Person:Johnston Elliott (1)

ELLIOTT, Johnston Johnston Elliott (1802-1887) http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ia/county/linn/history/portbioindex.htm Portrait & Biographical Album of Linn County 1887 Pages 166-167 Page A Johnston Elliott, Sr., deceased, was born in Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, February 22, 1802. His father was of Scotch-Irish descent. Our subject emigrated from Pennsylvania to Ohio in 1826 and made settlement in Knox County. He was a tanner by trade and was Postmaster at Mt. Vernon, the county seat of Knox County. He was united in marriage in 1831 with Miss Eliza Mills, who was born near Richmond, Virginia November 12, 1807. Nine children were born to this union, 5 sons and 4 daughters, only 6 of whom are living at the present writing: Mary E., who is the widow of Henry Parkhurst and who is now residing at Marion, Iowa; Rebecca, who was the wife of Nathan Bixby and who died in 1856; Henry Prather married Maria Antoinette Twogood and is Chief of the Claim Department of the C M & St. P R R Co at Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Johnston married Esther Primrose and is a retired merchant of Marion; Milton L married Miss Susan L Lake and is engaged in the boot and shoe business at Marion; Lizzie G is a teacher in the Marion schools; Lester L married Miss Mary Winter and is the present Deputy Treasurer of Linn County; and 2 died in infancy. Mr. Elliott emigrated from Ohio to Marion, Iowa in 1856. In politics, he was a Whig in early life, but on the organization of the Republican Party, he attached himself to that political body. He was an active politician and influential in party management. He was elected County Judge of Linn County, serving four years; he has also held many other minor offices in his county. Judge Elliott was a man of broad views, believing that the development of a sound moral character was more essential than the observance of peculiar forms of creeds. He was highly respected and held in warm esteem by a large circle of friends. His death occurred November 8, 1885 at Marion. He wife is still a resident of that city. Mrs. Elliott, although 77 years of age, is active and energetic, with faculties unimpaired. She has lived a long life of usefulness and reared a large family of children. Possessed of a happy cheerful disposition, she has devoted herself to her husband and children and is now passing the evening of her days in quiet contentment in the company of her children and grandchildren.