BIOGRAPHIES: Peter O. JOHNSON, Barron, Barron County, WI

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Peter 0. Johnson, a most estimable citizen, now deceased, was a
substantial honest-minded farmer and by developing his own place had his
share in the general prosperity of the community. He was born in Sweden,
Nov. 24, 1868, and was there educated and learned the cabinet-making trade.
He came to America in 1887, lived a short time in Canada, and then found
his way to Wisconsin. He came to Barron County, then a wild country, in
1888, and purchased 40 acres in Prairie Farm Township. He cleared some 15
or 20 acres of this, erected a good set of buildings himself, and devoted a
part of his time to its cultivation while he also worked in the
neighborhood as a carpenter, assisting to build many of the early homes in
the vicinity. In 1898 he sold his farm and retired to Barron City, where he
did cabinet work until his death, Feb. 28, 1912. He was a member of the
Maccabees, and he and his family were communicants of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. Mr. Johnson was married June 26, 1893, to Mary Johnson,
born in Denmark Dec 15, 1874, daughter of Thomas and Hannah (Jacobson)
Johnson, and this union has been blessed with five children -- Anna, born
Oct. 16, 1894, is now the wife of Harold Perry, of Barron City; Ella, born
Aug. 28, 1895, is stenographer and secretary for the superintendent of
schools of Barron County; Henry, born Feb. 15, 1898, is an electrician at
Barron City; Chester, born March 7, 1900, is a garage man in Barron City;
and Palmer, born Jan. 30, 1903, is attending the Barron High School.

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