Johnson, David – Johnson, Henry Theodore
Johnson, David
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, governor, was born Oct. 3, Oct. 3, 1782, in Louisa county, Va. He was a was a member of the legislature of that state in that state in 1812. He was judge of the court of apof appeals from 1824 to 1835; and chancellor from 1835 to 1846. He was governor of governor of South Carolina from 1846 to 1848. He died He died Jan. 7, 1855, in Limestone Springs, S. C.
S. C.
Johnson, David
artist, was born May 10, 1827, in New York city. He was . He was one of the founders of the Artists' Fund the Artists' Fund society, and has exhibited at the academy Echo Lake; On the Wallkill River; New River; New Berlin, N. Y.; View of Tarrytown, N. Y. , N. Y.
Johnson, David B
lawyer, jurist, was born April 17, 1833, in Lowndes coun- Lowndes county, Ga. He has attained eminence as an eminence as an able lawyer; and for many years was years was county judge of Hamilton county , Fla.
Johnson, Eastman
artist, was born July 29, 1824, in Lovell, Maine. In 1845 . In 1845 he moved from Boston to Washington , D. C., where he drew portraits of Daniel Webster, John Quincy Adams, and other distinguished men. Since 1859 he has had his studio in New York city, and since 1860 has contributed to each of the annual exhibitions of the National academy. Among his pictures are The Old Kentucky Home; Prisoners of State; The Barefoot Boy; and Bo-Peep. He ex- He excels as a portrait painter, and his works include likenesses of Grover Cleveland , Chester A. Arthur, and William M.
Evarts.
Johnson, Edward
author, was born ín 1599 in England. He was the principal founder of Woburn, Mass., in 1640, and a , and a prominent citizen of that town for the town for the rest of his life. He was the author of author of The Wonder-Working Providence of Zion's Savior in New England, which is a which is a valuable account of New England from the from the English planting in 1628 till 1652; and 1652; and an edition, with Introduction and Notes and Notes by W. F. Poole. He died April 23, 1672, in 23, 1672, in Woburn, Mass.
Johnson, Edward
soldier, was born April 16, 1816, in Chesterfield county , Va.
In 1861 he joined the confederate army, was appointed colonel of the twelfth Georgia volunteers, brigadier-general in 1862, and major-general in 1863. He died He died Feb. 22, 1873, in Richmond, Va.
Johnson, Edward Augustus
lawyer, educator, author, was born in Rain Raleigh, N. C. He attended the Atlanta the Atlanta university, and has become a prominent lawyer of his native city. For many years many years he was engaged in educational work; and work; and is the author of a School History of the of the Negro Race.
Johnson, Edwin A
clergyman, author, was born in 1829 in New York. He York. He is a methodist clergyman; and the auand the author of Half-Hour Studies of Life; The Life; The Live Boy, or Charley's Letters; Winter Greeneries at Home; and The Lilyvale The Lilyvale Club and Its Doings.
Johnson, Elias Henry
educator, clergyman, was born Oct. 15, 1841, 15, 1841, in Troy, N. Y. He has filled numerfilled numerous pastorates in Minnesota, New York, New York, Rhode Island, and Pennsylvania; and has ; and has been professor of systematic theology in theology in the Crozer Theological seminary.
Johnson, Elijah Emory
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born May 23, 1841, 23, 1841, in East Haddam, Conn. He received his He received his education at the Wilbraham academy, and academy, and in 1862 graduated from the Union college of Schenectady, N. Y. In 1879 he was admitted to the bar; was a member of the board of education for nine years; and justice of the peace for twenty-one years. In 1879-80 he was a member of the general assembly of Connecticut, and served with distinction on several imseveral important committees. He was the founder of the East Haddam Savings bank; founder of the Connecticut Valley Advertiser; and in 1895 founded the Columbia Law and Collection bureau of Connecticut .
He is the author of Our Local Industries, and other works.
Johnson, Elizabeth Bryant
author, was born in Kentucky. For many years she has been a resident of the national capital. She is the author of The Original Portraits of Washington; and George Washington Day by Day.
Johnson, Eric
soldier, journalist, legislator, was born July 15, 1838, in Sweden. During the civil war he captain of company B, fifty-seventh regiment Illinois volunteer infantry; was a member of the Nebraska legislature in 1889; and is now the editor and owner of The New Era of Wahoo, Neb.
Johnson, Evan Malbone
clergyman, was born June 6, 1791, in Bristol, R. I. In 1826 he built, on his own ground and at his own expense, St. John's church in Brooklyn, N. Y., and served it, without twenty remuneration, for more than twenty years. He died in 1865 in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Johnson, Evangeline Marie
author, poet. She has translated Fire and Flame, from the German of Levin Schücking; and has prepared An Analytical Index to the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne; and An Index to the Works of Shakspere. She has contributed merous poems to periodicals, the best known of which is that entitled Daughters of Toil. nu-
Johnson, Francis
congressman, was born in Caroline county, Va. He was a representative in congress from Kentucky in 1820 to fill a vacancy; and 1821 to 1827.
Johnson, Francis Howe
clergyman, author, was born in 1835 in Massachusetts. He is a congregational clergyman in Andover, Mass.; and the author of author of What Is Reality? an Inquiry as to the to the Reasonableness of Natural Religion the Naturalness of Revealed Religion .
Johnson, Frank Grant
physician, inventor, author, was born Jan. 30 , 1835 , in East Windsor, Conn. He is a physician and inventor of Brooklyn; and the authe author of The Water Meter and the Actual the Actual Measurement System; The Nicholson and and Other Pavements; Health Lifts; and In- ; and Infected Air and Disinfectants.
Johnson, Franklin
educator, clergyman, author, was born in 1836. He is a He is a baptist clergyman, professor in Chicago in Chicago university, and previously pastor of a pastor of a church in Cambridge. He is the author of the author of Quotations of the New Testament from Testament from the Old; True Womanhood; The New The New Psychic Studies in Their Relation to Relation to Christian Thought; Heine's Lyrical Interludes, with introduction and notes; and notes; and Dies Irae, and Stabat Mater, with intro- , with introduction and notes.
Johnson, Frederick A
banker, congressman, was born Jan. 2, 1833, in 2, 1833, in Glens Falls, N. Y. In 1871 he engaged in he engaged in the business of private banking at Glens banking at Glens Falls. He was elected a representative from New York to the forty -eighth congress; and was re-elected to the fortythe fortyninth congress as a republican.
Johnson, Gertrude Tracy
educator, poet, was born in 1844 in Chauin Chautauqua county, N. Y. For twenty years she has been supertwenty years she has been supervising principal of a large grammar school of Kansas City, Mo.; and since her youth has been engaged in educa- She tional work. has written extensively on the problems of education, sociology, politics, religion, and science; and many of her poems have been given a place in standard collections.
Johnson, Grove Lawrence
lawyer, congressman, was born March 27, March 27, 1841, in Syracuse, N. Y. He was a member a member of the California assembly in 1878-79; in 1878-79; and of the California state senate in 1880, in 1880 , 1881, and 1882. He was chairman of the of the committee on platform in the republican state conventions of California in 1888, in 1888, 1892, and 1894; and was elected to the to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican.
Johnson, Gustavus
pianist, composer, was born Nov. 2, 1856, in England.
He is a pianist and teacher of Minneapof Minneapolis, Minn.; and ranks among the forethe foremost in the northwest. He is the author He is the author of numerous pieces for the piano ; thems and chamber music; and a conand a concerto for piano and orchestra. an-
Johnson, Harvey H
congressman, was born in Vermont. He removed to He removed to Ohio; and was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1853 to from 1853 to 1855.
HELEN MRS.
JOHNSON, DRICK], journalist, author, was born in JOHNSON, MRS. HELEN [KEN- 1843 in Hamilton, N. Y. She has edited She has edited Our Familiar Songs; Tears for the Little for the Little Ones; The Nutshell Series, and other , and other works; and has written Raleigh West- Raleigh Westgate, or Epimenides in Maine; The Rod- ; The Roddy Books; and Woman and the Republic. and the Republic.
Johnson, Henry
lawyer, jurist, congressman, governor, United States sen- States senator, was born Sept. 14, 1783, in Tennes- 1783, in Tennessee. He was elected a senator in congress in congress in 1818 to fill a vacancy, and held that held that position until 1824, in which year he was year he was elected governor of Louisiana. In 1826 he . In 1826 he was re-elected, holding that office for four for four consecutive years. He was a representaa representative from Louisiana to the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth congresses; and in 1844 and in 1844 was elected to fill a vacancy in the United in the United States senate, serving until 1849. He died 1849. He died Sept. 4, 1864, in Point Coupee , La.
Johnson, Henry C
lawyer, state legislator, was born March 29, 1826, in 29, 1826, in Pittsburg, Pa. He held a number of imnumber of important public positions, among which were those of attorneygeneral of New Mexico and district and prosecuting atprosecuting attorney for Crawford county, Pa. He was . He was a representative in the state legislature for several terms, during one of which of which he was speaker of the house. He was ap- He was appointed commissioner of customs in the in the treasury department at Washington, in Washington, in which office he served until 1885. until 1885.
Johnson, Henry Theodore
educator, author, was born Oct. 10, 1857, in 10, 1857, in Georgetown, S. C. He founded Slater colfounded Slater college in Tennessee, became president of the president of the institution, and was also presiding elder presiding elder of a large district for three years. He three years. is the author of a volume entitled Divine entitled Divine Logos.
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