Willis Fletcher Johnson

My Country 'tis of Thee (1892) by Johnson and John Habberton (World's Columbian Exposition)

Willis Fletcher Johnson (1857 – March 29, 1931), was an author, journalist, and lecturer who had a twenty-year tenure as the foreign and diplomatic editorial writer for The New York Tribune.[1]

  1. ^ "W. F. Johnson Dead; Editorial writer; Had Been on the Former New York Tribune's Staff for the Last Fifty Years. An Author And Lecturer. Wrote Much on Foreign and Diplomatic Subjects. Was of Early Colonial Stock". New York Times. March 29, 1931. Retrieved 2011-05-03. Willis Fletcher Johnson, author, lecturer and for twenty years foreign and diplomatic editorial writer for The New York Tribune, died here today of cancer in Overlook Hospital at the age of 74 years.