Christ Episcopal Church Cemetery Gate
This Gate Is the Gift
of
Columbia University
In the City of New York
In Grateful Memory
of
Samuel Johnson
the
First President of King’s College
In the Province of New York
1754 – 1763 A.D.
And of His Son
William Samuel Johnson
the
First President of Columbia College
In the City of New York
1787 – 1800 a.d.
Whose Graves Are Within This
Cemetery.
“Leaders of the people by their
counsels, and by their knowledge
of learning meet for the people, wise
and eloquent in their instructions.”
Marker is at the intersection of Broad Street and Monument Place, on the right when traveling east on Broad Street.
Courtesy hmdb.org
