{{Short description|American clockmaker}} {{for|the North Dakota Supreme Court Justice|Nels Johnson (judge)}} {{Infobox person | name = Nels Johnson | image = Nels Johnson, ca 1885.jpg | image_size = 200 px | caption = photograph, circa 1885 | birth_name = Nels Johnson | birth_date = November 26, 1838 | birth_place = Denmark | death_date = January 13, 1915 (aged 76) | death_cause = | resting_place = Oak Grove Cemetery in Manistee, Michigan. | resting_place_coordinates = | other_names = | known_for = | employer = | occupation = Clockmaker | title = | height = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }}
'''Nels Johnson''' (1838–1915) was a Danish-American professional mechanic and engineer.{{sfn|RPC|1895|pages=185-187}}{{sfn|Murray|1888|page=563}}{{sfn|Nicholson|2013|page=99}}<ref name="BulletinAug2006">{{cite journal |author=Jack Linahan |date=2006 |title= Nels Johnson, Michigan clockmaker|url= |journal=NAWCC Bulletin|volume=48 |pages= 391–401}}</ref> Johnson died in Manistee on January 20, 1915, at the age of 76.<ref name=LCDP1_20_1915>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Manistee|url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67319625/ |work= Livingston County Daily Press |page=8 |location=Howell, Michigan|date= January 20, 1915 |via=Newspapers.com {{open access}} }}</ref>
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== Sources == *{{cite book|last=Murray|first=James Augustus Henry|title=English Dictionary Historical Principles|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AnBXAAAAYAAJ&dq=Danish+custom+was+for+a+boy%27s+given+last+name+to+be+obtained+from+the+father%27s+name,&pg=PA563 |year=1888|publisher=Clarendon Press|oclc=1068304435}} *{{cite book|last=Nicholson|first=Howard L.|title=Danes and Icelanders in Michigan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-4LfAgAAQBAJ&dq=Nels+Johnson+clockmaker+Manistee+Michigan&pg=PT45 |year=2013|publisher=Michigan State University Press|isbn=9781628950397}} *{{cite book|last=RPC|title=Portrait & biographical record Northern Michigan |url= https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015027790156&view=1up&seq=186&size=125&q1=Nels%20Johnson |year=1895|publisher=Record Publishing Company|oclc=1048537921}}
== Further reading == * Johnson autobiography 1914, [https://archive.org/details/nelsjohnsonclock00blac History of the Life of Nels Johnson].
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