1063 (envelope from) Arnold Burges Johnson, Chief Clerk, U.S. Light House Board, Washington, DC. c.1895.
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1063 (envelope from) Arnold Burges Johnson, Chief Clerk, U.S. Light House Board, Washington, DC. c.1895.
1063. (envelope from) Arnold Burges Johnson, Chief Clerk, U.S. Light House Board, Washington, DC. c.1895. Intact envelope addressed to a Washington address bears a return address of “Arnold Johnson and Hattie [in pencil], Treasury Department, Office of Light House Board”. Envelope is postmarked November 6, 1895. Arnold Burges Johnson, was born in Rochester, Mass., June 17, 1834. He was married May 12, 1857, at Brooklyn, N. Y., to Harriet [“Haittie”] M, Barrows. Mr. Johnson was educated at the Rochester Academy in Putnam, Ohio, at Madison College in Pennsylvania, and the Columbian College Law School, from which last he was graduated in 1886. He served as Chief Clerk of the Light-House Board from 1869 to this date, except for a year, ’73-74, when he was editing the Republican at Hackensack, N. J., and practicing law. He returned to the Light- House Board in March, ’74, at the request of the Department, being allowed to finish up afterwards the cases he had pending in the U. S. Supreme Court. He was a member of several scientific societies and and has written somewhat on scientific subjects, much of which has been published in England, France, and Spain. He is the author of The Modem Light-House Service, a wonderful account of the work of the Lighthouse Service, and many Magazine articles. An interesting piece from this important Light House Board official. (VG). $34.