Charles Ture Johnson is son of Johan August Pehr Johansson and Inga Lena Jonasdotter. He was born April 29, 1870 in Stora Malka, Södermanlands län, Sweden. He immigrated to the States in 1882 at the age of 12 for a better life, he was very poor. He got off the boat in New York. His cousin or brother came and got him, took him to town and put him in a room and disappeared. He sold newspapers, while doing this a man from out of state told him that if he came to Kansas and kept his store clean, he would board him and put him through school. So, he went to Kansas with the man and went to school and became an engineer. He wanted to be a train engineer, but married and had children instead and ended up being a stationary engineer. He worked on big motors. Every day he walked to the train tracks when the train passed through and waved to the engineer. He loved trains.
On January 29, 1893 in Imogene, Iowa he married Laura Janette Daykin. They had the following children: John, Maude Janette, Mildred Harriet, Corliss Charles, Gladdie Reynolds, Russell Jano, Laurena Anna, Lawrence Edward, Eleanor Alma, Edith and Deloris Mae.
Around 1928 after his wife died he remarried to Anna Elizabeth Gilbert.
Leonard, his son eventually came to work at the packing house with Charles. Charles had a pet bear which he had chained behind the plant.
On February 17, 1944 Charles passed away in Hutchinson, Reno, Kansas.
(Story told by Jeri Ann Fleming Taylor)
On January 29, 1893 in Imogene, Iowa he married Laura Janette Daykin. They had the following children: John, Maude Janette, Mildred Harriet, Corliss Charles, Gladdie Reynolds, Russell Jano, Laurena Anna, Lawrence Edward, Eleanor Alma, Edith and Deloris Mae.
Around 1928 after his wife died he remarried to Anna Elizabeth Gilbert.
Leonard, his son eventually came to work at the packing house with Charles. Charles had a pet bear which he had chained behind the plant.
On February 17, 1944 Charles passed away in Hutchinson, Reno, Kansas.
(Story told by Jeri Ann Fleming Taylor)
Charles Ture Johnson is son of Johan August Pehr Johansson and Inga Lena Jonasdotter. He was born April 29, 1870 in Stora Malka, Södermanlands län, Sweden. He immigrated to the States in 1882 at the age of 12 for a better life, he was very poor. He got off the boat in New York. His cousin or brother came and got him, took him to town and put him in a room and disappeared. He sold newspapers, while doing this a man from out of state told him that if he came to Kansas and kept his store clean, he would board him and put him through school. So, he went to Kansas with the man and went to school and became an engineer. He wanted to be a train engineer, but married and had children instead and ended up being a stationary engineer. He worked on big motors. Every day he walked to the train tracks when the train passed through and waved to the engineer. He loved trains.
On January 29, 1893 in Imogene, Iowa he married Laura Janette Daykin. They had the following children: John, Maude Janette, Mildred Harriet, Corliss Charles, Gladdie Reynolds, Russell Jano, Laurena Anna, Lawrence Edward, Eleanor Alma, Edith and Deloris Mae.
Around 1928 after his wife died he remarried to Anna Elizabeth Gilbert.
Leonard, his son eventually came to work at the packing house with Charles. Charles had a pet bear which he had chained behind the plant.
On February 17, 1944 Charles passed away in Hutchinson, Reno, Kansas.
(Story told by Jeri Ann Fleming Taylor)
On January 29, 1893 in Imogene, Iowa he married Laura Janette Daykin. They had the following children: John, Maude Janette, Mildred Harriet, Corliss Charles, Gladdie Reynolds, Russell Jano, Laurena Anna, Lawrence Edward, Eleanor Alma, Edith and Deloris Mae.
Around 1928 after his wife died he remarried to Anna Elizabeth Gilbert.
Leonard, his son eventually came to work at the packing house with Charles. Charles had a pet bear which he had chained behind the plant.
On February 17, 1944 Charles passed away in Hutchinson, Reno, Kansas.
(Story told by Jeri Ann Fleming Taylor)
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