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    1. [WILACROS] Charles S. JOHNSON Biography, b. 1846 CAN<WI
    2. From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 765. City of La Crosse CHARLES S. JOHNSON, proprietor of the "Morning-Call" Saloon; is a native of Montreal, Canada; born in 1846. His father, James Johnson, a native of County Antrim, Ireland, was a wholesale dry goods merchant of Montreal, and his mother was Margaret Friel, a native of Philadelphia, of Irish parentage. He was partly brought up in Ottawa City, Canada, to which place his parents removed from Montreal. He left Ottawa City Sept. 14, 1866, and has been in La Crosse since that time. He worked on the river eleven years, and has been in his present business since 1872. He was married, Nov. 20, 1870, to Mary Ann McMann, of La Crescent, Minn. Her father, John Lawrence McMann, died at Ft. Snelling, Minn., in Government service, Feb. 12, 1865, aged 35 years; had been in the military service about two and a half years at the time of his death. [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]

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