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Johnson County Locales:
Johnson County Newspapers - Some extracts available
Johnson County Cemeteries:
Online Burial Records ~ Extracts of gravestones by C.L. Morrissey.
Johnson County Marriages:
Online Marriage Records ~ by C. L. MorrisseyPeople of Johnson County:
Johnson County Family Histories - Including Obituaries and Biographies (please share your family history, submit any obits printed 1922 or earlier)
Notes about Johnson County incidents & people from "Nebraska History & Record of Pioneer Days", early journals of NSHS.
Johnson County Online Reading:
Lincoln State Journal ~ 5 June 1887
Read about: Elk Creek, Sterling, & Tecumseh
Read the whole paper: "The Immigrant Issue"Andreas' History of Johnson County
"Portrait and Biographical Album" of Johnson and Pawnee Counties, NE.
Pages 153-417 include Johnson county. Pages 425-626 include Pawnee county."Nebraska State Gazetteer, Business Directory and Farmers List for 1890-91" J.M. Wolfe & Co., Publishers, 1890.
Business List - Farmers List"Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences" - collection issued by NE D.A.R. in 1916. See - Biography of Ford Lewis (early landowner in Johnson Co.), page 129.
Compendium of History Remininscence & Biography of NEBRASKA includes biographies for the following persons that were in Johnson county: R.H. "Bert" Harris, Joseph Zimmerer.
Who's Who in Johnson County, Nebraska - Published in 1940.
Here Half A Century - Persons who resided in Johnson county before the state was admitted.
Nebraska State Genealogical Society - Link to society website and Johnson County excerpts from back issues of Ancestree.
Johnson County Census:
1854 NE Territorial Census, District 1 includes part of Johnson Co. as extracted & appeared in the Nebraska and Midwest Genealogical Record
1856 NE Territorial Census: Johnson County is interpolated with Nemaha Co. from Nebraska & Midwest Genealogical Record.
Johnson County Veterans:
Roster of Heckathorn Post No. 47, G.A.R.
Civil War Veterans - Biographies of Johnson County Civil War Veterans
Draft Registration list - 5 June 1917
Summary of Service Men in Johnson County during WW I from "Nebraska Military" WW I, Johnson County, NE at NSHS Library, Lincoln, NE. Collection Number RGD18.
Johnson County Education:
Education in Johnson County - Teachers and Students in Johnson County