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JOHNSON, M. C., sheriff of Page county, P. O. Clarinda; born April 13, 1845, in Erie county, Pennsylvania. At the age of five years he came with his parents to Rockford, Illinois. The family lived there about one year, then moved to Boone county, Iowa, where they remained until the fall of 1858, when they located in Page county. Here the subject of this sketch has grown to manhood on a farm. He enlisted June 15, 1861, in company F, first Nebraska infantry, and served to May 2, 1866. He was then honorably discharged. He was in all the skirmishes and battles in which his regiment was engaged. On returning home he resumed farming and stock raising; after four years he turned his attention mostly to the stock business which he followed for two years, at the close of which time he went into the hardware business at College Springs. This he followed about six years, the last two of which he kept the post office at that place. He then sold out and for two years turned his attention again to farming and trading. In 1879 he was elected sheriff of Page county, assuming the duties of that office January 1, 1880. He is well qualified to fill the office to which the people have elected him, and will, no doubt, give entire satisfaction to the people of the county. He was married March 7, 1867, to Miss R. Jennie Skinner, a native of Ohio. They have three children: Charles J., D. Willmot, and Minnie May.