Charles Godfried Johnson, well known as the president of the Algonquin Amusement Company of New Haven, was born in Sweden, July 10, 1880, and when but five years of age was brought to the United States by his parents, Charles P. and Hannah Johnson, who landed at New York city but almost immediately afterward removed to New Haven.

  Here Charles G. Johnson became a pupil in the public schools but his educational opportunities were somewhat limited as it was necessary that he provide for his own support from an early age. He was first in the employ of the Greist Manufacturing Company, with which he remained for two years, after which he spent one year in a grocery store. Later he was with the Winchester Arms Company for nine years and during that period carefully saved his earnings until he felt that his capital and his experience justified him in engaging in business on his own account. In 1911 he organized the Algonquin Amusement Company, which he incorporated in the same year, becoming its president, with George R. Kelsey as the secretary and treasurer. He has extensive and expensive bowling alleys and billiard parlors containing seven alleys and twenty-three tables. His place contains thirteen thousand, two hundred square feet of floor space and is splendidly appointed. He maintains a high class establishment, standing for clean sport and he is himself a bowler of national reputation, having taken part in exhibitions in the United States from coast to coast. He appeared in public exhibitions at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco and he has given instruction in bowling in all of the important cities from Boston to the Golden Gate. In 1905 he won the state bowling championship and again for three successive years thereafter. In 1911 he and his partner, Mr. Kelsey, broke the world’s two-man record in bowling at Buffalo, New York, with a score of 1,355, and this record still holds. In 1912 at the national meet, in Paterson, New Jersey, of the National Bowling Association Mr. Johnson again was the winner in the two-man event, it being the only instance on record up to that time where one man won the same event two years in succession in a national contest. In 1914 Mr. Johnson headed the team from New Haven that won the world’s championship at Buffalo, New York. In his establishment in this city he employs fifteen men and his business is most liberally patronized.

  Mr. Johnson was united in marriage to Miss Olga Olson and they had one child, Charles E. Mrs. Johnson died September 9, 1914, in New Haven, her demise causing sincere regret among her many friends and many were the tokens of condolence and sympathy the bereaved family received.

  Mr. Johnson belongs to Olive Branch Lodge, No. 84, F. & A. M.; Myrtle Chapter, R. A. M.; and Grotto Council, R. & S. M. He is also identified with the Vasa, a Swedish organization, and in politics is an independent voter. while he has made a success of his business interests, he has done even more in upholding the highest standards as a sportsman and New Haven is proud to number in her citizenship one who holds the world’s championship in bowling.