Charles Johnson

JOHNSON, CULBERT

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Date: 3/6/2002 at 21:25:38

Charles Johnson was born in England, February 2, 1822. He came to America in 1840, and after spending two years in New York State, located in Walworth county, Wisconsin, where he bought 160 acres of land and improved it. For some years afterwards he engaged in freighting between Milwaukee and Watertown. In 1851, he settled on the farm he had previously purchased, and there lived for ten years. At the expiration of that time he moved to Sheboygan county, and, after living there four years, went to Chickasaw county, Iowa, and one year later came to Butler county, Iowa, and settled on section 23 of Shell Rock township, where he lived until the fall of 1882, when he moved into the village of Shell Rock. In 1851, he was united in marriage with Margaret Culbert. Three children – William, Mary and Ella – have been born to them.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page: 702