Joseph French Johnson (August 24, 1853 – January 22, 1925''The Phi Beta Kappa Key: The Official Publication of the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa'', Volume 6. Press of the Unionist-gazette Association, 1925. p. 109) was an American economist, journalist, Professor, and Dean of the School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance,

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, and founding Dean of the

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in New York in 1909.Alexander Hamilton Institute.
Forging ahead in business
'' New York City, 1921, p. 9-10.

Biography

Johnson was born in

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, in 1853, son of Gardner Nye and Eliza (French) Johnson, a paternal ancestor, John Johnson, having emigrated from England and settled in Massachusetts about 1635. He was prepared for College in Jennings Seminary at Aurora, Illinois, from which he entered

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at Evanston. Passing later to

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he graduated as a Bachelor of Arts in 1878, subsequently studying for a short time under

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at the

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Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (born Lawrence Joshua Chamberlain, September 8, 1828February 24, 1914) was an American college professor from Maine who volunteered during the American Civil War to join the Union Army. He became a highly respected and ...

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(1901) "JOHNSON, Joseph French, 1853-," in: ''University of Pennsylvania: its history, influence, equipment and characteristics; with biographical sketches and portraits of founders, benefactors, officers and alumni,'' Vol. 1. p. 427. From 1878 to 1881 he was a teacher at the Harvard School in Chicago. Soon after, he entered journalism as part of the editorial staff of the '' Springfield, Massachusetts, Republican''. He did this for several years, and afterward served as Financial Editor of the ''

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''. After twelve years of a practical journalist's life he was called to the School of Finance and Economy in the

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. In 1893–1894 he was Associate Professor of Business Practice and since 1894 he has been Professor of Journalism, that department of instruction having just been established in that year. Although it is a wholly new branch of University work, considerable success has already been attained by Professor Johnson in training College men for practical careers in newspaper offices. Sequentially he lectured at

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, and in 1901 became a professor at

and in 1903 Dean of the School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance of the University. In 1909 he was founding Dean of the

in New York. Johnson then became a member of the commission to revise the banking laws of the

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, and worked for the

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. Johnson was editor at the ''Modern Business Series'' published by the Alexander Hamilton Institute, and of the ''Journal of Accountancy''.

Selected publications

* Johnson, Joseph French.
Money and Banking: A Discussion of the Principles of Money and Credit
'' (1904) * Johnson, Joseph French. ''Money and currency.'' 1906. * Johnson, Joseph French.
The Canadian banking system
'' US Government Printing Office, 1910. * Johnson, Joseph French.
Organized business knowledge
' (1914) * Johnson, Joseph French.
Banking
'' 1914. * Johnson, Joseph French.
Business and the man
' Vol. 1, 1918. * Johnson, Joseph French. ''Money and Currency in Relation to Industry, Prices, and the Rate of Interest''. Ginn, 1921. Articles, a selection: * Johnson, Joseph French.
Proposed reforms of the monetary system
" in: ''Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.'' Vol. 11, No. 2b (1898). * Johnson, Joseph French.
The Crisis and Panic of 1907
" ''Political Science Quarterly'' 23.3 (1908): 454-467. * White, Horace, and Joseph French Johnson.
Central Bank: Discussion
" ''American Economic Association Quarterly'' (1909): 370-376. * Houston, D. F., Kemmerer, E. W., Johnson, J. F., Wildman, M. S., Carver, T. N., Taussig, F. W., ... & Fisher, I. (1911).
Money and prices: Discussion
" ''The American Economic Review,'' 1(2), 46-70.

References

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This article incorporates public domain material from Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain et al. (1901)

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