. Waterman, Illinois, yearbook . ghway commissioner audschool director. P)0th Avere members of the United Pres-byteiian church. OLIVER P. JOHNSON The first settler in Cliiiton township was Oliver Avho was born in Boston. Erie county, N. Y. 1812. He belonged to a family of pioneers, his fatherbeing one of the ])ioneers of Ih-ie count\, X. Y., * whichplace however he left and came in 1820 to Sangamon * In Xovcmbej-, 1S03, too, Charles and Oliver ,two brothers, made a purchase in the ])resent town of Boston,near the villas;*- of Boston Ccntej-. * * The price was $ pe
. Waterman, Illinois, yearbook . ghway commissioner audschool director. P)0th Avere members of the United Pres-byteiian church. OLIVER P. JOHNSON The first settler in Cliiiton township was Oliver Avho was born in Boston. Erie county, N. Y. 1812. He belonged to a family of pioneers, his fatherbeing one of the ])ioneers of Ih-ie count\, X. Y., * whichplace however he left and came in 1820 to Sangamon * In Xovcmbej-, 1S03, too, Charles and Oliver ,two brothers, made a purchase in the ])resent town of Boston,near the villas;*- of Boston Ccntej-. * * The price was $ peracre. Chjuhs. witli hi-- faniilv. lived with (Didymiis C.) Kinneyliirouirli III. wiuii-r. nioxcd on to his own place the next.•?prin!;-. *. * Kinn»y aii<l .loluison with their families, in thatsolitiiry i-abin in ili oflS03-t.—C^^ History <,{ Erie CV)unty, X. Y., pngc 110. Yc U-^. OLIVKi: F. AND ELIZABETH (IIOSS) JOIIXSOX. WATERMAX YEAR BOOK, 1905. 41 county, 111., removing a few years later to ^McHenry countysettling at a point near Hennepin. Oliver Jolmson marriedJuly 13, 1S3:J, Elizabeth Ross a daughter of Joseph Ross anearly settler in Paw PaAv township. Their children were:(1) Joseph, borji April 1, 1834; (2) Elizabeth, born , 1836; (3) Charles C, born Sept. 26, 1838; (4) Carrie July 2, 1843, died ^larch 2, 1880; (5) Oliver P. thesubject of this sketch; (6) James P., born Nov. 17, 1852,now living at Amboy; and (7) one little girl who died ininfancy. The date of Oliver P. Johnsons setlement atJohnsons Grove is a matter of some doubt but is generallyaccepted as 1835 * He resided there until 1838 when he re-moved to Melugins Grove, Lee count}; in 1873 he remov-ed to West Brooldvn where he died July 24, 1892 and hiswife Oct. 4, 1895. Oliver P. Johnson was born at ]\Ielugins Grove, May * J. P. Johnson of Amboy, a son, says O. P. Johnson ^sasmarrie
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