Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... 
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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

M. P. JOHNSON, meat market; Lockport; was born in Lockport, Will Co., IL, July 14,1851 ; 
until 15 years of age, he attended upon the public schools; after leaving school he was 
employed as clerk in the office of the I. & M. Canal at Lockport, for two years; in 1869, 
he went to the ,office at Bridgeport and remained about five years, he was next employed in 
the Office of J. J. S. WILSON, General Superintendent of the Western Union Telegraph Company, 
and remained about eight months; he next engaged as ticket agent at Lockport, on the Chicago, 
Alton & St. Louis Railroad; during the winter of 1871-72, he was agent at Dwight, Livingston 
Co.; Sept.  20, 1873, he opened the City Meat Market in Lockport. He was married July 20, 
1873, to Emma PARKS, a native of New York State; has two children - Mabel, born Aug. 9, 1874, 
and Bertie, born July 31, 1876.