Person:Julia Carson (3)

Her entry in Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915: JOHNSON, Julia Macfarlane (Mrs. Richard W. Johnson), 1632 Summit Av, St. Paul, Minn. Teacher; b. Salem, Westmoreland Co., 1862; ed. Mt. Holyoke coll., 1885; post-graduate Univ. of Pa., Univ. of Cincinnati, M.A.; Univ. of Minn.; m. 1894, Gen. Richard W. Johnson, U.S.A.; one son; John Macfarlane Johnson, b. Jan. 25, 1895. Taught at Coates Coll., Terre Haute, Ind., for several years prior to marriage; head of English dep't and dean of women, Macalester Coll (co-educational), St. Paul, Minn., since Sept. 1897. Interested in State Fed. of Clubs, patriotic societies, woman suffrage, temperance and peace movements; leader of Bible classes (adults of both sexes); lectures at various city missions and clubs. Has written for various college magazines and local newspapers articles and papers in the published proceedings of the State College Ass'ns of Minnesota and Indiana. Mem. International Peace Ass'n, Christian Ass'n, Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae, New Century Club, Civic League, Mt. Holyoke Alumnae. Recreations: horseback riding, canoeing, tramping. Presbyterian. Favors woman suffrage; active in committee work in the St. Paul Welfare League; constant promoter of suffrage interests in Macalester College. Republican.

Excerpt from "Nature and Revelation: A History of Macalester College" by Jeanne Halgren Kilde: Macalester's first woman professor, Julia Johnson, professor of English, had taken on responsibility for young women's social behavior as soon as she arrived on campus in 1897. She served as dean of women and housemother for the new women's dorm, the Elms, the former president's house, which had been converted for the use of the growing number of women students. Julia Macfarlane Johnson was a single mother. Her husband, Richard W. Johnson, a Civil War general some thirty years older than she, died in 1897, leaving her with a five-year-old son. General Johnson had been well acquainted with several of the early supporters of Macalester, including Henry Sibley, John Pillsbury, Henry Rice, and Edward Neill, and it is likely that, on his death, those still associated with the college felt some responsibility for his dependents. Prior to her marriage, Julia had pursued a career in higher education. She received a bachelor's degree from Mount Holyoke; studied at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Cincinnati, and Oxford University in England; completed a master's degree at the University of Minnesota; and taught briefly at Coates College in Terre Haute, Indiana. When the growing interest in studying English literature among students coincided with the General's death, Johnson was hired to teach Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton. She became a mainstay of the college, respected and trusted by students and faculty colleagues alike. Students' admiration for Johnson was admirably expressed half a century later, when in 1950, the class of 1910 organized a fund drive to furnish a lounge in the student union building then under construction. That lounge, they specified, should contain "a big, friendly fireplace in the Main Lounge in memory of Julia M. Johnson."

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2.   Woman's Who's Who of America, 1914-15.

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3.   Nature and Revelation: A History of Macalester College.

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