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Alexander Johnston, a native of Ireland, came to America when
about nineteen years of age, and not long after his arrival emigrated to
Western Pennsylvania. He located for a time on Chartiers Creek, in
Washington County, and engaged in the business of peddling goods through
the farming districts. In this he continued till 1808, when he came to
Connellsville, purchased the property on Spring Street still known as the
Johnston homestead (now occupied by J. D. Frisbie and Capt. J. M. Morrow),
and commenced the business of merchandising. In 1812 he married Margaret
Clark, of Dunbar township. He remained in the mercantile business there
till 1846, when he was succeeded by his son Joseph, who was there until
1849, when he built the house now occupied by J. D. Frisbie, and lived
there and kept a store until 1858, when he went out of business. Time
other children of Alexander Johnston were William C. Johnston, John R.
Johnston (deceased), and three daughters, who became respectively Mrs. Dr.
Joseph Rogers, Mrs. James Blackstone, and Mrs. Col. Daniel R. Davidson, of
Beaver, Pa. History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men Philadelphia: L.H. Everts & Co., 1882, page 372. View the image of this page online - Free Trial More Fayette County History Books Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors. View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file! Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com .
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