Sacramento County
Biographies
MRS. MARGARET K. JOHNSON
MRS. MARGARET K. JOHNSON--Success is determined by one's ability to recognize opportunity, and to pursue this with a resolute and unflagging energy. Through such means Mrs. Margaret K. Johnson has attained a leading position among the representative orchardists and poultry raisers of the Rio Linda district of Sacramento County, where she owns and operates a ranch of twenty-two acres. She was born in Germany, a daughter of Louis and Katherine (Dennes) Becker, also native of the same country. Louis Becker left his native land and came to America, where he located near Lancaster, Wis., and there farmed for fifty-five years until he passed away. At the age of sixteen, Mrs. Johnson went to live with a brother in Des Moines, Iowa, and while there she learned the tailoring trade and spent a number of years in this profession.
On March 21, 1885, Miss Becker became the wife of Charles R. Johnson, a native of Missouri of English descent and a machinist by trade. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Johnson: Carrie Amelia is Mrs. Renneker, living in Yorba Linda, and has five children; Edwin Charles is married, has one son and resides at Rio Linda. In 1914, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson located on their Rio Linda ranch, which they planted to French prunes and meantime began to raise poultry, first in a small way and gradually in creasing until they now have 2,000 hens, which are the source of a fine income. Mrs. Johnson is greatly interested in all community welfare work, and since the organization of the Rio Linda farm-home department, a department of the farm bureau, six years ago, she has served as chairman for five years of the department. Mr. Johnson has been a member of the Modern Woodmen of America for the past thirty years, and his son, Edwin C., is a member of the Rio Linda Lodge and is serving as escort officer of the lodge. Mrs. Johnson is a member of the California Prune & Apricot Association, the Central California Poultry Producers' Association and is a stockholder in the cooperative Rio Linda Poultry Producers' Association.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Pages 686-689. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA.
1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.