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Born 1872
From Past and present of Nodaway County, Missouri (1910)
HENRY PEARL JOHNSTON.
Many families from the Hawkeye state have crossed the line and found excellent homes in Nodaway county, Missouri, and the fact that very few have desired to go back to their former place of residence is evidence that they are doing well here and find this a pleasant country from every point of view. One such is Henry Pearl Johnston, who was born in Taylor county, Iowa, September 22, 1872, the son of James and Anna (Long) Johnston, the former a native of Maryland, born in 1829. and the latter born in 1832. They were among the first settlers of Taylor county, Iowa, where Mr. Johnston became well established and where he now lives, retired. Politically, he is a Republican. Mrs. James Johnston was called to her rest in 1908. In their family were ten children, of whom six are living. The parents were always Methodists.
Henry P. Johnston was reared on the home farm, where he began work ing during the summer months when a small boy, attending the neighboring schools in the winter time, also went to the Bedford high school. He came to Nodaway county, Missouri, in 1899, and has devoted himself to farming. He is the owner of eighty acres of good land, on which he conducts general farming operations and raises good stock, making a specialty of such stock as always finds ready sales. He keeps his place well improved and has a very comfortable home and such outbuildings as are found on the usual well-managed farm of the present day.
Mr. Johnston married, on February 9, 1898, Cina Dickerson, a native of Illinois, the daughter of I. S. and Mary (Bornhuff) Dickerson. The latter is now deceased and Mr. Dickerson now lives in Nodaway county. Missouri, To Air. and Mrs. Johnston two children have been born, namely, Carol Esther and Walter Harland.
Mr. and Mrs. Johnston are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and Mr. Johnston belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America. Politicallv, he is a Republican.
As printed in Past and present of Nodaway County, Missouri (1910). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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