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the admission in 1884 of William B. Beale, to 

 Isham, Lincoln & Beale. He was elected to the 

 General Assembly of Illinois in 1864, and served 

 as a member of the Judiciary Committee. He 

 was a trustee and vice-president of the Newberry 

 Library Board; and author of The Social and 

 Economic Relations of Corporations in the Ency- 

 clopaedia of Political Science; Frontenac and 

 Miles Standish in the Northwest; and Ethan Al- 

 len, a Study in Civic Authority. 



Johnson, John Butler, educator, born in 

 Marlboro, Ohio, June 11, 1850; died in Pier Cove, 

 Lake Michigan, June 20, 1902. He was graduated 

 at the University of Michigan in 1879, with the 

 degree of civil engineer; served as such on the 

 United States Lake and Mississippi Surveys till 

 1883, when he became Professor of Civil Engi- 

 neering in Washington University. In 1898 he 

 was made dean of the College of Mechanics and 

 Engineering in the University of Wisconsin. He 

 was instrumental in securing for the university 

 an engineering building Valued at $100,000 and 

 apparatus valued at $40,000; conducted a large 

 testing laboratory in St. Louis, in which all the 

 United States timber tests were made; superin- 

 tended the Index Department of the Journal of 

 the Association of Engineering Societies; contrib- 

 uted largely to engineering literature; and wrote 

 Topographical Surveying (1884); Theory and 

 Practise of Surveying (1886); Modern Framed 

 Structures (1893); Engineering Contracts and 

 Specifications (1895); and Materials of Construc- 

 tion (1897). 



Johnston, Robert, actor, born in Philadelphia 

 in 1827; died in Bath, N. Y., March 19, 1902. He 

 was one of the oldest American actors, and at 

 one time was very well known in the theatrical 

 profession. He made his first appearance at the 

 Arch Street Theater, Philadelphia, before he was 

 twenty, under the management of William E. 

 Burton. After Mr. Burton removed to New York 

 young Johnston managed the Arch Street Theater 

 for a time. He went, to New York in 1851 and 

 joined Burton's stock company at the old Cham- 

 bers Street Theater. After acting several seasons 

 in this company, he went to England and played 

 a long and successful engagement at Surrey The- 

 ater, London. When he returned to this country 

 he played for many years in various organiza- 

 tions. In March, 1895, after being in retirement 

 from illness for a number of years, Mr. Johnston 

 entered the Edwin Forrest Home for old actors, 

 but remained only a short time, going thence to 

 the State Soldiers' Home, at Bath, N. Y., to which 

 he was admitted because of his service in the 

 civil war, when he was a captain in the 25th New 

 York Volunteers. He was a fine actor in the old 

 classic drama, and had played in support of Char- 

 lotte Cushman, Edwin Forrest, Junius Brutus 

 Booth, and William Macready. He married Nel- 

 lie Germon in 1858. 



Joseph, Jacob, rabbi, born in Wilna, Russia, 

 in 1840; died in New York city, July 28, 1902. 

 He was educated at the Talmudic Academy, stud- 

 ied under Rabbi Israel, and then became a 

 preacher. In 1888 he came to New York city; 

 was made chief rabbi of the United Jewish Con- 

 gregations; and preached to large congregations 

 of Russian Jews who had immigrated to the 

 United States in 1880. He was head of the Con- 

 gregation Beth Hamedrash Hagodal for fourteen 

 years. Rabbi Joseph was a charming lecturer, 

 and wrote several books, including Beth Jacob, 

 a work on Jewish religion, philosophy, and 

 iw. When his death was announced nearly 

 1,000 people gathered in front of his house, and 

 prayers were offered for the rabbi, and his por- 



traits, which had not been seen for several years, 

 were hung in store windows heavily draped in 

 mourning. On the morning of his funeral hun- 

 dreds of stores were closed in his honor, and the 

 streets were crowded with people. A band of 300 

 boys, singing psalms, preceded the hearse to six 

 of the largest synagogues on the East Side of 

 the city, in each of which brief services were held. 

 As the funeral cortege was passing a large manu- 

 factory on its way to Brooklyn some operatives 

 threw water from windows on the mourners, and 

 in a moment a riot occurred, in. which many of 

 the Hebrews were clubbed by the police and other- 

 wise maltreated by a rabble on the street. Mayor 

 Low ordered an official investigation of the ac- 

 tion of the police, and the chief precinct officers 

 were blamed for not affording the mourners an 

 adequate escort and for permitting the clubbing. 



Jouett, James Edward, naval officer, born in 

 Lexington, Ky., Feb. 27, 1828; died in Sandy 

 Springs, Md., Oct. 1, 1902. He entered the United 

 States navy as midshipman in 1841 ; was pro- 

 moted passed midship- 

 man Aug. 10, 1847; 

 master and lieutenant 

 in 1855 ; lieutenant- 

 commander, July 16, 

 1862; commander, 

 July 25, 1866; captain, 

 Jan. 6, 1874; commo- 

 dore, Jan. 11, 1883; 

 and rear-admiral, Feb. 

 19, 1886; and was re- 

 tired on reaching the 

 age limit in 1890. Af- 

 ter serving in the Mex- 

 ican War he went to 

 the United States Na- 

 val Academy, where he was graduated in 1847. 

 At the outbreak of the civil war he was a lieuten- 

 ant on the frigate Santee of the Western Gulf 

 blockading squadron. In 1861, while in com- 

 mand of a detachment of sailors and marines 

 from the Santee, he boarded and destroyed the 

 Confederate vessel Royal Yacht, and received 

 wounds in his arm and side. For this achieve- 

 ment Lieut. Jouett received the commendation 

 of his commanding flag-officer and the thanks of 

 the department. Later he received command of 

 the R. R. Cuyler, of the Western Gulf blockading 

 squadron, with which he captured 8 blockade- 

 runners in 1863. He was afterward commander 

 of the Metacomet, with which he captured 3 

 more blockade-runners, and he was selected by 

 Admiral Farragut to accompany the flagship 

 Hartford in the battle of Mobile Bay. His little 

 vessel was lashed to the side of Farragut's flag- 

 ship, and passed the forts with her. The Meta- 

 comet was then detached from the Hartford, and 

 Jouett began a chase of Confederate gunboats. 

 He crippled the Gaines so that she ran ashore, 

 forced the Morgan to retreat, and, after an 

 hour's running fight up the bay, captured the 

 Selma. In Admiral Farragut's official report 

 of the battle he says : " Lieut.-Commander 

 Jouett's conduct during the whole affair com- 

 mands my warmest commendations." Jouett 

 was subsequently engaged on blockade duty off 

 the coast of Texas. In 1874 he became a mem- 

 ber of the Board of Inspection, and in 1885, while 

 in command of the North Atlantic squadron, 

 conducted the operations on the Isthmus of Pan- 

 ama and succeeded in quelling one of the most 

 serious revolutions that ever had occurred there. 

 In 1887 he became president of the Board of In- 

 spection and Survey, and served till his retire- 

 ment. 



