Marshall County Biographies
HUTCHINSON JOHNSON.
The late Hutchinson Johnson, who was one of the pioneers of Bigelow
township, this county, and the proprietor of a fine farm in that township,
where his widow continues to make her home, was a native of the great
Keystone state and an honored veteran of the Civil War. He was born at
Troy, in Bradford county, Pennsylvania, December 17, 1840, a son of James
and Euphemia Johnson, the former of whom was twice married. Hutchinson Johnson was reared at Gallipolis, Ohio, and became a farmer in Meigs
county, that state, where he was living when the Civil War broke out. He
enlisted his services in behalf of the Union and went to the front with one
of the Ohio regiments. Upon the completion of his original term of enlistment he re-enlisted in Company G, First Artillery, February 3, 1864, and
served with that command until the close of the war, his total period of
service covering four years. Mr. Johnson was the owner of a piece of farming property in Ohio,
but not long after the completion of his military service sold that farm and in 1866 went to Iowa, settling on a farm in Wapello
county, that state.
In Iowa, in 1874, Hutchinson Johnson married Amanda Reeves, who
died in 1875. In the next year, 1876, he was united in marriage to Laura
Smith, who was born in Iowa on June 12, 1857, daughter of Willis and
Minerva (Smith) Smith, natives of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson continued
to make their home in Iowa until 1881, when they disposed of their interests
there and came to Kansas, settling on the farm in Bigelow township, this
county, where Mrs. Johnson is still living. Mr. Johnson bought a tract of
one hundred acres upon settling there, built a house and barn and presently
had a well-established farm plant, which he continued to develop and improve until the time of his death, one of the progressive and enterprising
farmers of that section of the county. He gave considerable attention to the
raising of high-grade live stock, with particular reference to Jersey cattle,
and did very well in his fanning operations. Since his death his widow, who
has continued the operations of the farm, had added an adjoining "forty"
to the place and is now the owner of an excellent farm of one hundred and
forty acres. Mr. Johnson, who died on October 24, 1907, was a Republican
and gave a good citizen's attention to local political affairs. He attended the
services of the Methodist Episcopal church and was an active member of the
local post of the Grand Army of the Republic at Irving, in the affairs of
which patriotic organization he ever took an earnest interest.
To Hutchinson and Laura (Smith) Johnson eight children were born,
namely: Amanda, born on January 1, 1878, who married Edgar Williams
and is now living at Alice, Texas; Sydney, May 12, 1882, now living near
Barrett, who married Edith Jones and has three children, Arline. Winifred
and Geneva; Clarence, February 19, 1884, now living at Barrett, who married Nellie Hodges and has one child, a daughter, Thelma : Effie, November
17, 1887, at home; William, January 5, 1891; Ray, July 26, 1893; Eva,
January 15, 1897, and Velma, August 26, 1899. Ray Johnson is serving
in the United States navy, now stationed on the "Huntington" in the Gulf
of Mexico. The Johnsons have a very pleasant home and take a proper part
in the general social activities of the community.
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