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NAME JOHNSON 626 JOHNSON He also wrote a large number of papers for the Maine Medical Association such as, for in- stance, "Spinal Meningitis," "Ovariotomy," and "Belladonna in Congestion of the Brain." He married March 17, 1842, Caroline Frances Perry, of Exeter, New Hampshire, daughter of Dr. William Perry, and had three daughters, one of whom was Sarah Orne Jew- ett, author of "Deephaven," "Country By- Ways," "A Country Doctor," "A White Heron," and other stories. A grandson, Theo- dore Jewett Eastman, was a practitioner of medicine in Boston. Dr. Jewett died suddenly at the Crawford House, in the White Mountains September 20, 1878, from heart disease which he had for a long time concealed from his family, until at last obliged to give up work Living in a small country village. Dr. Jew- ett did a large service to medicine. As he drove about on his rounds he botanized and got to know all the plants of the neighborhood, information he imparted freely to his patients and the friends of his accomplished daughters. James A. Spalding. Trans. Maine Med. Asso., 1879, vol. vi. Private sources. Johnson, Charles Earl (1812-1876) He was born March 15, 1812, at "Banden," the colonial home of his family near Edenton, North Carolina. He graduated from the University of Vir- ginia and had his medical education at the University of Pennsylvania where he was a private pupil of Prof. Samuel Jackson (q. v.), graduating M. D. in 1835. He practised in his native county until 1840, when he removed to Raleigh and soon after did good work in an epidemic of fever which occurred in the State capital. Dr. Johnson was one of the founders of the North Carolina Medical Society and its presi- dent for two successive years 1856-1857), and an editor of the old North Carolina Medical Journal. In May, 1861, he was appointed by Gov. Ellis surgeon-general of the North Caro- lina Troops and during his term of office (1861-1862) he visited every battlefield in Vir- ginia taking medicines and supplies for the sick and wounded. In 1860 Dr. Johnson published an able trea- tise on "Insanity and its Medico-legal Rela- tions." A notable discussion occurred between him and Dr. S. S. Satchewell in 1854 at a meeting of the State Medical Society. In this Dr". Johnson fully sustained his already grow- ing fame as a debater, and subsequently pub- lished his remarks along with a former ad- dress under the title of "An Address on Ma- laria." He was twice married. His first wife, Emily A. Skinner, died in 1847, leaving four children. His second wife, Frances L. Iredell, with her five children survived him when he died in 1876. Hubert A. Roysteh. Memoirs of Dr. Johnson by P. E. Hines, M.D., 1876. Biographical History of North Carolina, Ashe* 1907, vol. ii. Johnson, Edward (1767-1829) Edward Johnson, physician and patriot, bora in 1767, was deeply interested in municipal affairs in Baltimore, where he served as mem- ber of the city council, 1797; judge of the Orphans' Court and associate judge of the City Court, 1804-5; mayor, 1809, 1819, and 1823 ; and chairman of the committee of Vig- ilance and Safety of Baltimore, 1815. He was the mayor during the yellow-fever epidemic in Baltimore in 1819, and bore the expense of the report issued in 1820, "A Ser- ies of Letters and other Documents Relating to Yellow Fever." He died in Baltimore, April 19, 1829. Med. Annals of Maryland, Cordell, 1903. Johnson, Francis Marlon (1828-189T) Francis Marion Johnson, obstetrician, of Kansas City, Missouri, was born on a farm near Georgetown, Kentucky, August 27, 1828. His parents, Garland and Theresa Johnson, were of Scotch-Irish descent and pioneers in that county. Being the eldest in a large fam- ily he attended school only during the winter and worked in the summer to assist his father, gathering together a few dollars by working extra hours. The first money he ever earned as a lad was spent foi^ a copy of "Plutarch's Lives," and this old book with its well worn pages is a treasure in possession of his family. Working during the day and studying far into the night, he studied medicine under the old family phy- sician. Dr. Elliott. He graduated from Trans- sylvania University at Louisville, Kentucky, in 1852 and was granted an ad eundem degree by the Missouri Medical College in 1861. With a thoroughbred horse which he had raised himself, a few dollars in his pocket and a carpet bag he rode from Georgetown, Ken- tucky, to Missouri and settled in the little town of F'arley in Platte County, a fortunate loca- tion, for the country along the Missouri river was full of malaria and a doctor's services in constant demand.