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John Johnson Family

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The John Johnston family home and trading post, built in 1795–96, is the second oldest building in the northwest. Here in 1824, historian Henry Rowe Schoolcraft married Jane, daughter of Johnston and his O'Jibway Indian wife, a descendant of Chief Walb-O Jeeg.
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