James Johonnot (1823-1888) was a teacher in New York State. He was born in Bethel, Vermont, and attended New England Seminary in Windsor. In 1845, he was appointed principal of the Jefferson School in Syracuse. He graduated from the State Normal School in Albany in 1848. He began working as an agent for D. Appleton & Company in 1850, and in 1853 he was chosen state agent of the New York State Teachers' Association. He was the principal of the high school in Joliet, Illinois, from 1861 until 1866. He was appointed principal of the State Normal School in Warrensburg, Missouri, in 1872, a position he held until 1875. He subsequently worked as a school administrator in Deposit, New York for a year before moving to Ithaca, New York, where he stayed from 1876 until 1880. After 1880, he lived in Princeton, NJ with his son-in-law, a Princeton College professor. He wrote Principles and Practice of Teaching, Country School-Houses: Containing Elevations, Plans, and Specifications, and many other books, was a co-author of Kruesi's Drawing Books, and helped prepare Appleton's Geographies.
