[7] From 1897 until his death, he was the general manager of the Spanish-American Iron Company, situated near the village of Daiquirí, about 14 miles east south-east of Santiago de Cuba.

Johnson subsequently introduced it to the Army and Navy Club in Washington, D.C., and to ports of call around the world.

His associate, Francesco Domenico Pagliuchi, a Cuban engineer, explained the origin in a 1948 editorial letter in the newspaper El Pais Havana.

[7] He lived in Santiago de Cuba from the late 1890s until 1913, when failing health prompted him to return to New York.

[7] The writer and journalist Richard Harding Davis wrote his novel Soldiers of Fortune (1897) while a guest at Cox's house (O’Toole, 79).