Kato Andreas Johansen (Johnson)

http://newsarch.rootsweb.com/th/read/NORWAY/2004-04/1080806131

Emigrerte: http://digitalarkivet.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?slag=visbase&filnamn=E...

Early in USA spelled name Johnsen and Johanssen, later and permanently "Johnson"

Was a houspainter/plasterer. Wintered in Ladysmith, WI (Glen Flora village) and lumbered, trapped, etc.

Was a member and sometimes officer of Independent Scandanavian Workingmans Association, Balder Branch #27 Minneapolis, USA. I believe he met his wife Lydia through ISWA, as she joins the organization as a single woman, and they are married a year later.

The minutes of the organization (with references to Kato, his brother Angel, Katos wife Lydia, Marie Lien, and others from bjugn area) are at the URL below. It is a large PDF, use the word find feature.

http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/p1326.pdf