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Buffalo (N.Y.) Courier
Tuesday, January 27, 1920
p. 9, col. 7

        CAPT. JOHNSTONE WAS
           WELL KNOWN ON LAKES
           
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        CAPT. J. M. JOHNSTONE, marine super-
      intendent of the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron
      Co., who died last week, was one of
      the best known navigators on the lakes.
      Born in Sweden in 1854, CAPT. JOHNSTONE
      took a job as apprentice on a sailing
      vessel at the age of twelve years. He
      became an able seaman in 1870 and shipped
      on an American vessel coming to the United
      States. He came on to the Great Lakes in
      1872 and took his first berth as wheelsman
      on a Canadian steamer. He worked his way
      along gradually and became master of the
      steamer VANDERBILT in 1877 at the age of
      twenty-three years. 
        Among other vessels CAPT. JOHNSTONE
      sailed the steamer TUSCARORA for the Lehigh
      line, and for several years he was skipper
      on the steamer WILLIAM EDWARDS in the Richard-
      son fleet. He joined the Cleveland-Cliffs 
      forces in 1889 and sailed several ships for
      that company, eventually being made fleet
      superintendent in 1905. He has many friends
      in Buffalo.
      
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