Career
lieutenant was printed in New Haven, in 1798, by Edward O"Brien. Martha Jane Gibson, from Yale University, sees Johnson Junior. as America"s first lexicographer. He was a schoolteacher, born in the town of Guilford, Connecticut.
Although he was a contemporary of British lexicographer Doctor Samuel Johnson, they were not related in any way.
The coincidence of names leads many people to believe that this last one was the author of the dictionary. (The New York Times has Johnson Junior as the son of the theologian, though this seems less likely)
Also according to the New York Times, "the British Museum has a copy presumably perfect.
Yale College Library has the Brinley copy, which lacks pages 157-168 out of 198, the total number. Number other copies seem to be known".
