California Biographies

Source: History of Fresno County, California, with biographical sketches of 
the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with 
its growth and development from the early days to the present (1919)

History By Paul E. Vandor 
Illustrated, Complete In Two Volumes 
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1919
 
Notes: Missing+page1185-1186

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
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CARL EMIL JOHNSON. � A rising young man who has done much to 
improve land and property interests by the setting out of orchards and vine- 
yards, and who has thus contributed much, toward the development of the 
district, so that he is both highly respected and well liked, is Carl Emil John- 
son, who came to California at the beginning of the present century. He was 
born in Delarne, Sweden, on February 5, 1879, the son of John Johnson, a 
progressive farmer still living there. Anna Johnson, the beloved mother of 
eight children, six of whom grew to maturity, died in her native land. Four 
of her sons came out to California ; and the third in the family is Carl Emil. 

C. E. Johnson attended the public schools and learned the trades of an 
electrician, a carpenter, and a blacksmith. He followed electrical work in 
Sweden, and was several years foreman for great electrical establishments in 
Ludvig. When he embarked for the United States in 1901, he was finely 
equipped for success in the New World. He remained over a year at Center- 
ville, S. D., and in 1902 came to Fresno. He mined awhile, then bought 
twenty acres in the Vinland Colony, for which he paid $35 an acre, and then 
worked out at various places. He was longest at San Francisco as a carpen- 
ter and he also did electrical work and mining in Mariposa County. He was 
particularly successful at carpentering in the Bay metropolis, and made 
enough money to pay for both his ranch, and the ranch improvements. 

About 1908, Mr. Johnson settled on his property and built a residence ; 
and he has been occupied with its management ever since. He has a Bean 
spraying outfit, and contracts to spray orchards and vines. All the improve- 
ments have been made by him, and he has five acres of alfalfa, fifteen acres 
of peaches and apricots, including Muirs and clingstones, and the whole 
estate borders on Shaw Avenue. He is a member and stockholder of the 
California Peach Growers, Inc., and also a stockholder in the California Asso- 
ciated Raisin Company. Mr. Johnson attends the Swedish Lutheran Church, 
and joins with his fellow members in good works.