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Johnston, Josiah Stoddard – Jolly, George Washington

Johnston, Josiah Stoddard

journalist, was born Feb. 10, 1833, in Rapides, La. After the war he was editor of the Kentucky Yeoman at Frankfort, Ky., for nearly twenty years. He was adjutantgeneral of Kentucky in 1870-71, and held the office of secretary of state for the commonwealth for nearly ten years.

Johnston, Louis William

physician, surgeon, was born April 24, 1864, in Tuskegee, Ala. After receiving his education, he entered the drug business; subsequently graduating in medicine and pharmacy. He soon attained success as a physician and surgeon; has been mayor of his native city; and is prominently identified with the leading medical societies of America.

Johnston, Samuel

inventor, was born Feb. 9, 1835, in Shelby, N. Y. In 1856 he applied his first self-rake to the Ketchum reaper; its success attracted wide attention, and its manufacture was begun in Buffalo, N. Y., in 1858.

Johnston, Thomas Dillard

soldier, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born April 1, 1840, in Waynesville, N. C. He entered the confederate army in 1861, and was soon after elected lieuten-

Johnston, Thomas J

lawyer, jurist, legislator, was born Aug. 20, 1836, in Perry, Ill. He was judge of the probate court; and a member of the Missouri constitutional convention of 1875.

Johnston, William Freame

governor, was born March 29, 1808, in Greensburg, Va. He was elected governor of Pennsylvania, and served in that capacity until 1852. He died Oct. 30, 1872, in Pittsburg, Pa.

Johnston, William Preston

soldier, educator, college president, author, was born Jan. 5, 1831, in Louisville, Ky.

He is an educator of Louisiana; and president of Tulane university since 1884. He is the author of a volume entitled The Prototype of Hamlet.

Johnstone, George

soldier, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born April 18, 1846, in Newberry, S. C.

He enlisted in the confederate army as a member of the battalion of state cadets and served until the close of the war.

He was elected to the South Carolina state legislature at a special election in 1877, and served continuously until 1884, when he declined to stand for re-election. He was elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat.

Johnstone, Job

lawyer, jurist, was born June 7, 1793, in Fairfield county, S.

C. He was clerk of the South Carolina state senate in 1826-30, and at the latter date was elected chancellor. He held office until 1859, when he became associate justice of the court of appeals. He died April 15, 1862, in Newberry, S. C.

Johonnot, James

educator, author, was born March 3, 1823, in Bethel, Vt. He was an educator of Illinois and Missouri; and the author of Principles and Practice of Teaching; Glimpses of the Animate World; Book of Cats and Dogs; Friends in Feathers and Fur; Some Curious Flyers, Creepers, and Swimmers; Schoolhouses; and Schoolhouse Architecture. He died June 18, 1888, in Tarpon Springs, Fla.

Joines, Henry S

legislator, was born in 1843, in Lincoln county, Tenn. He served as a member of the Idaho house of representatives for four sessions, and took a prominent part in the deliberations of that body. He is a successful manufacturer of Mountain Home, Idaho.

Jolly, George Washington

lawyer, was born Feb. 22, 1843, in Breckenridge county, Ky. He has attained success as an able lawyer of Owensboro, Ky.; and during 1889-94 was United States attorney for the district of Kentucky.