City: Nashville
JOHNSON, Edwin Lee, educator; born Mount Vernon, Ill., October 25, 1874; English-Irish descent; son of Adam Clarke and Margaret Ann (Sweeney) JOHNSON; father’s occupation, real estate dealer and abstractor; paternal grandparents John and Susannah (Brooks) JOHNSON, maternal grandparents John and Ellen (Golden) SWEENEY; educated Oxford, Miss., High School and University of Mississippi, and Vanderbilt University, Nashville; graduated University of Mississippi A.B., 1894; graduated Vanderbilt University A.M., 1900; Ph.D. degree conferred upon him by Vanderbilt 1910; taught Latin and Greek, Quitman College, Ark., 1896-98; Instructor in Alexander Institute, Jacksonville, Tex., 1902-04 and 1905-09; delegate from Texas to World’s Sunday School Convention, Rome, Italy, 1907, on which occasion he traveled in Palestine and Egypt; Fellow and Assistant in Greek Vanderbilt University since 1909; Democrat; member M. E. Church, South.
Source: Who’s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day. Memphis: Paul & Douglas Co, 1911.
