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    EUGENE JOHNSON

    EUGENE JOHNSON, the leading real estate dealer at Piqua and the pioneer in the business, has been a resident of this city for twenty-seven years, during twenty of which he has been actively engaged in the real estate business. He was born in 1851 in Gallatin County, Kentucky, but was reared from the age of nine years at Waveland, Montgomery County, Ohio, where his parents settled.

    Mr. Johnson was educated in the public schools and at Waveland Academy, an institution conducted under the supervision of the Presbyterian Church. In early manhood he went to Kansas, where he looked up land claims for two years. After he returned to Ohio he engaged in the drug business at Waveland until he was twenty-two years old, removing then to Noblesville, Indiana. He continued in the drug line there until he came to Piqua, in 1881 where he carried on the same business for sixty ears. He then turned his attention to the real estate business and has done considerable building and selling and has platted some 600 lots. He confines his activities to city and farm property. Then he entered into the business at Piqua a real estate agency was a new venture, and he has been the practical builder of this line of trade. In his own operations he has never had a bad title given through his office. and there has never been a foreclosure of a loan. He has negotiated for the larger number of Piqua's numerous factories, his latest contract relating to the immense plant to be erected by the Felt and Blanket Company, on South Main Street, during the summer of 1909. Among the other large transactions of this nature negotiated through him may be mentioned the sites of the Wood, Shovel & Tool Company, Miami Light, Heat & Power Company, Union Underwear Company, Atlas Underwear Company, Piqua Furniture Company, Dayton & Troy street car barn, Piqua Dyeing & Bleaching Company, the DeArmon McKinney Cement Block Company and the Colonial Saxony, Piqua's handsomest flat building. He has also had direct charge of the platting or subdivision of out lots of eleven additions to the city. At different times, also, he has been interested in other enterprises of more or less importance. A Democrat in politics, his interest in public matters is only that of a good citizen who desires the election of the best qualified candidates and the assurance of good government.

    In 1879 in Noblesville, Indiana, Mr. Johnson was married to Miss Ally Loehr, and they have two children, Kate and Ray, the latter a resident of California. Mr. Johnson is a member of the Presbyterian Sunday-school and has been a trustee of the church for six years; for more than twenty years he has been a teacher in the Sunday school. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity.

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