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James E. Johnson, farmer, Saratoga, Ark. On January 8, 1843, there was born to the union of J. F. and Henrietta (Walker) Johnson, a son, whom we will now take as the subject of this sketch. His birth occurred in Hempstead County, Ark., and he was the eldest of eight children, four of whom are now living: J. H. (who is a railroad official in Texarkana, Ark.), J. Y. (a farmer of Columbus, Hempstead County) and Lucy (who is the wife of J. M. Stewart, and resides near Ozan, Ark.). James E. Johnson was reared principally in Hempstead County, and after receiving a fair education in the common schools attended the Lebanon University, at Lebanon, Tenn., for one year. During the late unpleasantness between the North and South, he enlisted in the Confederate army as private in Company A, Second Arkansas Mounted Rifles, and participated in the battles of Oak Hill, Elkhorn and was with Johnson in Georgia and Tennessee. He was wounded in the battle of Peach Tree Creek near Atlanta, by being shot through the thigh. He was with Johnson in North Carolina at the time of the surrender, and in 1862 was promoted to the rank of sergeant. After the war he returned to Arkansas, where he engaged in farming, and this occupation he has continued up to the present time. He is the owner of 360 acres of land, with about 300 acres under cultivation, and this yields about one-half bale of cotton or twenty-five bushels of corn to the acre. Mr. Johnson was married in 1866 to Miss Jennie Miller, a native of Tennessee, and daughter of a highly respected family at Germantown, Tenn. To Mr. and Mrs. Johnson have been born four children: Joseph M., Mathew C, De Bois, and Henrietta, who died when young. Joseph M. is at present engaged in merchandising at Fulton, Ark., and the other two are at home. Mr. Johnson is not very active in politics, but votes with the Democratic party. He is a liberal supporter of all public enterprises, and is one of the progressive farmers of the county. His parents were from the older States.