Watson W. Johnson Biography

	This biography appears on page 580 in "History of Minnehaha 
	County, South Dakota" by Dana R. Bailey and was scanned, OCRed 
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JOHNSON, WATSON W., is a native of Williams county, Ohio, and was born October 
5, 1846.  When five years of age he removed with his parents to Dane county, 
Wisconsin, where he attended the public schools and worked on a farm until a few 
months before the close of the civil war, when lie enlisted in Co. I, 22d Wis. 
Inf.  After the close of the war he returned to his home and engaged in farming 
until 1873, when he removed to Dakota, and arrived at Sioux Falls on the 5th day 
of February of that year.  The first two years he worked for Skinner & Austin in 
the machinery business, and then farmed the northeast quarter of section eight 
in Split Rock for seven years. In 1882 he again moved into Sioux Falls, and has 
since resided there. For several years he engaged in the feed business, but for 
the last few years the hack business has received his undivided attention. He is 
a good neighbor and a good citizen.