History of Marlboro, (Stark County) Ohio United States of America

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John Butler Johnson, educator, was born at Marlboro, Ohio, June 11, 1850; son of Jesse and Martha (Butler) Johnson; grandson of Dempsey and Margaret (Harrison) Johnson; and a descendant on both sides of Virginia Quakers who emigrated to Ohio about 1820. He was prepared for college in the public schools of Ohio; was graduated from the University of Michigan, C.E., 1878; served as a civil engineer on the U.S. Lake and Mississippi River surveys, 1878-83, and was professor of civil engineering at Washington university, St. Louis, Mo., 1883-99. He conducted a large testing laboratory at Washington university, St. Louis, in which all the U.S. timber tests were made; this work was started by the U.S. Forestry bureau in 1891. He was chosen dean of the College of Mechanics and Engineering at the University of Wisconsin in 1899. He was elected a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1886; the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1891 and the Institution of Civil Engineers of London in 1892. He was president of the American Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education in 1898 and was active in extending technical and commercial education in America. He was married, Nov. 12, 1879, to Phoebe E. Henby, of Wabash, Ind. He superintended the index department of the Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies from its organization in 1884, and published two volumes of index notes to engineering literature (1892). He is the anther of: Theory and Practice of Surveying (1886); Modern Framed Structures (1892); Engineering Contracts and Specifications (1895); The Materials of Construction (1897), and numerous contributions to current engineering literature.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Marlboro, (Stark County) Ohio

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