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152 chief census officer, and in the same year joined the staff of the Toronto " Mail." On being trans- ferred to Ottawa, he remained for four years edi- torial correspondent at the capital for that paper. He wrote the "Handbook of Canada" for the Colonial and Indian exhibition, 1866; "Graphic Statistics of Canada," in commemoration of the Queen's jubilee; "Alphabet of First Things in Canada" (1889); "Report on Forest Wealth of Canada" (1895). He was appointed chief statisti- cian of Canada, July, 1887. He is honorary fellow of the Statistical society of England.

JOHNSON, George Washington, soldier, b. in Scott county, Ky., 27 May, 1811; d. at Shiloh, Tenn., 7 April, 1862. He graduated at Transylvania uni- versity, studied law, and was admitted to practice. He was a presidential elector in 1853 and 1860. In September, 1861, at Bowling Qreen, then occu- pied by Gen. S. B. Buckner, C. S. A., he initiated the organization of a provisional government for Kentucky, which was afterward effected by a con- vention held at Russellville, Ky., when a constitu- tion was adopted. He was chosen governor by this convention, and soon after Kentucky was ad- mitted as a member of the southern confederacy. When Kentucky was evacuated by the Confederate forces. Gov. Johnson joined Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston. At the two days' battle of Shiloh he served as a volunteer aide to Johnston, and the second day after the general's death he entered the ranks of Company E, 4th Kentucky infantry, as a private soldier, and in the fierce engagement of that day received a mortal wound.

JOHNSON, Hale, lawyer, b. in Montgomery county, Ind., 31 Aug., 1847. He received a com- mon-school education, then studied law, and se- cured his admission to the bar in 1875. In 1877 he began the practice of his profession at Newton, 111., where he has since resided. He joined the Prohibition f)arty in 1882, and took an active part in the campaign of the party in Illinois, Ohio, and Michigan, as well as in the national campaigns. He was an unsuccessful candidate for representa- tive to congress and for governor of the state. In 1896 he was nominated for vice-president, with Joshua Levering, of Maryland, for president, by the majority or " narrow-gauge " section of the Pro- hibition party at the convention held in Pittsburg.

JOHNSON, Robert Underwood, editor, b. in Washington in 1853, and educated at Earlham college, Indiana. Since 1873 he has been con- nected with the " Century " editorial staff, and with Clarence C. Buell was editor of the " War" series, subsequently extended to "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War," in four octavo vols. (New York, 1887-8). He conceived, and with John Muir origi- nated, the movement resulting in the creation of the Yosemite national park. Mr. Johnson was sec- retary of the American copyright league, render- ing valuable service in the cause of international copyright. He is the author of "The Winter Hour, and other Poems" (New York, 1891), and "Songs of Liberty, and other Poems" (1897).

JOHNSON, Samuel, Jr., lexicographer, b. in Guilford, Conn., 10 March, 1757; d. there, 20 Aug., 1836. He was a son of Samuel Johnson (q. v.), first president of King's college, now Columbia uni- versity. His "School Dictionary," issued in New Haven in 1798. was the first lexicon of the English language i)ublished in America. An imperfect copy, sold at the Brinley sale, was bought for the library of Yale. It is a 24mo of 198 [lages. The only other copy known is in the library of the British museum. Two years later there was issued in Hartford the "Second American Dictionary, by John Elliott, pastor of the church in East Guilford, and Samuel Johnson, Jun." The latter is well-nigh, but undeservedly, forgotten. His occu- pation must have been that of a school-teacher, as in the preface to liis dictionary he speaks of him- self as an " instructor of youth for years," and such is the tradition in his native town.

JOHNSTON, James Steptoe, P. E. bishop, b. in Church Hill, Jefferson co., Miss., 9 June, 1843. He was educated at the University of Virginia, left that institution to join the Confederate army, and fought through the civil war, becoming a lieutenant in Gen. James E. B. Stuart's cavalry. He was admitted to the bar in 1868, but received holy orders in the following year, taking charge of St. James's church at Fort Gibson, Miss., till 1876, and then for four years of the Church of the Ascensiim, in Mount Sterling, Ky., after which he became rector of Trinity parish. Mobile, Ala. He was elected missionary bishop of western Texas in January, 1888, and consecrated in Mobile.

JOHNSTONE, John, physician, b. in Annan- dale, Scotland, 1662; d. in Perth Amboy, N. J., 19 Sept., 1733. He came to America in 1685 with the company brought over by George Scot, the laird of Pitlochie. On the death of Scot he at once assumed charge of the company. He married a daughter of the laird of Pitlochie and descend- ant of the " Flower of Yarrow," mentioned by Sir Walter Scott. Soon after his arrival Dr. John- stone established himself in New York. He was for thirteen years member of the general assembly of New Jersey, for ten of them speaker, and one of the commissioners who in 1719-'20 settled the boundary between New York and New Jersey. — His son, John, appears to have been a member of Gov. Burnett's council in New York in 1720. — His grandson, David, was a member of the Merchants' committee of correspondence in New York in 1774. — David's son, John, was presiding judge of the court of common pleas in Duchess county for many years; while John's eldest son, Francis Upton, who died in New York in 1858, eclipsed his ances- tor's medical fame, being at his death as a family physician unexcelled by any in that city. Ac- cording to some authorities. Dr. John Johnstone was mayor of New York from 1713 to 1730.

JONES, Charles Henry, lawyer, b. in Reading, Pa., 13 Sept., 1837. He is a son of John Glancy Jones (q. v.), received a good education, was an attache ot the legation in Austria for two years, studied law. was admitted to the bar at Reading in 1863, and settled in Philadelphia, where he was soon ap- pointed counsel of the Fairmount park commis- sion. He conducted the election case of Rink vermis Barr, in which he established the principle that the administration of an office on a title that is discovered to be void does not entitle the wrong- ful incumbent to the salary. Mr. Jones is the author of " A Pedestrian Tour through Switzer- land" (Reading, Pa., 1861); "Recollections ot Venice" (1864); "Memoir of William Rodman" (1867); " 'The Campaign for the Conquest of Can- ada in 1776" (Philadelphia, 1882); " Davaulfs Mills," a novel (1886); and a valuable "Gene- alogy of the Rodman Family " (1886).

JONES, Patrick Henry, lawyer, b. in Westmeath, Ireland. 20 Nov., 1830. He came to this country in 1840, worked on his father's farm, and then read law. He was admitted to the bar, and practised till the opening of the civil war, when he entered the 37th New York regiment as 2d lieutenant. He was promoted to adjutant and then major of that regiment, and was made colonel of the 154th New York regiment on 8 Oct., 1862. He