Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1912 — AT 80 MAN BUILDS SHIPS [ARTICLE]

AT 80 MAN BUILDS SHIPS

Captain Johnson Goes Dally From Hie Baltimore Home to the Plant at Sparrow’s Point. e Wilmington, Del. —Capt. Thomas Johnson, , now in -his qljjhty-fourth year, is superintending the construction of two steel steamers for the Baltimore, Chesapeake ft Atlantic Railway company at Sparrow’s Point. Md. On June 17 he and his wife will celebrate the sixty-fifth anniversary of tl£tr marriage. The anniversary will be observed here for the reason that they were married in this city.* Mrs. Johnson is in her eightieth year.

The captain goes to and from Sparrow’s Point daily from his home in Baltimore. He is the railroad’s superintendent of construction. Everybody in Delaware knows “Captain Tom.” Born in “Brandywine Village,” now within the limits of this city, he was 45 years superintendent of the shipyard of the old Harlan ft Hollingsworth company, now controlled by Charles M. Schwab. He entered the employ of the concern in 184* as a laborer at |4.50 a week. Twenty years ago be retired as superintendent because of ill-health and bought two farms in Northampton county, Virginia. His health having been regained “without taking a drop of medicine,” he last winter re-entered the shipbuilding industry.