Marshall-Labette County KS Archives Biographies.....Johnston, Erskine W. 1890 - 
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Author: Emma E. Forter (1917)

ERSKINE W. JOHNSTON.

    Erskine W. Johnston, a progressive and up-to-date young farmer of Rock
township, this county, is a native son of Marshall county and has lived here all
his life with the exception of three or four years spent in Labette county, in
the southern part of the state. He was born on a farm in Rock township, not far
from his present place of residence, January 25, 1890, son of Henry and Laura E.
Johnson, the former of whom, born in 1847, died in April, 1905, and the latter
of whom, born in 1854, is now living at Frankfort. Henry Johnston was a native
of Canada and came from there to Kansas in pioneer days. He was twice married
and by his first marriage was the father of two children, William, who lives
four milest west of the old home in Rock township, and Mrs. Janie Ward, of
Westmoreland, in the neighboring county of Pottawattamie. By his second marriage
Henry Johnston was the father of three children, Mrs. Bertha McConchie, of
Washington, this state; Earl B., of Westmoreland, and Erskine W.

    Erskine W. Johnston was reared on the farm on which he was born in Rock
township and completed his schooling in the high school at Frankfort. He then
engaged in the agricultural-implement business at Frankfort and was thus engaged
until 1911, when he went to southern Kansas and bought a farm in Labette county,
where he remained until 1915, when he sold out there and returned to Marshall
county and bought the farm on which he is now living and where he and his family
are very pleasantly and very comfortably situated. Upon taking possession of
that farm Mr. Johnson erected a handsome modern residence and his well-kept farm
plant is in keeping with the same, the plant bearing many evidences of the
up-to-date character of the owner's methods of carrying on his farming operations.

    In 1911 Erskine W. Johnston was united in marriage to Fay Slater, of
Frankfort, this county, daughter of H. and Catherine Slater, who came to this
state from Indiana and located at Frankfort, where Mr. Slater, who is now living
at Axtell, formerly was engaged in the laundry business. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson
have one child, a son, Clement, born on March 1, 1916. They are members of the
Methodist Episcopal church and take a proper part in church work, as well as in
the community's general social activities, and are interested in all measures
having to do with the common welfare. Mr. Johnston is a Republican and,
fraternally, is affiliated with the local lodge of the Knights and Ladies of
Security, in the affairs of which he takes a warm interest.


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Extracted from:

History of Marshall County, Kansas: its people, industries, and institutions
by
Emma E. Forter

Indianapolis, Ind.: B.F. Bowen & Co. (1917)


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