Robert Johnston and Ann(a) Maria Rahm

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Husband Robert Johnston ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 20 Sep 1809 - Armagh, East Wheatfield Twp, Indiana Co, PA 1 2 3
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           Died: 9 Mar 1888 2 3
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         Father: William Johnston (1782-1841/1844) 1 2 3
         Mother: Jane Parker (1783-1849) 1 3

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       Marriage: 22 Mar 1838 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 3

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Wife Ann(a) Maria Rahm ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 25 Oct 1813 - Armitage's Mill, Huntingdon Co, PA 4
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           Died: 18 Sep 1894 - Blairsville, Indiana Co, PA 4
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         Father: Martin Rahm (1776-1836) 3
         Mother: Anna Maria Dorothy Anshutz (1788-      ) 3

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Children

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1 F Catharine "Kate" Johnston ^{5 6}

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         Spouse: Samuel Cunningham (1829-1871) 5 6 7

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2 F Sarah Jane Johnston ^{1 2 8}

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           Born: 12 Feb 1841 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 8
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           Died: 23 Nov 1926 - Blairsville, Indiana Co, PA 8
         Buried:  - Blairsville Cemetery, Blairsville, Indiana Co, PA

         Spouse: Rev. Noble Garvin Miller, D.D. (1837-1918) 1 9 10
           Marr: 29 Mar 1864 - Blairsville, Indiana Co, PA 2 8

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3 M Martin R. Johnston ¹

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         Status: Twin

         Spouse: Eva McDonald (      -      ) 1

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4 F Rebecca Orth Johnston ¹

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5 F Mary Lawson Johnston ¹

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6 M William Parker Johnston ¹

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7 F Anna Maria Doratha Johnston ¹

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         Spouse: William Sutton (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Robert Johnston

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He was engaged in a coal and mercantile business at Greenville, Pennsylvania, when the old canal was in active use. Later he came to Blairsville, Indiana County, where he bought a farm south of the borough.

When he was nine years old, he, accompanied by his father, made a trip on horseback from Armagh, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, to Halifax, North Carolina, the journey occupying fourteen days. He remained in the south till the death of his uncle, attending school and becoming acquainted with business. On the death of his uncle, he went to Washington City, meeting with his guardian, Gov. Berton, John Randolph, Macomb, and other noted men. For several years he was a member of the firm of "Davit, Johnston & Co., painters, upholsterers and cabinet manufacturers," of Pittsburgh. From 1841 to 1850 he was a senior partner of "R & S. P. Johnston, general merchants," of Armagh. From 1850 to 1852 he was associated with his brother, S. P., and William Sutton in a large store and coal mine at West Greenville, Mercer County. After 1853 he was living on a farm in the "two mile bend" of the Conemaugh, engaged in farming and the raising of thorough bred Alderneys and Messengers.

He spent his boyhood in Halifax, North Carolina, with a bachelor uncle, also named Robert Johnston. In young manhood, he returned to Pennsylvania, attended Washington and Jefferson College, later learned the cabinet-making trade and then was associated in business with J. C. Davitt, J. W. Baxter, and E. Asper of the firm Davitt, Johnston and Company, makers of fine furniture. One of their apprentices was George H. Dauler, Sr., the well-known furniture dealer of Pittsburgh, and the head of the firm of Dauler, Close and Johns. He continued here until he joined Samuel Johnston, one of his brothers in a coal mining business at Greenville, Pennsylvania, and mercantile business at Armagh, Indiana County, Pennsylvania. He came to Blairsville in 1853 in order that his daughters might attend the Blairsville Seminary. Here he bought a farm which he managed until his death. He was one of the organizers of the First National Bank of Blairsville, later the Blairsville Savings and Trust Company, and a director of the same until his death. He was brought up in the Presbyterian Church, but after conversion, he joined the Fifth Street Methoodist Protestant Church, in Pittsburgh. In Blairsville, he and his wife connected themselves with the Methodist Episcopal Church (which he had joined in Armagh in 1841), of which he was a trustee and class leader for many years.

1 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 366.

2 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 1352.

3 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 348.

4 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 349.

5 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 359, 366.

6 Jane Maria Craig, Samuel Craig, Senior, Pioneer to Western Pennsylvania, and His Descendants (Greensburg, PA: Privately printed, 1915), Pg 105.

7 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 342.

8 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 346.

9 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 1351.

10 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 345.