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the National Academy of Design, where he annu- ally exhibited. His more noted pictures include: Husking Bee, The Stage Coach, The Pension Agent, Prisoner of State, Sunday Morning, The Barefoot Boy, Dropping Off, Fiddling His Way, Bo Peep (exhibited at the Royal academy, Lon- don), A Groitp of Children, Old Whalers of Nantucket, Milton Dictating to His Daughter and the portraits of Two Men; of Presidents Arthur, Cleveland and Harrison; of W. H. Vanderbilt, Commodore Vanderbilt, Secretary Folger, Will- iam B, Astor, John D. Rockefeller, W. D. Sloan, Mrs. Alexander Hamilton, Mrs. Dolly Madison, Mrs. August Belmont, Mrs. Hamilton Fish and Mr. and Mrs. James A. Burden.

JOHNSON, Ebenezer Alfred, educator, was born in New Haven, Conn., Aug. 18, 1813; son of Ebenezer and Sarah Bryan (Law) Johnson. He was graduated from Yale, A.B., 1833, A.M., 1836; taught school at New Canaan, Conn., 1833- 35, and was a tutor at Yale, 1835-37. He was ad- mitted to the New Haven bar in 1837, but did not practise. He was professor of the Latin lan- guage and literature in the University of the City of New York, 1838-91. He was twice married: first, on Aug. 18, 1843, to Margaret Fox, daughter of Dr. John Van Cleve, and secondly, on July 9, 1851, to Harriet, daughter of "William B. Gilley. The University of the City of New York con- ferred upon him the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1867 and that of L.H.D. in 1888. He pub- lished educational works, including text-books with notes on the orations of Cicero. He died in Yonkers. N.Y., July 18, 1891.

JOHNSON, Edward, soldier, was born in Ches- terfield count}% Va., April 16, 1816. He was ap- pointed to the U.S. Military academy from Ken- tucky, was graduated, 1838, and assigned to the 6th infantry as 2d lieutenant. He served in the Florida war, 1838-41; was promoted 1st lieutenant in 1839; was stationed at Fort Smith, Ai-kansas, and on the Indian frontier, 1842-46; served in the war with Mexico, engaging in the siege of Vera Ci'uz, March 9-29, 1847; skirmish of Amazoque, May 14, 1847; battle of Churubusco, Aug. 20, 1847; Molino del Rey, Sept. 8, 1847; the storming of Chapultepec, Sept. 13-14, 1847, and at the as- sault and capture of the city of ]\Iexico, Sept. 14, 1847. He was brevetted captain, Sept. 8, 1847, for meritorious services during the Florida war; major and lieutenant-colonel for gallant conduct at Chapultepec and the city of Mexico, and on his return home he was presented with swords of honor by his native state. He was in the recruit- ing service, 1847-48, on sick leave, 1848-50; in the recruiting service, 1850-52; and was promoted captain and assigned to the 6th infantry, April 15, 1851. He served on frontier duty at Fort Atkinson, Kan., 1853; Fort Riley, Kan., 1853-54:

Fort Laramie, Dak., 1854-55, and in the quelling of,the Kansas disturbances, 1856-58. He was in the Utah expedition and on the march to Cali- fornia in 1858; at Fort Miller, Cal., 1858-59, and in garrison at Fort Columbus, N.Y., 1860-61. He resigned from the U.S. army, June 10, 1861, to accept the colonelcy of the 12th Georgia volun- teers in the Confederate army. He was made brigadier-general in 1862 and major-general in

1863. He was wounded at the battle of Mc- Dowell, Va., where he commanded a brigade, May 8, 1862; commanded a division in Early's corps in the engagements at Winchester and Martinsburg Pike, June 14-15; in the occupation of Carlisle, Pa., June 27, and at the battle of Gettysburg, July 2-4, 1863. He also led his divi- sion at Payne's Farm, Nov. 27, 1863; in the battle of the Wilderness, May 2-8, 1864, and at Spott- sylvania, where he was taken prisoner with his entire division after gallantly resisting the onslaught of the Federal army under Hancock at the "Bloody Angle," May 12, 1864. He was exchanged and commanded a division in Lee's corps. Hood's army, in the invasion of Tennessee, holding possession of Florence, Ala., Oct. 30,

1864, and taking part in the disastrous battles before Nashville, being captured at Spring Hill, Franklin, Tenn., Nov. 30, 1864. In 1865 he retired to his farm in Chesterfield county, Va. He died in Richmond, Va., Feb. 22, 1873.

JOHNSON, Edward Payson, clergyman, was born in Peru, Ind., Jan. 26, 1850; son of the Rev, Asa and Julia Warner (Sadd) Johnson; grand- son of Asa and Clarissa (Carver) Johnson, and a descendant of Capt. Isaac Johnson, who came to America with Governor Wintlirop's fleet in 1630, and on his mother's side of William Spencer, who emigi-ated from southeastern England in 1631. Edward attended the district schools at Redfield and Wiscotta, Iowa, where his father was a Pres- byterian home missionary, 1857-70; attended Knox academy, at Galesbui-g, 111., and was gradu- ated from Wabash college, A.B., 1871, A.M., 1876, and from the Auburn Theological seminaiy in 1875. He was pastor of Presbyterian churches at Sandy Hill, N.Y., 1875-79; Marshall, Mich., 1879- 86; Woodlawn, Chicago, 111., 1886-91, and in Jan- uary, 1891, was installed pastor of the First Re- formed Dutch church of Albany, N.Y., whose first pastor was Johannes Megapolensis (1642). He was married, Jan. 23, 1878, to Clara Brownell, of Troy, N.Y. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by Rutgers college in 1896. He is the author of: Historical Manual of the Pres- byterian Church of Sandy Hill, N.Y. (1876); Our Tivo Hundred and Fifty Years: an Historical Sketch of the First Reformed Protestant Dutch of Albany. N.Y. (1898) and contributions to church periodicals.