Daniel Harris Johnson [SEP] position held
Daniel Harris Johnson
Daniel Harris Johnson (July 27, 1825 – June 15, 1900) was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and a Wisconsin Circuit Court judge.
Biography.
Johnson was born on July 27, 1825 in Kingston, Ontario. After attending Rock River Seminary, Johnson moved to Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin in 1848. He died on June 15, 1900 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Career.
Johnson was a member of the Assembly in 1861 and again from 1869 to 1870 as a
a town.
The town of Baldwin was founded by an act of the state legislature on April 7, 1856 from part of the town of Chemung. The first town meeting was held May 6, 1856 at the house of Daniel R. Harris, innkeeper. William H. Little was elected Town Supervisor, Johnson Little as Town Clerk, Daniel R. Harris as Commissioner of the Highways, and William R. Drake, William and Jeremiah McCumber as Justices of the Peace.
In 1856 Baldwin was a small village; the 1860 census