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Douglas Wilson Johnson

Professor of Physical Geography

Centurion, 1918–1944

Born 30 November 1878 in Parkersburg, West Virginia

Died 24 February 1944 in Sebring, Florida

Buried Maple Grove Cemetery, Granville, Ohio

Proposed by George Haven Putnam and Harold Jacoby

Elected 7 December 1918 at age forty

Century Memorial

Douglas Wilson Johnson. [Born] 1878. Geologist, professor, author. Professor of physiography at Columbia for 32 years; author of many works on geologic and geographic subjects including “Origin of Submarine Canyons”; author of two pamphlets widely circulated here and abroad in the last war, “A Letter to a German Professor” and “The Peril of Prussianism”; attached to the American Peace Commission at Versailles in 1919, serving as Chief of the Division of Boundary Geography; earnest and inspiring teacher.

Geoffrey Parsons, Secretary
Annual Meeting Necrology, 11 January 1945