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Franklin W. Johnson
Franklin Winslow Johnson (August 17, 1870 – February 19, 1956) was the President of Colby College, Maine, United States, from 1929–1942. Franklin W. Johnson is widely remembered as the president who began to move Colby College to its Mayflower Hill location and set it on the road to national prestige, in the face of The Great Depression and the beginning of World War II.〔THE MAN OF MAYFLOWER HILL A Biography of Franklin W. Johnson, by Ernest C. Marriner, Colby College Press, 1968〕
==Early life==
Johnson was born in Jay, Maine in 1870. He was schooled at Wilton Academy, a Bates College Preparatory School of Calvinist Baptist learnings (now called (Academy Hill School ), for grades 3-6). In the fall of 1887 in a departure from his schooling so far, he chose to enter Colby, a Free Baptist institution at the time, and graduated in 1891.〔Mayflower Hill: A History of Colby College. Earl Smith, University Press of New England, 2006. P 35.〕
His first job after graduating was principal of Calais High School, during which time he met and married his wife Carolyn. In 1894 they moved to Waterville and Johnson took a job as the principal of the Coburn Classical Institute. In 1905 he moved to Chicago to become the principal of Morgan Park High School, and in 1907 became principal of the progressive and controversial University of Chicago High School, part of the school system created by John Dewey, and now known as the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools.〔Mayflower Hill: A History of Colby College. Earl Smith, University Press of New England, 2006. P 35.〕
During World War I he served in the Army Medical Service. After the war, he rejoined John Dewey at Teachers College at Columbia University. In 1920 Colby invited him to join the Board of Trustees - Johnson continued teaching at Columbia until 1929, when President Roberts' death. Already known and well-respected, Johnson was quickly selected as the new president.〔Mayflower Hill: A History of Colby College. Earl Smith, University Press of New England, 2006. P 35.〕
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