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The father's hopes were amply fulfilled by the high distinction in
professional and civil life which the second Dr. Johnson attained, while
sacrificing none of his conscientious scruples regarding the course of public
affairs.®
60 2. William,^ born March 9, 1730; graduated at Yale College in
1748 ;
prepared for Holy Orders; ordained Deacon "in the Chapel of the
Palace at Fulham," in 1756; the same year made Master of Arts at
Oxford and Cambridge ;
He was unmarried.
who
died in England, of small pox, June 20, 1756.
The line of Dr. Samuel Johnson was continued only through his
eldest son, Wilham Samuel (59), who was twice married : first, November
5, 1749, to Ann daughter of William Beach of Stratford, Conn.; and,
*' This sketch of Dr. William Samuel Johnson's career is abridged from Prof. Baxter's Biogr.
Sketches, ut supra, pp. 762-64. For fuller particulars see Life and Times of William Samuel Johnson,
LL.D. .
. . By E. Edwards Beardsley, D.D., LL.D. .
. . Second
Edition revised and enlarged.
Boston, 1886.
We here give extracts from a note of the late Dr. Woolsey Johnson of New York, great grandson of
Dr. William Samuel Johnson (November 12, 1885), in which he refers to his supposed English kinship :
" My great grandfather W" Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Pres't of Columbia College, etc., when residmg in
England circa 1765, resumed the relations of kinship with the parent branch of the family, and they
have never been interrupted since his time. When I was last in England, in July 18S4, an interesting
reunion of the family was held on the occasion of the celebration of the Ter-Centenary of Uppingham
School, at Uppingham, co. Rutland, founded in 1548 by Rev. Robert Johnson, D.D., Archdeacon of
Leicester, to whom the arms were granted temp. Elizabeth.
"The then head of the familj' was Charles Augustus Johnson, an invalid residing at Brighton, son
of the late Lieut. Gen. W" Henry Johnson of Wytham-on-the-Hill and Uppingham. .
. .
" Towards our branch they always manifest cordial and warm feelings of kindred, which after nearly
250 years is unusual in English folk."
The arms here referred to are those used by Rev. Dr. Samuel Johnson, and now borne by the
Johnsons of Stratford—described by Burke thus ; "Ar. a chev. Sa. hetw. three lions' heads couped Gu.,
langued Az. and crowned Or. (Gen. Arm., ed. 1878, p. 544). Dr. William Samuel Johnson, however,
in a letter to his father from England, in 1767, after visiting Kingston-upon-HuU, says that the arms
then borne by the Johnsons of that place " are not the same with those we have assumed "— Beardsley's
Samuel Johnson, p. 320.
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