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WILLIAM JOHNSTON, farmer, post office box 225, Turtle Creek, is a grandson of William Johnston, who came to what is now Patton township prior to the Revolution. He was of Scotch descent, and reared in Franklin county, Pa.; served under Anthony Wayne at Stony Point, and through the Revolution, returning here at the close; he died in 1825, and had been all his life a wheel wright and farmer; his wife, Polly (Clugston) Johnston, died in 1796. Capt. Robert Johnston, a brother of William, also served in the Revolution under Gen. Greene, and settled in Patton township, where he died in 1828. William Scott, maternal grandfather of our subject, was reared in Pennsylvania, and served as an Indian scout during the Revolution. He died in Patton, in 1833, aged over eighty years. At one time he owned part of the present site of Allegheny City, and afterward part of Cincinnati, but was not satisfied with either for farming purposes, and came to Patton. Robert, son of William Johnston, married Martha Scott, was always a resident of Patton, filling many local offices; he was a whig and later a republican, and a member of the U. P. Church. He reared four sons and three daughters. William, the eldest, was born in 1825, and married Sarah Jane McCully, in 1851, who died in 1871, aged thirty-nine. Mrs. Johnston’s parents, Robert and Sarah (Young) McCully, were early residents of Patton township, and were of Irish descent. Mr. McCully’s father, John McCully, bought the farm now occupied by Mr. Johnston, in 1790. Of the ten children of Mr. and Mrs. Johnston, six are now living, three with their father: Sarah Ann (wife of Alexander McGuire, in Newtown), Martha Emma (wife of W. H. Beswick, at Northfield, Kan.), William A. (in Patton township), George C., John F. and Minnie J. The family are associated with the U. P. Church. Mr. Johnston is a republican, and has served as assessor and school director.