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Title: A history of the upper peninsula of Michigan ...
Author: Fuller, George N. (George Newman), 1873-1957.
Collection: Michigan County Histories Page 250 - 251


Elmer Johnson is giving an effective administration as county treasurer of Dickinson county and has been a resident of Iron Mountain, the county seat, since his early childhood. Mr. Johnson was born in Sweden, March 7, 1880, and about two years later the family left their native land and came to the United States. Solomon Samuel Johnson, father of the subject of this review, first established residence at Florence, Wisconsin, in 1882, but in the following year he came with his family to Iron Mountain, and found employment as a miner. He continued for many years to be identified with operations in the mines of this district and is now living retired, in Iron Mountain, at the age of seventy-seven years (1926). His wife, Elizabeth, died in 1924, at the age of seventy years, she having been an earnest member of the Swedish Mission church at Iron Mountain, as is also Mr. Johnson. The present popular treasurer of Dickinson county received in the Iron Mountain public schools his early education, which was supplemented by one year of study in North Park college in the city of Chicago. In the period of 1901-15 he was in the service of the Chicago & North Western railroad, and in 1915, in a railroad accident, he received physical injuries that incapacitated him for further activity during a period of about three years. In 1918 he was chosen deputy county treasurer of Dickinson county, and this position he retained until 1922, when he was elected county treasurer, the responsible fiscal office of which he has since continued the efficient and loyal incumbent. Mr. Johnson is a staunch supporter of the cause of the Republican party, and is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks, the Swedish Society of America and the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. His wife has membership in the Pythian Sisters and is a communicant of the Lutheran church, she having been born in Wisconsin, of German ancestry. In June, 1908, occurred the marriage of Mr. Johnson to Miss Emma Weidenmeier, and the two children of this union are Cecil and William, the former being fifteen and the latter six years of age at the time of this writing, in the winter of 1926-27.


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