Sonoma County CA Archives Biographies.....Johnson, G. A. 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Johnson, Hon. G. A. Born at Salisbury, Maryland. He graduated at Yale College in
1853; was President of the Board of Editors of the Yale Literary Magazine;
contested for the highest honors, the DeForest Gold Medal Prize, with A. D.
White, the present Minister to Germany; was Professor of the Ancient Languages
at the Western Military Institute, Kentucky; was appointed by Governor Hendricks
Judge of the Seventeeth Judicial Circuit Court of Indiana; delivered the annual
address before the literary-societies of the Indiana State University in 1867;
was Senior Warden of the Grand Commandery of Knights Templar of Indiana for two
years. On his removal to California became a member of the law firm of Johnson &
Henley, at Santa Rosa. Was elected Mayor of Santa Rosa. Was a delegate to the
Constitutional Convention from Sonoma county, and took an active part in the
debates. On his motion, the address to the voters accompanying the New
Constitution was adopted. Was selected to present one hundred standard works of
the best authors to President Hoge, and delivered the presentation address. Was
nominated by the State Convention of the Workingmen for one of the Justices of
the Supreme Court, but declined.

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Santa Rosa 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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