Edwin Lewis JOHNSON

Notes:

In the 1902 Fergus Falls city directory, he lives at home with his parents but is employed by his father’s brother’s meat market. He is not listed in the 1905 directory.

He registered for the draft in San Diego on June 5th, 1917. He lived with his wife and child at 1543 7th in San Diego. He was a self-employed attorney with his office at 218 Owl Building in San Diego. He claimed 20 months of previous military service as a private in a hospital company in the U.S. Army. He was described as of medium height, slender build, with blue eyes and black hair.

In the 1910 census, he and his wife and son lived in Coronado City where he was a solicitor for a retail grocery concern.

In the 1920 census, he and his wife and son lived in San Diego. He was a criminal lawyer.

In the 1930 census, he and his wife and son lived at 3445 32nd Street in San Diego in a house that they owned. Edwin was an attorney.

From a highly affected profile of Edwin Johnson written about 1960, as posted with The Johnson Family Tree on Ancestry:

After coming to San Diego in 1907 his first appearance by name in the city directory was as "Teamster, Coronado Beach Company."  A few months later he was helping internationally famous Glen Curtiss build his first hydroplane on North Island.

The Johnsons lived on South Island. North Island and Coronado were connected by a very thin strip of sand.  The inlet on the bay side, protected on north and south by the two larger "islands", and by the sand strip from the open sea on the west, was known as Spanish Bight.  Here, Curtiss experimented with flying boats.

When Ed was 15 years old he was through grammar school and was working in his home state of Minnesota as a "printer's devil." Before E.L.J. came to San Diego, at the age of twenty two, he had just completed two years in the army.  Before that, in addition to printing-office experiences, he had been a miner in the Black Hills and a farmer.

As a young teamster in San Diego, working for John D. Spreckels and others who were developing Coronado, Ed Johnson kept a copy of Blackstone's commentaries under the seat of his wagon.

Law practice for the senior Johnson commenced in 1911.  It included the successful defense for murder charged against one of his former bosses of the Coronado Beach days; also experiences as deputy district attorney from 1923 to 1926. His most interesting case was the one written up in "Master Detective" in 1950.  The facts, which had occurred 27 years before, concerned a successful prosecution in San Diego of a first degree murder charge without the availability of a corpse. The victim had just disappeared--forever.

Birth:
other sources say November 1885

Edwin married Loretta Wilhelmina ACHENBACH on 2 Sep 1907 in San Diego County, California. Loretta was born on 6 May 1887 in Meade County, South Dakota; died on 29 Jul 1952 in San Diego County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Charles Ashley JOHNSON was born on 20 Aug 1909 in Coronado, San Diego County, California; died on 9 Oct 2001 in San Diego County, California.

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1916-MN-010235
• Occupation: Butcher
• Confirmation: 6 Oct 1867, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway

Notes:

Known in the U.S. as Charles Henry Johnson.

Shown in the 1865 Norwegian census as Charl Henrik Johannessen, the only child still living with his parents, born in 1851.

Married and had 12 children, 7 of whom died before he did.

Noted in the Remarks column of his birth entry: “Att. Levanger 25.0.”

In the 1895 Minnesota census he is Chas Johnson, 44, butcher. He had been a resident of Minnesota for 20 years and 1 month and a resident of “this enumeration district” for 5 years and 2 months.

In the 1900 census he is Charles H. Johnson, 48 (b. Dec 1851), living with his wife and family at 323 Bismark Avenue in Fergus Falls. He was a butcher. He had come to the U.S. in 1872.

In the 1902 Fergus Falls city directory, he, as Charles H Johnson, works for his brother and, with wife Mary, resides at 323 Bismarck Avenue E.

In the 1905 state census he is Charles S. Johnson, 53, a laborer living at 323 Bismark Avenue East with his wife and family. The family consists of Mrs. Mattie, 42, Constance, 13, Julia L, 11, and Ruth 4. Charles S. had been in Minnesota for 25 years and in this enumeration district for 14.

Charles Johnson, 58, is still living in Fergus Falls with his wife and family in the 1910 census. That Charles married his wife in about 1881 and came to this country in 1872. The children at home were four daughters: Constance, 17, Judith, 15, Gyda, 12, and Ruth, 9.

He died from chronic nephritis. The informant for his death certificate was his daughter Constance Johnson. His residence at death was 323 Bismark in Fergus Falls.

Carl married Mary Christine Marie BJERTNESS on 17 Mar 1881 in Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Mary (daughter of John BJERTNESS and Louisa) was born on 24 May 1862 in Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; died on 5 Jul 1935 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota; was buried on 8 Jul 1935 in Bethlehem Lutheran Cemetery, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1935-MN-011299

Notes:

In the 1900 census she had had 9 children, 6 still living. She came to the U.S. in 1880. In the 1910 census, as Marie, she had had 12 children, 6 still living. She had come to the U.S. in 1863.

In the 1920 census, she is probably the Marie Johnson living with her daughter Judy and some woman named Ella at 323 somewhere (probably Washington Avenue, see below) in Fergus Falls. Judy is a clerk in a dry goods store.

In the 1930 census, she and her daughter Judith L. and granddaughter Edith are living in Fergus Falls at 323 Washington Avenue.

In the 1935/36 Fergus Falls city directory, she is listed as Mrs. Mary C. Johnson, died July 5, 1935, age 74.

The informant for her death certificate was Mrs. Elias Pederson who was probably her daughter Judith. Mary’s residence at the time of her death was 323 Washington Avenue. Mary died of uterine cancer.

Birth:
other sources say 1863

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Selveier med Jord, Inderst, Strandsitter
• Confirmation: 25 Sep 1823, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway

Notes:

Occupation shown as “Rid jæg u k” in source 95 for Anne’s birth. This suggests that he may have been a soldier.

Shown in the 1865 Norwegian census as living in or on the Maritvoldvald domicile in Verdal with his wife and son Charl Henrik. He is shown as “Selveier med Jord.”

In the listings of his children’s births in Digitalarkivet, his residence is shown variously as Ør, Østvoldvald, Øhr, Maritvoldvald Øren, Øren, and Maritvoldvaldet.

He was a strandsitter, “a person who rents a house on a larger farm near or at the coastline.” At his death he was a husmann on Borgenvald and his last name was Maritvoldvald.

Kari Yamane calls him Johannes Hansen Borgen.

Birth:
On Borgenvald according to his entry in the Death Register for Verdal 1801-1922. Birth record in parish registry says born on Borgen.

Died:
Maritvoldvald husmann

Johannes married Gürü Halvorsdatter NESS on 30 Nov 1832 in Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. Gürü (daughter of Halvor Olsen NESS and Anne Gundbjørnsdatter FÅREN) was born on 21 Jun 1808 in Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; was christened on 26 Jun 1808 in Stiklestad, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; died after 1875. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: “Kvinne” in Oleanna’s birth entry in Digitalarkivit

Notes:

Among the baptism sponsors listed for her were Guru Olsdatter Leerfald and Biret Olsdatter Ness, her aunts. Her name was entered in her birth record as Gürü.

The November 30, 1832, date is the marriage date shown in Olianna’s birth record. It is also the marriage date shown in the Verdal church book. Other sources suggest March 1, 1833.

Shown in the 1865 Norwegian census as Gurru and having been born in 1809.

Shown in the 1875 Norwegian census as the widow Guru Halvorsdatter, b. 1809 in Vinne, Verdalen, “Svigermoder” and “for 2 Maal Jord”, living with Martinus and Olianna on Maritvoldvald.

Their first child was born out of wedlock.

None of the children remained in Verdal; four of them emigrated to the U.S.

In the listings of her children’s births in Digitalarkivet, her residence is shown variously as Folloe, Østvoldvald, Øhr, Maritvoldvald Øren, Øren, and Maritvoldvaldet.

A Guru Haldorsdatter, age 56, died in Verdal/Stiklestad on 30 Apr 1877. Farm name illegible.

Kari Yamane calls her Guru Halvordatter Folloe or Ness.

Notes:

Married:
As Johannes Hansen Øren and Guru Halvorsdatter Folloe.

John married Louisa. Louisa was born in Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Of “Borgenvald Øhren” according to Johannes’s birth entry.

He seems to be referred to as Hans Olsen Nestvold in the marriage record for Johannes and Guru.

Hans married Berit SVENDSDATTER. Berit died in Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Of “Borgenvald Øhren” according to Johannes’s birth entry.

Notes:

In the 1801 census, Halvor and his wife and daughter live on Næss Vestre in the parish of Stichelstad og Halle in Wærdahlen in Nordre Trondhiem. Halvor’s occupation is “dragoun, bonde og gaardbruger tillege med sin broder.”

Of Ness (the farm name shown for him in Guru’s birth record).

Halvor’s ancestors according to Nina and her aunt.

Halvor was the 2nd child and 2nd son. The descendants of Halvor’s older brother, Ole Olsen, still live on the Ness farm in Verdal.

Halvor ran Vesterness with his brother Ole from 1797 or so until 1803 when he bought part of Vesterness from his brother Ole for 899 Riksdaler. The new farm was assessed in 1805, at which time, presumably, the independent existence of the new farm, initially called Southern Vesterness, later to be called Millomness, was established. Halvor received full title to the land on August 8, 1807. At that point, Halvor would run the Millomness farm and his brother Ole would run what remained of the original Vestnerness farm.

Halvor had Millomness until 1823 when he lost the farm due to the bankruptcy of his recently-deceased brother Ole. Anders Andersen Vigdal purchased Millomness in 1824. (In the 1865 Norwegian census, the widower Anders Andersen, age 93, was still living on Næss mellem as Føderaadsmand. The owner was Nils Johnsen, age 45.)

After 1824, Halvor and his wife disappeared from the Verdal records.

Jerelyn Johnson’s tree has Halvor dying in Verdal on 23 Jan 1831.

Birth:
Ness Vestre

Died:
according to Regina Lowe Olsen

Halvor married Anne Gundbjørnsdatter FÅREN in 1797. Anne (daughter of Gundbjørn Andersen FÅREN and Kirsten Nilsdatter VIST) was born about 1777 in Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; died in Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Of Ness.

The Dødsregister for Verdal in Digitalarkivet has an Anne Gundbjørnsdatter dying 24 Nov 1831. She was married, b. 1774, and was an “inderstkone” (servant’s wife) on Trygstad.

Jerelyn Johnson’s tree has her dying in Verdal in 1849.