Johnson, Sir William
Sir William (1715-1774), a famous colonist of New York . He was a native of Ireland. In 1738 he established himself on a tract of land in the Mohawk Valley, about twenty-five miles from Schenectady. He settled colonists on his estate and opened up an extensive trade with the Indians. The six nations of the Mohawk family became so impressed with his fairness that they adopted him as a member of their tribe. In the war which followed with France they were held by his influence on the British side. They followed his lead in the operations against Crown Point and against Dieskau at Lake George. He took part in the expedition against Ticonderoga, received the surrender of Fort Niagara, was present at the capture of Montreal, and saw the surrender of all Canada. At the conclusion of the war the British Parliament gave him a grant of $25,000 and a large tract of land on the northern side of the Mohawk where the town of Johnstown, named in his honor, now stands. He was a noted man in his day. He lived in baronial style in a large wooden mansion, where he dispensed hospitality to native and white men alike with princely liberality. He started the business of glove making. He introduced sheep and blooded horses into the Mohawk Valley.
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Johnston (II)
SIR HARRY HAMIL- TON, an English author and explorer . Born in 1858 in London he first traveled in Africa in 1879, and three years later helped to explore the Congo and Portuguese West Africa. In 1884 he headed a scientific expedition to Mount Kilimanjaro, in 1889 explored Lake Nyassa, and in 1900 climbed Mount Ruwenzori. From 1899 to 1901 he was consul -general and commander in chief of the Uganda protectorate. He is the author of many works of scientific and geographic interest on Africa, and also has recently written an excellent novel entitled "The Gay-Dombeys" (1919). JOHNSTON, HOWARD AGNEW, Afan American clergyman, born in Greene co., Ohio, in 1860. He graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1882 and from Lane Theological Seminary in 1885, and was ordained to the Presbyterian Ministry in the same year. ter serving as pastor in Ohio and Illinois, he was appointed pastor of the Madison Avenue Church in New York in 1899, serving until 1905. This was followed by pastorates at Colorado Springs and Stamford , Conn. until 1917, when he engaged upon institutional work in Chicago. He was the author of "Studies in God's Methods of Training Workers" (1900); "Bible Criticism and Average Man" (1902); "The the Famine and The Bread" (1908); "Victorious Manhood" (1909 ).
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Johnston (IV)
ROBERT MATTESON, an American historian. Born in Paris in 1867 he received his education in France, Germany and England. He graduated from Cambridge University in 1889 and entered upon the practice of law. In 1907-1908 he was professor of history at Bryn Mawr College and later became assistant professor of history at Harvard. Among his works are: "The French Revolution" (1909); "Napoleon " (1904); "Bull Run" (1913). He died on Jan. 28, 1920.
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Johnston, Mary
Mary (1870-), an American novelist. She is a native of Virginia. She published her first story, Prisoners of Hope: A Tale of Colonial Virginia, in 1898. It was a striking success and has been followed by To Have and to Hold and Audrey and Sir Mortimer, all of a historical nature.
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Johnstone
a city of Scotland in Renfrewshire. It has important manufactures of paper, shoes, iron, machinery, etc. Pop. about 12,000.
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Johnstown
a city and county-seat Fulton of co., N. Y.; on Cayadutta creek, and on the Fonda, Johnstown and Gloversville railroad; 48 miles N. W. of Albany. There are electric lights street railroads, high school, grist mills and and extensive manufactures of gloves and mittens. It has several savings banks, daily, weekly and monthly periodicals. Pop. (1910) 10,447; (1920) 10,908.
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Johnstown
a city in Cambria co., Pa.; on the Conemaugh river and Stony creek, and on the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore and Ohio railroads; 78 miles E. of Pittsburgh. It contains the great Cambria iron and steel plant, wire, tin- , plate wall-paper, paint, cement, fire brick, and leather and woolen manufactories; is the mining, lumbering, stone working, farming, and manufacturing trade center for a region having a population of 225,000; is the seat of Cambria and Johnstown Memorial Hospitals; and has National and other banks, electric light and street railroad plants, daily, weekly, and monthly periodicals. On May 31, 1889, the city was the scene of a terrible disaster caused by the breaking of the dam across the South Fork of the Conemaugh river, at a point 10 miles E. of the city. The entire valley was in a few minutes devastated and the city of Johnstown and its surrounding villages were practically swept away. Pop. ( 1910) 55,482; (1920) 67,327.
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Johor
or JOHORE BARU, capital of the state of Johor, on the S. coast, opposite the middle of the island of Singapore; a free port; in 1866 a place composed of only a few huts; but now a town with about 18,000 inhabitants.
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Johor
a State of sula in the extreme S. and separated the Malay Peninfrom Sumatra by the Straits of Molucca. It is an independent state, within the British sphere of influence. Formerly it was important as the of spices brought from the Moluccas en distributing center route for India and Europe. Singapore was formerly its but the British succeeded in including it capital and chief port, in the Straits Settlements which in 1867 was erected into a crown colony. Pop. about 200,000.
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Joinder
in law, coupling of two things in one suit or acthe joining or tion; also the joining or coupling of two or more parties as defendants in one suit; or the acceptance by a party in an action of the challenge laid down in his adversary's demurrer or last pleading.
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Joint
A common name for the point of separation in moulds. When two halves of a core are placed together the joining surfaces form the joint; so in flasks cope and drag meet together at the joint. See PARTING.
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