Napa-San Francisco-Trinity County CA Archives Biographies.....Johnston, Finis Ewing 1843 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

FINIS EWING JOHNSTON has been a resident of California since 1860, and a
resident of Napa and prominently identified with the bar of that county for the
past twenty years. He was born in Greene County, Missouri, in 1843. His parents
were Rev. Thomas M. and Eleanor (Steele) Johnston, his father a Cumberland
Presbyterian, whose life was passed in the ministry of that church. Mr.
Johnston, after reaching his majority, taught school for a time, but finally
settled down to the study of law in the office of Cope & Daingerfield, in San
Francisco. He was admitted to the bar of Napa County in 1869, being recommended
by Judge Daingerfield to Judge William C. Wallace, of Napa. He first formed a
partnership with Hon. W. W. Pendegast, which continued until his death in 1876;
then with Judge Robert Crouch till 1885; then with Judge Wallace until January
1, 1887. Since then he has been alone in practice. Mr. Johnston has represented
Napa County in the State Assembly, and was trustee of the Insane Asylum for six
years, from 1876 to 1882. The development of this institution and its
surroundings owes its best results to the wise management of the Board of
Trustees who served during the first six years of its existence, though this
work has been successfully carried on since that time under its present able
Superintendent. He held the office of Court Commissioner of Napa County for
about six years, and either he or one of his partners has been connected, on one
side or the other, with almost every important case which has been tried in this
county during the past twenty years.

  He was married in 1868 to Miss Sarah Lee Lewis, a native of Missouri. They
have three children living: Harry L., now attending the State University at
Berkeley; Leslie E., attending the Oak Mound School at Napa; and Rena M., a
child of about eight years. Mr. Johnston is a member of the Masonic order, Yount
Lodge, No. 12, and of the Naval Commandery, No. 19, at Vallejo. He has always
been an adherent of the Democratic party, and prominent in its councils. He is a
director of the James H. Goodman & Co. Bank; also of the Napa Water-Works, and
is interested in mining matters in Napa and Trinity counties.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.


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