A Narrative History of The People of Iowa with SPECIAL TREATMENT OF THEIR CHIEF ENTERPRISES IN EDUCATION, RELIGION, VALOR, INDUSTRY, BUSINESS, ETC. by EDGAR RUBEY HARLAN, LL. B., A. M. Curator of the Historical, Memorial and Art Department of Iowa Volume IV THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc. Chicago and New York 1931 JACOB JOHNSON is one of the best known citizens of Denison, where he has had his home for a quarter of a century. He spent a number of years in educational work, and is now city clerk of Denison. Mr. Johnson was born in Denmark, January 31, 1883, and was about a year old when his parents, A. P. and Marie (Anderson) Johnson, came to America and settled on a farm in Grundy County, Iowa. His parents lived out their lives in that rural community, where his father died at the age of seventy-two and his mother at seventy-three. Jacob Johnson, who has never married, was educated in district schools and in 1905 graduated from the State Teacher College of Cedar Falls with the Master of Didactics degree. In the fall of the same year he began teaching at Denison, and was a school man there for twelve years, and for one year was superintendent of schools at Dow City in Crawford County. At the time of the World war Mr. Johnson joined the colors and was in training with the Coast Artillery Corps, being stationed at Fort Scott for seven months. After his return to Denison he was deputy sheriff of Crawford County for a year and in 1920 was appointed city clerk and has given a faithful and capable service in that position for ten years. Mr. Johnson is affiliated with the Blue Lodge and Royal Arch Chapter of the Masonic fraternity and is a member of Denison Post No. 8 of the American Legion. Debbie Clough Gerischer _http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm_ (http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm) _http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm_ (http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm) _http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/_ (http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/)