Alexander Bryan Johnson

His son, Alexander Smith Johnson, was born in Utica in 1817, served as a judge, and died in Nassau, Bahamas, in 1878.

It can now be seen to have anticipated the thrust of logical positivism, at least in arguing that misunderstandings of how language operates bedevil philosophical questions, and theories of modern linguistics.

He published 10 books over his lifetime and a myriad of political articles and pamphlets regarding the public speeches and lectures he gave.

His seminal philosophical work was further revised, compressed and republished under the title Treatise on Language, or the Relation which Words bear to Things in 1836.

His primary employment with banking and finance naturally absorbed his analytical attention leading him to publish on an array of financial topics.