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1884-99, her predecessors in office having been Eudora C. Atkinson, the organizer of the work. Dr. Eliza M. Mosher and Clara Barton, 1882-84. Her administration of the affairs of the reformatory was eminently successful, and included not only the care of the unfortunates and of discharged convicts, but of the large farm and dairy attached to the institution, which was a model of neatness and profitable management. She attended by invitation the quinquennial meeting of the In- ternational Council of Women in London known as the " Women's Congress," where she read a paper on " Women in Prison," June 27, 1899, and wliile in London, England, as the guest of the Rt. Rev. Edward Stuart Talbot, D.D., bishop of Rochester, she died suddenly, June 28, 1899. A memorial tablet was placed in the chapel of the reformatory by Mr. and Mrs. James M. Bar- nard in July, 1900.

JOHNSON, Emory Richard, economist, was born at Wavipun, Fond du Lac county, Wis., March 22, 1864 ; son of Eliand Angeline (Nichols) Johnson, and grandson of Elihu and Anna (Chaffee) Johnson and of Alanson and Jerusha (Irish) Nichols. His ancestors came from Eng- land and Wales in the early part of the eighteenth century and settled in Rhode Island and Massa- chusetts. Early in the nineteenth century they removed to New York state. His parents settled in Wisconsin in 1850. He was fitted for college at the state normal school at Oshkosh, and was graduated at the University of Wisconsin, A.B., 1888, A.M., 1891. He was a post-graduate stu- dent at Johns Hopkins, 1890-91 ; at Munich, 1891-92 ; at Berlin during the summer semester of 1892 ; and at the University of Pennsylvania, 1892-93, receiving the degree of Ph.D. in 1893. He was principal of schools at Boscobel, Wis., 1888-90 ; instructor in economics at Haverford college ; lecturer on transportation in the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, 1893 ; instructor in trans- portation and commerce there, 1894-96, and after 1896 assistant professor of transportation and commerce. In May, 1899, he was appointed expert agent on transportation by the U.S. industrial commission, which position he resigned, Dec. 28, 1899. On June 9, 1899, President McKinley appointed him on the Isthmian canal commission, and the University of Pennsylvania granted him leave of absence for the academic years of 1899- 1901. In 1894 Dr. Johnson took charge of the book department of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and in 1896 became one of its two associate editors. He began specializing in transportation while at the University of Wisconsin, where he prepared a special honor thesis on " The Rise and Fall of the Whig System of Internal Improvements." The study of inland navigation was continued later

at Johns Hopkins and in Europe. He is the author of : Inland Waterways : Their Relation to Transportation (1893); a paper on The Century's Commercial Progress in "Triumphs and Won- ders of the Nineteenth Century " (1899); numer- ous papers in the Annals of the American Acad- emy of Political and Social Science, Political Science Quarterly, Review of Revieivs, The Inde- pendent, and National Geographic Magazine, and articles in various other publications.

JOHNSON, Franklin, educator and author, was born at Frankfort, Ohio, Nov. 2, 1836 ; son of the Rev. Hezekiah and Eliza Shejiherd (Han-is) John- son, and grandson of the Rev. Eleazar and Mar- tha (Rounds) Johnson. He was graduated from Hamilton Theological seminary in 18G1 ; was pas- tor of Baptist churches in Michigan and New Jersey, 1861-73 ; studied in German universities, and ti'avelled in Egypt and the Holy Land, 1869- 70; was pastor at Cambridge, Mass., 1874-88; and acting editor of the Watchman, 1876-78. He resided in Athens, Greece, 1888-89 ; was presi- dent of Ottawa university, Kansas, 1890-92 ; assistant professor of church history and homi- letics. University of Chicago, 1892-94 ; associate professor, 1894, and became full professor in 1895. He received the degree of D.D. from the Uni- versity of Jena, Germany, in 1869, and that of LL.D. from Ottawa university, Kansas, in 1898. He is the author of : Dies Irce ; The Stabat Mater Dolorosa ; The Gospel According to Mattheiv, ivith Notes ; Moses and Israel ; Heroes and Judges from the Lawgiver to the King ; True Womanhood — Hints on the Formation of Womanly Charac- ter ; A Romance in Song — Heine's '' Lyrical Inter- lude " ; The Neio Psychic Studies in Tlieir Relation to Christian ThougJit ; The Quotations of the Neio Testament from the Old Considered in the Light of General Literature (1896) ; The Home Missionaries (poem, 1899); contributions to encyclopaidias and reviews, and translations of Latin and Anabap- tist hymns.

JOHNSON, George W., governor of Kentucky, was born near Georgetown, Ky., May 27, 1817 ; son of William Johnson and grandson of Col. Robert Johnson, a pioneer settler of Kentuck}-. George was graduated from Transylvania univer- sity, studied law and practised in Georgetown, Ky. He abandoned the law and turned his attention to agriculture, engaging in farming in Kentucky and cotton planting in Arkansas. He was a representative in the state legislature, 1838-40, and was twice defeated for Democratic presidential elector. He was chairman of the committee appointed to wait upon Cassius M. Clay and seize the press and other printing appa- ratus of the True American and ship them to Cin- cinnati, Ohio, Aug. 14, 1845. He was despatched l)y Governor Magoffin, Aug. 19, 1861, to President