Sonoma-Yuba-Marin County CA Archives Biographies.....Johnson, Sanborn 1825 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Johnson, Sanborn. Is a native of Waldo county, Maine, and was born April 4,
1825, in the common schools of which county he received his early education.
When twenty-one years of age he embarked in the lumber trade in the town of
Frankfort, in his native county, a business he conducted until 1849. In December
of that year we find him in Boston, Massachusetts. From that city he took
passage to this State on the "California Packet," via Cape Horn, on March 4,
1850, and landed in San Francisco on the 27th September of the same year. On his
arrival Mr. Johnson, in company with L. A. Webber, John B. Tupper, and Mr. Back,
proceeded to Bodega, where they were employed by Hand and Duncan to cut and roll
logs for a period of two months. They next proceeded to the mill of L. B. Hanks,
on the ranch of Captain Stephen Smith, about three miles from Bodega Corners,
and there worked at cutting logs until March 16, 1851. Mr. Johnson then
proceeded to Tomales, Marin county, and in partnership with L. A Webber, Levi
Chapman, and Josephus Bradford, began farming. After their first crop was
secured, on March 21,1851, Mr. Johnson proceeded to the mines at Willow Bar, on
the north Yuba, and prosecuted "digging" with moderate success (making one
hundred and twenty-five dollars on the first day) for three months. After
prospecting for a further period of six weeks, he returned to his ranch in Marin
county and continued the partnership mentioned above for a period of one year
more. He then severed his connection with Webber, Chapman, and Bradford and
farmed in that county on his own account until 1864. Mr. Johnson was one of the
unfortunate passengers on board the ill-fated steamer "Secretary," when she blew
up near the Brother and Sister rocks on April 15, 1854. Most of those on board
at the time were killed; Mr. Johnson, however, fortunately succeeded in gaining
the shore, though severely wounded. In the year 1863 he was elected to represent
the Republican wing of Marin county in the lower house of the Legislature, a
position he filled with much satisfaction for one term. In 1864 he moved to
Lakeville, Sonoma county, where he embarked in agricultural pursuits, and there
remained till 1877, in which year he settled on his present farm of five hundred
acres, situated in Redwood township, near Forrestville, where he is now engaged
in farming and stock raising. Mr. Johnson married, May 14, 1860, Jennie O.
Chandler, a native of Portland Maine, by whom he has living: Hattie C. born in
Marin county May 16, 1861; Annie T., born in Sonoma county January 10, 1868;
Abbie S., born January 10, 1872; Jennie J., born December 3, 1873, and Walter
E., born September . 23, 1879. The children deceased are: Alice M., born May
1st, died October 10, 1864, and Lizzie C. born September 10, 1866, died June 12,
1868.

Additional Comments:
Redwood Township

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HISTORY
—OF-
SONOMA COUNTY,
-INCLUDING ITS—
Geology, Topooraphy, Mountains, Valleys and Streams;
—TOGETHER WITH—
A Full and Particular Record of the Spanish Grants; Its Early History and
Settlement, Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources; the Names of Original
Spanish and American Pioneers; a full Political History, Comprising the Tabular
Statements of Elections and Office-holders since the Formation of the County;
Separate Histories of each Township, Showing the Advancement of Grape and Grain
 Growing Interests, and Pisciculture;
ALSO, INCIDENTS OF PIONEER LIFE; THE RAISING OF THE BEAR FLAG; AND BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
—AND OF ITS—
Cities, Towns, Churches, Schools, Secret Societies, Etc., Etc.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO:
ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1880.


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