Progressive Men of Iowa
1899

JOHNSON, Julius Lawrence, cashier of the Northwestern bank at Ireton, is a young man whose business ability, both inherited and cultivated, will someday make him rank among the prominent businessmen of the state. He has already won a place which many a young man of his years has given up ever reaching. He has been trained to business from earliest years, for his father, Gilbert Johnson, was a successful lumber merchant, who had prospered in his line of business. The father died twenty-five years since. His mother was formerly Gertrude Klein, who is still living.

J. L. Johnson was born August 31, 1868, at Decorah, Iowa, where most of his early life was spent. His education was secured at the public schools, and was supplemented at an early period by lessons in actual business practice. After finishing the course in the public school he successfully managed a brickyard, a farm and a flouring mill. He removed to Ireton, his present location, in 1891, and was made cashier of the Northwestern bank at the time of its organization, in 1894, with G. W. Pitts as president. This position he still holds, and the bank, though of such recent origin, is doing a splendid business.

In politics, Mr. Johnson has always been a republican. He was married April 10, 1895, to Miss Alice P. Ross. They have two sons: Lyle Gilbert and Earl Drexel.

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