RISTIAN RECORD.

[Illustration: H. T. Johnson, D. D.]

H. T. JOHNSON, PH. D., D. D.

H. T. Johnson, Ph. D., D. D., educator, minister, author,
journalist, scholar, was born in Georgetown, S. C., October
10, 1857. Early life was spent in the public schools of his
native town. Apprenticed to learn the printer's trade in his
fifteenth year; worked for three years on the "Georgetown
Planet" and "Charleston Independent." Gave up newspaper
service for school teaching, in which occupation he earned
sufficient means to enable him to enter the State Normal
School in the Capital of his native State and subsequently
the State University, at the same place continuing his
studies with credit until the Fall of 1876, when Colored
students were no longer allowed to enjoy such advantages by
the Democrats who gained control of the State. For a time
checkmated, young Johnson returned to the labors of the
school-room until the autumn of 1878, when, having been
licensed to preach a year earlier, he entered Howard
University as a divinity student, graduating in the Spring
of 1880.

While at Howard, Johnson took special studies in mathematics
and the classics in the college department of the
university. After preaching and teaching in his native State
for two years, he resumed his student life, this time at
Lincoln University, Chester County, Pa., graduating with
honors in the class of '83. While at Lincoln he engaged in
pastoral labors at Oxford, Kennett Square, Hosanah, Little
Wesley and Morris Brown, Philadelphia; was ordained elder by
Bishop Brown in Bethel Church, Philadelphia, June, 1883,
having won the highest encomium for creditable examination
passed in biblical, classical and metaphysical studies. The
same year, the subject of our sketch was transferred to the
New England Conference: was stationed at Chelsea,
matriculated in the Boston University, where he studied for
three years in the schools of Theology, Expression,
Elocution, Voice Culture and Metaphysics, until from failing
health he was compelled to change climate and sacrifice for
a season at least his ambition for learning.

Between ministerial and educational services our subject
applied his time in Tennessee until the winter of 1889, when
he transferred