Dr. Franklin Johnson, son of Rev. Hezekiah and Eliza Harris Johnson, Oregon pioneers of 1845, and brother of the late W. C.
Johnson and of H. H. Johnson, now County Surveyor, died at Brookline, Mass, October 9, according to word received here today.

Dr. Johnson came to Oregon when he was 9 years old and lived in Oregon City until 21, getting his education and preparation
for college in the pioneer schools of this place. He peddled milk, taught school and, more than all spent a large part of his
time in the printing office of the Oregon City Argus, fore-runner of the Enterprise, under the management of William Adams,
editor, and D. W. Craig, foreman.

He taught probably the first school at The Dalles, and at the age of 21 years went East. He was appointed a delegate to the
Republican convention which first nominated Lincoln for the Presidency.

In 1861 he was graduated from the Colgate Theological Seminary and entered the Baptist ministry. He was the pastor of various
Baptist churches, but spent 15 years as pastor of the Old Cambridge Church in Boston.

In 1888 he went abroad and resided for two years in Athens, Greece. On his return, Dr. Johnson was president of Ottawa
University for two years, and from there went to the Chicago University, where he spent the remainder of his working years in the
departments of history and homiletics in the divinity school.

Dr. Johnson is survived by his widow, two sons, one brother, H. H. Johnson, of Oregon City; one sister, Miss Amy Johnson, and
many nieces and nephews in Oregon and California.