Professor of Physical Geography
Centurion, 1918–1944
Born 30 November 1878 in Parkersburg, West Virginia
Died 24 February 1944 in Sebring, Florida
Buried Maple Grove Cemetery
, Granville, Ohio
Proposed by George Haven Putnam and Harold Jacoby
Elected 7 December 1918 at age forty
Century Memorial
Douglas Wilson Johnson. [Born] 1878. Geologist, professor, author. Professor of physiography at Columbia for 32 years; author of many works on geologic and geographic subjects including “Origin of Submarine Canyons”; author of two pamphlets widely circulated here and abroad in the last war, “A Letter to a German Professor” and “The Peril of Prussianism”; attached to the American Peace Commission at Versailles in 1919, serving as Chief of the Division of Boundary Geography; earnest and inspiring teacher.
Geoffrey Parsons, Secretary
Annual Meeting Necrology, 11 January 1945
