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 872 HISTOKY OF GOODHUE COUNTY establishment is one of the leading stores in the village. Aside from the usual lines of hardware, the company carries farming machinery and wagons, and enjoys a large trade. Mr. Johnson is a Republican in politics and has served as justice of the peace and as clerk of school district 105. He is a member of the E. A. Welch Post, 6. A. R., having enlisted in the Civil War shortly toward the close as a private in the 1st Minnesota Heavy Artil- lery under Captain Carney. By Emma Sundell, of Chicago, whom he married in 1870, he had ten children. The oldest and the youngest died in infancy. The others are: Albert, Lorena, Maynard, Georginna, Bernard Lewis. Winnie Ida. Clarence Gar- field, Lulu Maude. Myron Herbert and Sidney Percy. The mother of these children died in 1895, and Mr. Johnson was mar- ried March 19, 1902. to Amanda Emmaline Swanson, by whom he has four children: La>verna .Mae. Dorothy Anne, Raymond and Ilarland. The family faith is that of the Methodist Epis- copal church. Carl and Elizabeth Sundell. parents of Mrs. Emma .Johnson, came to America in the early fifties and lived both in New York state and Pennsylvania before coming to Red Wing. The father worked at his trade as a shoemaker until 1862, when he enlisted in the Civil War. He served about twenty-seven months, and met his death by falling from a wagon while still in the service. His death left his widow to provide for four chil- dren. Later she married. P. Hougher. The parents of Mrs. Amanda -Johnson located in this country, where her father, who had previously been a miller, became a stone mason, and followed that occupation until his death, in 1908, at the age of eighty years. His wife is also dead. John Larson and Catherine Han- son, parents of Christian R. Johnson, were married in Denmark and came to ibis country in -July. 1857. After living in Red Wine- two years, they pre-empted 160 acres in Goodhue township,. which the father broke and improved, and with the assistance of his sons. Lewis and Christian, farmed until 1884, when he died, his wife having died in 1883. Peter, the other brother in the family, was drowned in the Mississippi river while on a canoe trip, in 1858. Jacob Hadler, a retired farmer of Goodhue township, was born in Germany September 10, 1836, and came to America in 1865, locating for a short time in Red Wing, and then working six months in Hay Creek and Featherstone. He next rented a farm of 240 acres in Belvidere township, and in company with a partner cultivated sixty-five acres. During the first year the two partners lived in a log cabin, and raised grain and corn. He remained on this farm three years in all, and in 1869 came to Goodhue township and purchased eighty acres of land for general farming purposes. To this farm in 1878 he added eighty