SURNAMES:  TALLMAN, HAWVER, KNAPP, MEVES

a successful business man and esteemed citizen of Pacific Grove, is a pioneer of California.  He is a native of Henry county, Indiana, having been born at Kingstown, July 12, 1834, a son of Cypress and Patience (Tallman) Johnson, the former of whom was among the early settlers of Indiana, a native of Massachusetts, and the later born in the city of Quebec, Canada. 

Mr. Johnson was reared on  a farm and left home to come to California, in 1853, crossing the plains with an ox team.  He went to the mines of El Dorado county, ear Diamond Spring, but after eight months experience n the miens, with indifferent results, he located at Gilroy, in Santa Clara county, and pursued farming in that locality for about thirty years.  In 1858 he engaged in business in Gilroy, Santa Clara county, and continued there until 1883, when he located at Pacific Grove (Monterey County).

Mr. Johnson was married, September 13, 1859, at Gilroy, to Miss Harriet R. Hawver, a native of Wisconsin, and six children have been added to their family, namely: Leanna; Ivy, who is Mrs. Jacob Knapp; Ada L. now Mr. Teodore Meves; Cypress, Otis and William Henry.  Three children are deceased.  Mr. Johnson is a gentleman of sterling traits  of character and member of the Crescent Order of the United Workmen, Gilroy Lodge, No. 26.

A Memorial and biographical history of the coast counties of central California : illustrated : containing a history of this important section of the Pacific coast from the earliest period of its discovery to the present time, together with glimpses of its auspicious future, illustrations and full-page portraits of some of its eminent men, and biographical mention of many of its pioneers, and prominent citizens of to-day
Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1893, 459 pgs. page 402

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