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Americans (1886): English Words (a text-book, 1891); Elements of Literary Criticism (1897); What Can I do for Brady, and Other Poems (1898); Outline History of English and Ameincan Literature (1900), and contributions to period- icals.

JOHNSON, David, governor of South Carolina, was born in Louisa county, Va., Oct. 3, 1782. He removed with his father's family to Chester dis- trict, S.C., in 1789; was admitted to the bar in 1803, and practised at Union Court House, S.C. He was a representative in the state legislature in 1812; circuit judge, 1815-24; judge of the court of appeals, 1824-35; chancellor, 1835-49, and governor of South Cai'olina, 1846-48. He died at Limestone Springs, S.C, Jan 7, 1855.

JOHNSON, David, artist, was born in New York city. 'Slay 10, 1^27; son of David and Eliza (Daymen) Johnson, and grandson of Joseph Day- mon. llis father, a native of Dorchester, Mass.,

built the first mail coaches in America, which ran from Al- bany to Troy, N.Y. His mother was born in Pliiladelphia, Pa, David was educated in the public schools, and except for a few lessons from Jasper F. Cropsey at the be- /^\^/^ ginning of his career he received no in- struction in art. He spent his profes- sional life in New York, and his land- scapes, all on American subjects, are in many of the best i)ublic and private collections. He ■was married in 1869 to Maria Louise West. He was elected an associate National Academician in 18G0 and an Academician in 1862, and was one of the founders of the Artists' Fund society. He re- ceived medals from the Centennial exposition in 1876 and from the Massachusetts Charitable Me- chanics' association, Boston, Mass. He exhibited at the Academy: Echo Lake (1867); On the Wall- kill River (1869); New Berlin, N.Y. (1870); Vieio of Barrytown, N.Y. (1871); Lake George (ISl-i); Near Noroton, Conn. (1876); Greenwood Lake (1877); Morning at Harbor Island (1878); Dol- lar Island (1880). He exhibited Scenery on the Housatonic at the Centennial exposition, which was also shown at the Paris Salon of 1877"; Old Man of the 3Iountai)i, and A Brook Study which received one of the first awards. ^Vmong many other important works are: Way to Church (1873); Views of Pompton, N.J. (1882); A Sep- tember Afternoon (1882); Oak Grove, Geneseo,

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N.Y. (1883); Oaks in the Genesee (1883); Pas- turage (1884); Sunset (1885); Under an Oafc(1886); Sweet Day (1887); Landscaj)e and Cattle (1887); Clearing Mt. Lafarjette, N.H. (1888); Summer (1888); Giant of the Meadow (1889); A Scene at Ghent. N.Y. (1894).

JOHNSON, David Bancroft, educator, was born at La Grange, Tenn., Jan. 10, 1856; son of David Bancroft and Margaret E. (White) John- son; grandson of Joseph and Marllia (Barker) Johnson, and of Jonathan D. and Ann (McNeese) White, and a direct descendant of John Johnson, "who came from England to America with Win- throp, the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony. He earned the money by which he pre- pared for and paid tuition in college, and was graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1877. He was first assistant of the boys' high school at Knoxville, Tenn., 1877-79, and assistant professor of mathematics in the University of Tennessee, 1879-80. He was principal of the graded schools at Abbeville, S.C, 1880-82, and organized the graded schools at Newbern, N.C, in 1882, and at Columbia, S.C., 1883-95. Aided by the Peaboiiy board of instruction, he established the Winthrop Training School for Teachers at Rockliill, S.C, in 1886, which became in time a state institution under the name of the Winthrop Normal and Industrial college, of which he was elected president in 1895. He also organized the branch of the Y.M.C.A. at Columbia, S.C, and was its president, 1885-94, and chairman of the state executive committee of the Y'.M.CA., 1885-94, He formed the South Cai'olina Associa- tion of School Superintendents in 1889, and was president of the State Teachers' association, 1S84-SS.

JOHNSON, Eastman, painter, was born at Lovell, Maine, July 29, 1824. He was educated in. the public schools' of Augusta, Maine, and in 1842 began to work on portraits in black and white and in pastel. He removed to Washington, D.C, with his parents in 1845, and tiiere made portraits of many public men, including Daniel Webster and John Quincy Adams. He also had among his sitters while in Boston, Mass., 1846- 49, Longfellow and his familv, Emerson, Haw- thorne and Sumner. He stutlied at the Ro}-aL academy in Diisseldorf, 1849-50; with Leutze, 1850-51, and later in Paris, Italy and Holland, spending four years at the Hague, wheie he painted "The Savaj-ard," and "Card Players," his first important pictures in oil. He returned to the United States in 1856, and lived among the Indian tri])es on the northern sliores of Lake Sviperior in 1856-57. He painted " Old Kentucky Home " in Washington, D.C, in 1858. which estab- lished his reputation. He resided in New York after 1858 and in 1860 was elected a member of