Watson Lowery Johnston and Wilhelmina Wise

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Husband Watson Lowery Johnston ¹

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            AKA: W. L. Johnson 2
           Born: 4 Sep 1851 - Indiana Co, PA 1
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         Father: Matthew Johnston (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Jane Barclay (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 9 Jun 1875 1

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Wife Wilhelmina Wise ¹

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            AKA: Wilmina Wise 2
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         Father: Michael Wise (      -1871) 2
         Mother: Phoebe Schroppy (      -Aft 1898) 2

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Children

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1 M George W. Johnston ¹

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           Born: 13 Apr 1876 - DuBois, Clearfield Co, PA 1
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2 F Catherine M. Johnston ¹

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         Spouse: Dr. Hugh Morehead (      -      ) 1

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3 F Nellie B. Johnston ¹

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         Spouse: John C. Carson (      -      ) 1

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4 U [Unk] Johnston ¹

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5 U [Unk] Johnston ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Watson Lowery Johnston

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He was reared on the home farm and attended the district schools. In 1873 he came to DuBois, Pennsylvania, or to Rumbarger, which was the early name of what was then a little lumber settlement. He opened a small grocery and confectionery store, one of the early business houses, and later engaged in building and contracting and by 1895 saw the wisdom of going into the real estate business which he expanded into so important an enterprise that in 1903 he admitted his son, George W. Johnston, as a partner. As an additional business line, Mr. Johnston was an auctioneer for many years and in this capacity was known all over that part of the state. He was one of the organizers of the first fire company at DuBois, in 1881, and served four years as its president. In 1889 the company was reorganized as the Union Fire Company and he served two years as president, and when the DuBois Volunteer Fire Department was organized in 1893, he again served one year as its presiding officer. It was through his efforts that the Firemen's Convention assembled at DuBois, August 21, 1894. In 1895, he was elected president of the Central District Volunteer Fire Department.
He was a Prohibitionist in politics. He was identified fraternally with the Heptasophs. With his family he belonged to the Methodist Episcopal church, in which, for some years, he was a local preacher.

1 Roland D. Swoope, Jr., 20th Century History of Clearfield County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1911), Pg 720.

2 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1623.