Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-25
SPECIAL NOTICES
n17s, THE PENNSYLVANIA COMPANY FOR
sS INSURANCES ON LIVES AND GRANT

lNG
The Board of Directors of The Pennsyl-
,ania Company for assurances on Lives
md Granting Annuities have unanimously
adopted the following minute:
The President having announced the
JOHN q. JOHNSON,
the Solicitor and Counsel of the Company,
on saturday morning April fourteenth,
the Board of Directors wish upon their
records to make acknowledgment OF his
Company, and very earnestly to express
their sense of Indebtedness and their ap-
probation. To do so adequately Is more
torians. said of Cicero: "He who would
sneak worthily of him should have the
powers which he possessed
Born in Philadelphia April fourth. 18t1,
Mr.. johnson became a member Of the
Rar in 1853, and upon the death of Will
liam f. Judson, of the firm of Power,
Wallace and Judson, with which ne mad
studied. was chosen by the pennsylvan,a
Company as Its Couhsel anu At'oiHeS'
March Sth, 1870.
John G.. Johnson was then twenty-eight
wears of age The legal business OF the
Company, and especially the Department
of Trusts, was his first corporate engage
ment. and this he never forgot, He be-
came at once an important part OF The
Pennsylvania Company. and Its advance.
ment and success have been for nearly
with keen receptivity of mind, and
with a wide and dispassionate intellectual
sympathy, he gave to every case pre-
sented to him, whether large or small,
close and incisive attention, and 1t was
a remarkable characteristic that, what
ever length of time might have elapsed,
the details of case, once clearly laid
before him, never escaped his memory or
the ability of immediate recall.
speaking with lucid conception of the
law, supported by rulings and decisions
of high authority, he had always at COM
mand a full and logical statement of the
facts upon which his case was founded.
To the outside observer. he seemed to
rise above praise or blame. Neither de-
preston nor undue elation was part Of his
daily career.
His great accomplishment and success
came Undoubtedly from isolation, inde-
fatigable work, and unswerving devotion
to one single purpose and object-the
majesty of the Law.
Money, place; position. fame and other
imagination He led his own life alb
soIutely. and still was inspiration to every
man with whom he came IN contact.
When the .mildest herald by our fate
1t found him unwarned, but not unpre-
pared and he fell at the moment of high
est achievement and in full possession OF
his unequaled powers His life work had
been done and was complete.
BY the terms Of his will. Mr.. johnson
requests that no monument shall be
erected. lie needs none. tfe mas peer
his own architect and sculptor; first by
the ineffaceable impress which, during
fifty-four years Of constant work. has
been made upon the legal mind and af-
fairs of the community; and lastly by
his splendid gifts, representing the entire
material reward and compensation which
he himself received for his long service
and which he now relinquishes and trans
fers to the City of Philadelphia, in which
as he says. he was born. and In which he
has alwavs lived.
As in the case Of the College of Stepher
Grard. II would seem that wise, generous
and long considered philanthropy could
not have taken more beautiful form, Of
ton for Il "a now aSreed bv ai7 man aSe,
the Art q nation Il the measure Of itl
me Dirscsor.s ~ The PsnnsyiyanI.
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