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Judge G. M. Johnson, whose prominent connection with the agricultural affairs of Perry County has been of material benefit, dates his residence in Arkansas from 1870. He was born in Spencer County, Ind., September 30, 1842, and is a son of Morris and Elizabeth (Martin) Johnson, the former a son of Solomon Johnson, who moved from Delaware to Kentucky, and from there to Indiana, in 1833, being among the first settlers of that State. Solomon Johnson was the father of four sons and one daughter, of whom Morris Johnson was the oldest, and was born April 29, 1806, and died August 14, 1887, his wife preceding him in July, 1865. Morris Johnson and his wife were the parents of two children: Sarah A. (who was born in June, 1844, and was married to George Youngblood, of Warrick County, Ind., and died in 1884, leaving two children). G. M. Johnson, the oldest child, spent his boyhood days principally in Indiana, and attended the public schools of that State. He was but nineteen years of age at the outbreak of the war, but enlisted in the Twelfth Kentucky Cavalry, September 10, 1862, and served until September 7, 1865, being mustered out at Louisville, Ky. Judge Johnson was present at the siege of Knoxville and with Sherman on the Atlanta campaign, after which event he went to Louisville and was remounted, being sent on the Saltville raid in Virginia, under Gen. Stoneman, and took part in the fights at Marion (Va.), Wytheville and several others. They then returned and captured the city of Saltville, after which they marched to Mount Sterling, and from there to Lexington, Ky. After being mustered out the Judge returned home, where he remained until April, 1868, when he removed to Polk County, Mo. He resided in that county two years, and then came to Conway County, Ark., where he lived four or five months, and then to Pope County until 1877. In August of that year he moved to Perry County, where he has resided ever since. Judge Johnson was married in Indiana to Miss Mary Young in 1865, by whom he has had two children: William M. (born November 24, 1866, and died October 10, 1876) and Samuel E. (born March 1, 1868.) He lost his wife August 16, 1870, and on January 3, 1871, he was married to Miss Ruth Womack, by whom he has had seven children: Marion A. (born April 1, 1872), Horace C. (born July 27, 1873), Sarah A (born October 10, 1875, and died in 1884), Evalina (born March 1,1878, and died October, 1880), Jim Morris (born December 26, 1879), Carrie (born August 22, 1883) and Viola (born December 2, 1885). The Judge leases a fine farm of 270 acres all of it under cultivation. He is a Republican in politics, and in 1882 was elected county judge for one term, and four years previous held the office of justice of the peace. He is also a member of the G. A. R.