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DR. M. E. JOHNSON was born in the town of Fayette, Boone county, Ind., Dec. 9, 1853. He was the eldest of three children of Isaac N. Johnson. His mother’s maiden name was Smith. When the son was three years old the father moved with the family to Jasper county, Mo., in 1856, where he remained until the commencement of the rebellion in 1861, when he moved to Indiana and remained there until 1865, when he returned to his Missouri farm, where he now lives, engaged in farming and stock-raising. Notwithstanding the disadvantages in consequence of the war and the destruction of property, law, and school, the Doctor received a good common school and college education, and at the age of twenty-one commenced the study of medicine under the instructions of Dr. E. Pinney. He afterward attended medical lectures at the Miami Medical College of Cincinnati, Ohio, where he graduated in February, 1880. Immediately after receiving his degree he established himself in the practice of his profession in the town of Preston, Jasper county, Mo., and has succeeded in building up a fine medical practice, which it is his constant pleasure to serve. Nov. 10, 1880, he was united in marriage with Lucy A. Unroe. Mrs. Johnson was born in Macon county, Illinois. The father was John T. Unroe, a well-known citizen of Jasper county, who immigrated from Virginia to Illinois in 1854 and from there to Missouri in 1869. Dr. and Mrs. Johnson have one child, Isaac Carlyle. The Doctor was born and bred a Democrat, and is a firm believer in the principles of Democracy.