_____________________ | _____________________|_____________________ | _Silas Johnson ________| | | | | _____________________ | | | | |_____________________|_____________________ | _Silas Nye Johnson __| | (1799 - 1879) m 1823| | | _____________________ | | | | | _____________________|_____________________ | | | | |_Celia Hayward ________| | | | | _____________________ | | | | |_____________________|_____________________ | _Gardner Nye Johnson _| | (1824 - ....) | | | _Jacob Whipple ______+ | | | (1707 - 1789) m 1728 | | _James Whipple ______|_Jerusha Leland _____ | | | (1729 - 1767) m 1750 (1710 - 1789) | | _Moses Whipple ________| | | | (1768 - 1842) m 1789 | | | | | _____________________ | | | | | | | | |_Lydia Powers _______|_____________________ | | | m 1750 | |_Susan B. Whipple ___| | (1805 - 1882) m 1823| | | _____________________ | | | | | _Ezekiel Thayer _____|_____________________ | | | (1745 - 1833) | |_Sarah "Sally" Thayer _| | (1768 - 1851) m 1789 | | | _____________________ | | | | |_Hannah Randall _____|_____________________ | (1745 - 1775) | |--Joseph French Johnson | (1853 - 1900) | _____________________ | | | _____________________|_____________________ | | | _______________________| | | | | | | _____________________ | | | | | | |_____________________|_____________________ | | | _____________________| | | | | | | _____________________ | | | | | | | _____________________|_____________________ | | | | | | |_______________________| | | | | | | _____________________ | | | | | | |_____________________|_____________________ | | |_Eliza French ________| | | _____________________ | | | _____________________|_____________________ | | | _______________________| | | | | | | _____________________ | | | | | | |_____________________|_____________________ | | |_____________________| | | _____________________ | | | _____________________|_____________________ | | |_______________________| | | _____________________ | | |_____________________|_____________________
JOHNSON, Joseph French, financier, was born at Hardwick, Mass., Aug. 24, 1853; son of Gardner Nye {35816} and Eliza (French) Johnson, and grandson of Silas Nye {4071} and Susan (Whipple) {4051} Johnson. His ancestor, John Johnson, immigrated from England in 1635 and settled at Millbury, Mass., where he was a selectman. Joseph attended the public schools and Jennings seminary, Aurora, Ill., Northwestern university, Evanston, Ill., 1873-74; Harvard college, 1874-75; University of Halle, Germany, 1875-76, and was graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1878. He was a teacher of classics at Harvard school, Chicago, Ill., 1878-81; and was engaged on the staffs of the Springfield, Mass., Republican, 1881-84; the Chicago Tribune, 1884-90; the Spokane, Wash., Spokesman, 1890-93. He was married, Aug. 4, 1884, to Caroline Temperance Stolp, a descendant of Hannah Duston. He was associate professor of business practice at the University of Pennsylvania, 1893-94; was appointed professor of journalism in the University of Pennsylvania in 1894, and lecturer on finance in the Columbian university, Washington, D.C., in 1899. He was appointed, in 1899, expert for the industrial commission, and made a report upon railroad financiering in May, 1900. He was elected a member of the American Academy of Political and Social Science in 1893 and of the American Economic association in 1896. He is the author of: Principles of Money, Applied to Current Problems (1896); Proposed Reforms of the Monetary System (1898); Money and Credit (1900); A Discussion of the Interrogatories of the Monetary Commission, and contributions to periodicals on the subject of finance.
!SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 2 Nov 2007. Cites the 1900 Census, Lansdowne Twp., Delaware, PA, p. 270
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