Johnson, Henry U – Johnson, Noadiah
Johnson, Henry U
lawyer, state. senator, congressman, was born Oct. 28, 1850, in Cambridge City, Ind. He was elected prosecuting attorney for Wayne county in 1876; and re-elected in 1878.
He was elected to the state senate from Wayne county in 1886; and served in the legislative sessions of 1887 and 1889. He was elected to the fifty-second, fifty-third, fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a republican.
Johnson, Herman Merrills
educator, clergyman, college president, author, was born Nov. 25, 1815, in Butternuts, N. Y. In 1850 he became professor of philosophy and English literature in Dickinson college, which post he retained for ten years. In 1860 he was called to the presidency of the college and the chair of moral science, which he held till his death. He died April 5, 1868, in Carlisle, Pa.
Johnson, Herrick
educator, clergyman, author, was born Sept. 21, 1832, near Fonda, N. Y. He is a presbyterian clergyman of Chicago, professor in Mc- Cormick Theological seminary from 1880; and the author of Christianity's Challenge; Plain Talks about Theaters; Forms for Special Occasions; and Revivals.
Johnson, Herschell Vespasian
lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born Sept. 18, 1812, in Burke county, Ga.
He was a presidential elector in 1844; and in 1848 was appointed to fill a vacancy in the United States senate. In 1849 he was elected a judge of the superior court. He subsequently served in the confederate senate; was a delegate to the Philadelphia national union convention of 1866; and after the rebellion became a judge of the supreme court of Georgia. He died Aug. 16, 1880, in Jefferson county, Ga.
Johnson, Hezekiah S
lawyer, jurist, journalist, state legislator, was born Sept. 12, 1828, in Pittsburg, Pa. In 1849 he moved to New Mexico; held the offices of district attorney, clerk of court, and treasurer of the territory; and in 1863 was elected to the territorial legislature.
In 1869 he was appointed associate justice of the supreme court of New Mexico, and was reappointed in 1871.
Johnson, Horace B
soldier, lawyer, was born Aug. 14, 1842, in Marengo, 111.
He received his education at the Upper Iowa university of Fayette. During the civil war he was a captain in the army. In 1865-68 he was circuit attorney in Missouri; and in 1869-70 was attorneygeneral for the state of Missouri. He is one of the leading lawyers of the west, and now has an extensive law practice in Denver, Colo.
Johnson, Horace Chauncey
artist, was born Feb. 1, 1820, in Oxford, Conn.
He attained prominence as a portrait and landscape painter.
Johnson, Hugh Edgar
journalist, was born Feb. 24, 1868, in Henderson county, N. C. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools, and subsequently took a commercial course at college. In 1888 he established The Tribune of Fullerton, Cal., of which he is still editor and owner.
Johnson, Isaac
governor, was born in England. He was governor of Louisiana from 1845 to 1850. He died March 15, 1853, in New Orleans, La.
Johnson, James
state legislator, congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1813 to 1820. He also served in the state legislature. He died Dec. 7, 1825, in Norfolk, Va.
Johnson, James
soldier, congressman, was born Jan. 1, 1774, in Orange county, Va. He served as lieutenant-colonel at the battle of the Thames; and was a representative in congress from Kentucky during the years 1825 and 1826.
He died Aug. 14, 1826, in Great Crossings, Ky.
Johnson, James
lawyer, jurist, congressman, governor, was born in 1811 in Robinson county, N. C. He was a representative in congress from 1851 to 1853. In 1865 he was appointed provisional governor of Georgia; and in 1866 was appointed collector of customs at Savannah, where he remained until 1869. He was subsequently made a judge of the circuit court of the state.
Johnson, James A
state legislator, congressman, was born May 16, 1829, in Spartanburg, S. C. He was elected to the state legislature in 1859; and was elected a representative from California to the fortieth and forty-first congresses as a democrat.
Johnson, James H
state senator, congressman, was born in New Hampshire. He was a state senator in 1839; was a state counselor in 1842 and 1843; and was a representative in congress from 1845 to 1847.
Johnson, James L
congressman, was born in Kentucky. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1849 to 1851.
Johnson, James Neely
governor of California, was born about 1828 in Indiana. From 1856-58 was governor of California. He died in August, 1872, in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Johnson, James Willis
merchant, state senator, was born Feb. 24, 1826, in Enfield, N. H. As a republican he was elected to a number of positions of honor in his native state, including a seat in the New Hampshire legislature in 1860, 1865- 66 and 1875. He was a member of the state senate in 1876-77, railroad commissioner in 1878, serving two years, and in 1878 was nominated for congress by the greenback party, but met with defeat.
He died Dec. 18, 1886, in Boston, Mass.
Johnson, Jeromus
congressman, was born in Kings county, N. Y. He was a representative in congress from New York city from 1825 to 1829. He died Sept. 7, 1846, in Goshen, N. Y.
Johnson, Joel Hills
merchant, was born Nov. 16, 1860, in Virgin City, Utah. After receiving a liberal education, he entered mercantile pursuits, and has become a successful merchant of Kane county, Utah. He is prominent in public affairs, and he has filled numerous important public offices of trust.
Johnson, John
agriculturist, state senator, congressman, was born in 1808 in Ireland. He served as a member of the Ohio senate ; also in the last constitutional convention of that state; and was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1851 to 1853.
Johnson, John Butler
educator, civil engineer, author, was born in 1850 in Ohio. He is a professor of civil engineering in Washington university at St. Louis from 1883; and the author of Theory and Practice of Surveying; Modern Framed Structures; and Stadia and Earth-Work Tables.
Johnson, John T
clergyman, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Oct. 5, 1788, in Great Crossings, Ky. He was once judge of the court of appeals of Kentucky; and represented that state in congress from 1821 to 1825. He died Dec. 17, 1856, in Lexington, Mo.
Johnson, John W
physician, legislator, was born June 14, 1856, in Framingham Center, Mass. For three years he was professor of obstetrics in Tufts college Medical school. He is a successful physician of Boston, Mass.; has been a member of the city council; and in 1896- 97 served with distinction as a member of the Massachusetts state legislature.
Johnson, Joseph
congressman, governor, was born Dec. 19, 1785, in Orange county, N. Y. He moved to Virginia, and was elected a representative in congress from 1823 to 1827, from 1835 to 1841, and from 1845 to 1847. He was governor of Virginia from 1852 to 1856. He died Feb. 27, 1877, in Bridgeport, W. Va.
Johnson, Joseph Horsfall
bishop of Los Angeles, Cal., was born June 7, 1847, in Schenectady, N. Y. He was consecrated on Feb. 24, 1896, in Christ church, Detroit. He is the author of numerous sermons and papers.
Johnson, Joseph Taber
educator, physician, lecturer, was born June 30, 1845, in Lowell, Mass. He was elected lecturer on obstetrics in the medical department of the university of Georgetown in 1874, full professor of the same in 1876, and is now president of this department. He has edited volumes ten and eleven of the Transactions of the American Gynecological Society.
JOHNSON, MRS. LAURA [WIN- THROP], author, was born in 1825 in Connecticut. She is a writer of New York city; and the author of Little Blossom's Reward; Poems of Twenty Years; and Eight Hundred Miles in an Ambulance.
Johnson, Lawrence
type-founder, inventor, was born Jan. 23, 1801, in England. He established a successful stereotype-foundry in Philadelphia, Pa, and in 1833 he purchased the Philadelphia typefoundry, which, under his management, became one of the largest in the country.
He died April 26, 1860, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Johnson, Madison Conyers
lawyer, banker, legislator, was born Sept. 21, 1806, near Georgetown, Ky. In 1850 he was chosen one of the commissioners to adopt and draw up the Kentucky code of practice, and in 1853 and 1857 he was elected to the legislature. From 1858 till his death he was president of the Northern bank of Kentucky. He died Dec. 7, 1886, in Lexington, Ky.
Johnson, Martin N
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1850 in Wisconsin. He served a term in each branch of the Iowa legislature and was a Hayes elector for the Dubuque district in the electoral college of 1876. He removed to Dakota in 1882, and took up government land, on which he still resides. He was elected district attorney in 1886 and re-elected in 1888. He was elected to the fifty-second, fifty-third, fiftyfourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a republican.
Johnson, Mary Ann
matron, lecturer, was born Aug. 4, 1808, in Westmoreland, Vt. She was matron in the female state prison at Sing Sing, N. Y.
She died June 8, 1872, in New York.
Johnson, Noadiah
state legislator, congressman. He served in the legislature of New York; and was a member of congress from 1833 to 1835. He died April 4, 1839, in Albany, N. Y.