EDWARD JOHNSON
Edward Johnson, son of Henry and Bashaba Johnson, was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, on the 23d of December, 1852. In November, 1858, his parents came to Iowa, and located in Clark county, where his father died in 1867. Edward being the eldest of the children, was looked upon as the support of the family. He went to Page county, Iowa, in 1868 and there did farm work for nearly one year, thence to Red Oak, and was there engaged in the same occupation. He remained there about four years, when he came to Cass county, and worked for himself. He purchased a team and began breaking the prairie and threshing his grain. He was married on the 9th of November, 1876, to Miss Amanda, daughter of W.W. Haworth. She was born in Cass township, this county, in October, 1859. Mr. Johnson bought eighty acres of land on section 29, and resided there two years, when he exchanged with J.S. Haworth, for two hundred and eighty-two acres on sections 16 and 17. His farm is one of the finest in the township, and it is greatly owing to Mr. Johnson's intelligence and good management. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson have three children...Forest, born in 1878; William, born in November, 1880, and Lillie M., born in 1883.
Transcribed by Gloria Goltiani from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 515.
