F. H. Johnson Biography


	This biography appears on pages 781-782 in "History of Dakota 
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				F. H. JOHNSON.  

	F. H. Johnson, president of the Scandinavian-American National 
Bank at Sioux Falls, has been a resident of South Dakota since 1884 and 
in the interim has lived at Edgerton, Armour and Geddes. From the last 
named town he removed to Sioux Falls in 1913 and has become well 
established in its business circles as a progressive financier. He was 
born in Osceola, Iowa, March 13, 1867, and comes of a family of Scotch-
Irish descent, which, however, has been represented in America through 
several generations. His father native of Indiana but afterward took up 
his residence in Iowa.  

	In the public schools of his native city F. H. Johnson pursued 
his education, passing through consecutive grades until he was 
graduated from the high school at the age of seventeen. The same year 
he entered the workaday world, removing to Edgerton, South Dakota, and 
later he went to Armour, where he engaged in the banking and real-
estate business. He afterward established his home at Geddes, where he 
continued in the same lines, and in 1913 he located in Sioux Falls, 
where he now figures prominently in business circles as president of 
the Scandinavian-American National Bank. Throughout his entire business 
career he has been watchful of opportunities, is ever alert and wide-
awake, and in utilizing the advantages which have come to him has 
steadily advanced toward the goal of success.  

	In 1886 Mr. Johnson was united in marriage to Miss Candus Folger 
and to them have been born the following children: Mrs. Ruby Tucker, of 
Sioux Falls, who has two children, Candus and Hoyt, the former now in 
school; D. B.; Mrs. Margaret J. Berry, who is a worker for juvenile 
interests in the state of South Dakota; and Ted H., who is connected 
with the Scandinavian-American National Bank of Sioux Falls.  

	Mr. Johnson is connected with the Knights of Pythias fraternity 
and his family are members of the First Congregational church. While he 
has been a resident of Sioux Falls for only a comparatively brief 
period he has long lived in the state and has contributed to the 
advancement, material prosperity and upbuilding of the various 
localities in which he has made his home, so that at all times he has 
been numbered among the citizens of worth.  

	His elder son, D. B. Johnson, the cashier of the Scandinavian-
American National Bank, was born in Armour, South Dakota, June 8, 1890, 
and pursued his education in the public schools of Sioux City, Iowa and 
Geddes, South Dakota, and in the Ward Academy of Academy, South Dakota. 
In 1906 he entered the bank at Geddes with which he was connected until 
1913, when he removed with his father to Sioux Falls and now figures in 
the financial circles of that city. The excellent record made by his 
father is being emulated by him and laudable ambition prompts his 
steady advance in the business world.  

	On the 20th of October, 1909, D. B. Johnson was married to Miss 
Emma Tronvold, by whom he has one child, Marit Aileen, now about a year 
old. The wife is a member of the Lutheran church. The name of Johnson 
has become a synonym for progressiveness and enterprise in the southern 
part of the state and the record of the father and son is a most 
substantial and creditable one.