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A. M. JOHNSON, of Grant township, Franklin county, Nebr., was born in Sweden, in 1836. His father, John Monson, was born in 1792, was a prosperous farmer, and died in 1871, a member of the Lutheran church. He was married, in 1812, to Mary Greta Anderson, who was born in 1797, became the mother of five children, and died in 1873 — a good, kind, christian woman. The children were named as follows — Caroline, Gustaf, Halda Sophia (deceased), Nels (in Nebraska), and A. M.

A. M. Johnson came to America in 1868 and traveled through the country, looking for a desirable abiding place, until 1872, when he reached Nebraska. He had learned the carpenter’s trade in the old country and had also studied music, but his first employment in this country was at coffin-making in Chicago. On arriving in Nebraska, he settled on section 35, township 2, range 13 west, Franklin county, where he is highly respected as a good, honest, reliable citizen. January 15, 1872, he married Miss Mary Crilly, who was born in Ireland, in 1840, and in 1868 came to the United States with her brother, McKee Crilly. They stopped at Davenport, Iowa, and there her marriage to Mr. Johnson took place. No children have been born to this union, but they have an adopted son, Fernando, whom they took from the Orphans’ Home at Elmira, N. Y., and who gives promise of becoming a useful and respected citizen. Mr. Johnson and family are members of the Congregational church, of which he is now a trustee, and for a number of years was a deacon. In politics, he is a republican.