Bios:  JOHNSTON, Edward P.: Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 
         
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   Edward P Johnston, principal of the seventh ward school, Allegheny, was
   born in Brownsville, Fayette county, Penna. His parents were William H
   Johnston and Eliza Brown Johnston, who descended from pioneer settlers of
   that historic town, coming from the north of Ireland.

   W H Johnston was a successful building contractor and erected many
   prominet buildings in Washington and Fayette counties. He was an ardent
   supporter of all educational movements, and from the labor of his own
   hands provided the means that graduated from higher institutions of
   learning five sons and two daughters. He was a man six feet three inches
   tall, and of robust physical and mental strength. He was prominent for
   many years in the politics of his town and county, and was president of
   the council, and a director of the Monongahela bank at the time of his
   death. He believed in the gospel of hard work, and in times like these
   when so many think of work only to avoid it, it is a credit to his family
   that they have inherited this virtue as well as the educational
   tendencies of their father. He was an Episcopalian and a Mason.

   The subject of this sketch recieved his education in the public schools
   of Brownsville and the Indiana state normal school, graduating from the
   latter in 1879. Since graduating Mr Johnston has been principal of the
   schools at Freeport, Brownsville, Pittsburg and Allegheny. He is a man of
   positive and mathematical mind, forms his own opinion of men and things,
   and advocates them with a sincerity that no one doubts. His school work
   is marked by an energy and enthusiasm that always succeeds. He leads his
   school and has stimulated the educational sentiment of his district to a
   wonderful degree. The seventh ward school employs twenty three teachers
   and has enrolled 1,100 pupils.

   Mr Johnston married Miss Mary E Fullerton, a successful teacher in
   Freeport schools, and to them has been born one child, Eliza Brown
   Johnston, a third year student in the Allegheny high school. Mr Johnston
   is an Episcopalian and a Mason.