A game warden in Western Colorado. He had a dispute with Harry Edwards that devolved into gunfight on Black Mesa in Delta County. He and two other game wardens fought a pitched gun battle with Edwards. Everyone involved survived, and Edwards was cleared on self-defense.
A Swedish immigrant who bought a homestead from a previous settler, and farmed the Whitewater area in the late Nineteenth century. Father of Effie (Johnson) Silzell and Ida May (Johnson) Smith. Also the husband of Olga Johnson.