James Johnston

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Husband James Johnston ^{1 2}

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         Father: [Father] Johnston (      -      )
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Children

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1 M James Johnston, Jr. ³

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2 M Robert Johnston ³

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3 F [Unk] Johnston

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         Spouse: John Glasgow (      -      ) 3

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General Notes: Husband - James Johnston

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He and his brother Robert came from their home in Scotland to America in 1829, and first located in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, where they engaged in coal mining. In 1833, they came to Clearfield County, locating in Jordan township, where they purchased land, and in the midst of the forest developed fine farms. He had married previous to his immigration to the United States. The Johnston family was for many generations identified with the Presbyterian Church.

About 1857, one Saturday afternoon, he attended a meeting of the session at the Fruit Hill Presbyterian Church. By a previous arrangement he had intended to go home by way of John Thomson's, having some business with Mr. Thomson, but for some reason changed his mind and concluded to go over a day or two later. He was riding horseback, and just as he rode by, a dead chestnut tree that stood by the road side fell, mashing the horse and his rider to the ground. Why it so happened that he changed his mind and went home by that road, and why the tree fell on that calm, still day just as Mr. Johnston was going by it, are questions which mortals cannot answer.

1 Lewis Cass Aldrich, History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 570.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 727.

3 Lewis Cass Aldrich, History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 571.