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Johnson, Samuel – Johnson, William
Johnson, Samuel
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 10, 1822, in Salem, Mass. He was a unitarian clergyman of radical views, pastor of an independent church in Lynn for many years; and the author of Oriental Religions; Lectures, Essays, and Sermons; and The Worship of Jesus in Its Past and Present Aspect.
He died Feb. 19, 1882, in Salem, Mass.
Johnson, Samuel Frost
artist, educator, was born Nov. 9, 1835, in New York city. He was a professor in the art schools of the Metropolitan museum in New York in 1883-85, also teaching science and art classes at St. John's college, Fordham, in 1884-85.
Johnson, Samuel William
educator, author, was born July 3, 1830, in Kingsborough, N. Y. He has been professor of chemistry in Sheffield Scientific School at Yale university since 1856; and is the author of Essays on Manures; Peat and Its Uses; How Crops Feed; Chemical Notation and Nomenclature; and several translations of German scientific works .
Johnson, Thomas Cary
educator, clergyman, author, was born in 1859 in West Virginia. He is a presbyterian clergyman, professor of ecclesiastical polity in Union seminary, Va., from 1892; and the author of The History of the Southern Presbyterian Church.
Johnson, Tom Loftin
manufacturer, congressman, was born July 18, 1854, near Georgetown, Ky. The Johnson girder rail, made and patented by him, has since come into extended use on street car lines throughout the country. The Johnson Company in 1894 increased its plant by erecting one of the largest steel mills in the country in Lorain, O., a suburb of Cleveland. He was elected to the fifty-second and fifty-third congresses as a democrat.
Johnson, Virginia Wales
author, was born Dec. 28, 1849, in Brooklyn, N.
Y. She is a novelist who has resided in Europe since 1875, and mainly in Italy; and is the author of The Neptune Vase, her finest effort. Her other works comprise, Joseph the Jew; A Sack of Gold; The Calderwood Secret; Two Old Cats; Miss Nancy's Pilgrimage; A Foreign Marriage; An English Daisy Miller; The House of the Musician; Tulip Place; The Fainalls of Tipton; and America's Godfather.
Johnson, Waldo Porter
soldier, lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born Sept. 16, 1817, in Harrison county, Va. He became prosecuting attorney and judge of his judicial district in Missouri, and was elected to the United States senate as a democrat, serving from 1861 to 1862, when he was expelled because he had joined the confederate army. He died Aug. 14, 1885, in Osceola, Mo.
Johnson, Walter Rogers
chemist, author, poet, was born June 21, 1794, in Leominster, Mass. He was a once prominent chemist of Boston and elsewhere; and the author of The Use of Anthracite; Report on Coals; Coal Trade of British America; Natural Philosophy; and Memoir of L. D. von Schweinitz. He died April 26, 1852, in Washington, D. C.
Johnson, Warren S
engineer, inventor, was born Nov. 6, 1847, in Brandon, Vt. Among the number of his inventions may be mentioned Johnson's system of heat regulation, and the impulsive railway by means of which mail and express matter is forwarded on special cars.
Johnson, William
law reporter, author, was born in 1770 in Middletown, Conn. From 1806 till 1823 he served as reporter of the supreme court of New York, and from 1814 till 1823 he held the same relation to the New York court of chancery. He issued New York Supreme Court Reports; New York Chancery Reports; and Digest of Cases in the Supreme Court of New York. He died in July, 1848, in New York city.