National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-02-10
THE LATE WALTER ". JOHNSON

Action Taken by the Trustees of the Miner
School.
Mr.. Walter W. johnson, whose untimely loss
is deplorcd by the trustees of the Miner school,
met his death on the 25th of January by an
accidental fall in mine, in Virginia, of which
he was superintendent. By his death one of
the most cultured circles in Washington sus-
tains great loss. Though still young, he was
thoroughly we'll Informed on many important
branches of science. He was interested in the
cause of education, and was withal mau of
unqucstioned purity and integrity of character
He had spent several years in the great West
and had traversed over extensive regions in
the performance of his labors as an explorer
surveyor, and engineer.
He had visited the great valley of the yell
low Stone had Travelled as far West as Puget
Sound, aud had spent a number of years in
Montana Territory, where lie was at one time
collector of customs and where he was q
valued citizen, taking. as he did, the general
interest in the development of the country.
lie had large experience us a miner in the
West, and the owners of the Virginia mine, in
whose employ lie met his death, deemed his SER
vices invaluable to them. A few years ago Mr..
johnson added to his varied learning n knowl-
edge of the law graduating with horor from
the law school of Columbia University. Mr..
johnson was welded in October last to Miss
Charlotte Woolson, of Concord n. II.
There was before him every prospect ofhap.
piness and usefulness and long life, being, as
he was, a man in perfect health, and OF re-
markedly robust constitution. BY his death
Washington has lost good citizen, the cause
of education friend, and the poor bene-
factor.
The following action has been taken by the
trustees Of the Miner school, of which he was
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resolutions expressive of the deep feeling of
the members of the Institution for the Educa-
ton of Colored Youth on the melan choly death
OF Walter Whipple johnson, beg leave to offer
the following:
Whereas by a mysterious visitation of Providence
this institution has been deprived of one ofts most
useful members and supporters-Walter W. John.
son-whose melancholy and untimelY death we
have been called 10 mourn As an expression of re-
greet at the loss the institution has sustained and
the feeling Of sorrow and sadness pervading the
members thereof In consequence of his decease, II
is by the executive committee of said institution
unanimously
Resolred, That in our late associate-walter W.
Johnson-this institution had all ardent friend, n
liberal supporter ready helper-one whose action
ever tended to advance the interests and purposes
its founder had in view, and to whose labors much
OF its success Is to be attributed.
Resolved, That by his moral worth his integrity
of purpose, his purity of character, his generous
impulses, his firm adherence to principle, and his
Kind and genial disposition, he had endeared him
self to his associates on this committee and the
other members of the institution who will feel the
want of his wise counsel aud advice and find il
difficult. If not impossible to supply the place his
death has made vacant.
RcsOlued, That, as o member of the building and
school committees Of this institution, he rendered
important and Valuable services, and devoted
much time and labor in the execution of the du
ties pertaining thereto, for which the colored peo
pie and the friends of their education and eleva
lion should cherish his memory and be ever CRATE
| full to him.
Resolved That we tender to his bereaved widow
and relatives our earnest and heartfelt sympathy
| and that the preamble and resolutions be entered
| on the journal of the executive committee; anC
further that the secretary be requested to furnish
a copy thereof to the widow and the disconsoat
| family of which he was member, and that tn
| of this city.