Franklin W. Johnson

Franklin Winslow Johnson was the 15th President of Colby College, Maine, United States, from 19291942. Franklin W. Johnson is widely remembered as the president who began to move Colby College to its Mayflower Hill location and set it on the road to national prestige, in the face of The Great Depression and the beginning of World War II.

Johnson was born in Jay, Maine in 1870. He was schooled at Wilton Academy, a Bates College Preparatory School of Calvinist Baptist learnings . In the fall of 1887 in a departure from his schooling so far, he chose to enter Colby, a Free Baptist institution at the time, and graduated in 1891.

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