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a inrmber of the American associa-

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Htit'8. lie is tlu* author of A KfV for thf Determination of RockFonning Minerals in Tliin Sertions. John, John Price Durbin, educator, college president, lecturer, author, was born Nov. 2.'). I84:<. in HrookviMe. Ind. He has b«*«'n a clergy num in tin- Indiana confen-nce;

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John, Samuel Williamson, hiwyer. legisauthor, was iMirn dune 2iK 1S4'>. in I'niontown, lie received the ruditnenta of liis education in private sclio«ds; ami in iSli.') graduate«l from the university of Alabama, lie read law under his father, the late Chancellor doseph Heed dohn, and in IS«H> was ailmittcti to the bar of the supreme court of Alabama. In 1H71-72 he was county solicitor for Dallas county; was lator,

councilman of Selnia: and

is a tnistee (»f insane hospitals and the Alaindustrial school. In ISS2-87 be was a repres«'ntative in the Alabama state legislature from Dallas county; and in 18!M-!lo was a n'presentative from Jefferson county. In I8lir>-8H lie was colonel of the third regiment Alabama state troops; and in 1S!»G was electr for the state-atlarge on the democratic ticket. He has now a large law practi«*4> at Hirmingham, Ala. He was a trustee of the archives and history of Alabama: a member of the commission to devise a new |M>nitentiary system for Alabama in lK!l-2: and author of its rep<»rt. He is the nuthor of the KmpKtyers Liability .rt and . History of Selma.Ala.

Alabama bama girls'

the



Jobnes,

Edward Rodolph, lawyer, author.

was

lK»rn on Sq»t. 8, I8.'»2. in WhitesHe was counsel for the Costa Hica government and for the republic of Vtne7uela in the InMindary (juestion; was counsel f«ir the .meri"an ornithological union; and has aide*/uelan Houndary Question; Knglish and .merican Hankruptcy and Insidvency l«iws; History of Soutliiinipton. L.I.; Circumstantial Kvidence of a Future State; and Hriefs bv Harristers, in verse. He died in ]'.m in New York City. Johny, John, bishop, college president, author, was born duly in. M'M't. in New Castle, Del. He wa.s elected assistant bishop of Virginia in IK42; and in I8U2 became the successor of Hisl'Op M(>ade. He was also
 * .oet,

boro. N.Y.

William and Mary college in He was the author «»f Memorial He died April 6, IS7(S. Hishop Meade. in Fairfax county, Va.

president of l84n-.»4.

of

and

IVI.;

was

in

ia7!>-81

a special student

Harvard

university. Cntil 1884 lie studied nuisic in Herlin. Since 1884 he has iM-en a teacher, in

pn»f«'SHor of niathcMiatics and president of the HrookviMe college; profi'SKor of mathematics, vice-president and prenithMit of the !)«• I'auw university of  coHege in Indiana. II(> is the antiior of Did Man Make (mhI. or Did (Jod Make Man: Sjj/ns of iioi in the Worhl; and The Worth of a

Man.

327

Jobns, Clayton, educator, musician, composer, was born Nov. 24. 1K.17, in New Castle, Del. He was educated at Rugby academy of Wilmington,

musician

and

com-

of Host. in Maryland, He law; and was chancellor of the Delaware. He was appointed a memlMT of the I'nited States s<>nate by the goxernor of I> supreme court of Delaware for over thirty years. He died Dec. 21, 1848, in New Castle, Del.

Johns, Kensev, lawyer, congressman, was born Di-c. in. 17!»1. iii New Castle. Dtd. In 1810 he graduated from Princeton college; anu in 1S|:{ Iwgaii the practice of law in New Castle. 1X1. In IH2!» ;U he was a representative from Delaware to the twentietli ."•7

In*

and twcnty-lirst congresses. was chaiicidlor of D<daware.

March

28,


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in

New

In

18;{2-

He

died

Castle. Del.

Johns, Marshall E., railway ollicial of Jersey City. N.J.. was born April 17, 18tM», in Wasliingtim, D.C. In I87fl he entered railMay service, and has fiMeil positions from

brakeman to su|ierinten<lent. In 1S".»4-1!»(»4 he was trainmaster of the Wilkesbarre and F'astern railroail; and since 1!MM has been superintendent of the New York. Susfpiehaniia and Wotern and of the Wilkesbarre an<t

Fiastern railroiids.

Johnson, Mrs. Adelaide,

was born She

is

Sejtt.

2»i.

1H."»!».

s<-ulptor, in

artist,

IMymouth, III. form ex-

a not«'d sculpture artist in

in marble, and has her studio in Washington. D.C. She is a pioneer in her Her work has Is-cn principally portraiture, cspei-ially a series of eminent women; ami lier four works in marhle of Lucretia Moot. Kli/abeth Cady Stanton, Susan H. Anthony, and Dr. Caroline B. Winslow now stand in the Corcoran art gallery

pressed

professi«»n.

Wasliinytoii. D.C. her husband took her

«(f

yer,

Before her niiirriage

name legally. Adna Romulus, educator, lawcoiigres.suian. was b»»rii Dec. 14, ISlKI,

Johnson,