Hamilton County OhArchives Biographies.....Johnson, Edgar M. 1872 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson ann.g.anderson@gmail.com July 15, 2005, 9:13 pm Author: John C Hover, et.al. Edgar M. Johnson, an attorney-at-law and distinguished citizen of Hamilton county, is engaged in a general practice, but is specializing on those laws which have particular relation to taxation. He was born October 17, 1872, and secured his preliminary educational training in the public and private schools of New York City. Later he entered Columbia University, and was graduated therefrom in 1894, following which he took a legal course in the New York Law School, and was graduated therefrom with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Admitted to practice at the bar of New York, he remained in New York City until 1901, when he was admitted to the bar of Ohio and located permanently at Cincinnati. After coming to this city he formed his present partnership, the firm, a very strong combination, being Stricker & Johnson. Mr. Johnson belongs to the Hamilton County Bar Association and the Ohio State Bar Association. Distinguished as a statesman as well as an attorney, Mr. Johnson was elected to the Ohio State Senate and served in the Seventy-eighth and Seventy-ninth sessions, making an excellent record, and serving on a number of important committees. Fraternally Mr. Johnson belongs to the Masons and Elks. As one of the factors of the Business Men's Club he is able to exert a constructive influence with reference to civic affairs. Both as a member of the Queen City Club and the Losantiville Country Club, and center of a congenial social circle, Mr. Johnson is very popular. He is a lawyer of sound judgment and breadth of view, and in his special line of work displays untiring patience, keen business sense and a thorough knowledge of the law. His firm is recognized as one of the leading ones in the legal profession in the state. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/hamilton/bios/johnson28gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ohfiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb