Harry McClure Johnson
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May 13, 1886 Peoria, IL, U.S. |
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March 29, 1932 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Spouse(s) | Helena Modjeska Chase (m. 1923) |
| Children | Mansi McClure Johnson (1924-2013) Harry McClure Johnson (1925-2007) Elizabeth McIlvaine Johnson (b. 1926) Sarah Jane McClure Johnson (1929-2013) Priscilla McClure Johnson (b. 1931) |
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Harry McClure Johnson (May 13, 1886 - March 29, 1932) was Chicago lawyer and member of the firm of Offend, Bulkley, Poole and Scott.
Harry McClure Johnson went to Peoria High School and graduated as the Salutatorian in the Class of 1903. After he graduated from Princeton University in 1907, he studied law at Northwestern University Law School. There he received the degree of LLB (the Latin abbreviation of Legum Baccalaureus, also known as the Bachelor of Laws) in 1910.McClure Johnson received Highest Honors for General Excellence as Academic senior honormen Bachelor of arts course in History, Politics and Economics from Princeton University. He moved for a short time to Chicago where he was associated with the law firm of Scott, Bancroft & Stevens from 1912 to 1915.
In 1915 and 1916 he attended two of the military training camps for civilians, but owing to a major surgical operation in 1917 he was unable to undertake military duties until the latter part of 1918 when he was commissioned a first lieutenant, serving in the office of the quartermaster general at Washington D.C. After leaving the army Harry spent more than a year as assistant counsel of the Emergency Fleet Corporation construction division, in Philadelphia. Subsequently, his practice took him to the Pacific Coast in British Columbia and California. Later he established his headquarters in Chicago where he had been practicing for more than ten years.
He served in the United States Army in 1918. After the Armistice and during the years 1919 and 1920 he was engaged as counsel in the Legal Department of the United States Emergency Fleet Corporation in Philadelphia.
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