Background
Johnson, William Samuel was born on December 1, 1859 in Ellicottville, New York, United States. Son of Samuel William and Frances Ann (Sanderson) Johnson.
Johnson, William Samuel was born on December 1, 1859 in Ellicottville, New York, United States. Son of Samuel William and Frances Ann (Sanderson) Johnson.
Bachelor of Laws, cum laude, Columbia, 1884.
Admitted to bar, 1885. Clerk, United State Attorneys’s office, 1886-1887. Practiced at New York, 1887-1905.
Resided at Paris, France, 1905-1910.
Author: Glamourie, 1911. Nothing Else Matters, 1913.
Prayer for Peace (poem in Forum, December 1914), used by Theodore Roosevelt as the introduction to his book America and the World War, 1915. Prayer for Peace and Other Poems, 1915.
Buttadeus, 1916. Address: New York, New New York
Married Carrie Gately Beers, June 19, 1894 (died 1925).