George Washington Johnson
Canadian songwriter
About George Washington Johnson
George Washington Johnson (1839, Binbrook, Upper Canada1917, 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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