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G. L. JOHNSON, general manager of the A. 0. Johnson & Company, general mercantile establishment, Vidalia, Georgia, ranks with the representative citizens of the town.

Mr. Johnson is a native of Georgia. He was born on a farm in Manuel County, September 18, 1876, son of Emanual and Hattie (Oglesby) Johnson, and one of a family of nine children, all living except one. His father still maintains his home at the old farm in Emanuel County. Here G. L. Johnson passed the first twenty years of his life. When he left home to make his own way in the world, he found employment at Millian, Georgia, in the general merchandise store of T. Z. Daniels, where he filled a clerkship for eighteen months. The next' eighteen months he was employed in the same capacity by V. L. Bourke, of that place, and then, having clerked for three years, he decided to engage in business on his own account, which he did at Butts, Georgia, and he was in business there five years. His next move was to Vidalia. Here he took charge of the A. 0. Johnson & Company general merchandise store, which was organized in 1907, and which has since conducted a prosperous business.

Mr. Johnson has been twice married. By his first wife, who was Miss Roxie Gay, and whom he married March 8, 1900, he has one child, George Walton. This wife having died, he married Miss Marie Hall, a daughter of L. Hall, a native of this state. The only child by this wife died in infancy.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Johnson are members of the Baptist church. He has lodge membership in both the I. 0. O. P. and the K. of P.

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