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 . 292 THE NATIONAL and esteem of his customers. In 1823 he marriedLydia, daughter of Israel Corse. She died in 1872,and in 1874 he was married to Mrs. Merritt, daugh-te
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 . 292 THE NATIONAL and esteem of his customers. In 1823 he marriedLydia, daughter of Israel Corse. She died in 1872,and in 1874 he was married to Mrs. Merritt, daugh-ter of George L. Fox. JOHNSON, Warren S., mecliauical engineerand inventor, was horn at Brandon, Vt., Nov. 6,1847. He was educated at tliecommon schools of his nativetown, and subsequently devotedhis attention to scientific was afterward for a while pro-fessor of physics and chemistryin the State normal school, atWhite Water, Wis. Mr. Johnsonsoon turned his mind to the sub-ject of invention, and the resulthas been tliat he has given to theworld many new and valuable de-vices. Among the number maybe mentioned Johnsons systemof heat regulation, which is nowgenerally used throughout theworld, and the impulsive railway,by means of which mail and ex-press matter is forwarded onspecial cars, the cars being pro-pelled by the explosion at inter-vals of a mixture of gas and air. Prof. Johnson isthe inventor of many electric and pneumatic
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