1903-04 Volume 28 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

IHE SCROLL. 509he lived until entering the universit}' in the fall of 1899. Hegraduated from the academic department last June, receivingthe degree of Bachelor of Arts. During his senior year hehad taken up medicine with the intention of completing thatcourse also, having chosen that calling for his life's work..\t the time of his death he was employed as an assistant inSt. Luke's hospital, St. Paul.The university as well as the fraternity has lost a manwhose every effort was in their behalf. He held many prominentpositions in the political circles of the university andwas a member of the senior inter-fraternity society, "Songand Stein."Bro. Johnson was a man of sterling character, integrityand true to his convictions. The course that seemed right tohim, he followed unerringly. A life of promise lay beforehim in his chosen vocation, and though still in the first principlesof medicine, he had received much merited encouragementfrom his instructors.In the death of Bro. Johnson, Minnesota Alpha has suffereda most serious loss, felt not only by the active chapterbut by the alumni as well. He was an earnest worker inevery interest of the fraternity, and a born leader. Theinfluence for good by one of such true worth can never beoverestimated.•JOHN FREMONT WILLIAMSON, LAFAYETTE, '78.Rev. John Freemont Williamson,. Lafayette, '78, died atAnnandale, N. J., on December 4, 1903. Mr. Williamson,after taking the degree of Bachelor of Arts at Lafayette in1878, attended the Princeton Theological Seminary in theautumn of the same year, and during 1880 and 1881 he wasmatriculated at the Union Theological Seminary, New York,where he graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Divinityin 1881. On June 15, 1881 he was married to Miss Emma.\. Warne of Clinton, N. J, On January 24, 1882 he wasinstalled as pastor of the Presbyterian church at Glen Cove,Long Island, where he served until July 7, 1888, a period ofover six years, after which he became the pastor of the FirstPresbyterian church at Kingston, N. Y. 'After eleven yearsservice at Kingston, Mr. Williamson resigned his charge andremoved to his farm at Clinton, N. J., where for two yearshe acted as supply of the Presbyterian church at Glen Garden,N. J. On February 15, 1902 he again became active in hiscalling and was installed as pastor of the Dutch Reformed