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 JOSEPH TABER JOHNSON OHNSON, JOSEPH TABER, clergyman's son, Georgetown university, District of Columbia, M.D., 1865; Bellevue Hospital college, New York city, 1867-68; University of Vienna, Austria, 1871; physician and surgeon in Washington, District of Columbia, since 1868; was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, June 30, 1845. His father, Lorenzo Dow Johnson, was a clergyman of the Methodist denomination, a man of piety, patriotism and love of family, who in 1853 removed from Rochester, Massachusetts, to Washington, District of Columbia. His mother, Mary Burges, was a daughter of Abraham Burges whose brother, Tristam Burges was a United States senator from Rhode Island and a celebrated orator. His first ancestor in America was John Alden of the Mayflower. The Burges' ancestors came to this country in 1630.

Joseph Taber Johnson attended the academy at Rochester, Massachusetts and the preparatory school of Columbian college, Washington, District of Columbia, and was graduated from the medical department of Georgetown university, M.D., 1865. He studied in Bellevue Hospital medical school, New York city, and under Doctor Austin Flint, 1867-68; and at the University of Vienna, 1871. He practised medicine and surgery in Washington, District of Columbia, from 1868 and was made president of the faculty of the medical department of the Georgetown university. He also served as contract surgeon in the United States army for several years. In 1898-99 he was president of the American Gynecological Society and of the Southern Surgical and Gynecological Association. He became a member of the Cosmos, Metropolitan and University clubs of Washington, District of Columbia; the Society of the Mayflower descendants; Sons of the American Revolution; Sons of the Colonial Wars; Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, and a Director of Young Men's Christian Association. He is a member of the Congregational church. He teaches and practises exercise in the open air. To American youth he says: "Love your home, your