Newton Co., IN Biography

   GRAVES & JOHNSON (cont.)
   DEMPSEY M. JOHNSON, junior member of the firm of Graves and Johnson, 
came to Newton County, Indiana, in 1848, residing on the farm now owned 
by John F. Johnson, in Beaver Township, there being at the time but 
fifteen families within its borders; he remained there until 1876, 
when he came to Morocco, and bought the house and lot of I. M. Kinney, 
which he owned until 1883, when he exchanged it with D. M. Pulver for 
twenty acres near Morocco, where he still lives; he was born in Clinton 
County, Ohio, September 1, 1827, and is a son of Micajah and Margaret 
(Carson) Johnson; he received a practical education, remaining at home 
until twenty-one; he was married, in April, 1850 to Louisa Graves, a 
native of Ohio.  Four children have been born to them, two of whom--Mrs. 
John R. Archibald and Elizabeth--are still living.  In politics, Mr. 
Johnson is a Republican; before the formation of that party, a Whig.  
For the past fifteen years he has been a minister in the Christian 
Church, preaching at various places in Newton, Jasper, White, Cass, and 
Benton Counties, Indiana, and Iroquois and Kankakee Counties, Illinois.  
Beaver Township, Newton County.  

From A History of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton Counties, 1883.  


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