"An Illustrated History of Skagit and Snohomish Counties." Interstate Publishing Company, 1906. p. 792. ALEX JOHNSON is one of the farmers of Fir who believe in carrying on diversified agriculture, and the sixty-acre place he is master of is the result of his ideas on the best manner of operating a small farm. Mr. Johnson is a native of Norway, where he was born on May 17, 1866, the son of Leonard and Bertha (Erickson) Johnson. The parents passed their entire lives in the old country, the former dying in 1893 at the age of fifty-three and the latter in 1891 at the age of forty-seven. There were three children of the union besides the subject of this sketch, George, Hans and Mrs. Kate White. Alex Johnson attended school until fifteen years of age, then worked on a salary until 1886, when he came to the United States. He first went to Michigan and remained there four years, being employed in lumber camps and mills. Coming to Washington in 1890, he located in King county and worked in a saw-mill at Ballard for seven years. He has been a resident of Skagit county since 1897. In that year Mr. Johnson married at Seattle Miss Mary Johnson, the only daughter of Ole Johnson, who came to this country from Norway and settled in Skagit county twenty-six years ago where he still resides. Mrs. Alex Johnson's mother died while her daughter was an infant, and she was brought to this country by her father in 1879 at the age of nine, and lived in Seattle at the time of her marriage. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Johnson: Louise, Olga, Leonard, Alfred and Carl. In politics Mr. Johnson is a Republican and in church affiliation a Lutheran. Mr. Johnson owns the farm which he operates. It is entirely cleared and devoted to general farming. The main features of the products of the place are oats and cattle though a little of everything demanded by the markets is raised. Six head of cows are milked and eight head of young cattle range the pastures. Most of the land is in oats. The Johnson home is a pleasant one, filled with interest in the children, about whose education much of the planning in the home circle centers. ******************* Submitted to the Washington Biographies Project in November 2008 by Diana Smith. Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.