Herrick Johnson (September 21, 1832 – November 20, 1913) was a leading American

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, Johnson graduated from Hamilton College in 1857 and from the

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in 1860.Noted Theologian Dead
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'' (November 21, 1913) On September 6, 1860, he married Katherine Spencer Hardenburg. After ministering in churches in

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, he returned to Auburn Theological Seminary to teach, also teaching at McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago. In 1882, he was elected

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of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. He was extensively quoted in the 1895 ''Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers''.Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).

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