From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 764. City of La Crosse JERRY JOHNSON, engineer, running a switch engine on C., M. & St. P. R. R., at La Crosse, is a native of Columbia Co., Penn.; born in October, 1840, at Esther Furnace, four miles south of Catawissa Village. His father, William M. Johnson, was also a native of the same county, came from there to Wisconsin in March, 1856, and settled on a farm in Dodge Co., near Beaver Dam, where he resided till the spring of 1878; then came to La Crosse, where he still is living. Jerry Johnson came to La Crosse in 1866, and commenced firing on the C., M. & St. P. R. R.; has been in the employ of that company ever since, and has been running an engine since 1870. He was married, in Sparta, Wis., in 1875, to Miss Clara, daughter of Rev. E. Yocum, of the M. E. Church. She died May 22, 1878, leaving two children - Willie Ray and Clarence. The youngest one, Clarence, died soon after the mother, when only two months old. [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]