Chicago College of Dental Surgery - Dentos Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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klitatliv K. ' 'f' llllt.- . Ui' should be stressed. He has not only contributed a great number of editorials and papers but he has manifested a more versatile talent in that his writings have covered a greater variety of subjects than those of any other man in the annals of dentistry. A careful review of secular literature indicates that Dr. -Iohnson has con- tributed to publications outside of dentistry. Many of his letters and poems have been published, and still others are as yet unpublished. Dr. -lohn Buckley, Los Angeles, Cal.: ...i 1 Ks a teacher C. N. johnson is the Colonel Parr of the golf course. the horse that won the Derby, the pitcher who retained the pennant, the boxer who wore the belt. As a teacher C. N. Johnson has succeeded, and in teaching, as in every other walk of life, character is the foundation of success. You may have thought that the unusual success of Johnson as a citizen, and practitioner. in his native land, as an author and an editor, was due to the fact that he was a well-educated man. It is true that he is not deficient in education, but in the years to come, of all who will hear of his grand career and of his services to his profession and to his fellow-man, you will not hear that either the high place he reached or that which he accomplished was entirely due to his educa- tion. On the contrary you will constantly hear, as accounting for his great success in these various walks of life. that he was obedient and affectionate as a son, honest and upright as a citizen, tender and devoted as a husband, kind and considerate as a father, and truthful, generous. unselhsh, moral, and clean in every station of life. Never and under no circumstances did he consider any of these attributes too weak for inanliness. I borrow here for the purpose the selected words of Grover Cleveland ex- pressed in behalf of the martyred McKinley, and I feel that 1 have a right to do so on this occasion for C. N. Johnson is the 1Yilliam McKinley of dentistry: Let us make no mistake. In him we have a most distinguished man, a great man, a useful man, who became distinguished, great, and useful because he had and retained, unsullied and unimpaired, those qualities of mind and of heart which I fear too many of us keep in the background or have abandoned alto- getherf' Dr. C. N. Johnson was born in Brock Township, Ontario, March 16, 1860. He was educated at Port Perry High School. He was graduated from the Royal College of Dental Surgeons in 1881 and practiced dentistry in Collingwood, Ontario, until 1884. He moved to Chicago and was graduated from the Chi- cago College of Dental Surgery in 1885. He has practiced here ever since his graduation. . Dr. Johnson began lecturing in the spring of 1886. He was demonstrator of anatomy for several years and was made professor of operative dentistry in 1891, which chair he has held until the present. He has been dean of stu- dents for many years. He was editor of the Dental Review in 1894 and again from 1902 to 1910. He published in that journal alone more than 200 original comnuinications and over 500 editorials. Dr. Johnson has been a prolific contributor to other dental magazines and to literary publications. He is the author of many text-books on dentistry. He is editor of The Bur, which is published by the alumni associa- tion of the Chicago College of Dental Surgery. He has received the -larvis Fellowship Medal of the Dental Society of the State of New York. 9

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respects and our honor to one of the greatest teachers we have ever had in the dental profession, Dr. johnson. Dr. VVilliani A. Evans, Chicago, Ill.: 'Y . . The members of my profession, the medical profession, are render- ing better service to those that serve by reason of what they have learned from the dental profession, and particularly from its great leader, Dr. C, N. johnson. I served as health commissioner of this city when it was proposed that dental hygiene, care of the teeth and mouths of people of this city, should be adopted as one part of the program of the Department of Health, and when the dental profession was called upon to take charge of that duty, the man that first came into our minds, the man on whom we first called was Dr. C. N. Johnson. Dr. hlohn V. Conzett, Dubuque, Iowa: . . . We all know what Dr. johnson has been, what Dr. Johnson is as a dentist, and the tremendous influence that he has exerted always upon the whole profession. If we speak of art we speaki of a Raphael, or a Rubens, or a Guido: when we go into the gallery of sculpture we speak of a Praxiteles, or a Michelangelo: in music, we speak of a Beethoven, of a Mozart, of a Handel: and in our own profession when we speak of something rare and something beautiful we speak of it as a Johnson, something which has transcended the art of the ordinary man. Dr. Otto V. King, Chicago, Ill.: . . . In retracing my steps to get the proper view of Dr. Vlohnson's life's work, I remember distinctly the first time I met him. It was at the time of the big meeting of the Chicago Qdontographic Society in 1897. During the discus- sion of a paper, one of the discussers unfortunately criticized the technical ability of the dentists of Chicago. Dr. Johnson, with the spirit of a Roman, ably defended the honor of his Chicago associates. No one in the history of dentistry has ever discussed as many papers as Dr. Johnson. A careful review, of dental literature will show that he has opened the discussion of a large per- centage of the papers that have been read before the old Chicago Odontographic Society, the Chicago Dental Society, and the Illinois State Dental Society. ln- variably, when some distinguished guest appeared before any of these societies. Dr. Johnson was delegated to open the discussion. This, in itself, is quite signifi- cant in that the universal opinion of dentists in Chicago has always been that Dr. Johnson was pre-eminently qualified to represent the real progress of den- tistry in this great Middle XVest. He, among all others, was recognized as a great author, educator and teacher. Dr. lohnsoifs book on Ofvcratiw' Dmzfisfr-v will ever stand out as a monu- mental work for the profession and will cause his name to be recorded as one of the really great operators in dental history. His book on Szfcrcss in Dc1ztf.rh'y has played a very important part in teaching the dental profession thrift. thus giving the profession an insight into some of the fundamental problems in dental economics. Surely the future dental historian will record Dr. Iohnson's name as a great dentist who lived during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. On the dental highway of progress, our guest has been a beacon light to thousands of dentists, many of whom have been his students. There is another significant fact about Dr. .lohnson's literary talent that 8

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