Johnston, Joseph

JOHNSTON, WHERRY

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Date: 11/21/2012 at 10:32:10

1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa

LINCOLN TOWNSHIP

Page 757

JOHNSTON, JOSEPH--Section 36, P.O. Deep River. His ancestors were natives of Ireland, but his parents married into the United States, and settled on a farm in Washington county, Pennsylvania. Joseph was born April 25, 1836, in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, where he was raised on a farm and partly received his education. When he was fourteen years old his father moved his family to Guernsey county, Ohio, where he worked at home until twenty-two years of age, when he married and settled in Marion county, Indiana, where he bought a saw mill, and in the spring of 1871 moved it to Allegan county, Michigan, where he operated it until he immigrated to this county. Having spent one year on a rented farm he bought his present place in July of 1874, and moved to it in April, 1875. He married, September 1, 1859, Mary J. Wherry, who was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, July 27, 1837. The result of their union has been: Rose E. (born October 15, 1860; died October 18, 1874), James W. (born August 1, 1862), Susannah R. (born July 8, 1865; died November 3, 1874), Mary M. (born September 22, 1869; died March 19, 1870), Mary Minta (born September 17, 1873) and Jennie M. (born July 3, 1877). Mr. J. owns eighty acres of good farming land, in find condition, besides one acre of timber in Deep River township. He is at present serving his township as school director.