riivari
06-10-04, 22:57
Hello everybody
I read a interesting book about the epidemic in Nome 1925 and found a interesting name.That John Johnson was a finn was familiar but that he was a swedish speaking Finn was new to me.
Below a sentence from the site below:
driven by John "Iron Man" Johnson, a Swedish Finn, came in first with an elapsed time of 74 hours, 14 minutes, 37 seconds, the best ever time for the 408 mile race held annually through 1917.
http://desertsunhuskies.com/SiberianHuskyFAQ's.html
Could anyone with access to the census for Nome do a lookup on this,just to get on the "track"?I would be interesting to know where he came from.
John Johnson never raced again after the 1914 AAS, except for a short exhibition race in Truckee, California in January 1915 (he won it.) He later became a deckhand on a trading ship plying the Bering Sea waters.
www.sdas.org.uk/part_3.htm
I read a interesting book about the epidemic in Nome 1925 and found a interesting name.That John Johnson was a finn was familiar but that he was a swedish speaking Finn was new to me.
Below a sentence from the site below:
driven by John "Iron Man" Johnson, a Swedish Finn, came in first with an elapsed time of 74 hours, 14 minutes, 37 seconds, the best ever time for the 408 mile race held annually through 1917.
http://desertsunhuskies.com/SiberianHuskyFAQ's.html
Could anyone with access to the census for Nome do a lookup on this,just to get on the "track"?I would be interesting to know where he came from.
John Johnson never raced again after the 1914 AAS, except for a short exhibition race in Truckee, California in January 1915 (he won it.) He later became a deckhand on a trading ship plying the Bering Sea waters.
www.sdas.org.uk/part_3.htm