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GEORGE W. JOHNSON, farmer, Sec. 2; P. O. Le Roy; born in what is now Downs Township, McLean Co., Feb. 10, 1845; he is a son of James R. Johnson — one of the early pioneers — who was born in Kentucky in the year 1808, and emigrated to Illinois about the year 1830, and located in Downs Township, where he entered eighty acres of land, upon which he lived until his decease, which occurred in August, 1866. He was married in White Co., to Mary Satterfield; she was born about the year 1812; she is now living in West Township, McLean Co. The subject of this sketch lived with his father until the decease of the latter, when he continued to manage the old place for five years, after which he lived in West Township four years, and in January, 1878, purchased his present place of eighty acres, upon which he then located and where he now lives. His marriage with Maranda P. Collins was celebrated Oct. 12, 1871; she was born in McLean Co., Nov. 6, 1853; they have one child by this union — Nora Mabel, born Nov. 5, 1874. Mrs. Johnson is a daughter of Robert Collins, who was one of the early settlers, and whose biography appears in another part of this work.