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Davis, to elicit liis assurance that Kentucky's neutrality would be respected. In company with JoIhi C. Breckinridge and others, lie labored to place Kentucky by the side of the seceding states. He introduced the organization of a provisional gOTernnient for Kentucky, which was brought into ef- fect by the convention held at Russellville, Ky.,Nov. 18- 21, 1861. A constitution was adopted, Mr. Johnson was elected provisional governor on Nov. 18, 18G1, and on Dec. 10, 1861, Kentucky was admitted as a member of the Confederacy. Governor John- son was mortally wounded while fighting as a private in the 4th Kentucky regiment at the battle of Shiloh, April 6, 1862, and was suc- ceeded by Richard Hawes. He died at Shiloh, Tenn.. April 9, 1862.

JOHNSON, Hale, reformer, was born in Mont- gomery county, Ind., Aug. 21, 1847 ; son of John B. and Sarah A. (Davisson) Johnson ; grandson of Hezekiah Johnson, who served in the war of 1812. His father served in the civil war in the 72d Indiana volunteers. Hale Johnson received an academic education ; served in the civil war in the 13oth Indiana volunteers, 1864-65 ; was admitted to the bar in 1875, and established him- self in practice at Newton, 111., in 1877. He joined the prohibition party in 1882 and was the candidate of that party for representative in con- gress, attorney-general and governor ; and in 1896, for Vice-President of the United States on the ticket with Joshua Levering for President, the ticket receiving 132,007 popular votes. He was active in state and national campaigns and in amendment campaigns in Michigan and Ohio, and in 1900 was chairman of the Illinois Prohibi- tion state committee and a candidate for the Presidential nomination. He died in Bogota, 111.. Nov. 4, 190:J.

JOHNSON, Helen Kendrick, author, was born at Hamilton, N.Y., Jan. 4, 1843 ; daughter of Asahel Clark and Anne (Hopkins) Kendrick ; granddaughter of the Rev. Dr. Clark and Esther (Thompson) Kendrick ; and a descendant of John Konrick, who was born in York, England, in 1604, settled in Boston, Mass., about 1630, and removed in 1656 to his farm in Newton, Mass., at a jKiint still called Kenrick"s Bridge ; and of Dr. Sewall and Prutlence (Hart) Hojikins. She was educated at tlie Oread institute at Worcester, Mass. Slie was married to Rossiter Johnson, May 20, 1869, and from that date till 1873 their home was in Concord, N.H. They then removed to New York city. She originated and founded, in 1886, The Meridian, a woman's club to meet at noonday for discussion of social, literary and economic

topics. Mrs. Jolinson was editor of the ^/Hcrjca/i Woman's Journal. 1JS93-94 : and also compiled and etiited the following books : Tears for the Little Ones (1N7S) ; Our Familiar Songs and Those Ulio Made Them (1(^81) ; Poems and Songs for Yonng People (1884) ; The Nutshell Series (6 vols.. 1885) ; A Dictionary of Quotations (1895), She is the author of The Poddy Books (3 vols., 1874-76) ; Raleigh Westgate (1889) ; Woman and the Re- X)uhlic (1897), and frequent contributions to periodicals.

JOHNSON, Henry, senator, was born in Ten- nessee, Sept. 14, 1783. His parents were natives of Virginia. He was a lawyer in Bringiers, Orleans Territory; clerk <if the second superior court of the territory, 1809-11 ; judge of the court of the parish of St. Mary, 1811-18 ; a mem- ber of the constitutional convention from Attaka- pas county in 1812, and Whig candidate for repre- sentative from Louisiana in the 13th congress, 1812. He practised law in Donaldsonville, La., 1813-17. He was elected a U.S. senator in 1817, to fill the unexpired term of William C. C. Clai- borne, who died Nov. 23, 1817, serving, 1817-23. He was re-elected in 1823, but resigned in 1824 on his election as governor of Louisiana, and was succeeded by Dominique Bouligny. He was gov- ernor of Louisiana two terms, 1824-28 ; was de- feated for the U.S. senate in 1829, by Edward Livingston ; was a Whig representative from Louisiana in the 24th and 25th congresses, 1835- 39, and was the defeated candidate for governor in 1842. He was elected L".S. senator in 1844, to fill the vacancy caused bj' the death of Alexander Porter, and he served in the senate, 1844-49. He then practised law at New River, La. In the senate he favored the annexation of Texas and the repeal of the tariff of 1846. In 1850 he was the unsuccessful contestant for representative in the 31st congress to fill the term of Charles M. Conrad, appointed secretary of war in Fillmore's cabinet. He was married to Miss Key, of Mary- land. He died on his plantation at Pointe Coupee. La., Sept. l, 1864.

JOHNSON, Henry Clark, educator, was born at Homer, N.Y., June 11, 1851 ; son of Eardley Norton and Elizabeth Matilda (Hay) Johnson ; grandson of Clark Munson Johnson and of Henry Haj'. and a descendant of English and Dutch ancestors, respectively. He was graduated at Cortland academj- in 1867 ; studied Roman law under Professor James Hadley of Yale, and was graduated at Cortland academy in 1867, and from Cornell university, A.B., 1873. He was married in 1874 to Kate Loder, daughter of the Hon. Morgan Lewis Webb, of Cortland, N.Y. He studied law under Judge William H. Shankland, and at Hamilton college, 1873-75. graduating LL.B. in 1875, and was immediately admitted to