Background
Johnes, Edward Rodolph was born on September 8, 1852 in Whitesboro. Son of William Pierson and Anna Louisa (Gold) Johnes.
Johnes, Edward Rodolph was born on September 8, 1852 in Whitesboro. Son of William Pierson and Anna Louisa (Gold) Johnes.
Graduated from Yale (class poet), 1873. Columbia College Law School, 1876. Admitted to bar, 1876.
Partner Henry C. Wilcox 14 years. Later of Governor Hoffman, until latter’s death. Later of Robert G. Ingersoll and Honorary Thomas Fitch.
Represented Venezuela in boundary dispute (received Venezuelan decoration of cross and star of Order of Bolivar). Counsel in Nicaragua and Costa Rica boundary case. For Consolidated Stock Exchange in their litigation with New York Stock Exchange and Western Union Telegraph Company.
In Canon Bernard case against the King of Belgium. In Crouse will case; etc. Held options and brought about American Malting Company (capital, $30,000,000), controlling 75 per cent of maltsters in the United States.
Author: The Monroe Doctrine as Applied to Venezuela Boundary Question. English and American Bankruptcy and Insolvency Laws. Briefs by a Barrister (verse).
History of Southampton, Long Island. Circumstantial Evidence of a Future State. Home: New York, New York.
Married Winifred Wallace Tinker, April.