JOHNSON, A. W.

JOHNSON

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Date: 12/9/2001 at 09:06:40

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF De Witt TWP.
From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879) pgs 736-751

A. W. JOHNSON, proprietor of livery stable, De Witt; was born in Washington Co.. Ohio, in 1836; his father, Erastus Johnson, removed to Illinois in 1850, and died in 1877. Mr. Johnson came to De Witt in 1867, and engaged in the livery business; he is also engaged in breeding fine horses, making a specialty of the Morgan; has now several fine specimens of that famous stock of horses. He married, in 1857, Mary J. Johnson; they have five children-Horace, Frank, Walter, Laura and Nellie-the last two, twins.