El
Dorado County
Biographies
EDWARD E. JOHNSON
Among
the early settlers in the vicinity of Clarksville, El Dorado County, who are
still living here and actively engaged in business, is numbered Edward E.
Johnson, one of the successful cattle and sheep raisers in this section of the
valley. He was born in El Dorado county, February 25, 1860, and is a son of William and
Judith (Donahue) Johnson. The father
came to California by way of the isthmus of Panama in
1849, while the mother crossed the plains with her parents. They were married after Mr. Johnson came to
El Dorado County. About 1870 he settled
on a tract of land near Clarksville, later secured title to the property, and
there lived for thirty years. Shortly
before his death, which occurred in 1904, he went to make his home with his
daughter in Calaveras county. The mother passed away in 1900. They were the parents of six children, five
sons and a daughter, of whom two sons are deceased.
Edward
E. Johnson received his educational training in the public schools of
Clarksville, after which he worked on various ranches for a number of
years. For the past twenty years he has
devoted his attention to cattle and sheep raising, in
which he has met with substantial success.
His home ranch is but a short distance from Clarksville and there he
spends the winter months, while in summer he takes his cattle and sheep to the
higher ranges of the Sierra mountains. Mr. Johnson is a member of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows and is held in very high regard by those who know
him. During all the years of his
residence here he has stood for those things which make for the good of the
community and is recognized as one of the substantial and dependable men of
this locality.
Transcribed by
Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
Wooldridge, J.W.Major History of Sacramento Valley
California, Vol. 3, Page 100. Pioneer Historical
Publishing Co. Chicago 1931.
© 2010
Gerald Iaquinta.
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Nugget Library's El Dorado County Biographies