Orange County NcArchives Biographies.....Johnston, George Doherty 
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Source: Who's Who in America
Author: John W. Leonard

Johnston, George Doherty
lawyer, soldier, educator;
b. Hillsboro, NC, May 30, 1832;
s. George Mulhollan and Mary Eliza (Bond) J.;
early ed'n at Marion, Ala.; 
grad. Howard Coll., Ala., 1844 (A.M.); Lebanon (Tenn.) Law Sch.;
m. 1st, Euphrodia Poclheitz, 1854; 2d, Maria Barnatt, 1865; 3d, Della 
Searcy, 1876.
Entered Confederate army as 2d Lt. 4th Ala. regt., Apr. 15, 1861; maj. 25th 
Ala., Jan. 27, 1862; Lt.-col. Apr. 6, 1862; col. Sept. 9, 1863; brig.-gen. 
C.S.A. July 24, 1864, serving to close of war; wounded at Murfreesboro 
and at Atlanta. 
Commandant of cadets, Univ. of Ala., 1870;
supt. SC Mil. Acad., 1885; 
US civil service comm'r, 1892;
elected State senator, 1900.
Democrat.
Has lectured on "Memories of the Old South."
Mem. Soc. of the Cincinnati, United Confederate Veterans.
Presbyterian.
Address: Tuscaloosa, Ala.

Additional Comments:
Source:
Who's Who in America
A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women of the United States.
Volume 3
1903-1905
Established, 1899, by Albert Nelson Marquis
Edited by John W. Leonard
Chicago
A.N. Marquis & Company
Publishers
1903

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