BIO: James JOHNSTON, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, page 109.
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  JAMES JOHNSTON, M.D., was born in Barree township, Huntingdon county, 
Pa., February 21, 1862, son of Samuel and Ann (McCartney) Johnston.  
James Johnston received his primary education in the public schools of 
West township, and afterwards attended the high school in Jackson 
township for five years.  He then opened a store in Masseysburg, which 
he conducted for some years, carefully saving his profits.  A fire, 
however, destroyed his stock at one time, by which he incurred a heavy 
loss.  He retired from business in 1892, and began to read medicine 
with Dr. G. W. Lupfer.  One year later he entered the Baltimore City 
College of Physicians and Surgeons, where he spent three years, 
graduating with honors in the spring of 1896.  In politics, the Doctor 
is a Democrat, and in church fellowship, worships with the Methodist 
Episcopal church.  His success in life is due to his own efforts, and 
his popularity is deserved, because of his worth and character.