Monterey-El Dorado-Santa Clara County CA Archives Biographies.....Johnson, Cypress 1834 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/cafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com January 27, 2007, 10:57 am Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893) CYPRESS JOHNSON, a successful business man and esteemed citizen of Pacific Grove, is a pioneer of California. He is a native of Henry county, Indiana, having been born at Kingstown, July 13, 1834, a son of Cypress and Patience (Tallman) Johnson, the former of whom was among the early settlers of Indiana, a native of Massachusetts, and the latter was born in the city of Quebec, Canada. Mr. Johnson was reared on a farm and left home to come to California, in 1853, crossing the plains with an ox team. He went into the mines of El Dorado county, near Diamond Spring, but after eight months' experience in the mines, with indifferent results, he located at Gilroy, in Santa Clara county, and pursued farming in that locality for about thirty years. In 1858 he engaged business in Gilroy, Santa Clara county, and continued there until 1883, when he located at Pacific Grove. Mr. Johnson was married, September 13, 1859, at Gilroy, to Miss Harriet E. Hawver, a native of Wisconsin, and six children have been added to their family, namely: Leanna; Ivy, who is Mrs. Jacob Knapp; Ada L., now Mrs. Theodore Meves; Cypress, Otis and William Henry. Three children are deceased. Mr. Johnson is a gentleman of sterling traits of character and a member of the Crescent Order of United Workmen, Gilroy Lodge, No. 26. Additional Comments: Extracted from: Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California. Illustrated. Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the Earliest Period of its Discovery to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of its Auspicious Future; Illustrations and Full-Page Portraits of some of its Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers, and Prominent Citizens of To-day. HENRY D. BARROWS, Editor of the Historical Department. LUTHER A. INGERSOLL, Editor of the Biographical Department. "A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants."-Macaulay. CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY. 1893. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/monterey/bios/johnson531gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/cafiles/ File size: 2.7 Kb