Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Johnson, Taylor 1832 - 
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   TAYLOR JOHNSON, a leading Scandinavian farmer of Collinwood township, living on
section 9, was born in Sweden June 10, 1832, and is the son of John and Christina
Johnson. At the age of eleven years he commenced to learn the tailor’s trade, and
followed that line of business in his native land until 1858, when, with a natural
desire to better his condition in life, he crossed the ocean to America. He settled
in Carver county, this State, putting in his time on a twenty-acre tract that he
purchased there, and in working for his neighbors, until August 20, 1862, when he
enlisted in Company H, Ninth Minnesota Infantry. The next day he heard of the Indian
outbreak, and took his family to an island in Clearwater Lake, where many others had
fled for safety, where they camped without shelter from the rain. Three days later
Mrs. Johnson went home to their little cabin in the brush, with her four children,
her husband going with his regiment to Glencoe. He remained in that locality until
spring, and then participated in the Sibley expedition, and was present at the
hanging of the thirty-eight Indians at Mankato. In October, 1863, he, with the
regiment, was ordered South, and met the enemy at Guntown, Miss. They also were
engaged in the siege and capture of Mobile. Our subject was mustered out of service
in October, 1865, and returned to his home. While he was absent in the army, his
wife was laid up by sickness brought on by exposure, and for the last week of her
illness she and her little ones were without food or fire, although it was cold
winter weather. An old man hobbled over on crutches, finally, to find what had
become of them, and helped them out of their distress by sawing up some wood and
sending in some provisions.

   In the spring of 1866 Mr. Johnson removed to Minneapolis, where he was employed
in lumber yards, etc., until the spring of 1869, when he came to Collinwood township
and settled where he now lives. He was married November 1, 1855, to Christina Louisa
Anderson, a native of Sweden, born June 12, 1835, and daughter of Andrew and Katrina
Anderson. They have had eleven children, namely— Hulda, born December 11, 1856, died
January 11, 1873; Frank Victor, born January 1, 1859; Abbie, born October 9, 1860;
Clara, born August 3, 1862; Godfrey, born April 30, 1866, and died September 10,
1866; August, born July 24, 1867; Josephine, born October 22, 1869; Ida, born
December 25, 1871, and died September 16, 1878; Alice, born April 14, 1874; Hulda,
born July 9, 1876, and died April 24, 1880; and Nathaniel, born March 26, 1878.

  Mr. Johnson is a zealous member of the Lutheran Church. In politics he is a
republican of the strict type, and is an influential citizen. His estimable wife is
beloved by all with whom she comes in contact, and her home-loving tastes are
abundantly testified to by the multitude of choice plants and flowering shrubs that
adorn and beautify her home, and make winter lovely with summer’s perfumes and
verdure.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:
Illustrated Album of Biography
Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota
1888




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