Sacramento County Biographies Hon. GROVE L. JOHNSON Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP. Page 286. was born in Syracuse, New York, in 1841, where he remained till 1863. He came to California and has been and now is engaged in the practice of the law. Mr. Johnson was married at Syracuse, New York, to Miss Annie de Montfredy, in 1861. His wife is a native of Onondaga County, New York. They have two boys and three girls. Mr. Johnson has held the following offices Deputy Assessor, Clerk of the Board of Swamp Land Commissioner, of Sacramento county, Assemblyman from Sacramento county in 1877-8; and now holds the office of State Senator from the same county. Post Office, Sacramento. Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by Thompson & West.