History of Wexford County, MI. Compiled by John H. Wheeler Published in 1903 by B. F. Bowen Biography Page 208

ANDREW JOHNSON

Wexford county owes not a little of its development and business activity to its citizens of Swedish birth or descent. The kingdom in the northern peninsula of Europe has sent many representatives to the new world, where they have taken advantages of business opportunities, have adapted themselves to altered conditions and have by the exercise of care, perseverance and diligence won for themselves good homes and provided comfortably for their families. Mr. Johnson, a native of Sweden, was born on the 28th of October, 1837, and the years of his childhood, youth and early manhood were there passed. He attended its schools and also performed considerable work in his youth, which resulted in habits of industry and persistency of purpose. The year 1871 witnessed the severance of the ties which bound Mr. Johnson to his native land. The business possibilities of the new world attracted him and, crossing the briny deep, he took up his abode in Wexford county, Michigan, on the farm where he now lives and which has been his home continuously through twenty-two consecutive years. During this period he has erected good farm buildings, including substantial barns for the shelter of grain and stock. He has also built a good residence, and his attention has been given in undivided manner to the improvement of his eighty acres of land, of which fifty acres is under cultivation at the present time. In Wexford county Mr. Johnson was united in marriage to Miss Anna Magnusson, a native of Sweden, and they now have an interesting family of six children, as follows Frank, Emil J., Ida M., Amanda C., Minnie and Agnes K. Such in brief is the life record of Mr. Johnson. He has lived for almost a third of a century in Wexford county and, while there have been no exciting chapters in his life history, it is that of a man who is loyal in citizenship, trustworthy in business and faithful in friendship, and these are the qualities which are deemed of worth in every land and clime. He has labored untiringly here in order to gain a good home for himself and family and has found good business opportunities in this country where effort is unhampered by caste or class.