Biographical Sketches:  HENRY JOHNSON


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The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of Wm. H. Froehlich, Secretary of State 1901.

page 759

ASSEMBLYMEN.

GEO. H. RAY, Speaker; W. A. NOWELL, Chief Clerk; A. M. ANDERSON,
Sergeant-at-Arms.

The Assembly consists of 100 members. They fire chosen biennially and
receive $500 for their service during the term. The Speaker Is chosen
by the members and receives an additional $500 for his services as
Speaker. The Assembly of 1901 contains 82 Republicans and 18
Democrats.

OCONTO COUNTY.  Population, 1900 -- 20,874.  (Unchanged by
apportionment of 1901.)

HENRY JOHNSON (Rep.), of Suring, was born in Demark Dec. 2, 1854,
where he received a common school education, and came to America in
1873, settling in Oshkosh, where he remained until 1879.  He then
bought land in the town of How, Oconto County, to which he moved and
engaged in farming and lumbering.  During the last three years he as
also conducted a general warehouse and real estate business in Suring.
He has been chairman of the town board two years and town treasurer
nine years.  In the election of 1900 he received 2,632 votes for the
office of assemblyman, against 1,246 votes for Peter D. Levy (Dem.).