Member Directory,
1847 - 1922
Douglas Wilson Johnson
Professor of Physical Geography
Centurion, 1918–1944
Proposed by
George Haven Putnam and Harold Jacoby
George Haven Putnam and Harold Jacoby
born
November 30, 1878
Parkersburg, West Virginia
Parkersburg, West Virginia
died
February 24, 1944
Sebring, Florida
Sebring, Florida
elected
December 7, 1918
Age forty
Age forty
buried
Maple Grove Cemetery,
Granville, Ohio
Granville, Ohio
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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
