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Johnson, Herrick

educator, clergyman, author, was born Sept. 21, 1832, near Fonda, N. Y. He is a presbyterian clergyman of Chicago, professor in Mc- Cormick Theological seminary from 1880; and the author of Christianity's Challenge; Plain Talks about Theaters; Forms for Special Occasions; and Revivals.

JOHNSON, HERSCHELL VESPASIAN, lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born Sept. 18, 1812, in Burke county, Ga.

He was a presidential elector in 1844; and in 1848 was appointed to fill a vacancy in the United States senate. In 1849 he was elected a judge of the superior court. He subsequently served in the confederate senate; was a delegate to the Philadelphia national union convention of 1866; and after the rebellion became a judge of the supreme court of Georgia. He died Aug. 16, 1880, in Jefferson county, Ga.

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