Westmoreland County PA Archives Biographies.....Johnston, Andrew A. October 23, 1812 - March 31, 1885
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ANDREW A. JOHNSTON. The late Andrew A. Johnston of Youngstown, a brother of
Governor William Erearme Johnston of Pennsylvania and one of the remarkably
successful business men of the county, was a son of Alexander and Elizabeth
(Freame) Johnston. Ho was born at Youngstown, Westmoreland county, Pa., October
23, 1812, and died March 31, 1885, when in the seventy-third year of his age.
His paternal ancestors were originally from Annandale, Scotland, where Capt.
Alexander Johnston held the estates of Brackenside. He was killed at the battle
of Fontenoy in 1745. His family lost the estate through legal troubles and
political strife and settled in Ireland where Alexander Johnston (father) was
born at Scarbrae, county Tyrone, July 10, 1773. He came to Carlisle, Pa., where
his cousin, Gen. William Irvine, advised him to seek a home west of the
Alleghenies. His family located at Greensburg, where he married Elizabeth,
second daughter of William Freame, who was a native of Belfast, Ireland; had
fought under Wolfe at Quebec, and settled in Pennsylvania, where he married
Elizabeth Johnston, who came from Ireland in 1782. To Andrew and Elizabeth
Johnston were born eight sons and two daughters. These sons varied in height
from six feet to six feet six inches and in weight from two hundred to two
hundred and fifty pounds. Two of them were Governor William F. and Col. John W.,
whose biographies are given in this work. After several years’ residence in
Greensburg he removed to Pittsburg, where he was engaged in the mercantile
business, which he relinquished some years later to embark in the manufacture of
iron. He purchased large tracts of land in Unity, Derry and Ligonier townships
and erected Kingston iron works. As an iron master he met with but poor success
and soon removed to Greensburg where he remained until 1836. In that year he
returned to Kingston house and resided there till July 16, 1872, when he was
called from his earthly labors at the ripe old age of ninety-nine years and six
days. From 1807 to 1836 he held several county offices—sheriff by election,
justice of the peace, treasurer and register and recorder by appointment. He was
a federalist until the dissolution of that political party when he became a
democrat, He was endeared to his family, to his friends and to all who knew him
by his many virtues, his kindness and sterling integrity. With faculties
unimpaired and with a mind clear and unclouded when nearly to the century line
he passed to his final rest and left behind him what is infinitely better than
wealth or fame—an untarnished name.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from
Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Compiled and Published by John M. Gresham & Co.
Samuel T. Wiley, Chief Assistant
1890


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