1771 - 1850
Robert Gibbon Johnson Attorney
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| Birthday |
23rd July, 1771
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| Birthplace |
Salem, New Jersey, British America
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| Died |
2nd October, 1850
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| Place of Death |
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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| Buried |
St John's Episcopal Church, Salem NJ
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| Zodiac Sign |
Cancer
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| Occupation Text |
gentleman farmer
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| Occupation |
Attorney
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Robert Gibbon Johnson (July 23, 1771 – October 2, 1850), also known as Colonel Johnson, was an American gentleman farmer, historian, horticulturalist, judge, soldier and statesman who lived in Salem, New Jersey. He is especially renowned for the apocryphal story that he publicly ate a basket of tomatoes at the Old Salem County Courthouse in 1820 to demonstrate that they were not poisonous, as was supposedly commonly thought at the time. He was a keen antiquarian and wrote a history of Salem – An Historical Account of the First Settlement of Salem, in West Jersey – which was published by Orrin Rogers in 1839.
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