New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-12-14
OLIVER JOHNSON.
Born Dee. %, 1900.
Died Dec. 10, 1889.

BY tho express wish Of Mr.. Johnson the four sons
Of his old hiend william Lloyd Garrison acted pail
bearers They George Thompson Garrison VIII an
Lloyd Garrison. Wendell Phillips Garrison and Francis
Jackson Garrison. Among thosc present were Mrs
John 5. c. Abbott, mother Of Mrs. Johnson Mrs
c. 5. b. Spear Mr. and Mrs. Henry Willard, Mrs
Lucia Gilbert RunkIc. Ludlow Patton, Mrs
Abbie Hutchinson Patton Edmund G. Stedman.
Thomas c. Acton, +. B. Carpenter Philip A. Fltz
patrick, Thomas n. Rocker. secretary OF The Tribune
Association Jackson S. schu tz. David H. Gl.der
A. o. Wilcox Mr. and Mrs. Juiius H. Browne, C. II
JOY, Horace Waters, Or. Garr"r Q. Cotton, b. f.
Camp, Major william Stone. DR.. Charles F. Hachlcy
c. Bramhall. J. o. Woods. Henry McDonOugh, II. i.
sowall. Or. c. c. Carroll, william walker. Mycs
standIsh, Ccphas Brancrd Alfred P. Dix. Julius
Wilcox, J. r. Lockwood, Miss Augusta Larned Mrs
John Hopper James C.. Anderson. T. II. Parker. Mrs
James H. Morse. DR.. j. p. Mann. George X. Draper
and ;. b. Underhl.
Mr.. Chadwick paid feeling and eloquent tribute to
Mr.. Johnson whom he had known long and intimately
saying in part
The Christianity q the churches seemed TO him very
imperfect but Christianity Of Jesus seemed TO him
sufficient for every need. am sure that he would
like have say that he held the faith OF spiritual com
munlcaton with our dead with unwavcrIne mind and
grateful heart have found man more cheefu
q death. 81 am satisfied he saii TO me at
cur last meeting, with both the outcome and the out
ookn committed my charge the last work OF nj
hand vndcatlon OF the righteousness Of Garrison com
piled from his own words In his biography The wods
are scarcely egble. but the purpose Is divlney clear
rrov pafhptc the coincidence OF his death with the Drth
t,y Of his immortal friend think it was the day IL
would have chosen OF all the year Ihey oVcu cav
thrr in life aud In death they were not divided
not, and are not.
His wa | think OF the most fortunate OF lives
o always loved his work. the work Of printer ana eor
His life was very rich in friendship ana aheetloh Ills
domestic life s.ngulatly happy.
Few men have had such friends. The three VINO 5000
hlrhcs. we're Bcecher Greeley and Garrison the first
c,bcr tho first editor and the first reformer Of tho
century, What privilege It to live on terms OF
oscst intimacy with such men these, not attending
tbor A. satellite with thcm sweeping round COM
mon cntre Of attraction a passionate enthusiasm for HUI
manty.
nut his erea test happiness TO ALL and to be an
atvo and eAen part tho gmnde-t moral movement OF
tho nineteenth century be present at It's humble Oh
n SOC II crowned with victory at last. and to be abe
- ,,o,L God that he had never wavered In his loyalty
IN any dark or most trying hour say not truly that
oliver Johnson was Of the happie't Of mehf
DR. Colyer spoke fecllngy of his long association
with Mr. Johnson lie said that tho life which had
inst nassod away was a sngnlarly noble ana happy
one bu the greatest happiness it had experienced was
hinc identified with the birth and progress OF that
,ro,t movement which saw its end attained In the
abolition of slaves
4, tbc close of tho service largo number of people
od bofore the coffin to take last look at the race
., Mr. Johnson The burial will take place to-day
=, roncwood Chester County, Penn. The maj ser
IT,. vim he held i'm the MEETING house OF the Pro-
crrssIve Quakcrs and VIII Dc cohduc"u ny III
COllyer.