Background
Johnson, Samuel was born on October 14, 1696 in Guilford, Connecticut, United States. Son of Samuel and Mary (Sage) Johnson.
Johnson, Samuel was born on October 14, 1696 in Guilford, Connecticut, United States. Son of Samuel and Mary (Sage) Johnson.
Graduate Collegiate School (now Yale), 1714. Master of Arts (honorary), Oxford (England) University, 1723, honorary Doctor of Divinity, 1743. Master of Arts (honorary,) Cambridge (England) University, 1723.
Ordained pastor Congressional Church, West Haven, Connecticut, 1720. Missionary for Society Propagation of the Gospel, Stratford, Connecticut. Ordained priest Protestant Episcopal Church, 1723.
1st president King’s College (now Columbia), 1754-1763.
Author: Ethics, Elementa, or the First Principles of Moral Philosophy, 1746, reprinted with new section Elementa Philosophica, 1752.
Married Charity (Floyd) Nicoll, September 26, 1725. Married second, Mistress.