Elick Johnson was born in Avon township.

The evidence

• “Elick Johnson is another of the prosperous farmers of Avon township. Rock county, Wisconsin, where he was born April 20, 1859. His parents, Easton and Gusta Johnson, were both natives of Norway, but hearing of the advantages to be gained in the United States, they left their native land and sailed for America, arriving in Rock county in 1840, and settled in Avon township on the farm now owned by our subject.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34c-biographical-3.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 459 / book p. 947

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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