# Nels Johnson

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{{Short description|American clockmaker}}
{{for|the North Dakota Supreme Court Justice|Nels Johnson (judge)}}
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| image = Nels Johnson, ca 1885.jpg
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| caption = photograph, circa 1885
| birth_name = Nels Johnson
| birth_date = November 26, 1838
| birth_place = [Denmark](/source/Denmark)
| death_date = January 13, 1915 (aged 76)
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| resting_place = Oak Grove Cemetery in [Manistee, Michigan](/source/Manistee%2C_Michigan).
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| occupation = [Clockmaker](/source/Clockmaker) 
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'''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](/source/Manistee%2C_Michigan) 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](/source/Newspapers.com) {{open access}} }}</ref>

== References ==
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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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Category:Danish emigrants to the United States
Category:People from Manistee, Michigan
Category:Businesspeople from Milwaukee
Category:People from Slagelse Municipality
Category:19th-century American businesspeople

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