Hi Rich, I am in the middle of compiling an every name index to the Clinton
County book. When I get that done there will probably be more. This is what I
found so far. I hope it helps. I am cross posting this to the list so maybe
others can benefit also.
you wrote:
Chris, would you check and see what you have in your book for
Johnston or
Johnson in Clinton CO? Hope I haven't sent you this request before.
Thanks
Rich Johnston
From: A Portrait and Biographical Record of Boone and Clinton Counties, Ind.,
Containing Biographical Sketches of Many Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies and Portraits of all the Presidents of the
United States, and Biographies of the Governors of Indiana.
Published by A.W. Bowen & Co. in Chicago 1895. 908 pages.
HENRY C. JOHNSON is a prosperous farmer of Union township, Clinton county,
Ind., of which county he is a native. He was born August 12, 1853, and is
the son of Joseph S. and Sarah A (Perry) Johnson, natives of New Jersey and of
Scotch-Irish descent. Joseph Johnson was born November 17, 1806, and when a
lad was brought west by his father, John Johnson, to Butler county, Ohio.
John Johnson was a weaver and a farmer, settled in Butler county, Ohio, and
died about the year 1850. He was the father of six children, all of whom are
now deceased, and were named John, Catherine, Ann, William, Joseph S. and Mary
J. The father of Henry C. Johnson learned the trade of weaving with his
father, which trade he followed until 1838, when he came to Clinton county,
Ind., and here entered 160 acres of land, which he had increased, before his
death, October 24, 1890, to 440 acres. The marriage of Joseph Johnson took
place in 1836; his wife was born July 25, 1813, and died in September, 1882.
To Joseph Johnson and first wife were born the following children: Martha,
Peter S., David, Garrett S., Francis M., Henry C., John F., all living, and
John, William and James, deceased.
Henry C. Johnson was well trained to his vocation of agriculture on his
father's farm, on which he resided until October 10, 1875, when he married
Miss Martha McAdams, who bore him five children, of whom two are living, viz:
Leroy B., born September 6, 1879; and Earley 0., born February 25, 1882.
Those deceased were named Ida, Daisy and Arett. Mr. Johnson took for his
second helpmate, March 15, 1894, Anna Cadle, daughter of James and Francis
(Avery) Cadle. James Cadle was born in Mercer county, Va. (now West
Virginia), March 4, 1822, and was a son of Nathan and Sarah (Neddons) Cadle.
He married Miss Francis Avery October 10, 1865. This lady is a daughter of
Andrew and Martha (West) Avery, natives of North Carolina, and was born May
17, 1869. Mr. Johnson is now well located on his farm of seventy acres,
enjoys the esteem of all his neighbors, and with his present bright prospects
before him has much to hope from the future. In politics he is a stanch
democrat.
pp.738-739 transcribed by Chris Brown
J0HNSON & KERRICK .~ Prominent among the successful business men of Frankfort
are Messrs. Johnson & Kerrick, proprietors of a large livery barn and sale
stable on the corner of Columbia and Washington streets, their place being one
of the largest and most extensively patronized of the kind in the city. They
do a business second to that of no other livery firm in the county, keep on
hand constantly most excellent stock, and in addition to their general livery
business, buy and sell horses, in which their success has been of a most
gratifying na-ture. Their building is well equipped in all its departments,
and their aim has ever been to please the public, and how well they have
succeeded is sufficiently attested by the large and constantly increasing
patronage which they now enjoy.
W. F. Johnson was born in Edgar county, Ill., May 31, 1859, the son of W. F.
and Mar-garet (Mays) Johnson, natives respectively of Illinois and Ohio. The
father died when the subject of this sketch was scarcely more than a year old,
and the widowed mother, with her son and two daughters, continued to reside on
the home farm in Illinois until the subject had reached the age of nineteen
years, when the family moved to Rush county, Ind., where the mother still
resides. W. F. Johnson was reared to agricultural pursuits, educated in the
public schools and began life for himself as a tiller of the soil in Rush
county, where he lived until his removal to Frankfort on the fifteenth of
July, 1893. On coming to this city Mr. Johnson purchased an interest in the
Porter Bros. livery stable, and: later, became sole proprietor of the
business, continuing the
same until January of the following year, when his brother-in-law, L. H.
Kerrick, became his partner under the firm name of Johnson & Kerrick. In 1887
Mr. Johnson was united in marriage to Miss Luna Kerrick of Decatur county,
Ind. Mr. Johnson has fully demons-trated his abilities as an active and
successful business man, and he enjoys a full measure of the confidence and
esteem of the public. He is a member of the Masonic order and in every
respect a most reputable and praiseworthy gentleman.
L. H. Kerrick, junior member of the firm of Johnson & Kerrick, is an Indianian
by birth and a native of the county of Decatur. He was born October 26, 1874,
the son of Nimrod and Sarah Ann (Humphrey) Kerrick, highly respectable
citizens of Decatur county, and grew to manhood amid the active scenes of farm
life. Mr. Kerrick remained with his father, who is one of the most extensive
and successful farmers of the county of Decatur, until 1894, in January of
which year he came to Frankfort, and, as already stated, purchased an interest
in the livery business with which he is now identified. He is well qualified
to conduct the business to which his attention is now being devoted, and since
becoming a resident of Frankfort has won a conspicuous place in the estimation
of its citizens.
pp. 739-740 transcribed by Chris Brown
on page 592 Jasper Johnson is mentioned as spouse of Sarah E. Bond.
Take care and good searching.
Chris Brown aka pogoman(a)aol.com