FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: ST. CLAIR, Johnston Elliott (published 1880)
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History of Franklin and Pickaway Counties,  Ohio
Pub by Williams Bros.,  1880

JOHNSTON ELLIOTT ST. CLAIR

This gentleman, now sixty-three years of age, is the oldest living
resident of Columbus,  born in that city.  He first saw the light in a
humble dwelling on south High street, between Rich and Friend streets
(all those streets then largely ornamented with stumps), April 24,
1816.  He was the third son of William and Mary (Stuckey) St. Clair, 
natives of Maryland,  who had emigrated from Somerset,  Pennsylvania, 
to Columbus, in 1814.  His father was a tailor by trade,  but young
Johnston,  after such schooling as the facilities of the infant town
afforded,  entered,  at the early age of fourteen,  the tin shop of
Messrs.  Gill & Green,  as an apprentice,  but finished his term with
Captain John Haven,  when about eighteen years old.  The year after,  in
1835,  he removed with his father and the family,  to Greenfield, 
Highland County Ohio,  and there set up in business for himself, 
remaining till the spring of 1843,  when he removed to Decatur,  Brown
County,  where he remained three years,  engaged in running a woolen
factory,  and then returned to Greenfield,  where he re-entered the tin
business,  and stayed till October,  1849.  He then spent one year in
Chillicothe,  and at the expiration of that period made his final
remove,  this time to Columbus,  where he has since resided, doing a
general hardware and tin business,  with the firm of St. Clair & Scott, 
of which he was head,  and Mr. Gamaliel Scott the junior,  the firm
remaining the same until April,  1879,  when Mr. Scott retired, the
partnership then being the oldest in the city,  without change,  having
continued unbroken for twenty-five years.  The business has been
continued on the same site,  northeast corner of friend and south High
streets,  since 1852.  Mr. St. Clair has served three terms in the city
council,  and has been president of the society twelve of the thirteen
years during which the Franklin County Pioneers association has had an
existence,  which post he now holds.  He was married April 7,  1842,  to
Miss Eliza McClelland of Greenfield.  They have had seven children; 
James Reed,  killed by an accident in falling from a derrick,  in
September 1868,  Mary A.  now Mrs. Joseph Amos, of Columbus;  Helen,
still residing at home;  William of Columbus,  in charge of his fathers
business;  Elizabeth,  now Mrs. Francis M. Clark,  also at the old
home,  together with Misses Lucy and Kate St. Clair.  Mrs. St.Clair is
also still living,  and with her husband,  enjoying a healthy and happy
old age.
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