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Johnson, Elias Henry

educator, clergyman, was born Oct. 15, 1841, 15, 1841, in Troy, N. Y. He has filled numerfilled numerous pastorates in Minnesota, New York, New York, Rhode Island, and Pennsylvania; and has ; and has been professor of systematic theology in the Crozer Theological seminary.

Johnson, Elizabeth Bryant

author, was born in Kentucky. For many years she has been a resident of the national capital. She is the author of The Original Portraits of Washington; and George Washington Day by Day.

Johnson, Eric

soldier, journalist, legislator, was born July 15, 1838, in Sweden. During the civil war he captain of company B, fifty-seventh regiment Illinois volunteer infantry; was a member of the Nebraska legislature in 1889; and is now the editor and owner of The New Era of Wahoo, Neb.

Johnson, Evan Malbone

clergyman, was born June 6, 1791, in Bristol, R. I. In 1826 he built, on his own ground and at his own expense, St. John's church in Brooklyn, N. Y., and served it, without twenty remuneration, for more than twenty years. He died in 1865 in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Johnson, Evangeline Marie

author, poet. She has translated Fire and Flame, from the German of Levin Schücking; and has prepared An Analytical Index to the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne; and An Index to the Works of Shakspere. She has contributed merous poems to periodicals, the best known of which is that entitled Daughters of Toil. nu-

Johnson, Francis

congressman, was born in Caroline county, Va. He was a representative in congress from Kentucky in 1820 to fill a vacancy; and 1821 to 1827.

Johnson, Francis Howe

clergyman, author, was born in 1835 in Massachusetts. He is a congregational clergyman in Andover, Mass.; and the author of What Is Reality? an Inquiry as to the Reasonableness of Natural Religion the Naturalness of Revealed Religion .

Johnson, Frank Grant

physician, inventor, author, was born Jan. 30 , 1835 , in East Windsor, Conn. He is a physician and inventor of Brooklyn; and the authe author of The Water Meter and the Actual Measurement System; The Nicholson and and Other Pavements; Health Lifts; and In- ; and Infected Air and Disinfectants.

Johnson, Frederick A

banker, congressman, was born Jan. 2, 1833, in Glens Falls, N. Y. In 1871 he engaged in the business of private banking at Glens Falls. He was elected a representative from New York to the forty -eighth congress; and was re-elected to the fortythe fortyninth congress as a republican.

Johnson, Gertrude Tracy

educator, poet, was born in 1844 in Chauin Chautauqua county, N. Y. For twenty years she has been supertwenty years she has been supervising principal of a large grammar school of Kansas City, Mo.; and since her youth has been engaged in educa- She tional work. has written extensively on the problems of education, sociology, politics, religion, and science; and many of her poems have been given a place in standard collections.

Johnson, Grove Lawrence

lawyer, congressman, was born March 27, March 27, 1841, in Syracuse, N. Y. He was a member of the California assembly in 1878-79; in 1878-79; and of the California state senate in 1880, in 1880 , 1881, and 1882. He was chairman of the committee on platform in the republican state conventions of California in 1888, in 1888, 1892, and 1894; and was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican.