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JOSEPH TABER JOHNSON
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family, your country, your work, and you will not have much time for foolishness or worse."

Doctor Johnson was married May 1, 1873, to Edith Maud, daughter of Professor William Franklin and Ann (Strong) Bascom of Washington, District of Columbia, and of their six children five were living in 1906. One of their sons, Lorenzo Bascom Tabor Johnson, was educated at Yale and Georgetown universities, served a year as United States army contract surgeon in the Philippines, receiving a commission as captain from President McKinley, and has since practised medicine in Washington, District of Columbia.

Doctor Johnson wrote the section on Surgical Diseases of the Ovaries and Tubes in "Dennis's American System of Surgery" and on Ovariotomy in "Reed's System of Gynecology"; also many articles for medical journals and addresses upon important subjects. He received in 1869 the honorary degree of A.M. from Columbian college of which he was a student when it was closed in 1861; and the degree of Ph.D. from the University of Georgetown, District of Columbia, in 1890.