Iver Johnson

Location: Section 43

Iver Johnson arrived in Worcester from his native Norway in 1863 at the age of 22 and immediately set to work as a gunsmith. By 1885, he was also manufacturing bicycles, turning out 15,000 bicycles a year. The Iver Johnson Arms and Cycle Works located on Central Street later moved to Fitchburg, producing "honest goods at honest prices." The beautiful monument of a woman and child, attributed to sculptor Andrew O'Connor, Sr., was erected following Johnson's death by his widow Mary; their daughter Nettie died in 1874 at the age of 5.