Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1854, MAY. 177 J. H. JOHNSTON. EMIGRANT AID SOCIETY Legislature of Massachusetts Eli Thayer Kansas Free Soil men ASSESSMENT OF 1854 May 6 - The Delaware tribe of Indians cede to the United States the larger part of their lands in Kansas May 18 - The Kickapoos cede their lands in Kansas to the United States JAMES H. JOHNSTON ides at his new house, a mile southeast of Platte City. He was born in Ohio May 27, 1813. He received his mercantile training in Cincinnati, came West early in 1838, and with Stephen Johnston, who was not related to him, opened the second store in Martinsville and Platte City until 1850, when he sold his store to Paxton and Callahan and retired to his farm, where he had just completed a spacious brick dwelling. He married in 1840, Martha Henderson (see), a younger sister of Mrs. Geo. P. Dorriss. She survived him, and married September 17, 1860, Hon. A. W. Morrison, State treasurer, and is again a widow, Capt. R. D. Johnston, another partner, yet not related, administered on his estate, giving bond of $40,000. Ch. I. ANNA JOHNSTON, married Feb. 17, 1860, Hon. Ben. J. Franklin, now governor of Arizona.