George Howard Johnson
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George Howard Johnson (1823–1880) was born 6 July 1823, Delaware County, New York, to Elias Johnson and Phebe Finney (1794–1870).
He died 3 October, 1880, San Francisco, San Francisco, California. [no findagrave?]
In the 1850 census, he is listed as an artist, æ. 27, living with Theodore Holden, æ. 20, also an artist.
In a letter to his sister, Rensselaer Foote wrote of his brother's brother-in-law, "George Johnson came down on the same boat and landed at San Luis Bispo, _ he got off the boat in the morning before I was up, and I did not see him as I had expected to do again, but I had a good deal of conversation with him previous, and he appears to me to be quite unfortunate, so to speak in a general way._ further I would not like to mention in a letter. I would say, however, that I believe he is the best of them, and means well but like some of the rest of us mortals in this transitory world, has been unfortunate."
