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Below is a family biography included in The History of Jasper County, Missouri published by Mills & Company in 1883. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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JOHN A. JOHNSON was born in Sweden, Jan. 10, 1828, and came to America in 1873. He has been twice married; the first time he married Annie Catrena, in October, 1849, who was born in Sweden, and died childless in 1856, in the fatherland. He was again married in September, 1878, to Mrs. Annie Dolstrom, who was born in Sweden, in September, 1831, and came to this country in 1865, having three children, and two dead, by her former husband. Both are members of the Lutheran Church. The subject of our sketch has a farm of 360 acres in Twin Grove township, about 160 of it being improved. Last season thirty-five acres were sown to wheat, averaging twenty-one bushels to the acre, besides oats and corn. There is a young orchard of apple, peach, and plum trees. Mr. Johnson is a man full of business enterprise, and in many years the whole farm, under his care, will be thoroughly tilled and yielding abundant crops.
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