CLASS OF 1872

Clarence Johnson died at his home at East Northwood, N. H., March 8.

He was born in Pittsfield, N. H., December 4, 1851. Edward Johnson '71 is' a brother. He left college at the end of freshman year, but in 1894 the trustees voted him the degree of A.B. and enrolled him with his class.

After leaving college he was engaged with his father in shoe manufacturing at Pittsfield for a short time, and then with his brother began the publication of a local newspaper at Pittsfield. This proved to be the introduction to his life work, for he soon removed to Concord to become reporter on the staff of the Evening Monitor. He rose to be city editor and managing editor, filling in succession every place from his first one .of reporter.

Senator William E. Chandler was for thirty years the chief owner of the Monitor, and Mr. Johnson came into such close relation with him during his second campaign for the Senate that in 1889 he accompanied the senator to Washington as his private secretary. This position he held for eleven years, when he was promoted to be executive clerk of the Senate. This is a position of peculiar delicacy and responsibility, and Mr. Johnson proved himself eminently qualified for it, and held it until his retirement in 1910.

He was never married.