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Johnson, Sydney Carter

railroad manager, financier, was born Dec. 13, 1861, in St. Louis, Mo. Since 1873 he has been engaged in the railroad service with the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern railroad; the Missouri Pacific railway; the St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas railway; and since 1891 has been general auditor of the St. Louis and Southwestern railway.

THEODORE JOHNSON, TAYLOR, merchant, author, poet, was born in 1818 in Lebanon, N. J. He was engaged in commerce in Philadelphia from 1843 till 1860, and in 1847 his firm were the largest shippers of breadstuffs from that port to Great Britain. He published California and Oregon, or Sights in the Gold Region and Scenes by the Way.