Johnson, Thomas Cary – Johnston, James Steptoe
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.
Johnson, William
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, author, was born Dec. 27, 1771, in Charleston, S. C. He was elected to the state legislature in 1794; and was re-elected and made speaker. He was subsequently chosen a judge of the circuit court of the state; and in 1804 was appointed a justice of the supreme court of the United States, which position he held until his death. In 1822 he published the Life and Services of Nathaniel Greene, in two volumes. He died Aug. 11, 1834, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Johnson, William
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1819 in Ireland.
In 1862 he was elected a representative from Ohio to the thirty-eighth congress.
He died May 3, 1866, in Mansfield, Ohio.
Johnson, William Bullien
clergyman, author, was born June 13, 1782, in Sir John's Island, S. C. He was a member of the Bible Revision society; forty years president of the Georgia baptist convention, and three years president of the general baptist convention of the United States. He published Infant Baptism Argued from Analogy; The Church's Argument for Christianity; Examination of Snodgrass on Apostolic Succession; Examination of Confirmation Examined; and a Memoir of Rev. Nathan P. Knapp. He died Jan. 10, 1862, in Greenville, S. C.
Johnson, William Carey
lawyer, banker, state senator, was born Oct. 27, 1893, in Frankfort, Ohio. He was made prosecuting attorney of the fourth judicial district of Oregon; and has served as senator in the Oregon state legislature. He is vice-president of the Merchants' National bank of Portland, Ore.
Johnson, William Cost
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1806 in Frederick county, Md. He was a representative in congress from 1833 to 1835, and from 1837 to 1843. He served in the state legislature before entering and after he left congress. He died April 16, 1860, in Washington, D. C.
Johnson, William Samuel
lawyer, jurist, college president, congressman, United States senator, was born Oct. 7, 1727, in Stratford, Conn. In 1765 he was a delegate to the congress at New York. In 1772 he was appointed judge of the supreme court of Connecticut; and in 1780 was a member of the council of Connecticut. He was again a delegate to the New York congress in 1785. He was a senator in congress from 1789 to 1791, and from 1792 to 1800 president of Columbia college in New York. He died Nov. 14, 1819, in Stratford, Conn.
Johnson, William Smith
educator, college president, was born Oct. 8, 1869, in Clark county, Ark. In 1892 he was appointed president of the Mountain Home Baptist college of Arkansas.
Johnson, William Wallace
educator, clergyman, author, poet, was born Nov. 29, 1813, in Buckland, Mass. He was a member of the Wisconsin legislature in 1879. He is the author of three works, and a noted genealogist and poet.
Johnson, Willis Fletcher
journalist, lecturer, author, poet, was born Oct. 7, 1857, in New York city. For a number of years he has been on the editorial staff of the New York Tribune. He has lectured frequently and made many public addresses; and is the author of several books and a number of poems.
Johnson, Woolsey
physician, was born Feb. 8, 1842, in New York city. In 1881 he was appointed health commissioner of the city of New York. He died June 21, 1887, in New York city.
Johnston, Albert Sidney
soldier, was born Feb. 3, 1803, in Washington, Ky.
In 1836 he joined the Texas Patriots, and rapidly rose through all the grades to the command of his army. In 1838 he was made secretary of war of Texas; and in 1839 conducted a campaign against the Indians. He died April 6, 1862, Pittsburg Landing, Tenn. near
Johnston, Alexander
educator, author, was born April 29, 1849, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was a professor of political economy at Princeton college in 1883- 89; and the author of The Genesis of a New England State; History of the United States for Schools; The United States, its History and Constitution; History of Connecticut; and History of American Politics. He died July 20, 1889, in Princeton, N. J.
Johnston, Amos Randall
lawyer, jurist, legislator, state senator, was born Sept. 28, 1810, in Maury county, Tenn.
Removing to Mississippi in 1830 he settled in Clinton, represented Hinds coun ty in the legislature as a whig in 1836, and was county clerk from 1837 till his election as probate judge in 1845. In 1875 he served in the state senate as a conservative democrat. He died June 25, 1870, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Johnston, Charles
congressman, was born in Connecticut. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1839 to 1841.
Johnston, Charles
legislator, congressman, was born in Chowan county, N. C. He was a member of the state legislature for many years; and was a representative in congress during the years 1801 and 1802. He died before the expiration of his term.
Johnston, Charles C
congress- He was a member of congress from was man.
Virginia from 1831 to 1832. He was drowned June 18, 1832, near Alexandria, Va.
Johnston, Christopher
physician, was born Sept. 27, 1822, in Baltimore, Md. In 1864 he was professor of anatomy and physiology in the university of Maryland, in 1866 was professor of general, descriptive and surgical anatomy, and in 1870 filled the chair of surgery, becoming professor emeritus in 1880.
Johnston, David Claypoole
artist, was born March, 1797, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1830 he began the publication of Scraps, an annual of five plates. He died Nov. 8, 1865, in Dorchester, Mass.
Johnston, Gabriel
governor of North Carolina, was born in 1699 in Scotland. Emigrating to the United States about 1730 and settling in North Carolina, he was appointed governor of that colony. He died August, 1752, in Chowan county, N. C.
Johnston, George
soldier, author, poet, was born May 15, 1829, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1879 he became connected with the Cecil Whig, and in 1881 published the History of Cecil County, Maryland, for which he was elected a member of the historical societies of Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Wisconsin. In 1887 he published Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland; and he is the author of other works.
Johnston, Harold Whetstone
educator, philologist, author, was born March 18, 1859, in Rushville, Ill. Since 1895 he has filled the chair of Latin in the Indiana university of Bloomington. He is the author of Latin Manuscripts, and various other books and pamphlets.
Johnston, Henry Phelps
educator, author, was born in 1842. He is a professor of history in the College of the City of New York; and the author of Loyalist History of the Revolution; The Campaign of 1776 around New York; The Yorktown Campaign; Yale and her Honor Roll in the American Revolution; and Observations on Judge Jones.
Johnston, James Hugo
educator, college president, was born July 29, 1858, in Richmond, Va. Since 1888 he has been president of the Virginia Normal and Collegiate institute of Petersburg, Va. was
Johnston, James Steptoe
missionary bishop of western Texas, born June 9, 1843, in Jefferson county, Miss. Under his supervision the work of the church in western Texas has made The bishop has pubgreat progress. lished various missionary reports, as well as sermons and addresses.