The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . n downin 1881. Four members of theJohnes family, including the sub-ject of this sketch, were graduat-ed from Yale College, the Johnes from whom- y Washington took commu
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . n downin 1881. Four members of theJohnes family, including the sub-ject of this sketch, were graduat-ed from Yale College, the Johnes from whom- y Washington took communion just ^tZri^j^^ before the battle of Brandywine,fOJi^.^t^e^. ,,a^i^g graduated in 1737. The father and grandfather of Ed-ward R. Johnes on the paternal side were whole-sale merchants in New York city. His motherwas a granddaughter of Thomas Ruggles Gold,a descendant of Gov. Gold of Connecticut, andwas senator and congressman from New Yorkstate in the early part of this century, his nameappearing in many of the prominent law casesthat were tried prior to 1827. After the death ofhis father, Mr. Johness family removed to Mobile,Ala., and subsequently to Lexington, Ky. prepared for college at Geneva, N. Y., andentered Yale in 1869, graduating four years later,and being poet of his class. After travelingabroad for a year, chiefly in Egypt and the East,Mr. Johnes returned to New York, entered the Co-. lumbia Law School, and was admitted to the bar in1876. After a brief association with William in the practice of law, te was joined byHenry C. Wilcox, who was associated with himnearly fourteen years. His firm was retained bythe Venezuelan government in the boundary disputebetween that country and England, which he con-ducted to a satisfactory termination. His pamphleton that question and the Monroe doctrine is exhaus-tive. He was also retained in connection with theNicaragua and Costa Rica boundary line, and wasone of those who organized and raised money fort
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