Johnson, W. T.

JOHNSON

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 11/10/2007 at 22:31:59

W. T. Johnson

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.102, Grove Twp.)
W. T. Johnson, farmer, P. O. Wheeler's Grove, was born in Kentucky July 15, 1829, son of Evander and Editha (Reedy) Johnson, both born in Kentucky, died in Illinois, he about 1869, she about 1871. They had six children, five of whom are living. Subject received a common school education; commenced life as a farmer, and married, in March, 1855, Elizabeth Dehort, born in Indiana in 1835, daugther of Larkin and Sarah (Collet) Dehort. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson have two children - Leander, born in Illinois; William R., born in April 1873. Subject is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, a Democrat, a member of the Vigilant Committee; and moved from Warren County, Ill., to this county in 1870, and bought 160 acres of land for $15 per acre; he now has about 400 acres, valued at about $30 per acre.