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Dyke, second

of Delaware.

■.V Jersey,

,: Princeton

>k deacon's or-

priest in 1820.

-h, Frederick,

' Bal-

Mes-

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■nsey and

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lied law .lis, Md., ^- _- ...;■,', of New . lie was married to Nancy, daugh- . Nicholas Van Dyke, of New Castle, le was a member of the convention that M the state constitution in 1792, and was ap- poiui' 'T.S. senator to fill
 * . lielievo-
 * re he practised his jjrof ession for

the v;i /nntion of George

« to the senate

. ervened after the vacancy ha^ eeded George

Readeasclv-; ,, ......... serving 1798-^

1828. and ellor of the state, 1828-32.

He died in:vru ^>l:~,a^i, Del., Dec. 21, 1848.

JOHNS, Kensey, representative, was born in New Castle, Del., Dec. 10, 1791; son of Chan- cpllor Kf>nc«»y and Ann (Van Dyke) Johns. He

,e of New Jersey in

ler and was admit-

the representative

l 21st congresses,

I'hancellor of the

V. serving 1832-57.

ihnont. Jefferson

edit li'. , i'li., '■ liim the honorary

degree of LL.D. ied in New Castle,

Del., Marcli 28, LS.y;.

JOHNSON, Alexander Smith, jurist, was born in Utica, N.Y., July '60, 1817. He was graduated from Yale in 1835; was' admitted to the bar in 1838, and practised in New York city. He was "a judge of the New York court of appeals, 1846-CO; U.S. commissioner for the settlement of the claims of the Hudson Bay and Puget Sound com- panies; regent of the University of the State of New York, 1846-00; commissioner of the court of ppiipfils in 1873 as successor to Judge Ward Hunt, S. judge of the second judicial district, "^. He received the degree of LL.D. froTu Hamilton college in 1859. He died in Nassau, Bahama Islands, Jan. 26, 1878.

JOHNSON, Andrew, seventeenth President of uiie United States, was born in p-! - -i V.C., Dec, 29, 1808; son of Jacob and '> i^u-

ough) Johnson. His father was ■ ble

and porter in the state bank of Ral lust

liis life through rescuing Thomas Iii.;.aerson, editor of tho Rnloicrh frfr^fftr. from drowning.

h, with whom he remained until 1824, when