Sacramento County
Biographies
CARL GUSTAF
JOHNSON
C. GUSTAF JOHNSON.--Pleasantly situated in Sacramento County, not far from Courtland, C. Gustaf Johnson has been engaged in ranching for many years, and in his free and independent life has met with the success attendant upon habits of industry and thrift. Born in Wermland, Sweden, September 14, 1881, Gus Johnson, as he is commonly called, is the son of Johannes and Kaisa (Anderson) Johnson, and early learned the details of farming on the home farm in the old country. The father lived to be eighty years of age, in a life spent in tilling the soil, and the mother died aged forty-seven.
The youngest of a family of nine children, Gus Johnson had the advantages of a grammar school education in Sweden, and when sixteen years old came to the United States, and a year later, on the twenty-eighth of April, 1898, he came to Sacramento. For the succeeding seven years he worked for wages on the C. W. Clark ranch, about three miles northeast of Courtland, and since 1905 he has leased this same ranch, consisting of 800 acres. At first he engaged quite extensively in the stock business, but of recent years he has sold off most of the stock and now raises grain almost entirely, thus becoming one of the large grain-raisers of the county, for 800 acres devoted to one product is not common in these days of smaller ranches.
The marriage of Mr. Johnson, occurring May 2, 1907, at Sacramento, united him with Ingaborg Johnson, a native of the same part of Sweden as himself and daughter of Johannes and Martha (Jonason) Johnson, one of five children born to her parents; she received her education in the grammar school of Wermland, and in 1904 made the long trip to California by herself. She passed away with pneumonia February 23, 1921, leaving her sorrowing husband and two children, Carl Elmer and Martha Elizabeth. Mr. Johnson is a Republican in politics, a firm believer in right habits of life, and in the future of unlimited prosperity in store for this part of the Golden State.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 912.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.