Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
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HARVEY JOHNSON

Harvey JOHNSON, a representative farmer of Jefferson Township, whose farm home is on section 19, was born in Harrison County, June 22, 1865, the son of Archy and Olive (OWENS) JOHNSON. The father is a native of Scotland, while the mother was born in Indiana. Our subject was reared in Jefferson Township, on his father's farm, where he remained until he had reached his majority, and still lingered about the old home, but rented his father's farm, conducting the same until April, 1890, when he bought the place upon which he now lives, the same being ninety-eight acres of well-improved land, lying one-half mile south of Logan.

Mr. JOHNSON was united in marriage in Harrison County, September 26, 1888, to Miss Allie McCOID, daughter of James and Emeline (STRAIGHT) McCOID. Allie McCOID was born in Harrison County, December 9, 1865.

Mr. and Mrs. JOHNSON both received their education in the common and High Schools of Logan. Mrs. JOHNSON was a teacher in the Primary Department at Logan, four years prior to her marriage. In September, 1891, she engaged with the school again, teaching the same classes in the second Primary Department.

Mr. and Mrs. JOHNSON are both acceptable members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is Superintendent of the Logan Methodist Episcopal Sabbath school at this time.

Politically, he is identified with the Republican party, and is a man well posted in the political history of the country, and has proven himself an efficient campaign speaker, both in his own and adjoining counties.

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