JOHNSON, FRANCIS: 1837-1908.
Francis Johnson was born in Rostock, Germany, in 1837, the son of Lewis Johnson, then professor of modern literature and history at the local university. The family came to Lafayette, Ind., in 1855.
Francis Johnson traveled in Europe in 1868-69 and returned to the U. S. to take an editorial position on THE LAKESIDE MONTHLY, Chicago , in May, 1870. After the Chicago fire he went to New York and did free-lance writing and editorial work until 1873, when he returned to Lafayette, Ind.
In 1874 he established a German language newspaper, DER DEUTSCH-AMERIKANER, and continued to edit and publish it in Lafayette until 1904, when failing health made its abandonment necessary. He died on Mar. 5, 1908.
de Hart–Past and Present of Tippecanoe County, 1909.
- Famous Assassinations of History.
Chicago, 1903.
