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Johnson family of San Francisco, California

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Elias Finley Johnson (1860-1933) — also known as E. Finley Johnson — of Van Wert, Van Wert County, Ohio; Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Mich.; Manila, Philippines. Born in Van Wert, Van Wert County, Ohio, June 24, 1860. Republican. Member of Ohio state house of representatives, 1885-87; law professor; member of Michigan state board of education, 1898-1901; appointed 1898; resigned 1901; justice of Phillipine Islands supreme court, 1901-. Died in Palo Alto, Santa Clara County, Calif., July 31, 1933 (age 73 years, 37 days). Cremated; ashes interred at Mt. Olivet Columbarium, Colma, Calif.

		Relatives: Son of Abel J. Johnson; married, September 6, 1883, to Clara Annis Smith; father of Eva Johnson (who married Allison De France Gibbs).
		Political family: Johnson family of San Francisco, California.

Clara Annis Smith Johnson (d. 1934) — also known as Clara Annis Smith; Mrs. E. Finley Johnson — of Manila, Philippines. Republican. Member of Republican National Committee from the Philippine Islands, 1924. Female. Died in Palo Alto, Santa Clara County, Calif., April 22, 1934. Cremated; ashes interred at Mt. Olivet Columbarium, Colma, Calif.

		Relatives: Married, September 6, 1883, to Elias Finley Johnson; mother of Eva Johnson (who married Allison De France Gibbs).
		Political family: Johnson family of San Francisco, California.

Allison De France Gibbs (1868-1945) — also known as Allison D. Gibbs — Born in Rochester, Olmsted County, Minn., April 3, 1868. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Philippine Islands, 1920. While a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, was killed by Allied bombing of the hospital where he was held, in Baguio, Benguet Province, Philippines, March 15, 1945 (age 76 years, 346 days). Cremated; ashes interred at Mt. Olivet Columbarium, Colma, Calif.

		Relatives: Son of Charles W. Gibbs and Albina Stanhope (De France) Gibbs; married 1906 to Eva Johnson (daughter of Elias Finley Johnson and Clara Annis Smith Johnson).
		Political family: Johnson family of San Francisco, California.
		Image source: U.S. passport application (1918)

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