The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 572 GUST A. JOHNSON. It seems that in the majority of cases men's lives are very much alike, yet an analyzation brings forth man's individuality not only in matters of temperament but in business methods as well. There has been manifest in Gust A. Johnson a resolute spirit that enabled him to sever home ties and courageously face changed conditions in the new world when coming as a young man of twenty years to America from his native Sweden. He was born February 4, 1862, a son of Johan Anderson and Sarah Johnson, both of whom spent their entire lives in Sweden. Gust A. Johnson was educated there and in 1882 bade adieu to friends and native country and sailed for the United States, attracted by the favorable opportunities which he heard were to he enjoyed on this side of the Atlantic. After reaching American shores he crossed the continent to Willmar, Minnesota, and in 1886 he bought one hundred and sixty acres of farm land, having in the meantime earned the capital enabling him to make this investment. For six years he lived upon that land. Later he became a resident of Grant county, South Dakota, and bought four hundred and twenty acres of farm land, which he carefully and successfully cultivated until 1911. In that year he disposed of his farm in South Dakota and made his way to the northwest. After reaching Yakima county he bought a five-acre orchard in the Selah valley and upon his place built a fine home. He now has one of the modern orchard properties of the district, carefully developed and cultivated, and in his fruit raising is meeting with success. In 1893 Mr. Johnson was married to Miss Annie Alice Halm, of Minnesota, who died in 1894. In 1906 he wedded Gustava Redal, of South Dakota. By his first marriage he had a son, Arthur J., who is now twenty-four years of age and is serving with the United States army. Mr. Johnson is a member of the Swedish Mission church and in politics he is a prohibitionist. In these associations is indicated much concerning the rules that govern his life and guide him in his relations with his fellowmen. He has always been honorable and upright, straightforward in his dealings, and is a stanch advocate of temperance and of all those forces which make for the moral welfare and progress of community and country. ******************************** Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer. Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.