Johnston, James T – Jolly, George Washington
Johnston, James T
soldier, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 19, 1839, in Putnam county, Ind. He served with valor during the civil war, and was promoted to lieutenant. He attained prominence as an able lawyer of Indiana; has been prosecuting attorney; a member of both houses of the Indiana state legislature; and served with distinction as a member of the forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses as a republican.
Johnston, John
soldier, artist, was born in 1752 in Boston, Mass. He served with credit in the revolution, and afterward settled in Boston, where he painted many portraits of public men of Massachusetts. He died Jan. 27, 1818, in Boston, Mass.
Johnston, John
pioneer, was born in 1763 in Ireland. He settled about 1794 1763 in Ireland. He settled about 1794 in Sault Sainte Marie, Mich., where he was a frontier merchant for more than forty years, and established a small center of civilization in the midst of the savages. He died in 1834 in Sault Sainte Marie, Mich.
Johnston, John
educator, author, was born in 1806 in Maine. He was an educator who was for many years professor of natural science in Wesleyan university; and the author of Manual of Chemistry; Manual of Natural Philosophy; Primer of Natural Philosophy; and History of the Towns of Bristol and Bremen in Maine.
He died Dec. 2, 1879, on Staten Island, N. Y.
Johnston, John Taylor
capitalist, was born April 8, 1820, in New York city.
In 1848 he became president of the Central railroad of New Jersey. He is also president of the council of the university of the city of New York.
Johnston, John W
lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born Sept. 9, 1818, in Panicello, Va. He was made judge of the tenth judicial district; and was a member of the senate of the state of Virginia in 1847 and 1848. He was president of the Northwestern bank at Jeffersonville, Va., from 1850 to 1859. In 1870 he was elected United States senator from Virginia for the term ending in 1871; and was re-elected for the term ending in 1877; and in 1876 he was reelected to the senate for the term commencing in 1877 and ending in 1883. He died Feb. 27, 1889, in Richmond, Va. was
Johnston, John Warfield
lawyer, jurist, United States senator, born Sept. 9, 1818, in Abingdon, Va. In 1839 he became judge of the tenth judicial district of Virginia. He was elected in 1870 to the United States senate as a conservative, and by re-elections served till 1883. He died Feb. 27, 1889, in Richmond, Va.
Johnston, Joseph Eggleston
soldier, congressman, author, was born in 1809, in Longwood, Va. In 1861 he entered the confederate service as general, and served throughout the civil war. In 1878 he was elected a representative from Virginia to the forty-sixth congress; and declined a renomination. In 1885 he was appointed commissioner of railroads in the department of the interior at Washington. He published a Narrative of Military Operations, a spirited defense of his military policy. He died March 21, 1891, in Washington, D. C.
Johnston, Joseph R
lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born Sept. 12, 1840, in North Jackson, Ohio. He served in the civil war for three years, and was second lieutenant in the twenty-fifth Ohio volunteer battery light artillery. For six years he was probate judge of his county; member of the Ohio state senate for four years; and for ten years was common pleas judge of the ninth judicial district of Ohio. a ant; and was subsequently detailed as adjutant of his regiment. In 1870 he was elected a representative in the North Carolina state legislature, and was re-elected in 1872. In 1876 he was elected state senator; and in 1884 was elected a representative from North Carolina to the fortyninth congress; and re-elected to the fiftieth congress as a democrat.
Johnston, Josiah Stoddard
jurist, congressman, United States senator, was born Nov. 24, 1784, in Salisbury, Conn. He settled in Alexandria, Rapides parish, a frontier village. He held the post of district judge from 1812 till 1821.
In 1820 he was elected to congress as a Clay democrat, and in 1823 to the United States senate to fill a vacancy. He was reelected in 1825, and in 1831 was again chosen by a legislature that was politically opposed to him. He died May 19, 1833, in Red River, La.
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, Mrs. Maria I
journalist, author, was born May 3, 1835, in Fredericksburg, Va. She is the author of a novel entitled Jane; and an excellent work entitled The Freedwoman.
JOHNSTON, RICHARD MALCOLM, author, was born March 8, 1822, in Georgia. He is the author of Life of Alexander Stephens; Dukesborough Tales; Old Mark Langston; Two Gray Tourists; Mr. Absalom Billingslea and Other Georgia Folk; Ogeechee Cross-Firings; Studies, Literary and Social; The Primes and Their Neighbors; Mr. Billy Downs and his Likes; Widow Guthrie, a Novel; The Chronicles of Mr. Bill Williams; Mr.
Fortner's Marital Claims; Little Ike Templin, stories for young people; and English Classics, a Historical Sketch.
Johnston, Samuel
lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born Dec. 15, 1733, in Scotland. He was governor of North Carolina from 1787 to 1789; was president of the convention of that state which ratified the federal constitution; and was a member of congress from 1780 to 1782. In 1789 he was appointed a senator from North Carolina, and served until 1793. He was afterward a judge of the supreme court of law and equity.
He died Aug. 18, 1816, in Sherwarkey, N. C.
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.
Jolley, John L
soldier, state senator, congressman, was born July 14, 1840, in Montreal, Quebec. In 1862 he entered the army as a private, and was mustered out as second lieutenant in 1865. He was elected a member of the Dakota house of representatives in 1867, and re-elected in 1868. He was a member of the Dakota territorial council in 1875 and 1881; was elected state senator in 1889, and reelected in 1890. He was nominated by the republican convention at Aberdeen, S. D., Sept. 29, 1891, for member of congress to fill a vacancy.
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.