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. |