BIOGRAPHIES:   Ronald A. JOHNSTON, Barron, Barron County, WI

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Ronald A. Johnston, veterinary surgeon of Barron, was born in the city where
he still resides, Feb. 24, 1893, son of Sylvester and Cassie (Clemmens)
Johnston, the former a native of England and the latter of Scotland. The
father, who for many years was the owner of a general store in Barron, has a
pleasant home on La Salle Street, and owns 40 acres on the city limits, 80
acres in Maple Grove and 40 acres in Arland. These farms are under his
personal supervision, and on them he successfully conducts general farming and
dairying. In the family there are five children: Ronald A., Clara, Theodore,
Charles and Marion. Ronald A. passed through the public schools, graduated
from the Barron High School in 1913, and was employed three years in the drug
business. In the fall of 1916 he entered the McKillips Veterinary College, at
Chicago, and took the full course and graduated. In 1918 he offered his
services to the Government, and served as a veterinarian at Camp Greenleaf,
Ga. Upon his discharge, Dec. 14, 1918, he came to Barron once more and engaged
in the practice of his profession. He is in a stock country and has unlimited
territory, and he is highly regarded as a practitioner and as a citizen. His
fraternal relations are with the Masonic order. Dr. Johnston was married Dec.
5, 1917, to Lucille Schultz, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Noah Schultz, of
Maple Grove Township, this county, who moved here from Waukesha County in
1916. The other children in the Schultz family are: Mabel, Mrs. F. Edward;
Maude, now Mrs. Charles Taylor, Esther and Marie.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., &
Co., 1922, pg. 483.