Cecil Wallace Johnston and Alice Irwin

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Husband Cecil Wallace Johnston ¹

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           Born: 4 Oct 1886 - Franklin, Venango Co, PA 1
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         Father: Franklin H. Johnston, M.D. (1841-1906) 2 3
         Mother: Mary L. Curtis (      -      ) 1

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Wife Alice Irwin ¹

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         Father: Levi H. Irwin (      -      ) 1
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General Notes: Husband - Cecil Wallace Johnston

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He received his preliminary education in the public schools of Franklin, Pennsylvania. Graduating from the Franklin high school in 1905, he studied another year at State College before entering the law school of George Washington University at Washington, D. C. He also read law in the office of J. S. Carmichael, of Franklin, for two years. But his time has been spent chiefly in the newspaper business, which he followed for a while in Denver, CO, later at Cleveland, Ohio, whence he returned to his native county. Here he was associated for about two years with the Oil City Derrick, and also for a time with the Sharon Telegraph, a Mercer County paper, before becoming a member of the editorial staff of The Evening News at Franklin some five years ago. Later he severed that connection to assume the important position of managing editor of the Titusville Morning Herald, which he accepted in October, 1917, entering upon his new duties about Nov. 10th. In the spring of 1918, as Mr. Johnston was about to leave Titusville to accept a position on the city desk of the Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph, he received a call to return to Franklin as news editor of the Venango Daily Herald under James B. Borland, as managing editor. He had been on the Herald but two months when he was asked to accept the place of chief clerk of the local exemption board for the duration of the war, entering on these duties early in July. He became widely known to the public through his work as staff correspondent of the News when the 16th Regiment went to the Mexican border in 1916. He was well known socially, affiliating with the Sigma Chi fraternity of State College, and the legal fraternity Phi Delta Phi of George Washington University. [CAB, 534]

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 534.

2 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1059.

3 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 532.