BIOGRAPHIES: Thomas JOHNSON, Arland, Barron County, WI

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Thomas Johnson, living retired on his farm in Arland, this county, was
born in Denmark, and there married Hannah Jacobson. He brought his family
to America in 1881, and located in Stillwater, where he worked for a while
in the Minnesota state prison and for a while in various sawmills. Then he
came to Barron County, and located on a farm in Prairie Farm Township,
later locating on his present place of 40 acres in Arland Township. He
found the place a wilderness, and by hard work broke the land, erected the
buildings, and became a successful farmer. In 1915 he retired, but still
makes his home on the place. In religious faith he is a Baptist. He and his
wife are the parents of four children-Jasper, Hannah (deceased), Anna and
Mary.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr. & Co.,
1922, pg. 126.