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History of Boone County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Historical Company, 1880.

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Unless otherwise noted, biographies submitted by Dick Barton.

JOHNSON, GUSTAF, farmer; Sec. 8; P. O. Boone; was born in Sweden, September 16, 1835, where he got a common school education, he being one of the first scholars in his district; in the spring of 52 he emigrated to America, landing in New York; from there he went to Dunkirk and from there to Salem, New York; he went from there to Rockford, Illinois, where he learned the tailor's trade, and continued the same till the spring of '64, when he went to Princeton, Illinois, where he continued his trade; in 1875 he emigrated to Boone county, Iowa, where he still lives, owning a fine farm of eighty acres of well improved land, well fenced; he was married in Rockford, Illinois, November 18th, 1855, to Miss Johanna Johnson; by this union they have three children: Charles J., Ella E. and Oscar E.