Emanuel-Toombs County GaArchives Biographies.....Johnson, G. L. 1876 - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
p. 727

   G. L. JOHNSON, general manager of the A. 0. Johnson & Company, general
mercantile establishment, Vidalia, Georgia, ranks with the representative
citizens of the town.

   Mr. Johnson is a native of Georgia. He was born on a farm in Manuel county,
September 18, 1876, son of Emanual and Hattie (Oglesby) Johnson, and one of a
family of nine children, all living except one. His father still maintains his
home at the old farm in Emanuel county. Here G. L. Johnson passed the first
twenty years of his life. When he left home to make his own way in the world, he
found employment at Millian, Georgia, in the general merchandise store of T. Z.
Daniels, where he filled a clerkship for eighteen months. The next' eighteen
months he was employed in the same capacity by V. L. Bourke, of that place, and
then, having clerked for three years, he decided to engage in business on his
own account, which he did at Butts, Georgia, and he was in business there five
years. His next move was to Vidalia. Here he took charge of the A. 0. Johnson &
Company general merchandise store, which was organized in 1907, and which has
since conducted a prosperous business.

   Mr. Johnson has been twice married. By his first wife, who was Miss Roxie
Gay, and whom he married March 8, 1900, he has one child, George Walton. This
wife having died, he married Miss Marie Hall, a daughter of L. Hall, a native of
this state. The only child by this wife died in infancy.

   Both Mr. and Mrs. Johnson are members of the Baptist church. He has lodge
membership in both the I. 0. O. P. and the K. of P.


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A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913

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