BIOGRAPHIES:  Ralph L. JOHNSON, Maple Grove Township, Barron County, WI

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Ralph L. Johnson, an energetic and prosperous farmer owning 120 acres in
Section 17, east, Maple Grove Township, was born in the township where he
still lives, Aug. 6, 1892, son of Thor H. and Wilhelmina (Storm) Johnson. He
attended the district school, took a two-years' course at the Chetek High
School, and in 1910 was graduated from the Chippewa Valley Business College at
Chippewa Falls. Then for a time he was employed by the Jenney, Semple & Hill
Wholesale House in Minneapolis. He purchased his present place in 1912. Before
this, in addition to attending school and working in Minneapolis for a while,
he had operated the home farm for a while and a rented farm for some three
years. He now successfully carries on general farming and dairying, having a
good herd of Holsteins, with a full-blooded sire at the head, and a good drove
of Duroc-Jersey swine. Fraternally, Mr. Johnson is a member of the Mystic
Workers. He and his family attend the Free Mission Church. Mr. Johnson was
married April 10, 1917, to Garda Olson, daughter of William and Alice
(Gulickson) Olson, natives respectively of Wisconsin and Norway, the former of
whom is dead, and the latter of whom lives in Stanley Township, this county.
Mr. and Mrs. Johnson have one child, Norma W., born July 1, 1918.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., &
Co., 1922, pg. 179.