Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1899-04-05
CAL JOHNSON DEAD.
THE VENERABLE PRINT.
Err AND REPORTER

!. THE VENERABLE PRINT
I ER AND REPORTER
!, ,, Reaches so at Three O'clock Thi
= Morning and Passes to his Reward
A Long Life of Signal Usefulness an
u FaithfuIness Ended BY that Death.
Calvin r. johnson died this M ,ru
ing at 3 o'clock. He had been i'll 70
some time with paralysis or some kin
dred trouble and had been IN failin
health for some years.
4 The death of Cal johnson, az he wa
familIarly called, removes veritabl
landmark from the city. He had beel
. resident of this city almost con
tinuously for nearly fifty years. an,
he died at the ripe age of seventy fiv,
Years. His best years Of usesulne j
were spent here, and were spent un
sel6shly for the good of the com
munity and of his employers, no ma.
ter in what capacity he was employed
He was the very essence md EN-
bodiment of faithfulness whether he
was pending" the types or tresd
| ing his beat In search of local news, at
| the gathering of which, i'll his palmy
days. no man who ever attempted the
| work in this city could equal him.
When he was working in reportoriaI
capacity he would arise always at 4
O'Clock in the morning and hasten to
the earliest trains. From that time
till the late trains in the evening not
passenger train entered the depot bat
that Cal WAS on haLd. He was inde-
fatigable, and had no moods" for
work. He was the friend of every
body who treated him well, and did all
the good he could for all men with
whom he came In contact. His sense
of justice was keen and he was
poor and needy, being strong
long, dyed-in-the-w wool Republican,
ever loyal to whatever the party of his
principles advocated. To sum up the |
mans character briefly would be mere
ly to repeat that he was tho embodl- |
ment of loyalty and honor ard their
characteristic, faithfulness |
He had deeply religious vein in his |
nature, and held loyalty to the Metho-
dist church. the denomination is whose |
faith he was reared, though there was
not in his makeup the least of relig
lous fanaticism or intolerance. While
he attended the Methodist church, al
ways the First M. Z. when his work
lid not call him elsewhere, he had the
xaruest of friendships in all the other
churches of the city, aid advocated
With all his might the spirit of reli-
.ious harmony and charity on the part I.
II the adherents of one denomination !,
oward the adharents of the others.
The writing he did in his time would
ave filed numerous large vol
ines, and the people he assist
d and comforted and cheered {
nd pleased by his work would make
. army. 1t is s0meKhAt a0inE&S
AnruM and IN the same eapacity, that :
{ printer. Nothing but his failing
ye-sight and general health would
ave caused his severance of his CON-
eckion with this paper, in whose office
il qsasHgai hsHaipsas sis bone Be- :. had been Tor the
Ie there is in the future world re- :
rard for the faithful who has gone {
head continuously in the honest dis :,
harge of his duties as he has seen
hem. for the man who has lived the
,est he could and was ever loyal to his
,mployer, for the man who has never
,hicked and was without tpuch OF
iishonor or assembling. that reward
8 now about to be shared by Calvin II.
Johnson.
Requiescat in pace.
He leaves a widow and several mar
ii d children.
The funeral will take place from his
Iate residence, A south second street,
FRIDAY afternoon at 2:3O o'clock.
WnitewA Ater lodge No. Al |. .. .. r.
Of whi h the deceased was an honored
member will hold their services Thurs
day evening at 7:30. Friends may
call to see the remains from to ard
from g to Z 80 p. IN. Thursday. In
terment in Earlham.
Calvin Reuter- johnson was born in
Charlestown, Clark county, Ind, Jaa-
uary Il, 1924. Before he was four
teen he had started in to learn the |
printers ) trade in his home town. In
1898, when not quite fifteen, he re-
moved to Cincinnati and finished his
trade in the office of the Cincinnati
Times. In 1851 he came to Riet mond
and went to work on the PALLADIUM
as a printer. After two years he and
the pressman, Sewall K. Jameson,
started 1.-THE Broadax of Freedom and
the Grubbing Hoe of Truth. This
paper became q perm anent thing, de-
spite the fact that it was never ln-
tended TO be such. A large sized
plant was purchased and the
Broadax f urished. Mr. johnson
finally sold his interests and during
the frst term of Lincoln's administra-
ton he went to Washington and took
a position in the government printing
Office. He remained there year, re-
turned to Richmond and with Tn )mas
Bayliss and X. 4 Howard, the latter
now county surveyor, he assisted in
establishing the Quaker City Telegram,
mond Telegram.
Mr.. johnson saw service IN the civil
war He declined q captaincy. bat
took the position of first lieutenant of
company K, 12ith Indiana. serving
two years and getting a. honorable
discharge on account of illness.
After the war he worked on the In
dianap Ills Journal and Sentinel, and
then returned to Richmo nd, where be
took cases'' ON the PALLADIUM once
more. Afterward he started to dc
| reportorial work, at which he con
tinued for . good many years. Then
| he went back to his beloved case
once more and set type on the Pat
I LApIUN until May, 1897. ct which time
he retired on account of failing health
! Real Estate Transfers.
| Ida L. Williams and husband Il