BIOGRAPHIES:  Jens JOHNSON, Sumner Township, Barron County, WI

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Jens Johnson, an early settler, was born in Norway, and was there reared and
educated. He married there, and as a young man, with his wife Johana, and two
children, Edward and Jacoba, came to this country in the seventies and located
in Waupaca County, this state. From there they came to Barron County and
located on a homestead of 160 acres in Stanley Township. They erected a
log house, started to clear the land and began farming operations with an ox
team and a cow. Later he sold that farm and moved to a tract of 85 acres in
section 7, Sumner Township. Some of this land had been cleared. No buildings
had been erected. Mr. Johnson put up a log cabin, and as before, started to
develop a farm in the wilderness. As time progressed he replaced his log cabin
with a good set of buildings and developed a fertile farm. Mr. Johnson was
deeply interested in the welfare of his town and served in town and school
office. He died at the age of 69 and his wife at the age of 74 years. In
addition to the children named they had three more, Andrew, born in Waupaca
County, and Eliza and Clara, born in Barron County. The family faith is that
of the Norwegian Lutheran Church.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., &
Co., 1922, pg. 813.