William Samuel Johnson was born in Connecticut on the seventh of October 1727. He was the son of the famous Samuel Johnson, whom was the first president of the prestigious college; Columbia University. William, was the eldest of all eleven children, and was exceptionally intelligent, in which his Anglican clergyman-philosopher father, prepared for college. William than attended Yale College, and received his bachelor of arts degree, and then three years later he won a master of arts degree from Yale, again. In the same year, he won an honorary master's degree from Harvard.

Despite all his bright intellectual awards, his father was not very enthusiastic about them. Samuel Johnson wished that his son used his intellect in another way: religion. His father urged him to be a minister of the Anglican Church, and be as devout as he had been. But young William refused, and instead decided to be...