Edward Rodolph Johnes (1852-1903)
Edward R. Johnes, Attorney & Author, of New York City
He was born in Whitesboro, Oneida Co., New York. He was educated at Yale University where he was admitted a member of the Skull & Bones Society, and afterwards at the Columbia College Law School. He became a prominent attorney in New York City and and during President Cleveland's administration he was selected as Counsel for Venezuela in their boundary dispute with Great Britain. He published two books: Briefs by a Barrister (1879); and, The Johnes Family of Southampton, L.I., 1629-1886. Privately, he was philosophical in his outlook and authored several works including, Circumstantial Evidence of Personal Immortality, and a Reasonable View of Future Existence. He was married twice. In 1892, he married the authoress Winifred Wallace Tinker, in the same year that she divorced her first husband (Ingersoll Lockwood). They lived/stayed briefly at Echo Lawn, Newburgh. From 1900, he summered at Idlewild in Cornwall-on-Hudson, a 14-room cottage built in 1846 by another author Nathaniel Parker Willis. Johnes died in 1903 at his home in New York City. Issue unknown.
