Biography extracted from History of Sauk County, Wisconsin Chicago: Western Historical Company, published 1880.

Amos Johnson, son of Lewis and Nancy Johnson, was born in Plymouth, Conn., in 1822. In 1845, he married Betsey, daughter of Isaac and Rachel Baldwin, of Litchfield, who was born in 1826. He came to Sauk Co. in 1852, and settled on Sec. 32, Greenfield, where he now has 263 acres of Prairie and 85 acres on the great marsh. Mr. Johnson is of genial, free hearty temperament; having not a trace of Plymouth Rock in his face or of Blue Laws in his constitution, or of the rebuking character of his namesake, the Prophet; in his manner, nature, anticipating his westward movement, made him in an elastic mold to expand with his empire. Mr. Johnson’s eldest daughter died in infancy, and Ellen, born 1850, died of consumption in 1870; Lewis, born 1854, married Lucy Scott, and lived upon a part of the home farm; Luther, born 1858, died in 1862; Wesley, born April, 1865; and Ellsworth, August, 1867, are promising boys, doing good work whether on the farm or in the school. Mr. Johnson is a respected citizen; a member of the Republican Party; an efficient school officer, and has been Chairman of the Town Board for eight years. His wife is a quiet woman of deep religious convictions, who is thoughtfully and prayerfully training her boys.

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