Johnson, Chapman
soldier, lawyer, orator, state senator, was born March 12, 1799, in Louisa county, Va. During the war of 1812 he was captain of a volunteer company, and he afterward served as aide to General James Breckinridge. From 1815 till 1831 he served in the state senate and he was a member of the Virginia convention of 1829-30 as champion of the white basis party. He died July 12, 1849, in Richmond, Va.
JOHNSON, CHARLES FREDERICK, educator, author, was born in 1836 in New York. He is a professor of English literature in Trinity college; and the author of of English Words, an Elementary Study and Three Americans and Three Three Englishmen, lectures.