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Dade Johnson, circuit clerk of Putnam County, was born in Elm Township August 27, 1848, where he was reared upon a farm. At the age of sixteen he began to teach in the public schools of Putnam and Schuyler Counties, and continued to devote his time principally to that calling, especially during the winter months, until 1875. In 1865 he enlisted in the Federal army, serving in the Thirteenth Missouri Cavalry until the close of the war. In 1875 he embarked in the mercantile business at Hartford, Putnam County, in which he remained about eight months. In 1879 he was elected county treasurer by the Greenback party, and in the fall of 1886 was elected to his present office. At the time of his last election he was in the employ of the Mendota Coal Company. October 3, 1869, he married Margaret M. Hedrick, a native of this county, born October 24, 1850, by whom the following children have been born: Minnie Viola, born September 9, 1871; Ira D., born September 26, 1874; Edwin E., born June 6, 1877, and Daisy E., born November 22, 1882. Mr. Johnson now owns the old homestead of ninety-five acres in Elm Township, and forty additional acres. He is the tenth child of a family of eight sons and four daughters born to Jefferson and Nancy (Clemens) Johnson, natives of Clinton County, Ky., and Virginia, and born December 3, 1809, and November 21, 1810, respectively. The father died May 20, 1886, the mother in 1883. Jefferson Johnson and wife came to Missouri in 1842, locating in Putnam County, where they soon entered land, and reared their family, all living to maturity, and but one now deceased. Seven of the sons served in the Federal service, five of them being in the regular army. Nine of the eleven surviving members of the family reside in Putnam County. Their names are as follows: Henry, Calvin, Elisabeth J., J. M., Daniel, Sarah A., Isaac N., Thomas B., Preston, Dade, Elijah A. and Susan Jane.