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"Uncle Billy" Johnson posing with mule at his barn at the corner of Main and First Streets, Sugar Grove, IL ca 1940's.

Will A Johnson Sr, Sugar Grove, Illinois, was a collector of appaloosa mules. Said to be the only six appaloosa mule hitch in…

Johnson Family: a Tintype or melainotype or ferrotype photo. Photographic emulsion is applied directly to a thin sheet of iron coated with a dark lacquer or enamel, which produced a unique positive image.

Female child poising

Subjects are unknown. This image on a metal substrate is known as a tintype, melaintype or ferrotype.

Two unknown Women

Home and Farmstead

Circa 1949

Ken Krieghbaum chewing on toy tractor.
Rick Johnson on riding toy.
Marie Johnson standing on porch.
Ruth Krieghbaum sitting on steps.
Dorothy Johnson behind Ruth Krieghbaum.

Will Johnson and Pat with Mules named Amos and Andy. 1951.

Pictured are the students at Normal and Industrial School in the original wood building on Main Street.

Mr. Harris is standing on the far left. Ruel Mighell is on the upper right.

The original wood building was built in 1875 and burned down…

Will A Johnson Sr, Sugar Grove, Illinois, was a collector of Appaloosa mules.

Will A Johnson Sr, Sugar Grove, Illinois, was a collector of Appaloosa mules.

Ezekiel Mighell was one of the early settlers of Sugar Grove in the 1830s and 1840s..

Civil War

There were nearly sixty men who served in the Civil War and gave Sugar Grove as their home at the time of their enlistment. A list of Union soldiers as well as those known veterans memorialized at Jericho Cemetery is provided in the…

Effie Johnson and her brother lived west of the Old West’s Hotel. Neither Effie or her brother ever married. Her brother was a brakeman for the CB&Q Railroad (Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad).

Handwritten Note:

Electa and Jens Johnson.
Taken at Marathon Park, Wausau, Wisconsin on Sunday before the 4th of July, 1947. The one girl is wife of one of Jens' helpers.