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Roswell H. (Roswell Hill) Johnson
1877–1967
A scientist and educator with a wide-ranging career, he wrote on topics from biology to marriage and family life. He is now chiefly remembered for early 20th-century work tied to the eugenics movement.
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Applied Eugenics
by Paul Popenoe, Roswell H. (Roswell Hill) Johnson
About the author
Roswell Hill Johnson was an American scientist, teacher, and writer born in Buffalo, New York, in 1877. Sources available here describe him as academically trained at Brown University, Harvard, the University of Chicago, and the University of Wisconsin, and note that he carried out research in biology before going on to teach.
His published work ranged across several subjects, including heredity, family life, and practical scientific topics. Modern reference sources most often identify him with eugenics, a movement that had significant influence in the early 1900s and is now widely discredited.
Johnson died in 1967. Surviving catalog and reference records show that his books continued to circulate in libraries and digital collections, giving readers a window into the scientific and social ideas of his era.