George Washington Johnson

Canadian songwriter
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IntroCanadian songwriter
PlacesCanada
isSongwriter
Gender
Male
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Biography

Tomb of George W. Johnson in Hamilton Cemetery, buried with his third wife Nellie Johnson

George Washington Johnson (1839, Binbrook, Upper Canada - 1917, Pasadena, California) was a Canadian schoolteacher and poet best known for writing the song “When You and I Were Young, Maggie,” dedicated to his first wife Maggie Clark.

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