"Portrait & Biographical Record of Portland & Vinc. Oregon." Chapman 
Publishing Company, 1903.

C.B. JOHNSON. 

	Is is noteworthy that the pioneers of Oregon have the deepest 
affection for the state, the greatest loyalty for its institutions, and the 
highest faith in its future progress. Nor is Mr. JOHNSON, of Oregon City, and 
exception to this rule. The son of a pioneer of the coast and himself a native 
of the west, the interest which he feels in its prosperity is a matter of 
inheritance as well as education. He is a member of a family that, according 
to tradition, settled in Delaware from Sweden in 1620, since which time each 
generation has had men and women of acknowledged worth and intellegence. His 
father S.S. JOHNSON, was born in Pennslyvania, and in 1852 came via Panama to 
Portland, where he located a claim on the east side in the midst of a heavy 
growth of timber. During 1857 he removed to San Francisco, where he engaged in 
contracting and building for nine years. From there he returned via Panama to 
the east and settled near Vernon Center, Minn., where he improved a farm three 
hundred and twenty acres. His next location was in Wahpeton, N.D., where he is 
now the owner of two large and valuable farms. Though at this writing 
eighty-nine years of age, he is quite robust and hearty and bears his years 
well. In politics he has voted with the Republicans ever since the 
organization of that party.
	The marriage of S.S. JOHNSON united him with Elizabeth DART, who was 
born in Utica, N.Y., a daughter of Hon. Anson DART. For some years Mr. DART 
was employed as superintendent of Indian Affairs for Oregon, Washington and 
Idaho, with headquarters at Vancouver. Identified with the far west from the 
early '40s, he was intimately associated with the development of a state and 
the building up of a great commonwealth. He gave Major SIMMS the first permit 
to trade with Indians in Walla Walla, and also introduced the first wheat 
there. One of his brothers, George W. DART, was also a pioneer of Oregon and 
became a wealthy trader. Mrs Elizabeth JOHNSON is still living, as are four of 
her seven children. One of her sons, Simeon, is a nurseyman in Spokane Falls. 
Another son, C.B., who was next to the oldest of the family, forms the subject 
of this article. He was born in San Francisco on Christmas Day of 1859 and was 
six years of age when the family returned east, settling in Minnesota, where 
he grew to manhood on a farm. When fifteen years of age he began to work at 
the carpenter's trade, which he learned under his father's instruction. Though 
his recollection of the far west was indistinct, yet he often thought of its 
resources and opportunities, and in 1882 came back to his birthplace. Instead, 
however, of settling in San Francisco he went to Spokane Falls, where he 
engaged in contracting and building. After ten years there he came to Oregon 
City, where he has since carried on contracting and building, and is the owner 
of both residence and business property, including a house at Gladstone, a 
suburb. Not only as a contractor has he gained a well-merited reputation, but 
as an architect as well, and many of the houses he erects are constructed 
after plans of his own. Much of his work is to be seen in Gladstone, where he 
has built a large number of houses.
	Before leaving Minnesota Mr. JOHNSON married Della LINDSLEY, who was 
born in Wisconsin. They are the parents of five children: Sidney and Holley, 
who assist their father in the contracting business; Margaret, Nellie and 
Frank. Fraternally Mr. JOHNSON is connected with the Woodmen of the World, in 
religion is of the Methodist Episcopal faith, while politically, as well as 
personally, he is a stanch Prohibitionist, both by example and precept casting 
his influence against the sale of intoxicants.

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