JOHNS, George Sibley (1857-1941)
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Biography
George Sibley Johns was born in Category:St. Charles, Missouri, to John Jay Johns and Jane Amanda Durfee. He was named after George Champlain Sibley, founder of Lindenwood College. George attended Princeton University, where he met Woodrow Wilson. They remained friends for the rest of Wilson's life. Upon returning to St. Charles, George studied law briefly with his uncle, Theodoric McDearmon. He and his brother, Glover Johns, started a weekly paper, the St. Charles Journal. Later, George went to work for Joseph Pulitzer at the St. Louis Post Dispatch, where he eventually became editor and was known as one of Pulitzer's "Fighting Editors".
Johns was married to Minnehaha McDearmon, with whom he had six sons, George McDearmon Johns, Horace Durfee Johns, John Hoyt Johns, Frederick Winston Johns, John Jay Johns and the poet and playwright Orrick Glenday Johns.
Obituary
There are a number of obituaries for George Sibley Johns on this site, far too many to include directly here. See these articles:
- JOHNS, George Sibley - Obituaries
- Obituary July 16, 1941, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Obituary July 16, 1941, St. Louis Star-Times
- Obituary July 17, 1941, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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