GEORGE S. JOHNSON, merchant, Burton; has 500 acres of land in Sec. 22; was born Dec. 26, 1833, at Lockport, N. Y.; son of Lorenzo and Arminda (Griffin) Johnson, of Rhode Island and New York. He was married April 22, 1855, by Father Schrouenbach, of St. Andrew's, to Ann, daughter of Patrick Brady; they have had eight children - Arminda, born March 8, 1856; James A., born Aug. 3, 1858, married Nettie Dixon, of Beetown; George E., born July 16, 1866; Eliza Jane, born Sept. 3, 1863, died Aug. 1, 1864; twin boys, born Jan. 16, 1869; one died at birth, and Charlie died Aug. 23, 1869; one girl, born March 23, 1873, died at birth; Mary Ann, born July 18, 1860, was crushed to death in a cane-mill, Oct. 3, 1876; she was assisting about the mill and her clothing caught in the machinery, the arm and shoulder being torn off, leaving the heart and lungs visible; other portions of the body were horribly mangled and ground with the clothing, so that it took an hour to gather up and remove the remains from the machine; she was a remarkably active, intelligent girl, and beloved by all. Mr. Johnson started in the mercantile line in 1878; he has a general stock of dry goods, stationery, groceries, hardware, boots and shoes, drugs and medicines, cigars and tobacco, glass, crockery, paints and oils, cutlery, etc.; he is located two miles above Burton on the Grant River, and is rapidly absorbing the trade of the town and the surrounding country; he is a live man, and people know it. He states that the steamer Waterloo, of Waterloo, twenty-five tons burthen, was launched in 1852, Capt. A. S. Cash proprietor, and was afterward taken to New Orleans, and finally to Panama; the scene was witnessed by 1,000 people, who had a dance in the evening, and a fine flag of forty feet was presented by the ladies present.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.