JOHNSON
JOHNSON
Hip
%'olumes of Bryant and Gay's " History of the
United States.*' He becanieeditor of " The Annual
'Cyclopaedia" in 1883, and was managing editor of
•' Appleton's CyclopaHlia of American Biography,"
1886-88; became editor of the query department
of the Book Buyer in 1888, and was associ- ate editor of the " Standard Diction- ary," 1892-94. He was one of the charter members of the So- ciety of the Genesee and was its president in 1899; a member of the American Histor- ical association; sec- retary of the Authors club; was president of the New York Association of Phi Beta Kappa, 1897-98; president of the Quill club, 1899-1900, and was a founder and president of the University Ex- tension society. Rochester university conferred upon him the degree of Ph.D. in 1888 and the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1893. He edited: i?f^?eC/ass/es (16 vols., 1874-75, and 3 vols., 1880); Works of the British Poets from Chaucer to 3Ior-
- ns(3vols., 1876); Famous Single and Fugitive
Poems (1877, enlarged ed., 1890); Play-Day Poems (1878); Fifty Perfect Poems, with Charles A. Dana (1882); Liber Scriptorum, with J. D. Cham- plin and G. C. Eggleston (1893); Authorized His- tory of the World's Columbian Exposition (4 vols., 1898); The World's Great Books (50 vols., 1898 et seq. ) He is the author of: Phaeton Rogers (1881); A History of the French War, ending in ■the Conquest of Canada (1882); A History of the War of 1S12-15 betiveen the United States and Great Britain (1882); Idler and Poet ( 1883); A Short History of the War of Secession (1888, en- larged and illustrated edition, entitled Camp-fire and Battlefield 1894); The End of a Rainboio (1892); Tliree Decades (1895); The Hero of Manila (1899); The I'iliisjiering Gallery (1900) Morning Lights and Evening Shadous (1902); The Alphabet of Rhetoric (1903); Frankfort Boys (1003). and contributions to magazines.
JOHNSON, Samuel, educator, was born in Guilford, Conn., Oct. 14, 1696: son of Samuel, grandson of William, and great-grandson of Rob- ert Jolinson, of England. He was instructed by his grandfather ur.til 1702, when his instructor died, and he studied Latin under Mr. Eliot, 1707, .and Latin. Greek and Hebrew under Mr. James, 1708-10. He then entered the collegiate school of Connecticut (Yale-college), then at Saybrook. 4ind was graduated A.P... 1714. He became a
tutor at Guilford in 1714, and after the general
court placed the school at New Haven in Octo-
ber, 1716, he was a tutor there, 1716-19. He re-
ceived his A.M. degree at the first commence-
ment at New Haven, Sept. 12, 1717. He was set
ai)art to the minis-
try, March 20, 1720,
and .stationed at West
Haven. Tlirough the
influence of Mr.Pigot,
a minister of the es-
tablished clmrcli with
a mission at Strat-
ford, whom he met
in 1722, Mr. John-
son, with President
Cutler and Daniel
Browne, a tutor at
Yale, decided to con-
nect themselves with
the church, and on
Oct. 17, 1722, Presi-
dent Cutler and Tutor Browne resigned, and
with Mr. Johnson, decided to go to England
to receive holy orders. They were ordained by
the Rt. Rev. Dr. Green, bishop of Norwich, dea-
cons and then priests in St. Martin's church. Mr.
Browne died of smallpox soon after. Ex-Presi-
dent Cutler was given the degree of D.D., and
Mr. Johnson that of A.M. by Oxford in May, 1723,
and by Cambridge in June of the same year.
They reached Boston in October, and Mr. John-
son took charge of Mr. Pigot's mission at Strat-
ford, Conn., Nov. 4, 1723, the latter going to
Providence, R.I. This mission included the
neighboring towns of Fairfield, Norwalk, New-
town, Ripton and West Haven. He was the only
Episcopal clergyman in the colony. He was mar-
ried, Sept. 26, 1725, to Mrs. Charity NicoU, daugh-
ter of Col. Richard Floj-d, and widow of Benja-
min Nicoll, of Long Island. In February, 1729,
the arrival of Dr. George Berkeley, dean of
Derry, Ireland, greatly strengthened "Ms. John-
son in his work, and he commended to the dean
the claims of Yale college for assistance, which
resulted in the Berkeley librar}' and his farm in
Rhode Island becoming the property of Yale.
In 1736 there were seven hundred Episcopal fam-
ilies in the colony, and, besides the church at
Stratford, Henry Caner was rector at Fairfield.
John Beach at Newtown and Samuel Seabury at
New London. On July 8, 1744, Mr. Johnson oc-
cupied a new and much larger church edifice at
Stratford, and about this time churches were
built at Norwalk, Stamford, Reading, Darby,
West Haven, Ripton and Guilford. In 1752 he
declined the presidency of the proposed Publick
Academy of Philadelphia, afterward the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania. In 1754 the trustees of the
