The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-01-26
Obituary..
DAR1EN, Jan. 10th, 1876

Obituary.
DAR1EN, Jan. 10th, 1875.
Dear Advance:
Since your publication of the notice
of the election of the Officers Of BADGER
State Grange, we have to record the
death Of our Worthy Master, and Broth
er, N. johnson. For some time previ-
GUS to his election, he had been unweu,
but as the time approached for install
lation he improved SO rapidly, that we
expected he would be able to begin the
new year with US as a worker in the
cause he loved so we'll.
A relapse occasioned by some little
over-work, swept him like chat before
high wind into the unfathomable mys-
teries, of eternity; and with the de-
cline Of the old year he gave up the
physical content Of this, and went out
into the brighter realms of a holier and
happier land, where the fruits are more
perfect, and the harvest more Golden.
The deceased was born in Steuben CO.,
N. Y. came to this State when about
one year Of age; the State was then a
Territory, and mostly unsettled, his life
beginning as pioneer.
Upon his arrival at manhood, he was
sent by his parents to Milton College
where he and his wife whom he after
wards married graduated at the same
time in the year 1859, and at which
place his Oldest daughter is now attend
ing school. Brother johnson had
reached the 37th year of his life when
called upon to lay down the implements
of HusbaDdrY, and start a. it were
with the new year for the Summer Land
towards which we are all fastening;
and here we feel it our duty, though per-
haps late in the hour, to speak a word
for our Bro, for memory in retrospect,
brings up kindly recellections only, for
we have known him from the early
school days, and know whereof we speak,
and the humble tribute we pay to his
memory is but the expression Of those
who knew him well.
Always a farmer, Injured to the hard
ships and toll incident to labor, he knew
full well how to symphathize with those
Of the under strata, upon which wealth
has builded its fabrics Of splendor that
dazzle the eye in every turn that we may
make in our journey over the world.
Highly intelligent, and keenly sensitive to
wrong, made him humanitarian and cos
mopolitan in all his efforts; consequently
not man to be appreciated by the
'isms and politics Of the day, for truth
full in all his relations, domestic, social
and public, he could not be traduced
from his high sense Of honor into the
narrowness of political intrigue, for
which reason he was of no use to those
who must have their tools Of completely
in the political arena. Ever working with
his best light, for the elevation of labor
to standard of respect that should not
be ignored by caste in any of it's forms,
gave him prominence among his friends
who now deeply deplore his loss. just
in the prime Of life with an experience
that would have made him Of great use.
To his father and mother, his family
and many friends, we pay this tribute
of respect and esteem, hoping tina,
others may emulate and follow after his
example, for to-day we want men.
! Bro. johnson was buried with Ma.
sonic honors, having belonged to the
fraternity for some years, and, although
the roads were in terrible condition,
it was the largest procession that We
have seen for long time. as q per
: sonal friend Of the deceased We fee
his loss; for we know too well th<
worth Of such character in times like
this, when truth is robbed Of its virtues
; and honesty pa1per in the land. G.