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Richard H. Johnson
Richard Henry Johnson was born at Washington, Illinois, March 2, 1835. His parents, John and
Martha (McCorkle) Johnson, were, the first of English, the second of Scotch ancestry.
When about eighteen years old he entered Eureka College, and was graduated from Bethany
College, Virginia, in 1859. The next year he was made a professor in Eureka College. Was married to Miss Susie S. Smith, of Bridgewater, Vermont, in 1862. Three years later he removed to Williamsville, New York, to take the position of Principal of the Classical Institute at that place. Thence he removed to Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, to engage in the ministry, returning a few years later to Illinois, thence in 1878 to Oskaloosa, Iowa, where he assumed the pastoral work of the Christian church.
In 1881 he accepted a professorship in Oskaloosa College and was advanced to its presidency the next year. |
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He gave up his official duties in the college in 1888, and is subsequently actively engaged in the work of the ministry, being pleasantly located at New Sharon, Iowa.
Source:
A History of Eureka College, St. Louis: Christian Publishing
Company, 1894.
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