This is some information that may be of some interest to you:
John Johnson Jr. was born April 8,1825 in Virginia. He is the eldest of five children born
to John and Eleanor (Louis) Johnson, both natives of Virginia. The elder John died when
our subject was about eight years od. When about twelve years of age he went to work for
hisself,working on the farm until about twenty-vour years of age, This was in Ohio,
where the family had come a few years before the father's death. Our subject was
married, October 15,1849 to Mary A. Fury , a native of Viginia. He had bought his
present farm of eighty acres of good, well inproved land, now increased to one hundred and
sixty acres. He has forty acres in Michigan. his farm is crossed by the Baltimore
&Ohio Railroad, one mile west of Woodville Post Office.. He is a member of the
United Brethren Church, he held the office of Justice of the Peace for twelve years, which
indicates the satisfation he has given, he has always been a Democrat in political beleif,
is a well informed man and e!
nterprising influential citizen, His first wife died in November 1864 of comsumption. He
married for the second wife Mrs Susan Hubbard, a native of Ohio. He has five children
living John B., Amanda, Mary A.,Andrew and Cora.
Source "Counties of Porter and Lake, Indiana Historical and Biographical,"
Goodspeed and Blanchard 1882 page 388 Liberty Township