Adam Johnson

    Adam Johnson, baker and confectioner, Aurora, was born in Bavaria, January 7, 1821, where he received a common education. His father, Adam, was born in Bavaria in 1795, and died in 1848; his mother Catherine (Kuentzer) Johnson, was born in Bavaria in 1796, and died in 1837.

    The subject of our sketch came to America in 1840, landing in New York, and worked in the water-works for three months. Thence he went to Philadelphia where he began the baker trade, at which he worked for six months, then moved to the country, and followed weaving until 1848, when he moved to Aurora, Indiana, and has followed baking ever since.

    He was married, August 12, 1850, to Mrs. Eliza N. (Steuzart) Cassner; she was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, May 31, 1828, and had two children by her first marriage, Sophia and Francis J.; by her union with Mr. Johnson, six children: Eliza B., Albert, Phoeba, Christ, Addie and Abbie have been born. Mr. Johnson runs a delivery wagon and delivers bread to all parts of the city. In connection with his baker he has, during the season, an oyster saloon.

Source: History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties, Indiana by F.E. Weakley & Co., 1885.