Fred Johns

Frederick Johns (22 March 1868 – 3 December 1932) was an American-born Australian journalist and biographer.

Johns was born in Houghton, Michigan, United States, son of Cornishman Ezekiel Johns^[1] of Cornwall, UK. His father Ezekiel died while Fred was still an infant, whereupon he was taken to Cornwall, England. After leaving school, he emigrated to Australia in 1884 at the age of 16. He published Johns's Notable Australians in 1906. A later edition appeared in 1908; from 1912 to 1914 it appeared as Fred Johns's Annual. In 1922 it was revived as Who's Who in the Commonwealth of Australia, and then in 1927 as Who's Who in Australia.^[1]

Johns died at Adelaide aged 64.

Footnotes

1. Suzanne Edgar, 'Johns, Frederick (Fred) (1868 – 1932)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 9, MUP, 1983, pp 491–492. Retrieved 2009-08-16

References

• Johns, Fred, Johns's Notable Australians, and Who is Who in Australasia: A Dictionary of Biography Containing Records of the Careers of Men and Women of Distinction in the Commonwealth of Australia and the Dominion of New Zealand, Fred Johns, (Rose Park, Adelaide), 1908.
• Serle, Percival (1949). "Johns, Fred". Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus & Robertson. Retrieved 16 August 2009.