Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....JOHNSON, ERICK H. April 10, 1865 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wi/wifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Tina Vickery tsvickery@adelphia.net March 11, 2007, 9:56 pm Author: The State Printing Board, Compiled and Published. MEMBERS OF THE ASSEMBLY BURNETT AND WASHBURN COUNTIES ERICK H. JOHNSON (Rep.) received 2,896 of the 2,910 votes cast for assemblyman in Burnett and Washburn counties in November, 1922. He was born April 10, 1865, in Hogfors, Sweden, arrived in the United States June 18, 1868, and resided at Peshtigo for one year; was educated in the common schools of Wisconsin and Gustavus Adolphus college, St. Peter, Minn., and is a farmer and merchant. He was elected town clerk in 1888; justice of the peace since 1895, assessor, 1910; town treasurer, 1915-20; postmaster at Frederic under President McKinley; member county school committee, 1917-18. He is a member of various farmer organizations, member of the National Geographic society, American-Scandinavian foundation, life member of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin and member of the Augustana Synod of the Lutheran church. He has been a Progressive Republican for twenty years. He was elected to the assembly in 1920 and served as a member of the committee on Insurance and Banking and was re-elected in November, 1922. Additional Comments: The Wisconsin Blue Book. The State Printing Board, 1923. 598 - 640. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/history/bluebook/1923/bios/johnson59nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/wifiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb