Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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GEORGE R. JOHNSON.
 
        Among the representative and enterprising business men of Monrovia is 
the subject of this sketch.  He is the senior member of the firm of Johnson & 
Parker, dealers in staple and fancy groceries, crockery, glassware, etc. The 
well-equipped store of this firm is located on the corner of Ivy avenue, 
opposite the Grand View Hotel. It is one of the oldest business houses in 
Monrovia, and was established by the present proprietors April 1, 1887. The firm 
are the owners of the two-story
building occupied by them. It contains two stores on the first floor, and 
residence and office rooms in the second story. This building was erected in the 
spring of 1887. Mr. Johnson was born in Rockford, Illinois, in 1859. His father, 
Hobert J. Johnson, was a native of New York, and a farmer by profession. His 
mother,
Charlotte L. Johnson, was born in Connecticut.  Mr. Johnson was reared as a 
farmer and was educated in the public schools of Rockford, and later graduated 
at the Rockford Business College. At the age of twenty-one years he entered into 
mercantile pursuits in Rockford in a general merchandise store, which he 
conducted
until February, 1883. He then engaged as a traveling agent for the Elder 
Publishing Company, of Chicago, and continued that occupation until 1886. In 
November of that year he came to Los Angeles County, and located in the city of 
Los Angeles, remaining there until the following spring, when he came to 
Monrovia and established his present business. Mr. Johnson is an enterprising 
and progressive citizen and a trained business man, and is closely identified 
with the building up of Monrovia. He is well known and respected; is a 
consistent member of the Methodist Church; has for the past ten years been an 
active member of the Young Men's Christian Association, and is vice-president of 
the association in Monrovia. Politically he is a Republican, taking an 
intelligent interest in his party. In 1888 Mr. Johnson was united in marriage 
with Miss Hannah G. Hooper, the daughter of Edward D. and Mary B. Hooper, 
residents of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in which city Mrs. Johnson was born. 
Her father is now a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
 
An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California �  Chicago, The Lewis 
Publishing Company, 1889   Page 517
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler