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History of Cass County, Iowa
Springfield, ILL.:
Continental Historical Company, 1884

This biography was transcribed by Linda Talbott
for the U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/

Copyright (c) 2011 by Linda Talbott

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  Isaac Johnson, who resides in Edna township, came in November, 1858.
  Isaac Johnson was born in the town of Bethany, Genesee county, New York,
in 1827, and there grew to manhood.  He resided on a farm until he was
fifteen years of age, when he learned the shoemakers' trade.  His father,
Seril Johnson, was a native of Vermont, and when four

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years of age his parents emigrated to the Western frontier, and settled in
Genesee county.  He married Miss Launda Greene.  Isaac Johnson worked at
his trade until he was eighteen years of age, when he moved to Ohio, and
settled in Ashtabula county, at Rock Creek, and there worked at his trade.
In 1850 he started with a team for Wisconsin, driving through Michigan,
Indiana and Illinois, and after driving about nine weeks, he located in
Rock county, Wisconsin, and there remained until the fall of 1850, when he
returned to Ohio, and there spent eighteen months, when he returned to Rock
county, and continued farming, and working at his trade until November,
1858, when he started with a team for Cass county, and bought a homestead
in Victoria township, and lived a short time in Lewis.  In 1860 he made a
visit to Pike's Peak, and on his return he began to work at his trade in
Lewis.  In 1865 he settled at his present location, on section 5, Edna
township, where he owns a farm of two hundred acres of land, and has one of
the finest residences in the township.  Mr. Johnson was married in January,
1847, to Miss Sophronia Walden, and by their union they have been blessed
with six children -- Earl W., Lafayette M., Vernett J., Oscar F., Eugene M.
and Elmer G.

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