Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Saturday, October 04, 2008 at 04:13:41 :
The Marin Journal
Thursday, September 15, 1904
Page 1
Old Settler and Nimrod Passes Away
Ben Johnson died at his home at Millwood last Saturday. The funeral services were held at the Catholic church in Sausalito where a solemn High Mass was celebrated for the repose of his soul. The interment took place in the Sausalito cemetery. Deceased leaves a wife and several children. Ben Johnson or Ben King, as he was sometimes known. Was an old timer in the county, and well known among the hunters of thirty years ago. Ever since the Tamalpais Game Club was formed, Johnson had been one of its most trusted keepers. Before that he hunted for the market, and few men in the county ever became more famous as nimrods. He was a splendid shot with either shotgun or rifle and knew every trail and spring in the southern part of the county. The wooded slopes of Tamalpais were an open book to him. He was a comparatively young man at the time of his death, being but 51 years of age, but in his lifetime he had seen his old camping ground, Mill Valley, transformed from a hunter’s paradise into a thriving little town. He had seen the trout streams become devoid of fish, the gulches robbed of their flocks of quail, and the canyons and ridges of Tamalpais lose the herds of deer that in the old days roamed there in plenty.
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