JOHNSON, ROBERT UNDERWOOD: 1853-1937.
Born in Washington, D. C., on Jan. 12, 1853, Robert Underwood Johnson was reared in Centerville, Ind., educated in the Wayne County schools, and received the B.S. degree from Earlham College in 1871. He later received an honorary Ph.D. from Earlham in 1889, A.M. from Yale in 1891, and L.H.D. from New York University in 1911. He entered the employ of the publishing firm of Charles Scribner's Sons in 1873. page: 170[View Page 170] llaree years later he married Katherine McMahon of Washington and they made their home in New York .
Johnson became an associate editor of the CENTURY MAGAZINE in 1881 and editor-in-chief in 1909, continuing until 1913. With Clarence Clough Buel he edited the monumental Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, and it was he who persuaded General Grant that his memoirs might bring in enough financial return to help liquidate the debts which the honesty and guilelessness of the doughty old general had enabled his associates to leave him.
He took an active part in the movement to set aside land in the Yosemite Valley as a national park and in the correction of abuses in the current international copyright laws: for his work in the latter field he was decorated by the French and Italian governments.
He died in 1937.
Information from Parker and Heiney–Poets and Poetry of Indiana and supplied by the Richmond Public Library.
- The Winter Hour, and Other Poems. New
York, 1892.
- Songs of Liberty and Other Poems; Including Paraphrases from
the Servian after Translations by Nikola Tesla: with a Prefatory Note by Him
on Servian Poetry. New York, 1897.
- Poems
. New York, 1902.
(Followed by an enlarged collection in 1908.)
- Saint Gaudens, an Ode and Other Verse; being the Third
Edition of His "Poems."
New York, 1910.
- The "Coastwise Exemption," the Nation
Against It: an Appeal on Behalf of the National Honor and a Sound Business
Policy. New York, 1913.
- Poems of War and Peace.
Indianapolis, 1916.
- Italian Rhapsody and Other Poems of Italy.
New York, 1917.
- Collected Poems, 1881-1919. New Haven,
Conn., 1920.
- Remembered Yesterdays. Boston,
1923.
- Poems of the Longer Flight. New
York, 1928.
- The Pact of Honor and Other Poems. New
York, 1929.
- Poems of the Lighter Touch. 1930.
- Poems of Fifty Years. New York,
1931.
- Aftermath. New York, 1933.
- Heroes, Children and Fun. New
York, 1934.
- Your Hall of Fame. New York,
1935.
