ALBERT R. JOHNSON, farmer, P.O. Fairfield. One of the most thrifty and enterprising young farmers in this county is the gentleman whose name heads this sketch, and who was born in Meigs County, Ohio, September 18, 1850. The father, Thomas Johnson, was born in Ohio, and came to Wayne County in 1852, with his family, and first settled in Lamard Township. He afterward moved to Bedford Township, where he died in 1859. The mother, Eliza (Taylor) Johnson, was also a native of Ohio, and after her husband's death she lived for a time in Bedford Township, and then in 1863 she with her family removed again to Lamard Township, where she died in 1865.
Subject was permitted to attend school some in early age, but soon after his father's death he commenced to work around for different farmers, and continued to do so until 1875, being employed principally by those of Big Mound and Lamard Townships. In that year, he started out for himself, and settled in Big Mound Township, where he now owns a farm of 116 acres, situated in Section 3, of Township 2 south, Range 7 east. The tract is nearly all in cultivation, and he has about three acres in orchard. Mr.Johnson was married, in Big Mound Township, on January 25, 1874, to Miss Louisa Book, a native of this county, and a daughter of S.H. Sr., and Mary (Book) Book (whose sketches appear elsewhere in this work). This union has resulted in one child --- Charles, born October 13, 1877.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Johnson are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in politics Mr. Johnson is a Democrat.
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