Frederick Thomas Johnson (1897 - 1957)

Born 18 Sep 1897 in Ashland, Oregon

Ancestors

Died 22 Oct 1957 at age 60 in Los Angeles, California

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Biography

Frederick was born in 1897 in Ashland, Oregon and passed away in 1957 in Los Angeles, California ^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The family relocated from Oregon to Tulare, California by 1900 (continue to second page of the 1900 Census listing for this family) ^[6], and then to Los Angeles by 1910 ^[7][8].

He married Dorothy Alexander on 22 Jan 1920 in Los Angeles, California ^[9]. They divorced by 1940, based on the 1940 Census which shows his former wife as a single parent and marital status "divorced" ^[10]. He remarried a woman who I believe was named "Viola", but am not sure^[11].

He was a car salesman, working at Auburn-Fuller Company, Hollywood, and White Motors in Los Angeles during the hey-days of the movie business, and focused on high-end cars like the Cord ^[12][13][14]. In 1931, he and two other "well-known Los Angeles automobile men" organized the Hamco Manufacturing Company to distribute specific car parts ^[15].

Sources

1. ↑ Personal information from his first wife, my grandmother
2. ↑ U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, 101, accessed on Ancestry.com at https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/6482/005240933_01628/19524671
3. ↑ U.S., Headstone Application for Military Veterans, 1925-1963, 3981, accessed on Ancestry.com at https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/2375/40050_1521003240_0453-03987/1250542
4. ↑ "California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VPN9-BHM : 26 November 2014), Fred Thomas Johnson, 22 Oct 1957; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.
5. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVS-NMXJ : 13 December 2015), Fred Thomas Johnson, 1957; Burial, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Los Angeles National Cemetery; citing record ID 3721530, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
6. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9G6-6TZ : accessed 4 February 2018), Fred B Johnson, Tulare Township, San Joaquin, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 117, sheet 24B, family 462, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,108.
7. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MVL9-8DX : accessed 4 February 2018), Fred T Johnson in household of Fredrick B Johnson, Los Angeles Assembly District 74, Los Angeles, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 57, sheet 9A, family 207, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 83; FHL microfilm 1,374,096.
8. ↑ "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHQR-FJY : accessed 4 February 2018), Fred T Johnson in household of Fred B Johnson, Los Angeles Assembly District 66, Los Angeles, California, United States; citing ED 278, sheet 4B, line 85, family 121, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 110; FHL microfilm 1,820,110.
9. ↑ "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8FB-3PQ : 8 December 2017), Fred Thomas Johnson and Dorothy H Alexander, 22 Jan 1920; citing Los Angeles, California, United States, county courthouses, California; FHL microfilm 2,074,212.
10. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K96B-ZBG : accessed 4 February 2018), Dororthy Johnson, Councilmanic District 3, Long Beach, Long Beach Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 59-52, sheet 61A, line 21, family , Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 371
11. ↑ Personal information from his first wife, my grandmother
12. ↑ Personal communication from my grandmother, his first wife, Dorothy Alexander
13. ↑ Newspapers.com clip of Fred T Johnson being appointed sales dead of the Auburn Passenger Car Division of the White Auto Company, from the LA Times, 16 Aug 1925, page 126 https://www.newspapers.com/image/158808727/?terms=%22fred%2Bt%2Bjohnson%22%2Bcalifornia
14. ↑ Newspapers.com clip of Frederick T Johnson, Cord dealer, congratulating race participants on April 20, 1930, from the Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr 1930, Sun, page 79, accessed at https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7479871/frederick_t_johnson_cord_dealer/?xid=637
15. ↑ Newspapers.com clipping of announcement, LA Times 10 May 1931, page 61 https://www.newspapers.com/image/158709997/?terms=%22fred%2Bt%2Bjohnson%22%2Bcalifornia