The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-14
HONORfO CITIZEN GONE
Death of Rev. Adam Johnston
Yesterday at Deer Lodge.
END OF A USEFUL CAREER
A Pioneer Minister OF the Valley City.
Fifty Years in the Pulpit-A Son
Residing in Anaconda Ill
for Several Weeks.



Deer Lodge, May 13.-Rev. Adam
Johnston, aged 81 years. a widely known
divine. died at his home i'm this city at
an early hour this morning after al i'll
ness of several weeks. Fifty odd years
of the life of this man had been de-
voted to the cause for the betterment
Of humanity. and though the icy hand
Of death has stilled his noble heart and
his earthly work be ended. his countless
good deeds and the effects of kind min
istrations will live to bear sweet fruits
for many years to come.
Mr.. Johnston was a native of Scot
land. being born in Glasgow, the ISL
and's chief city. April %. 1914. Coming
with his parents to the United States
at an early age, he became a resident
of Vermont, in that state studying
mathematical branches to properly ft
himself for a career i'm civil engineer
ing. which profession ne followed in
field work In the first railway construc-
ton to be accomplished in Canada-the
line beginning at Toronto. After an ex-
p%erience of a few years In the railroad
world he entered Middlebury college,
Vermont, graduating from that institu-
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inactive life he took up studies in Lane
Theological seminary. taking the full
course, and was licensed to accept calls
to the pulpit by the p~resbytery of Gin
cinnati In 1874. Mr.. Johnston was first
accepted to the ministry in the presby-
terry of PEORIA ILL.,, being ordained to
the pulpit in the village of Blooming
ton in September, 1876. and united with
the Alton presbytery April IS. 1867. His
faIAs ~ rh,rrrh In hpr whila q raSiHanf
Of the Middle West were confined al
most entirely to the state of Illinois. he
being stationed at Waynesville for four
years. beginning in November, 1915,
which charge he resigned to accept a
call as travelling missionary i'm pounds
Of the Chicago presbytery. which place
he filled for one year. his next pulpit
labors being in Washington. where he
remained four years. at the end of that
term removing to Sandwich, where he
remained for a like season. He next
went to Eastmanville. Mich. occupying
the pulpit in that place for two and a
half years. when he returned to I'LL
nois. accepting a call to the First Pres
byterian church of Chillicothe, where he
remained one and a half years. going
thence to Pontiac for six years; then
10 kinmudy for a term OF 10 years.
Leaving Kinmudy. Mr.. Johnston and
IdR1lly TtT1DNeu u sutlby tOuuty
where for IL years he preached to con-
gregations I'm the Tower Hill and
Prairie BIRD churches. and i'm these two
districts he performed his final active
Iabors for God and humanity.
He came to Montana in 1883. settling
In Deer Lodge, where he Joined his
s~on-in-law. DIR. ID. j. Mcmillan, Their
president OF the College OF Montana. and
family. for a life of restful quietude he
so richly deserved. On numerous oc-
~casions during his residence of 10 years
in this city DIR. Johnston has occupied
the pulpit in the Presbyterian church
his earnest ~eloquence winning for him
the esteem Of the people. Mr.. John
ston's marital relations during a mar
ried life Of over so years had been most
happy. and his good wife, a son, George
NJ. Johnston Of Anaconda, and a daugh'
ter. Mrs. D.. j. Mcmillan of New York
survive him. He was married in Chi.
cago I'm July. ls47. to Miss Mary Ann
Kent. a native of Rupert, Nermont
They had eight children, six having
died and are buried in Chicago. where
the remains of DR.. Johnston will be
| taken for interment. and will be &C
companied by his son and daughter-in'
law. who will leave for the city by tho
lakes next Monday evening.