Newton Co., IN Biography

   JOHN F. JOHNSON was born in Montgomery County, Indiana May 22, 1834; 
he is the youngest of eleven children of Micajah M. and Margaret (Carson) 
Johnson, both natives of Virginia, removing soon after their marriage to 
Greene County, Ohio, crossing the mountains on horseback, each carrying 
a baby.  John's early childhood was spent in Montgomery and Tippecanoe 
Counties, where he received a common school education.  In 1857, his 
parents removed to Washington Township, Newton County, Indiana, where 
his father died in 1859; he remained upon the home farm until after 
the death of his mother, when, in 1876, he moved to Kentland, having 
been elected County Treasurer, which office he held four years.  At the 
expiration of his term he came to Beaver Township, bought a farm of 160 
acres, where he still resides; he was at one time Commissioner of 
Newton County; has also been Assessor and teacher in common schools.  
April 17, 1858, he married Mary Graves, a native of Tippecanoe County.  
Four children have been born to them, three of whom--Orley A., James L. 
and Edwin G., are living.  Mr. Johnson and wife belong to the Christian 
Church.  In politics, he is a thorough Republican, and one of the 
prominent men of the county.  

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

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