BIOGRAPHIES: John A. H. JOHNSON, Chetek Township, Barron County, WI ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor, or the legal representative of the contributor, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Vic Gulickson 5 December 2000 ==================================================================== John A. H. Johnson, prosperous farmer, county surveyor and formerly county sheriff, is one of the well known men of the county. His work as public official and engineer has taken him into all parts of the county, and he knows its contour, its history, its people and its possibilities. He has been especially interested in the study of the early trading posts and the mounds, and has done much research on their location in this neighborhood. He has been successful in life, has a pleasant home and a well-equipped farm, and has built what is probably the largest barn in the county. He was born in Capron, Ill., May 29, 1868, son of Thomas H. and Anna (Johnson) Johnson. He came to Maple Grove Township, this county, with his parents in 1872, and here attended rural school. At the age of fourteen he went to live with his grandparents in Illinois, attended high school at Capron, and graduated from the high school at Belvidere. Then he took the engineering course at Dixon College in that state. With that preparation he became a civil engineer in Chicago for three years. Then he came back to Barron County. He was elected sheriff in 1900 and served one term. Upon retiring from office he purchased his present farm of 274 acres in Chetek Township, two miles northwest of the city. He has named the farm "Pleasant Plain," and has a well developed place in every particular. He erected two sets of buildings and has a large barn, garage, silos, tool sheds, machine sheds, silos, granary and the like. He now has a pleasant home in the city and occupies one of the farm houses as a summer home, the other being used by the tenant. He is county surveyor and devotes much of his time to civil engineering. Mr. Johnson was married Dec. 25, 1899, at Madison, Wis., to Louise March, daughter of Mills and Ruth (Knapp) March, of English-Canadian ancestry, pioneers of Juneau County, this state, where Mrs. Johnson was born, Nov. 25, 1869. The father died in Decorah, Iowa, in 1898, and the mother at Neillsville, Wis., in March, 1920. In the March family there were ten children: Sam is in Wayburn, Western Canada. Mattie is the wife of Tom Conklin of Chester, Iowa; Louise is Mrs. John A. H, Johnson of Chetek; Mignon is the wife of Delma Hull of Bellview, Wis. Ralph lives in St. Louis, Mo. Edmond is dead. Myra is dead. Richie is the wife of William Waterman of Neillsville. She was one of triplets, the other two of whom died in infancy. --Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., 1922, pp. 982-983.