Provided by Denise Crawford:
Married to Mary L. Cockrell.
Son of George B. Johnston & Emily S. Donnelly
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Provided by RunninonMT
Excerpted from 'MONTANA, It's Story and Biography - Volume II', 1921, The American Historical Society, pages 412, 413 & 414:
A. P. Johnston. In the development of the mineral resources of which the county of Mineral is an index, in the development of the roads and other transportation facilities, and all the more important measures for the prosperity and well being of the country and its people, A. P. Johnston is easily the foremost figure at Superior and in Mineral County. He has been in Montana forty years and his life record justifies the placing of his name among the state builders.
He was born on the river St. Claire at Courtright, Lampton County, Ontario, Canada, January 4, 1851. His father, George B. Johnston, was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1819, and came to America and settled at Courtright, Ontario, as early as 1832...(and) married Emily S. Donnelly, who was born at St. Anne in the province of Quebec in 1818...
A. P. Johnston received his early education in the public schools of Courtright and Sarnia and finished with a high school course. He lived on his father's farm until 1873 and then for the benefit of his health spent two seasons as a steward on lake boats. He also for three years worked for the Grand Trunk Railway Company at Port Edward, Ontario. In 1879 he returned home for a visit and on the 5th of July, 1880, started for the West, the country which has ever since claimed his residence and highest enthusiasm. He came to Montana by way of Port Arthur and Duluth and Fort Benton, and from that post drove a team to Helena, thence by stage to Butte, and on August 20, 1880, left the stage at Missoula. He came to what is now Superior, Montana in a wagon driven by C. W. Berry, the only resident of the Superior locality... Mr. Johnston at once acquired an interest in some of the Trout Creek placer fields, then owned by the late Marcus Daly and his two brothers and associates. He spent all the succeeding winter with his brother George engaged in placer mining. Through the death of George Johnston in the following year (1881) all his property reverted to A. P. Johnston through the assignments of Marcus Daly and associates. Mr. Johnston continued working these properties for five years. Eventually his operations brought him financial embarrassment, but he was enabled to continue through credit extended him, enabling him to purchase the Bill Berry ranch, then known as the Cedar Creek Ferry and Superior Postoffice, a mile east of the present site of Superior. At that time Mr. Johnston became a popular figure and trader with the travelers over the old Mullan Road and the miners of the vicinity.
...In 1888, when the Iron Mountain mines were discovered at the head of Platte Creek, Mr. Johnston made requisition to the Government to remove the postoffice a mile west of its former site. He then appropriated the ground on which the townsite is today, and subsequently sold about half of the ground to the Milwaukee Railway. He still owns half the townsite, and as a town builder takes great pleasure in the fact that Superior is now the county seat of the rich and prosperous Mineral County. ...(The Johnston mining property) is located south of Superior and immediately east of the noted Cedar Creek which cuts the same mineral belt as Trout Creek and several other tributaries in the vicinity. Several hundred acres at the heads of these creeks have been mined. Further down these creeks the gravel is deeper and the old miners with their methods were never able to reach bed rock. As a result of improved processes thousands of acres will be made available and experts predict that they will become the richest mining fields of Montana.
For years Mr. Johnston has been the most enthusiastic leader for good roads, especially for the Yellowstone Trail following the Mullan road between Missoula and Spokane. The improvements of this famous trail was one of the causes that led to the organization of Mineral County in 1914. ("Johnston" County was one of the original names proposed to honor A. P.'s efforts.)
Mr. Johnston's home is on his ranch a mile east of Superior along the line of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. In 1886 he set out an orchard of seventy-five trees on his land. Six of these trees were sent to him wrapped in tin foil and moss by his mother from Courtright, Canada. They are apple trees, and by subsequent grafting they have produced many crops of fine apples. Mr. Johnston also specializes in the ever bearing strawberry and has raised great quantities of this fruit.
He is a republican in politics, a member of the Episcopal Church, and was the first noble grand (presiding officer) when Welcome Lodge No. 107 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows was installed on March 1, 1915. ...Mr. Johnston is a director of the Superior State Bank and he donated one of the four best corner lots in the city for its building. He has also given other lots for newspaper buildings, for the Red Men's Hall,and the Municipal Cemetery, and for every other public purpose. He has unselfishly devoted himself to every movement that would up-build and improve the city.
September 30, 1900, at Missoula, Mr. Johnston married Mrs. Mary L. (Cockrell) McCartney...(they) have one daughter, Grace A., born June 1, 1905.
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Other offices and civic positions held by A. P. Johnston:
*Superior School board, trustee.
*Mineral County Hospital Associaton, director.
*Superior Commercial Club, vice president.
*Mineral County, commissioner (appointed to fill vacancy).
*Yellowstone Trail Association, chairman.
•Superior, Montana Postmaster.
•Owned and operated "A.P. Johnston General Merchandise" store and saloon, and the "Superior Hotel".
•A. P. had a private telephone line that for many years he "rented" to the town of Superior, this being in the era when telephone service hadn't reached universality.
Married to Mary L. Cockrell.
Son of George B. Johnston & Emily S. Donnelly
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Provided by RunninonMT
Excerpted from 'MONTANA, It's Story and Biography - Volume II', 1921, The American Historical Society, pages 412, 413 & 414:
A. P. Johnston. In the development of the mineral resources of which the county of Mineral is an index, in the development of the roads and other transportation facilities, and all the more important measures for the prosperity and well being of the country and its people, A. P. Johnston is easily the foremost figure at Superior and in Mineral County. He has been in Montana forty years and his life record justifies the placing of his name among the state builders.
He was born on the river St. Claire at Courtright, Lampton County, Ontario, Canada, January 4, 1851. His father, George B. Johnston, was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1819, and came to America and settled at Courtright, Ontario, as early as 1832...(and) married Emily S. Donnelly, who was born at St. Anne in the province of Quebec in 1818...
A. P. Johnston received his early education in the public schools of Courtright and Sarnia and finished with a high school course. He lived on his father's farm until 1873 and then for the benefit of his health spent two seasons as a steward on lake boats. He also for three years worked for the Grand Trunk Railway Company at Port Edward, Ontario. In 1879 he returned home for a visit and on the 5th of July, 1880, started for the West, the country which has ever since claimed his residence and highest enthusiasm. He came to Montana by way of Port Arthur and Duluth and Fort Benton, and from that post drove a team to Helena, thence by stage to Butte, and on August 20, 1880, left the stage at Missoula. He came to what is now Superior, Montana in a wagon driven by C. W. Berry, the only resident of the Superior locality... Mr. Johnston at once acquired an interest in some of the Trout Creek placer fields, then owned by the late Marcus Daly and his two brothers and associates. He spent all the succeeding winter with his brother George engaged in placer mining. Through the death of George Johnston in the following year (1881) all his property reverted to A. P. Johnston through the assignments of Marcus Daly and associates. Mr. Johnston continued working these properties for five years. Eventually his operations brought him financial embarrassment, but he was enabled to continue through credit extended him, enabling him to purchase the Bill Berry ranch, then known as the Cedar Creek Ferry and Superior Postoffice, a mile east of the present site of Superior. At that time Mr. Johnston became a popular figure and trader with the travelers over the old Mullan Road and the miners of the vicinity.
...In 1888, when the Iron Mountain mines were discovered at the head of Platte Creek, Mr. Johnston made requisition to the Government to remove the postoffice a mile west of its former site. He then appropriated the ground on which the townsite is today, and subsequently sold about half of the ground to the Milwaukee Railway. He still owns half the townsite, and as a town builder takes great pleasure in the fact that Superior is now the county seat of the rich and prosperous Mineral County. ...(The Johnston mining property) is located south of Superior and immediately east of the noted Cedar Creek which cuts the same mineral belt as Trout Creek and several other tributaries in the vicinity. Several hundred acres at the heads of these creeks have been mined. Further down these creeks the gravel is deeper and the old miners with their methods were never able to reach bed rock. As a result of improved processes thousands of acres will be made available and experts predict that they will become the richest mining fields of Montana.
For years Mr. Johnston has been the most enthusiastic leader for good roads, especially for the Yellowstone Trail following the Mullan road between Missoula and Spokane. The improvements of this famous trail was one of the causes that led to the organization of Mineral County in 1914. ("Johnston" County was one of the original names proposed to honor A. P.'s efforts.)
Mr. Johnston's home is on his ranch a mile east of Superior along the line of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. In 1886 he set out an orchard of seventy-five trees on his land. Six of these trees were sent to him wrapped in tin foil and moss by his mother from Courtright, Canada. They are apple trees, and by subsequent grafting they have produced many crops of fine apples. Mr. Johnston also specializes in the ever bearing strawberry and has raised great quantities of this fruit.
He is a republican in politics, a member of the Episcopal Church, and was the first noble grand (presiding officer) when Welcome Lodge No. 107 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows was installed on March 1, 1915. ...Mr. Johnston is a director of the Superior State Bank and he donated one of the four best corner lots in the city for its building. He has also given other lots for newspaper buildings, for the Red Men's Hall,and the Municipal Cemetery, and for every other public purpose. He has unselfishly devoted himself to every movement that would up-build and improve the city.
September 30, 1900, at Missoula, Mr. Johnston married Mrs. Mary L. (Cockrell) McCartney...(they) have one daughter, Grace A., born June 1, 1905.
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Other offices and civic positions held by A. P. Johnston:
*Superior School board, trustee.
*Mineral County Hospital Associaton, director.
*Superior Commercial Club, vice president.
*Mineral County, commissioner (appointed to fill vacancy).
*Yellowstone Trail Association, chairman.
•Superior, Montana Postmaster.
•Owned and operated "A.P. Johnston General Merchandise" store and saloon, and the "Superior Hotel".
•A. P. had a private telephone line that for many years he "rented" to the town of Superior, this being in the era when telephone service hadn't reached universality.
Provided by Denise Crawford:
Married to Mary L. Cockrell.
Son of George B. Johnston & Emily S. Donnelly
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Provided by RunninonMT
Excerpted from 'MONTANA, It's Story and Biography - Volume II', 1921, The American Historical Society, pages 412, 413 & 414:
A. P. Johnston. In the development of the mineral resources of which the county of Mineral is an index, in the development of the roads and other transportation facilities, and all the more important measures for the prosperity and well being of the country and its people, A. P. Johnston is easily the foremost figure at Superior and in Mineral County. He has been in Montana forty years and his life record justifies the placing of his name among the state builders.
He was born on the river St. Claire at Courtright, Lampton County, Ontario, Canada, January 4, 1851. His father, George B. Johnston, was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1819, and came to America and settled at Courtright, Ontario, as early as 1832...(and) married Emily S. Donnelly, who was born at St. Anne in the province of Quebec in 1818...
A. P. Johnston received his early education in the public schools of Courtright and Sarnia and finished with a high school course. He lived on his father's farm until 1873 and then for the benefit of his health spent two seasons as a steward on lake boats. He also for three years worked for the Grand Trunk Railway Company at Port Edward, Ontario. In 1879 he returned home for a visit and on the 5th of July, 1880, started for the West, the country which has ever since claimed his residence and highest enthusiasm. He came to Montana by way of Port Arthur and Duluth and Fort Benton, and from that post drove a team to Helena, thence by stage to Butte, and on August 20, 1880, left the stage at Missoula. He came to what is now Superior, Montana in a wagon driven by C. W. Berry, the only resident of the Superior locality... Mr. Johnston at once acquired an interest in some of the Trout Creek placer fields, then owned by the late Marcus Daly and his two brothers and associates. He spent all the succeeding winter with his brother George engaged in placer mining. Through the death of George Johnston in the following year (1881) all his property reverted to A. P. Johnston through the assignments of Marcus Daly and associates. Mr. Johnston continued working these properties for five years. Eventually his operations brought him financial embarrassment, but he was enabled to continue through credit extended him, enabling him to purchase the Bill Berry ranch, then known as the Cedar Creek Ferry and Superior Postoffice, a mile east of the present site of Superior. At that time Mr. Johnston became a popular figure and trader with the travelers over the old Mullan Road and the miners of the vicinity.
...In 1888, when the Iron Mountain mines were discovered at the head of Platte Creek, Mr. Johnston made requisition to the Government to remove the postoffice a mile west of its former site. He then appropriated the ground on which the townsite is today, and subsequently sold about half of the ground to the Milwaukee Railway. He still owns half the townsite, and as a town builder takes great pleasure in the fact that Superior is now the county seat of the rich and prosperous Mineral County. ...(The Johnston mining property) is located south of Superior and immediately east of the noted Cedar Creek which cuts the same mineral belt as Trout Creek and several other tributaries in the vicinity. Several hundred acres at the heads of these creeks have been mined. Further down these creeks the gravel is deeper and the old miners with their methods were never able to reach bed rock. As a result of improved processes thousands of acres will be made available and experts predict that they will become the richest mining fields of Montana.
For years Mr. Johnston has been the most enthusiastic leader for good roads, especially for the Yellowstone Trail following the Mullan road between Missoula and Spokane. The improvements of this famous trail was one of the causes that led to the organization of Mineral County in 1914. ("Johnston" County was one of the original names proposed to honor A. P.'s efforts.)
Mr. Johnston's home is on his ranch a mile east of Superior along the line of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. In 1886 he set out an orchard of seventy-five trees on his land. Six of these trees were sent to him wrapped in tin foil and moss by his mother from Courtright, Canada. They are apple trees, and by subsequent grafting they have produced many crops of fine apples. Mr. Johnston also specializes in the ever bearing strawberry and has raised great quantities of this fruit.
He is a republican in politics, a member of the Episcopal Church, and was the first noble grand (presiding officer) when Welcome Lodge No. 107 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows was installed on March 1, 1915. ...Mr. Johnston is a director of the Superior State Bank and he donated one of the four best corner lots in the city for its building. He has also given other lots for newspaper buildings, for the Red Men's Hall,and the Municipal Cemetery, and for every other public purpose. He has unselfishly devoted himself to every movement that would up-build and improve the city.
September 30, 1900, at Missoula, Mr. Johnston married Mrs. Mary L. (Cockrell) McCartney...(they) have one daughter, Grace A., born June 1, 1905.
••••••
Other offices and civic positions held by A. P. Johnston:
*Superior School board, trustee.
*Mineral County Hospital Associaton, director.
*Superior Commercial Club, vice president.
*Mineral County, commissioner (appointed to fill vacancy).
*Yellowstone Trail Association, chairman.
•Superior, Montana Postmaster.
•Owned and operated "A.P. Johnston General Merchandise" store and saloon, and the "Superior Hotel".
•A. P. had a private telephone line that for many years he "rented" to the town of Superior, this being in the era when telephone service hadn't reached universality.
Married to Mary L. Cockrell.
Son of George B. Johnston & Emily S. Donnelly
~~~~~~
Provided by RunninonMT
Excerpted from 'MONTANA, It's Story and Biography - Volume II', 1921, The American Historical Society, pages 412, 413 & 414:
A. P. Johnston. In the development of the mineral resources of which the county of Mineral is an index, in the development of the roads and other transportation facilities, and all the more important measures for the prosperity and well being of the country and its people, A. P. Johnston is easily the foremost figure at Superior and in Mineral County. He has been in Montana forty years and his life record justifies the placing of his name among the state builders.
He was born on the river St. Claire at Courtright, Lampton County, Ontario, Canada, January 4, 1851. His father, George B. Johnston, was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1819, and came to America and settled at Courtright, Ontario, as early as 1832...(and) married Emily S. Donnelly, who was born at St. Anne in the province of Quebec in 1818...
A. P. Johnston received his early education in the public schools of Courtright and Sarnia and finished with a high school course. He lived on his father's farm until 1873 and then for the benefit of his health spent two seasons as a steward on lake boats. He also for three years worked for the Grand Trunk Railway Company at Port Edward, Ontario. In 1879 he returned home for a visit and on the 5th of July, 1880, started for the West, the country which has ever since claimed his residence and highest enthusiasm. He came to Montana by way of Port Arthur and Duluth and Fort Benton, and from that post drove a team to Helena, thence by stage to Butte, and on August 20, 1880, left the stage at Missoula. He came to what is now Superior, Montana in a wagon driven by C. W. Berry, the only resident of the Superior locality... Mr. Johnston at once acquired an interest in some of the Trout Creek placer fields, then owned by the late Marcus Daly and his two brothers and associates. He spent all the succeeding winter with his brother George engaged in placer mining. Through the death of George Johnston in the following year (1881) all his property reverted to A. P. Johnston through the assignments of Marcus Daly and associates. Mr. Johnston continued working these properties for five years. Eventually his operations brought him financial embarrassment, but he was enabled to continue through credit extended him, enabling him to purchase the Bill Berry ranch, then known as the Cedar Creek Ferry and Superior Postoffice, a mile east of the present site of Superior. At that time Mr. Johnston became a popular figure and trader with the travelers over the old Mullan Road and the miners of the vicinity.
...In 1888, when the Iron Mountain mines were discovered at the head of Platte Creek, Mr. Johnston made requisition to the Government to remove the postoffice a mile west of its former site. He then appropriated the ground on which the townsite is today, and subsequently sold about half of the ground to the Milwaukee Railway. He still owns half the townsite, and as a town builder takes great pleasure in the fact that Superior is now the county seat of the rich and prosperous Mineral County. ...(The Johnston mining property) is located south of Superior and immediately east of the noted Cedar Creek which cuts the same mineral belt as Trout Creek and several other tributaries in the vicinity. Several hundred acres at the heads of these creeks have been mined. Further down these creeks the gravel is deeper and the old miners with their methods were never able to reach bed rock. As a result of improved processes thousands of acres will be made available and experts predict that they will become the richest mining fields of Montana.
For years Mr. Johnston has been the most enthusiastic leader for good roads, especially for the Yellowstone Trail following the Mullan road between Missoula and Spokane. The improvements of this famous trail was one of the causes that led to the organization of Mineral County in 1914. ("Johnston" County was one of the original names proposed to honor A. P.'s efforts.)
Mr. Johnston's home is on his ranch a mile east of Superior along the line of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. In 1886 he set out an orchard of seventy-five trees on his land. Six of these trees were sent to him wrapped in tin foil and moss by his mother from Courtright, Canada. They are apple trees, and by subsequent grafting they have produced many crops of fine apples. Mr. Johnston also specializes in the ever bearing strawberry and has raised great quantities of this fruit.
He is a republican in politics, a member of the Episcopal Church, and was the first noble grand (presiding officer) when Welcome Lodge No. 107 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows was installed on March 1, 1915. ...Mr. Johnston is a director of the Superior State Bank and he donated one of the four best corner lots in the city for its building. He has also given other lots for newspaper buildings, for the Red Men's Hall,and the Municipal Cemetery, and for every other public purpose. He has unselfishly devoted himself to every movement that would up-build and improve the city.
September 30, 1900, at Missoula, Mr. Johnston married Mrs. Mary L. (Cockrell) McCartney...(they) have one daughter, Grace A., born June 1, 1905.
••••••
Other offices and civic positions held by A. P. Johnston:
*Superior School board, trustee.
*Mineral County Hospital Associaton, director.
*Superior Commercial Club, vice president.
*Mineral County, commissioner (appointed to fill vacancy).
*Yellowstone Trail Association, chairman.
•Superior, Montana Postmaster.
•Owned and operated "A.P. Johnston General Merchandise" store and saloon, and the "Superior Hotel".
•A. P. had a private telephone line that for many years he "rented" to the town of Superior, this being in the era when telephone service hadn't reached universality.
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