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Alexander Bryan Johnson

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Alexander Bryan Johnson

Birth
Gosport, Gosport Borough, Hampshire, England
Death
9 Sep 1867 (aged 81)
Utica, Oneida County, New York, USA
Burial
Utica, Oneida County, New York, USA
Plot
13A, Lot 212
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JOHNSON, ALEXANDER BRYAN, A. M., son of Bryan, an eminent banker; b. at Gosport, Eng. Removed to Utica in 1801. Was in business with his father until 1809; studied law and was admitted as a counselor, but never practiced. In 1816 he became a banker at first as cashier and secretary of the Utica Insurance Company, a banking institution whose charter he procured, and afterwards as president of the Ontario Branch Bank of Utica. The latter position he occupied from Sept,, 1819 until July, 1857. Besides a volume of political papers made up of newspaper contributions, he was the author of several works relating chiefly to his philosophy of human knowledge, viz.: "The Philosophy of Human Knowledge, or a Treatise on Language," "The meaning of Words Analyzed." "The Physiology of the Senses," "Deep Sea Soundings, or the Ultimate Analysis of Human Knowledge," etc., also "Religion in its Relation to the Present Life" and " Papers in Banking"
JOHNSON, ALEXANDER BRYAN, A. M., son of Bryan, an eminent banker; b. at Gosport, Eng. Removed to Utica in 1801. Was in business with his father until 1809; studied law and was admitted as a counselor, but never practiced. In 1816 he became a banker at first as cashier and secretary of the Utica Insurance Company, a banking institution whose charter he procured, and afterwards as president of the Ontario Branch Bank of Utica. The latter position he occupied from Sept,, 1819 until July, 1857. Besides a volume of political papers made up of newspaper contributions, he was the author of several works relating chiefly to his philosophy of human knowledge, viz.: "The Philosophy of Human Knowledge, or a Treatise on Language," "The meaning of Words Analyzed." "The Physiology of the Senses," "Deep Sea Soundings, or the Ultimate Analysis of Human Knowledge," etc., also "Religion in its Relation to the Present Life" and " Papers in Banking"

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