Joseph Horsfall Johnson

The Right Reverend
Joseph Horsfall Johnson
I Los Angeles

Bishop-elect Johnson in 1895
Province The Episcopal Church
Diocese Los Angeles
Orders
Consecration February 24, 1896[1]
by Thomas Frederick Davies
Personal details
Born June 7, 1847[2]
Schenectady, New York[3]
Died May 16, 1928[4]

Joseph Horsfall Johnson (1847-1928) was the first Bishop of Los Angeles in The Episcopal Church.[5][6] He founded The Bishop's School[7] in La Jolla, California[8] and served on the Pomona College board of trustees.[9] The Bishop Johnson College of Nursing at Good Samaritan Hospital was named for him.[10]

He was the father of architect Reginald Davis Johnson.[11]

References

  1. ↑ "PURPLE CASSOCK AND A ROCHET: Consecration of Dr. Johnson as First Bishop of Los Angeles.". San Francisco Call. 79 (87). 25 February 1896.
  2. ↑ Herringshaw's American Blue Book Of Biography. American Publishers' Association. 1915. p. 696.
  3. ↑ McGroarty, John Steven (1921). Los Angeles from the Mountains to the Sea: With Selected Biography of Actors and Witnesses to the Period of Growth and Achievement, Volume 2. Los Angeles, California: American Historical Society. pp. 171–173.
  4. ↑ "Bishop Johnson Called by Death in Pasadena". Los Angeles Times. May 17, 1928.
  5. ↑ Stevens, William Bertrand (1936). A Bishop Beloved: Joseph Horsfall Johnson, 1847-1928. New York: Morehouse Publishing.
  6. ↑ "To Confirm Bishop Williams: The Diocese of Western Michigan Votes Unanimously in His Favor". The New York Times. 18 January 1896. Retrieved 1 October 2015.
  7. ↑ Engstrand, Iris Wilson (2005). San Diego: California's Cornerstone. San Diego, California: Sunbelt Publications. p. 126. ISBN 0932653723.
  8. ↑ "BISHOP JOSEPH HORSFALL JOHNSON". HISTORY: FOUNDERS. The Bishop's School. Retrieved 1 October 2015.
  9. ↑ "Bishop Joseph Horsfall Johnson". Pomona College Quartery Magazine. VII (3): 88–91. March 1919. Retrieved September 29, 2015.
  10. ↑ "Bishop Johnson College of Nursing". Museum of Nursing History. Museum of Nursing History. 2015. Retrieved 2015-10-02.
  11. ↑ Leitereg, Neal J. (February 26, 2015). "Reginald Johnson home in Pasadena has ties to Episcopal Church". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 1 October 2015.


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