Sponsored by:Bob Collins
John Taylor Johnston
1820 – 1893 Green-Wood Cemetery
Photo added by Aaron Furtado Baldwin
- Birth
-
Manhattan, New York County, New York, USA
- Death
- 24 Mar 1893 (aged 72)
New York, New York County, New York, USA
- Burial
-
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA Add to Map
- Plot
- Lot 273, Section 107
- Memorial ID
- 55853642 View Source
John Taylor Johnston was born on April 8, 1820, the son of John Johnston, a prominent merchant banker in New York City. Johnston was the founding president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1870, as well as the President of the Central Railroad of New Jersey from 1848 to 1877. He was born and grew up in Greenwich Village, and in 1839 graduated from New York University, an institution founded by his father and several other civic-minded New Yorkers. He later studied at Yale Law School, and was admitted to the bar in 1843. In 1856, Johnston constructed the first marble mansion in New York as his residence at 8 Fifth Avenue, just north of Washington Square. He died there on March 24, 1893.
New York Times obituary:
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C00E2D91731E033A25756C2A9659C94629ED7CF
New York Times obituary:
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C00E2D91731E033A25756C2A9659C94629ED7CF
John Taylor Johnston was born on April 8, 1820, the son of John Johnston, a prominent merchant banker in New York City. Johnston was the founding president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1870, as well as the President of the Central Railroad of New Jersey from 1848 to 1877. He was born and grew up in Greenwich Village, and in 1839 graduated from New York University, an institution founded by his father and several other civic-minded New Yorkers. He later studied at Yale Law School, and was admitted to the bar in 1843. In 1856, Johnston constructed the first marble mansion in New York as his residence at 8 Fifth Avenue, just north of Washington Square. He died there on March 24, 1893.
New York Times obituary:
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C00E2D91731E033A25756C2A9659C94629ED7CF
New York Times obituary:
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C00E2D91731E033A25756C2A9659C94629ED7CF
Family Members
Sponsored by Bob Collins
- Created by: Caretaker
- Added: Aug 4, 2010
- Find a Grave Memorial ID:
-
Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55853642/john_taylor-johnston: accessed ), memorial page for John Taylor Johnston (8 Apr 1820–24 Mar 1893), Find a Grave Memorial ID 55853642, citing Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA; Maintained by Caretaker (contributor 47075597).
