BIOGRAPHIES: John W. JOHNSON, Dallas, 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 W. Johnson, garage man of Dallas, was born in Norway, June 27, 1881, son of John and Gurena (Ellingson) Wintroen, natives of Norway, who came to America in 1888 and settled in Dallas Township, this county, where they bought 80 acres in Section 10, west. This land they cleared and erected outbuildings and there lived for twenty years, afterward selling to their son, Ellen, and purchasing 73 acres in Section 9, west, Dallas Township, a part of which they cleared and erected a barn and granary. The father died Dec. 22, 1904, and the mother, Oct. 13, 1908. In the family were nine children: Ellen, Gilbert, John W., Andrew, Helena, Mary, Carrie, Julia and Olive. John W. received his education in the district schools and worked for his father until 1897. Then for some years he was employed in lumber and sawmill work in Sawyer County. In 1901 he came back to Dallas and took charge of his father's farm. He went to Duluth in 1905 as an employe of the Duluth & Iron Range Railway Company. In 1906 he became manager of the Anderson Hotel in Dallas Village. Four years later he became manager of the Dallas Warehouse of the M. A. Gedney Pickle Company. He went to California in 1915 and there worked on a fruit farm but the next year returned to Dallas and resumed hisemployment in the pickle warehouse. In 1919 he formed his present partnership with Norval Severud in the garage business. His wife, in company with Mrs. Sofus Moe, operates a restaurant in a building which Mr. Johnson purchased in 1918. Mr. Johnson was married May 24, 1905, to Minnie Bunker, born May 10, 1888, daughter of Peter and Johanna Bunker. Her parents were natives of Norway, who settled at an early date at Strum, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin. From that locality they came to Barron County, in 1887, settling on a farm in Dallas Township. Both have passed away. --Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., 1922, pp. 832-833.