"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA.  HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR.  CHICAGO:  F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS.  1884.
F. A. BATTEY.  F. W. TEPPLE

MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
MONROE TOWNSHIP
PAGE 278

DAVID B. JOHNSON, dealer in  hardware, groceries, stoves, glass and
queensware, is a native of this county, born July 9, 1851, and is a son of
Thomas A. and Elizabeth (Jessup) Johnson, natives of North Carolina, and of
English extraction, who emigrated to this State in 1830, locating in Wayne
County until 1831, when they moved to this county and entered eighty acres.
David B. Johnson was reared a farmer, and became a teacher in the public
schools, and followed the same successfully for three years, when he took up
the mercantile business with his brother;  then he went to Illinois for a
time, after which he returned and united with Mr. S. Phillips, in Monrovia,
which association was continued for three years;   he then became a partner
with Hobbs & Johnson, and in 1883 succeeded to the business, having
successfully continued the same onward.  November 15, 1867, Mr. Johnson
married Hattie Carter, with an issue of one child--Howard (born April 20,
1883).  He has been a  successful merchant, a member of the I. O. G. T., is
a Republican, and first voted for Gen. Grant.  He and wife are members of
the Friends' Society.

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