The Rev. John Johnson, missionary, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong from 1848 to 1850. He belonged to the American Baptist Missionary Union which sent him and his wife, Anna A. Stevens, to Hong Kong in 1848. Gough Street was listed as his address in Hong Kong in 1850.
Johnson was married to Anna A. Stevens. Born in Eastport, Maine in 1822, Stevens died in Hong Kong in June 1848.
Selected Bibliography: 34th Annual Report of the American Baptist Missionary Union, May, 1848. Lim, Patricia, Forgotton Souls: A Social History of the Hong Kong Cemetery, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011. Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846,1848 and 1850.
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