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Arnold Johnson was educated at the Rochester Academy, "the Methodist Prostestant" office at Putnam, Ohio, where he learned the trade of printer, at Madison College in Pennsylvania, and the Columbian College Law School, from which last he was graduated LL. B., 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 practising 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 is a member of several scientific societies and the Cosmos Club. He has written somewhat on scientific subjects, much of which has been published in England, France, and Spain. He is the author of The Modern Light-House Service, and many Magazine articles. 
 

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Arnold Johnson was educated at the Rochester Academy, "the Methodist Prostestant" office at Putnam, Ohio, where he learned the trade of printer, at Madison College in Pennsylvania, and the Columbian College Law School, from which last he was graduated LL. B., 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 practising 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 is a member of several scientific societies and the Cosmos Club. He has written somewhat on scientific subjects, much of which has been published in England, France, and Spain. He is the author of The Modern Light-House Service, and many Magazine articles. 
 

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The Johnson Memorial: Jeremiah Johnson and Thomazin Blanchard Johnson, His Wife. An Account of Their Lineage from John Alden, Thomas Blanchard, Samuel Bass, Thomas Thayer, Isaac Johnson, and James Gibson
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