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    FREDERICK W. JOHNSTON

    FREDERICK W. JOHNSTON, owner of 140 acres of farm land located about three and a half miles north of Covington, has always been a resident of Newberry Township, Miami County, Ohio, where he is well known and held in high esteem. He was born at Greenville Falls, in Newberry Township, October 4, 1849, and is a son of Andrew Jackson and Mary Ann (Thompson) Johnston, and a grandson of Frederick Johnston.

    Frederick Johnston was a native of Ireland, and some time after his marriage emigrated to the United States. He settled between Enon and Yellow Springs, in Greene County, Ohio, and the farm is still in the family name, being owned by two of his daughters, who have never married.

    Andrew Jackson Johnston was born on the ocean while his parents were en route from Ireland to this country, and was reared on the home farm in Greene County, Ohio. After his marriage he moved to Covington, where he conducted a tavern for a while that establishment having previously been run by his wife's people. He was a cooper by trade, and also a wagon maker, and for a time operated a cooper shop at Greenville Falls, but farming was his principal occupation. About the year l845 he purchased a farm about midway between Piqua and Covington, upon which he erected buildings and made other improvements, and moved on the farm in 1850, living there until 1864. In the fall of that year he purchased 160 acres where his son, Frederick W., now lives, and continued to live there and farm until his death in 1894. He was twice married, having by his first wife a daughter, Eliza, who died in Seattle, Washington. His second marriage was with Mary Ann Thompson, who was born and reared in Greene County, Ohio, to which her parents had come from the state of Maryland. Six children were the issue of this union, namely: James A., who lives in San Antonio, Texas; Louisa, deceased, who was a twin to James A. and who married William Drake; Frederick W.; John K., also of San Antonio, Texas, Edward, who lives at Covington; and Arthur, who died when young. The mother of this family died in 1900.

    Frederick W. Johnston was less than a year old when his parents moved from Greenville Falls to the farm between Piqua and Covington, and was about sixteen when they moved to where he now lives. He received a common school education and has always engaged in agricultural pursuits. He has made many important improvements on the home place, and in 1904 erected a fine frame house, in which he lives. Mr. Johnston was united in marriage with Miss Sarah J. Meenach, a daughter of Ezeldel Meenach, and they have two children: Noel L., of Darke County, who married Minnie Lambert and has a daughter, Neva Arline; and Myrl C. Religiously they are members of the Covington Presbyterian Church of which he is a deacon.

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