n of
'-.and
-U ((jralloway)
Dyke, second
of Delaware.
■.V Jersey,
,: Princeton
>k deacon's or-
priest in 1820.
-h, Frederick,
' Bal-
Mes-
n\ at West
■nsey and
ndant of
] \vl,o
- . lielievo-
lied law .lis, Md., ^- _- ...;■,', of New
- re he practised his jjrof ession for
. lie was married to Nancy, daugh- . Nicholas Van Dyke, of New Castle, le was a member of the convention that M the state constitution in 1792, and was ap- poiui' 'T.S. senator to fill
the v;i /nntion of George
« to the senate
. ervened after the vacancy ha^ eeded George
Readeasclv-; ,, ......... serving 1798-^
1828. and ellor of the state, 1828-32.
He died in:vru ^>l:~,a^i, Del., Dec. 21, 1848.
JOHNS, Kensey, representative, was born in New Castle, Del., Dec. 10, 1791; son of Chan- cpllor Kf>nc«»y and Ann (Van Dyke) Johns. He
,e of New Jersey in
ler and was admit-
the representative
l 21st congresses,
I'hancellor of the
V. serving 1832-57.
ihnont. Jefferson
edit li'. , i'li., '■ liim the honorary
degree of LL.D. ied in New Castle,
Del., Marcli 28, LS.y;.
JOHNSON, Alexander Smith, jurist, was born in Utica, N.Y., July '60, 1817. He was graduated from Yale in 1835; was' admitted to the bar in 1838, and practised in New York city. He was "a judge of the New York court of appeals, 1846-CO; U.S. commissioner for the settlement of the claims of the Hudson Bay and Puget Sound com- panies; regent of the University of the State of New York, 1846-00; commissioner of the court of ppiipfils in 1873 as successor to Judge Ward Hunt, S. judge of the second judicial district, "^. He received the degree of LL.D. froTu Hamilton college in 1859. He died in Nassau, Bahama Islands, Jan. 26, 1878.
JOHNSON, Andrew, seventeenth President of uiie United States, was born in p-! - -i V.C., Dec, 29, 1808; son of Jacob and '> i^u-
ough) Johnson. His father was ■ ble
and porter in the state bank of Ral lust
liis life through rescuing Thomas Iii.;.aerson, editor of tho Rnloicrh frfr^fftr. from drowning.
h, with whom he remained until 1824, when
