Carl Gustaf and Charlotta Johnson were among the many who emigrated from Sweden to the United States in the year 1869. They moved to Polk County in 1871 where they lived in a dugout and homesteaded. They gave half of the land for the location of the present Calvary Lutheran Church (Swede Home Church). Carl and Charlotta had two young daughters when they came from Sweden. They had a total of eig...
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