WI BIO - Dane Co - JOHNSON, John C.
Biographical Review of Dane County, WI. Chicago: Biographical Review Pub. Co. 
1893, Vol II, pp 434-435

John C. JOHNSON, a successful business man of Dane County, WI, was born in 
Norway, 08 Oct 1848, a son of John and Anna JOHNSON, both born and reared in 
Norway. The father, a shoemaker by trade, came to America in 1867, locating 
in Stoughton, Dane County, WI, where he still resides. The mother died about 
eighteen years ago [about 1875].

John C. JOHNSON, our subject, received a district school education, and began 
life for himself as a farmer in Blooming Grove Township, Dane County, WI. In 
1879 he was employed as salesman in a sample room in Stoughton, and one year 
later embarked in the same business for himself, continuing that nine years. 
One and a half years afterward he purchased thirty acres of land in the city 
limits, subdivided ten acres, which was known as the John C. Johnson 
Addition, and later subdivided ten acres more, known as Johnson's Addition. 
In 1882 our subject erected a handsome two-story brick building on the corner 
of Main and Paige Streets, and also has considerable other property.

John C. JOHNSON was married in this city [Stoughton, Dane County, WI], 01 May 
1877, to Emma JOHNSON, a native of McFarland [Dane County, WI], but educated 
in Stoughton. Mr. and Mrs. John C. JOHNSON have five living children: 
Elmer, Roy, Clyde, Irving and Victor. Two of their children, Ernest and 
Ernie, who were twins, died in infancy, aged respectively seven and nineteen 
months. Politically Mr. JOHNSON affiliates with the Democrats, and served as 
Alderman of the 2nd Ward of Stoughton.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly