Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Rosalie MORRIS
Rosalie Morris married at St. Peter's Church, November 10, 1887, Robert Winder Johnson, of the firm of Lawrence, Johnson & Company, shipping and commission merchants and foreign bankers. He is the ninth child of Lawrence and Mary (Winder) Johnson, and was born at 727 Pine street, Philadelphia, May 7, 1854. His father, Lawrence Johnson, the prominent typefounder of Philadelphia, was born in Hull, England, January 23, 1801, and came to America with his parents, Edward and Ann (Clayton) Johnson, 1818, and located in Philadelphia two years later, where he established a type foundry, under the firm name of L. Johnson & Company, and built up an immense business, maintaining branches in different parts of Pennsylvania. He became interested in many prominent business enterprises in Philadelphia and elsewhere, being prominently identified with the building of a number of street car lines in Philadelphia, and in the development of coal lands in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania. He was for a number of years president of the Commonwealth Bank of Philadelphia and associated with a number of other financial institutions. He lived for a number of summers prior to his death at "Lansdowne", the present country seat of the family on the Neshaminy in Bucks county, near Bristol. He died in Philadelphia, April 26, 1860. His wife, Mary Winder, was born in Bucks county, June 18, 1814, died February 16, 1877. She was descended from Colonial families, prominent in the social, civil, and military affairs of the county from the time of its first settlement. Robert Winder Johnson was reared in the city of Philadelphia, and prepared for college at Mr. Gregory's private school on Market street. He entered the University of Pennsylvania, September 1870, but left there in the spring of 1871 to accompany his mother to Europe, where he travelled extensively and continued his studies until 1876. Returning to Philadelphia in 1876, he entered the office of Lawrence, Johnson & Company, and three years later became a member of the firm, with his brother, Lawrence Johnson.
Mr. Johnson is a life member of Historical Society of Pennsylvania, a member of Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, Colonial Society, Netherland Society, and a life member of Bucks County Historical Society. He is one of the vestry of St. Peter's Church of Philadelphia, and a member of the Society of Advancement of Christianity in Pennsylvania. He is also one of the board of managers of the Christ Church Hospital, and was until recently a member of the board of managers of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
He has for a number of years taken a deep interest in local history and for over twenty years has devoted considerable time to the collecting of data relating to the ancestors of his wife and himself. In 1902 he published "Winders of America"; in 1905 a volume relating to the ancestors of his wife, and in 1907 a second volume of "The Ancestry of Rosalie Morris Johnson."
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