Maro & Helen had Guy Thomas, Anna J. and Maro P. Johnson.
Ref: State University of Iowa Alumni Records, dtd. 28 Feb. 1964 -- Maro received two degrees from the State University of IA, a BS in Chemical Engineering and a Civil Engineering degree. He was employed by Illinois Central Railroad for 49 years. He was buried from McGovern Funeral Home, Trinity Episcopal Church in the Oakland Cem., Johnson Co., IA. Res. 1961, 5528 Hyde Park Blvd., Chicago 37, IL; also lived at 5540 Hyde Park Blvd.; The Broadview Hotel and Casa De Fresa, Hammond, LA.
Ref: Maro Johnson – Maro Johnson was born at Iowa City, IA, Nov. 27, 1877. He was educated in the public schools in that county seat town, in which the population during his youth was a little over 7000. The family consisted of his parents, his sister, and his grandmother, Jane Love, widow of Joseph. On completion of his high school course in 1894, he entered the Engineering Department of the State University at Iowa City. This was a small school at the time, having in 1894 but two instructors who devoted their full time to engineering subjects and about twenty-five students. He was the only civil engineering graduate in June 1898. During the two previous summers he had assisted the City Engineer, Mr. Charles S. Magowan, who was also the Assistant Professor in the College, and continued to do so for a few months following his graduation – salary twenty cents per hour worked. As an instructorship which had been promised him was not authorized, he secured employment in October 1898 with the Illinois Central Railroad Company as a masonry inspector at Chebanse and Gilman, Illinois, and with the exception of three months in 1899 continued with that company until his retirement Nov. 30, 1947, having been successively Rodman, Instrument man,
Assistant Engineer, Resident Engineer, Assistant Engineer of Bridges, Engineer of Bridges ad Buildings, Resident Engineer, Assistant Engineer and Principal Assistant Engineer. With the exception of about two years in Indianapolis, practically all of this time was spent in Chicago, interspersed with frequent road trips and with temporary assignments on line during earlier years.
Mr. Johnson is a life member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Railway Engineering Association, the American Railway Bridge and Building Association, the Western Society of Engineers, and the Society of the Sigma.
On September 19, 1905, while living in Indianapolis, Maro Johnson married Helen L. Schneider of Defiance, Ohio. She was born in Defiance in 1881 but at the time of her marriage was employed in Chicago as an accountant and bookkeeper. After the death of her mother in 1884, she had her five year old sister came under the care of their grandmother Seibert, who managed the Schneider household until their father's second marriage in 1889. The following year the family moved to Toledo, Ohio. While there the two girls attended a convent school, but entered the public schools upon the return of the family to Defiance in 1894. Helen graduated from high school in 1898 and after a summer normal course taught country schools for three years. Then followed a business course at Lafayette, Indiana, and entrance to the business world in Chicago early in 1903.
While M/M Johnson began their married life in Indianapolis they returned to Chicago in late 1906, the Indianapolis work having been completed, and that was their home until Mr. Johnson's retirement in 1947, when they went to Hammond, Louisiana, for the benefit of Mrs. Johnson's health. The milder climate was helpful for a time, but could not cure, and she died after long suffering July 19, 1952, and is buried at Iowa City, Iowa.
She was a beautiful woman both in person and in character.
Ref: State University of Iowa Alumni Records, dtd. 28 Feb. 1964 -- Maro received two degrees from the State University of IA, a BS in Chemical Engineering and a Civil Engineering degree. He was employed by Illinois Central Railroad for 49 years. He was buried from McGovern Funeral Home, Trinity Episcopal Church in the Oakland Cem., Johnson Co., IA. Res. 1961, 5528 Hyde Park Blvd., Chicago 37, IL; also lived at 5540 Hyde Park Blvd.; The Broadview Hotel and Casa De Fresa, Hammond, LA.
Ref: Maro Johnson – Maro Johnson was born at Iowa City, IA, Nov. 27, 1877. He was educated in the public schools in that county seat town, in which the population during his youth was a little over 7000. The family consisted of his parents, his sister, and his grandmother, Jane Love, widow of Joseph. On completion of his high school course in 1894, he entered the Engineering Department of the State University at Iowa City. This was a small school at the time, having in 1894 but two instructors who devoted their full time to engineering subjects and about twenty-five students. He was the only civil engineering graduate in June 1898. During the two previous summers he had assisted the City Engineer, Mr. Charles S. Magowan, who was also the Assistant Professor in the College, and continued to do so for a few months following his graduation – salary twenty cents per hour worked. As an instructorship which had been promised him was not authorized, he secured employment in October 1898 with the Illinois Central Railroad Company as a masonry inspector at Chebanse and Gilman, Illinois, and with the exception of three months in 1899 continued with that company until his retirement Nov. 30, 1947, having been successively Rodman, Instrument man,
Assistant Engineer, Resident Engineer, Assistant Engineer of Bridges, Engineer of Bridges ad Buildings, Resident Engineer, Assistant Engineer and Principal Assistant Engineer. With the exception of about two years in Indianapolis, practically all of this time was spent in Chicago, interspersed with frequent road trips and with temporary assignments on line during earlier years.
Mr. Johnson is a life member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Railway Engineering Association, the American Railway Bridge and Building Association, the Western Society of Engineers, and the Society of the Sigma.
On September 19, 1905, while living in Indianapolis, Maro Johnson married Helen L. Schneider of Defiance, Ohio. She was born in Defiance in 1881 but at the time of her marriage was employed in Chicago as an accountant and bookkeeper. After the death of her mother in 1884, she had her five year old sister came under the care of their grandmother Seibert, who managed the Schneider household until their father's second marriage in 1889. The following year the family moved to Toledo, Ohio. While there the two girls attended a convent school, but entered the public schools upon the return of the family to Defiance in 1894. Helen graduated from high school in 1898 and after a summer normal course taught country schools for three years. Then followed a business course at Lafayette, Indiana, and entrance to the business world in Chicago early in 1903.
While M/M Johnson began their married life in Indianapolis they returned to Chicago in late 1906, the Indianapolis work having been completed, and that was their home until Mr. Johnson's retirement in 1947, when they went to Hammond, Louisiana, for the benefit of Mrs. Johnson's health. The milder climate was helpful for a time, but could not cure, and she died after long suffering July 19, 1952, and is buried at Iowa City, Iowa.
She was a beautiful woman both in person and in character.
Maro & Helen had Guy Thomas, Anna J. and Maro P. Johnson.
Ref: State University of Iowa Alumni Records, dtd. 28 Feb. 1964 -- Maro received two degrees from the State University of IA, a BS in Chemical Engineering and a Civil Engineering degree. He was employed by Illinois Central Railroad for 49 years. He was buried from McGovern Funeral Home, Trinity Episcopal Church in the Oakland Cem., Johnson Co., IA. Res. 1961, 5528 Hyde Park Blvd., Chicago 37, IL; also lived at 5540 Hyde Park Blvd.; The Broadview Hotel and Casa De Fresa, Hammond, LA.
Ref: Maro Johnson – Maro Johnson was born at Iowa City, IA, Nov. 27, 1877. He was educated in the public schools in that county seat town, in which the population during his youth was a little over 7000. The family consisted of his parents, his sister, and his grandmother, Jane Love, widow of Joseph. On completion of his high school course in 1894, he entered the Engineering Department of the State University at Iowa City. This was a small school at the time, having in 1894 but two instructors who devoted their full time to engineering subjects and about twenty-five students. He was the only civil engineering graduate in June 1898. During the two previous summers he had assisted the City Engineer, Mr. Charles S. Magowan, who was also the Assistant Professor in the College, and continued to do so for a few months following his graduation – salary twenty cents per hour worked. As an instructorship which had been promised him was not authorized, he secured employment in October 1898 with the Illinois Central Railroad Company as a masonry inspector at Chebanse and Gilman, Illinois, and with the exception of three months in 1899 continued with that company until his retirement Nov. 30, 1947, having been successively Rodman, Instrument man,
Assistant Engineer, Resident Engineer, Assistant Engineer of Bridges, Engineer of Bridges ad Buildings, Resident Engineer, Assistant Engineer and Principal Assistant Engineer. With the exception of about two years in Indianapolis, practically all of this time was spent in Chicago, interspersed with frequent road trips and with temporary assignments on line during earlier years.
Mr. Johnson is a life member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Railway Engineering Association, the American Railway Bridge and Building Association, the Western Society of Engineers, and the Society of the Sigma.
On September 19, 1905, while living in Indianapolis, Maro Johnson married Helen L. Schneider of Defiance, Ohio. She was born in Defiance in 1881 but at the time of her marriage was employed in Chicago as an accountant and bookkeeper. After the death of her mother in 1884, she had her five year old sister came under the care of their grandmother Seibert, who managed the Schneider household until their father's second marriage in 1889. The following year the family moved to Toledo, Ohio. While there the two girls attended a convent school, but entered the public schools upon the return of the family to Defiance in 1894. Helen graduated from high school in 1898 and after a summer normal course taught country schools for three years. Then followed a business course at Lafayette, Indiana, and entrance to the business world in Chicago early in 1903.
While M/M Johnson began their married life in Indianapolis they returned to Chicago in late 1906, the Indianapolis work having been completed, and that was their home until Mr. Johnson's retirement in 1947, when they went to Hammond, Louisiana, for the benefit of Mrs. Johnson's health. The milder climate was helpful for a time, but could not cure, and she died after long suffering July 19, 1952, and is buried at Iowa City, Iowa.
She was a beautiful woman both in person and in character.
Ref: State University of Iowa Alumni Records, dtd. 28 Feb. 1964 -- Maro received two degrees from the State University of IA, a BS in Chemical Engineering and a Civil Engineering degree. He was employed by Illinois Central Railroad for 49 years. He was buried from McGovern Funeral Home, Trinity Episcopal Church in the Oakland Cem., Johnson Co., IA. Res. 1961, 5528 Hyde Park Blvd., Chicago 37, IL; also lived at 5540 Hyde Park Blvd.; The Broadview Hotel and Casa De Fresa, Hammond, LA.
Ref: Maro Johnson – Maro Johnson was born at Iowa City, IA, Nov. 27, 1877. He was educated in the public schools in that county seat town, in which the population during his youth was a little over 7000. The family consisted of his parents, his sister, and his grandmother, Jane Love, widow of Joseph. On completion of his high school course in 1894, he entered the Engineering Department of the State University at Iowa City. This was a small school at the time, having in 1894 but two instructors who devoted their full time to engineering subjects and about twenty-five students. He was the only civil engineering graduate in June 1898. During the two previous summers he had assisted the City Engineer, Mr. Charles S. Magowan, who was also the Assistant Professor in the College, and continued to do so for a few months following his graduation – salary twenty cents per hour worked. As an instructorship which had been promised him was not authorized, he secured employment in October 1898 with the Illinois Central Railroad Company as a masonry inspector at Chebanse and Gilman, Illinois, and with the exception of three months in 1899 continued with that company until his retirement Nov. 30, 1947, having been successively Rodman, Instrument man,
Assistant Engineer, Resident Engineer, Assistant Engineer of Bridges, Engineer of Bridges ad Buildings, Resident Engineer, Assistant Engineer and Principal Assistant Engineer. With the exception of about two years in Indianapolis, practically all of this time was spent in Chicago, interspersed with frequent road trips and with temporary assignments on line during earlier years.
Mr. Johnson is a life member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Railway Engineering Association, the American Railway Bridge and Building Association, the Western Society of Engineers, and the Society of the Sigma.
On September 19, 1905, while living in Indianapolis, Maro Johnson married Helen L. Schneider of Defiance, Ohio. She was born in Defiance in 1881 but at the time of her marriage was employed in Chicago as an accountant and bookkeeper. After the death of her mother in 1884, she had her five year old sister came under the care of their grandmother Seibert, who managed the Schneider household until their father's second marriage in 1889. The following year the family moved to Toledo, Ohio. While there the two girls attended a convent school, but entered the public schools upon the return of the family to Defiance in 1894. Helen graduated from high school in 1898 and after a summer normal course taught country schools for three years. Then followed a business course at Lafayette, Indiana, and entrance to the business world in Chicago early in 1903.
While M/M Johnson began their married life in Indianapolis they returned to Chicago in late 1906, the Indianapolis work having been completed, and that was their home until Mr. Johnson's retirement in 1947, when they went to Hammond, Louisiana, for the benefit of Mrs. Johnson's health. The milder climate was helpful for a time, but could not cure, and she died after long suffering July 19, 1952, and is buried at Iowa City, Iowa.
She was a beautiful woman both in person and in character.
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