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Guy Johnson
British Indian Department officer, judge and politician
For other people named Guy Johnson, see Guy Johnson (disambiguation).
Guy Johnson (c. 1740 – 5 March 1788) was a British Indian Department officer, judge and politician. He served on the side of the British during the American Revolutionary War, having migrated to the Province of New York as a young man and worked with his uncle, Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet who served as the Superintendent of Indian Affairs of the northern colonies.
Guy was appointed as William's successor in 1774. The following year, Johnson relocated with Loyalist supporters to Canada as tensions rose in New York during the American Revolution. He directed joint British-Mohawk military actions in the Mohawk Valley. Accused of falsifying reports, he went to London to defend himself after the war, and died there in 1788.
Early life and education
Guy was the son of either John or Warren Johnson of Smithstown, Dunshaughlin, Co. Meath, each younger brothers of Sir William Johnson. The Johnsons were descendants o
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JOHNSON, GUY, Indian department official; b. c. 1740 in Ireland; d. 5 March 1788 in London, England.
Guy Johnson may have been the midshipman of that name who served on hmsPrince in 1755. On arriving in North America Guy claimed that Sir William Johnson, the British superintendent of northern Indians, was his uncle but their relationship was probably more distant. Although young, he served through the Seven Years’ War as an officer in the provincial forces, commanding a company of rangers under Jeffery Amherst in 1759 and 1760. He acted as secretary in the northern Indian department until 1762 when Johnson appointed him a deputy agent. In 1763 he married Sir William’s youngest daughter, Mary (Polly), and established his home at Guy Park near present Amsterdam, N.Y. While performing his duties in the Indian department, he was also active in military and political affairs, rising to colonel and adjutant-general of the New York militia and being elected to the New York assembly for 1773–75.
Upon Sir William’s death in July 1774, G
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Guy Johnson Jr. earned an MBA at Harvard (1947) and a Ph.D. in mathematics at Rice (1955), with a dissertation written under Szolem Mandelbroit. He was a faculty member at Rice, visited here in 1964-1966 and joined SU in 1966, and he was promoted to Professor in 1969. Guy also had visiting positions at Illinois (1961-1962), Geneva (1971-1972), Colorado (1976-1977), Stanford (1978) and Cornell (1982-1983). He wrote 12 papers, generally in analysis, specifically complex analysis and harmonic functions, and moved later toward applications.
He had 7 Ph.D. students, 5 of them at SU: Richard Summerville (1969), Clara Lim (1970), James Porter (1972), Ronald Barnes (1972) and Thomas McDonald (1976). He organized the Department of Mathematics Lectureship Program in 1979-1982 and 1983-1985, and he gave 16 lectures in that program. Guy served as chair of the Nominating Committee for the Department Chair (1978-1979), and was a member of the Executive and Graduate Committees, review committees for several faculty members and the College Curriculum Committee which formulated the
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