Johnson, Rossiter
author, poet, was born Jan. 27, 1840, in Rochester, N.
Y. He is a writer of New York city who has edited Appleton's Annual Cyclopædia since 1883, and also edited Famous Single Poems; Play-day Poems; Little Classics; The Authorized History of the World's Columbian Exposition, and other works. His original writings include, Phaëton Rogers, a Novel of Boy Life; History of the French War, Ending in the Conquest of Canada; History of the War of 1812-15; A Short History of the War of Secession, enlarged as Campfire and Battlefield; The End of a Rainbow, an American Story; Idler and Poet; and Three Decades.