Lacrosse-Dodge-Monroe County WI Archives Biographies.....Johnson, Jerry October 1840 - 
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JERRY JOHNSON, engineer, running a switch engine on C., M. & St. P. R. R., at 
La Crosse, is a native of Columbia Co., Penn.; born in October, 1840, at 
Esther Furnace, four miles south of Catawissa Village. His father, William M. 
Johnson, was also a native of the same county, came from there to Wisconsin in 
March, 1856, and settled on a farm in Dodge Co., near Beaver Dam, where he 
resided till the spring of 1878; then came to La Crosse, where he still is 
living. Jerry Johnson came to La Crosse in 1866, and commenced firing on the 
C., M. & St. P. R. R.; has been in the employ of that company ever since, and 
has been running an engine since 1870. He was married, in Sparta, Wis., in 
1875, to Miss Clara, daughter of Rev. E. Yocum, of the M. E. Church. She died 
May 22, 1878, leaving two children - Willie Ray and Clarence. The youngest 
one, Clarence, died soon after the mother, when only two months old.

Additional Comments:
From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 764.

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