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Title: Thomas V. Johnson papers
Dates: 1851-1919
Collection number: MS 281
Creator:
Johnson, Thomas V. (Thomas Varley), 1851-1919
Collection Size:
1 document box
Repository:
University of California, Santa Cruz. University Library.
Special Collections and Archives
Santa Cruz, California 95064
Abstract: This small collection includes family correspondence and business papers.
Physical location: Stored in Special Collection & Archives: advance notice required for access to this material.
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
Collection open for research.
Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are retained by the creators of the records and
their heirs. For permission to publish or to reproduce the material, please contact the Head of Special Collections and Archives.
Thomas V. Johnson papers. MS 281. Special Collections and Archives, University Library, University of
California, Santa Cruz.
Gift of Wendell Hammon.
Thomas V. Johnson was born in England circa 1822. He arrived in Santa Cruz, California with his son Charles W. and daughter
Evalena in the late 1860s. He was the tavern keeper at the San Lorenzo Saloon on Pacific Avenue, later the Grand Central Saloon.
As the 9th owner of the Carmelita Cottages property on Beach Hill, he was the first to built structures on the site. He married
Mary Anne Hutchinson from Monasterevin, Ireland on May 6, 1873 in Santa Cruz. He retired circa 1896, died January 2, 1903,
and is buried at the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Santa Cruz, CA.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection includes the business papers and personal correspondence of Thomas V. Johnson, proprietor of the San Lorenzo
Saloon (aka Grand Central Saloon) and builder of the Carmelita Cottages, located in Santa Cruz, CA.
Two folders of correspondence and nine folders of business papers arranged chronologically by date.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Johnson, Thomas V.
Santa Cruz County -- (Calif.) History, Local