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

William M. JOHNSON, farming; P. O. Plainfield; the Subject of this sketch was born in Caselton, 
Rutland Co., Vt., Aug. 5, 1827. He married Miss Louisa M. EATON Dec. 6, 1854 she was born in 
the same place Jan. 13, 1834; they have two children - Hattie C. and Ida F. He lived in 
Vermont seventeen years, when, with his parents, he came to Will Co. and settled in 
Wheatland, where he lived ten years; he then moved to Du Page Twp. and engaged in farming, 
remaining until 1871, when he came to Plainfield, and has lived here since; his parents, 
Hiram and Mrs. Sarah Ann GAULT JOHNSON, are natives of Vermont; his father died April 13, 
1875; his mother is living here with her son.