 
entered the University of Wisconsin, in which he continued for a year, 
and afterward became a student in the University of South Dakota, where 
he pursued a law course and was graduated with the class of 1910. The 
following year he went to Yale, where he continued his law studies and 
was graduated within the classic walls of that old institution in 1911. 

	Returning to his native state, Mr. Johnson settled in Watertown, 
where he practiced as the assistant of Mr. McFarland until November, 
1912, v hen he was admitted to a partnership under the present firm 
style of McFarland &; Johnson. He is yet a young man but already he has 
attained a creditable position at the bar and his ability is developing 
year by year and month by month as he takes charge of important cases, 
for which he always makes thorough preparation before entering the 
courts. 

	On the 20th of June, 1914, Mr. Johnson was united in marriage to 
Miss Mahren Finnerud, a daughter of H. M. and Mary Alice Finnerud, of 
whom mention is made elsewhere in this volume. The young couple are 
well known and popular in the city where they reside. Mr. Johnson is an 
Episcopalian in faith. while his wife holds membership in the 
Congregational church. Fraternally he is connected with the Elks and 
politically with the republican party. Fishing, hunting and motoring 
are his chief sources of recreation but he never allows outside 
interests to interfere with the faithful performance of his 
professional duties and he is winning for himself a well earned 
reputation by reason of his fidelity to his clients, interests.