History of Waupun, (Fond du Lac County) Wisconsin United States of America

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Emory Richard Johnson, economist, was born at Waupun, Fond du Lac county, Wis., March 22, 1864; son of Eli and Angeline (Nichols) Johnson, and grandson of Elihu and Anna (Chaffee) Johnson and of Alanson and Jerusha (Irish) Nichols. His ancestors came from England and Wales in the early part of the eighteenth century and settled in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Early in the nineteenth century they removed to New York state. His parents settled in Wisconsin in 1850. He was fitted for college at the state normal school at Oshkosh, and was graduated at the University of Wisconsin, A.B., 1888, A.M., 1891. He was a post-graduate student at Johns Hopkins, 1890-91; at Munich, 1891-92; at Berlin during the summer semester of 1892; and at the University of Pennsylvania, 1892-93, receiving the degree of Ph.D. in 1893. He was principal of schools at Boscobel, Wis., 1888-90; instructor in economics at Haverford college; lecturer on transportation in the University of Pennsylvania, 1893; instructor in transportation and commerce there, 1894-96, and after 1896 assistant professor of transportation and commerce. In May, 1899, he was appointed expert agent on transportation by the U.S. industrial commission, which position he resigned, Dec. 28, 1899. On June 9, 1899, President McKinley appointed him on the Isthmian canal commission, and the University of Pennsylvania granted him leave of absence for the academic years of 1899-1901. In 1894 Dr. Johnson took charge of the book department of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and in 1896 became one of its two associate editors. He began specializing in transportation while at the University of Wisconsin, where he prepared a special honor thesis on "The Rise and Fall of the Whig System of Internal Improvements." The study of inland navigation was continued later at Johns Hopkins and in Europe. He is the author of: Inland Waterways: Their Relation to Transportation (1893); a paper on The Century's Commercial Progress in "Triumphs and Wonders of the Nineteenth Century" (1899); numerous papers in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Political Science Quarterly, Review of Reviews, The Independent, and National Geographic Magazine, and articles in various other publications.

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

History of Waupun, (Fond du Lac County) Wisconsin

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