Johnson Family Records (DeKalb County)

Collection

Identifier: RHC-RC-231

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

At present the collection contains information relating to Revere E. Johnson’s careers in farming (1917 - 1945), and at the General Electric Plant in DeKalb (1946-1964), Johnson family materials and photographs, documentation relating to World War II rationing, maps, and DeKalb County history articles.

Dates

created: 1917-1969
Other: Date acquired: 02/00/1994

Conditions Governing Access

There are no restrictions on access to the collection.

Conditions Governing Use

Property rights in the collection belong to the Regional History Center; literary rights are dedicated to the public.

Biographical or Historical Information

Revere Elmer Johnson was born in 1898, the oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Johnson. He also had a brother Carl Martin and a sister Helen M. Johnson. On February 24, 1926 Revere married Zaida Christine Munson, and they had one daughter Corinne Elizabeth. In 1917 Revere had taken an agricultural course at Madison, Wisconsin and apparently hired out for several years, until he joined his father on a farm C.M. purchased in 1926. In December of 1946 he started working at the General Electric plant in DeKalb. Over the years he held a number of jobs including machine operator, stock keeper, dispatcher, process planner, foreman (Stator Making, second shift, beginning March 1, 1954), and by December 1961 he was a plant guard. After his retirement from GE on June 1,1963, he enjoyed gardening. He died in 1966, and Zaida in 1970. They are buried in the Fairview Cemetery, DeKalb, IL.

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