This merchant was active between about 1858 and 1868.  It had an office at 95 Arundel Lane, Sheffield, and another in Chicago at 44 Lake Street.  The main sales outlet was apparently in the USA, where the firm sold table and pocket cutlery, guns, hardware, and files.   It acted as the American agent in the Midwest for Joshua Moss & Gamble Bros (see Wilson, Hawksworth, Ellison & Co).   In Sheffield, the partner was Henry Theophilus Johnson, who lived in Mushroom Bank; in Chicago, it was William Edward Spencer.   Another agent, A. H. Oxenham, was also associated with the venture.  It has been difficult to reconstruct the biographies of these partners.  However, Henry T. Johnson died at Hastings on 7 March 1868, aged 38.   He left under £1,500 to his widow, Julia Ann.  She died in Sheffield on 14 August 1899, aged 76, and (like her husband) was buried in Ecclesall.  The firm apparently ceased trading after Johnson’s death, though his ‘name’ apparently later passed to John Newton and John Watts.