JOHNSON, HAMMOND (1870-1929)

JOHNSON, HAMMOND, Methodist minister, Tabusintac circuit, 1902-03, and Newcastle circuit, 1903-06; b. Highfield, near Charlottetown, 7 Mar 1870, s/o John William Johnson and Mary Ann Full; m. 1904, Georgina M. Harrison, d/o George Harrison and Margaret Tilley; d. Montreal, 10 Dec 1929.

Hammond Johnson was educated at Mount Allison University and ordained in 1902. His first pastorate was at Tabusintac, where he was one of the only ordained ministers in the history of the local Methodist church. After one year, he left to take over the Newcastle circuit. At the conclusion of his term in 1906 he went to Summerside. He subsequently occupied Methodist pulpits in Saint John, Moncton, St John's, Nfld, and elsewhere, and then had United Church pastorates in Charlottetown and Bathurst. It was stated that his "able and instructive sermons" were everywhere appreciated.

Johnson was still the minister at Bathurst when his death occurred in a Montreal hospital in 1929. He was survived by three sons, as well as his wife, Georgina M. Harrison, who lived until 1979. Prior to her death at Sackville, N.B., at age ninety-eight, she was working on autobiographical treatises entitled "Life in the parsonage" and "Life in a nursing home." A son, J. Clair Johnson, was a United Church minister.