HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS, E. Polk Johnson, three volumes,
Lewis Publishing Co., New York & Chicago, 1912. Common version, Vol. III,
p. 1167.

WILLIAM J. JOHNSTON, president of the Bank of Prospect and one of the
leading men of Oldham county, Kentucky, was born near Crestwood, Oldham
county, Kentucky, July 10, 1852, the son of James and Julia (Speer)
Johnston, natives of Virginia.  Mr. Johnston was reared on the farm and
secured a common school education.  He has followed agricultural pursuits
all his life, meeting with deserved success and now owns and occupies a
fine farm in Oldham county, a minor part of the land lying in Jefferson
county.  Through practical, profitable and scientific farming he has
become well equipped for the duties which devolve upon him in his official
capacity.  For a number of years he was a member of the Board of Directors
of the Crestwood State Bank, at Crestwood, Kentucky, and was one of the
organizers and incorporators and the first president of the Bank of
Prospect.  He is also president of the Orchard Grass-Seed Commission
Company, which is an organization of agriculturists.
     Mr. Johnston married Alberta Smith, who was born in Oldham county,
Kentucky, the daughter of Isaac Clay Smith, a native of Virginia, but
whose parents were pioneers of Kentucky.  To Mr. and Mrs. Johnston children
were born as follows: Clay Smith, a farmer on the home place in Oldham
county, and Ola Mary, wife of Mr. E. C. Hoagland, Jr., cashier of the Bank
of Prospect.

Johnston Speer Smith Hoagland
=
Jefferson-KY VA

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