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Excerpt from A Twentieth Century History of Delaware County, Indiana, Vol. 2 John C. Johnson. For twenty years the late John C. Johnson was a resident of Muncie, to the progress of which he was a large contributor. He came to the city in 1884 and became an interested partner in the lumber and saw-milling business of the firm of A. L. Johnson 81 Company, at the same time manifesting a keen interest in public affairs. In reviewing the career of this successful business man and prominent citizen, as he was, we note that he was a native of the state of New York, born on the lt of May, 1843, in Albany county, his parents being Henry I. And Eliza (ferguson) Johnson, who were also natives of the Empire State. The father, who was an agriculturist, resided in New York until 1864, when he moved to Ashtabula, Ohio, and in 1881 came with his family to Muncie, Indiana. When the subject of this review was seven years of age his parents removed from Albany county, New York, to Herkimer county, that state, where he received a fair common-school education. At the age of seventeen years he enlisted in the Union Army, Company K, Forty-fourth New York, known as the Ellsworth Avengers, and served one year. On account of a wound received at the battle of Hanover Court House Mr. Johnson was sent first to Albany, New York, and from there to Lexington Avenue Hospital, in New York city, from which he was discharged after recovery. Entering the quartermaster's department at City Point, Virginia, under Captain C. E. Jones, he remained in that capacity until the close of the war. He had laid aside school books to render service in defense of the Union, and now having returned from the battle front with an honorable discharge he again entered the school room, for two years attending an academy for boys at Albany, New York, and then took a course at Bryant 81 Stratton's Commercial College. For some fifteen years thereafter he was in the employ of H. W. Sage Company and others of Albany, his occupation being that of a clerk and bookkeeper. During that time he Obtained a thorough knowledge of the lumber business in all its departments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.