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History of Allegheny county, Pennsylvania : including its early settlement
Chicago : A. Warner Co., 1889
Cushing, Thomas, 1821
Pg. 266, 267
SAMUEL R. JOHNSTON was born in Pittsburgh July 26, 1797 in a house on Front St., now First Ave., which his father erected two years previously, and which was the third brick edifice built in the borough. He was of Scotch-Irish descent. His grandfather, ROBERT JOHNSTON, came to America from Castle Derg, County Antrim, Ireland, in 1769, and settled in the Cumberland Valley, near Shippensburg, Pa. He was by profession a physician, and upon the breaking out of the revolutionary war he entered the army as a surgeon, and served for three years, when he died in an army hospital. An elder, ROBERT, and a son-in-law, BENSON LECKY, also enlisted in the same army, and served throughout the war. The son, ROBERT, was among those who suffered such cruelty in the British prison ships in New York harbor after the battle of Long Island, and at a later period was connected with ill starred expedition against the Indians in which Col. Crawford and other prisoners were massacred. He, too, was a prisoner, but effected his escape to Detroit, and returned to Fort Pitt.
In 1787 JOHN JOHNSTON married MARY REED, in Chambersburg, and in the same year they moved to and established their home in Pittsburgh. A number of the near relatives of JOHN’S wife participated in the revolutionary war; one was an officer of distinction...He died in 1827, his widow in 1839. Their children were REBECCA, who became the wife of WILLIAM EICHBAUM, and SAMUEL R. JOHNSTON, the subject of this sketch...In 1818 SAMUEL R. JOHNSTON and his brother-in-law, the firm being EICHBAUM and JOHNSTON. From 1819 until 1822 they were the publishers of the Pittsburgh GAZETTE, then a weekly paper. About the same period they established a newspaper in St. Louis, Mo., called the St. Louis REGISTER. Subsequently its place of publication was changed to Kaskaskia, then the capital of Illinois, when its title was the REPUBLICAN ADVOCATE...
SAMUEL married in 1824 MARY NELSON, a niece of the late MAJ. WILLIAM GRAHAM, JR. in whose residence from childhood she had been an inmate. His wife died April 24, 1839, his death occurred Sept. 17, 1854. Their children are two daughters, VALERIA COLLINS and MARY OLIVER, and one son, WILLIAM GRAHAM.
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