A. J. Jackson

A. J. Johnson, son of Henry and Mary (Davidson) Johnson, was born in Chambersburgh township, Pike county, Ill., October 23, 1833. He is of Irish descent, his paternal ancestors coming to America prior to the time of the Revolution and settling in New York. Andrew J. is the eighth child of their family of eleven children. In 1854 he married Miss Margaret, daughter of William and Margaret (Bunn) Campbell, born in Pennsylvania, December 16,1833. Her father, a Pennsylvanian, died in 1835. In 1848 she came with her mother, who had married a Mr. Placher, to Peoria, where she met Mr. Johnson, as before stated, and married him in 1854. After this marriage he followed farming in Marshall county several years. In April, 1865, they came to Stark county where they had previously purchased one hundred acres in West Jersey township where they still reside. Nine children have blessed their union, eight of whom are still living: Charles W. (deceased), William H., Oscar J., Edgar L., Frank C, Lewis O., Kobert R, Ida A. and Fannie M. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson are members of the M. E. church, as are also all of their children. Politically Mr. Johnson is a Republican, and has held several offices of trust, among them, justice of the peace, and supervisor for several terms. That he honorably discharged his duties to the satisfaction of the people is signified by his numerous reflections. He has increased his original farm of one hundred acres to 240 acres of choice lands, located within two miles of the village. Mr. Johnson has for several years been an officer and member of the agricultural society of this county.