Samuel Johnson was a clergyman, educator, linguist, encyclopedist, historian, and philosopher in colonial America. He was a major proponent of both Anglicanism and the philosophies of William Wollasto
"An attempt to land a bishop in America", an illustrated cartoon in the Political Register in 1768
Samuel Johnson by John Smybert, a member of the George Berkeley Group in Rhode Island that Johnson met with between 1729 and 1731
Portrait of Johnson as Columbia University president from 1754 to 1763, now housed in the Columbia Trustees Room
Columbia University was founded in 1754 in New York City as King's College, by royal charter of King George II of Great Britain. It is the oldest institution of higher learning in New York state, and
Columbia University, a private Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City, founded in 1754, prior to the American Revolution
DeWitt Clinton, one of the first students enrolled in Columbia College
College Hall in 1790