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 JOHNSTON

JOHNSTON

Revolutionary wai* as lieutenant-colonel of the 4th Pennsylvania regiment, 1776, and as colonel of the 5th Pennsylvania regiment, commanding the 2d Pennsylvania brigade, 1776-81. He was mar- ried to Alice Ervvin. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 22, 1815.

JOHNSTON, Harold Whetstone, educator, was born at Rushville, 111., March 18, 1859; son of DeWitt Clinton and Margretta (Bauer) John- ston; grandson of Dr. James T. and Mary C Whetstone) Johnston, and of Valentine and Margretta (Heigh) Bauer. He was graduated from Illinois college, Jacksonville, in 1879, and was principal of Whipple academy, the i^repara- tory school attached to Illinois college, 1880-84; instructor in Latin at Illinois college, 1882-86, and professor of Latin, 1886-95. He was elected a trustee of that college in 1895, and professor of Latin at Indiana university in the same year. He received the degree of Ph.D. from Illinois col- lege in 1891, and that of L.H.D. from Kenyon college in 1898. He became editor-in-chief of Tlie Inter-Collegiate Latin Series in 1895; edited selections entitled Cicero's Orations and Letters (1892), and is the author oi: Latin Manuscripts (1897), and contributions to periodicals.

JOHNSTON, Harriet Lane, niece of President Buchanan, was born in Mercersburg, Pa., in 1833; daughter of Elliot T. and Jane (Bu- chanan) Lane, and granddaughter of James and , Elizabeth (Speer) Buchanan. James Buchanan immigrated to America from the north of Ire- land in 1783, and settled near Mercersburg, Pa. His eldest son was James Buchanan, fifteenth President of the United States. Harriet Lane's mother died in 1840, and her father in 1842, and she became an inmate of the beautiful home of her bachelor uncle at " Wheatland." She was educated at the Convent of the Visitation, Georgetown, D.C. She visited England in 1852 with her uncle, who had been appointed U.S. minister to the court of St. James, where she was received into English society; becoming an unusual favorite with the queen. She also trav- elled on the continent, sj^ending two months with the family of U.S. Minister Mason in Paris, France. When her uncle was inaugurated Pres- ident in 1857, she became the mit tress of the White House and her success was immediate and permanent. She received a visit from the Prince of Wales in 1860, and as the first lady of the ad- ministration, she accompanied the President when he escorted the prince on his visit to the tomb of Washington at Mt. Vernon, and on the return home of the prince, the queen acknowledged the courtesy extended in an autograph letter to Miss Lane, while the prince addressed his thanks to the President, and sent to Miss Lane a set of en- gravings of the royal family. At the close of the

administration she resumed her duties of hos- tess at " Wheatland." She was married in Jan- uary, 1866, to Henry Elliot Johnston, and after several weeks in Cuba, she assumed new duties at her home in Baltimore, Md. Her son, James Buchanan Johnston, died in Mai'ch, 1881, when fourteen years old, and her other son, with her husband, subsequently. She inherited the estate of her uncle and divided her time between Balti- more and "Wheatland " until after the death of her husband, when she removed to England. She died at Narragansett Pier, R.I., July 3, 1903.

JOHNSTON, James Steptoe, second bishop of Western Texas, and 144th in succession in the American episcopate, was born at Church Hill, Miss., June 9, 1843; son of James Steptoe and Louisa Clarissa Bridge (Newman) Johnston; grandson of Charles Johnston, of Virgin- ia, and a descendant of Edward Johns- ton, of Scotland. He was educated at Oak- land college and the University of Vir- ginia, 1856-61, leav- ing the University of Virginia before graduation to join the Confederate army, in which he serv- ed as a Hood's di\ 61-62, and as 2d lieu- tenant in Gen. James E, B. Stuart's cavalry, 1862- 65. After the war he studied law and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1868, but gave up law to study for the ministry. He was made deacon in 1869; ordained priest in 1871; was rector of St. James church, Port Gibson, Miss., 1870-76; of the Church of the Ascension, Mt. Sterling, Ky., 1876- 80, and of Trinity church. Mobile, Ala., 1880-88. He was consecrated bishop of the Missionary Dis- trict of Westei-n Texas, Jan. 6, 1888, by Bishops Wilmer, Dudley, Harris, Galleher and Thomp- son, at Mobile, Ala. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from the University of the South, Sevvanee, Tenn., in 1888.

JOHNSTON, John Taylor, railroad president, was born in New York city, April 8, 1820; son of John and Mai-garet (Taylor) Johnston. His father was Scotch, a mercliant in New York city and a founder of the University of the City of New York. John Taylor was graduated from that institution in 1839; studied law at Yale, 1839-41; with Daniel Lord in New York city, 1839-42; was admitted to the bar in 1843, and practised in New York city. He became inter- ested in the Elizabeth and Somerville railroad.

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