Cumberland County, Maine - Thomas M. Johnston
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Biography
Thomas M. Johnston
Biographical Review
Cumberland County, Maine
Boston
Biographical Review Publishing Company
1896
Page 559-560


Thomas M. Johnston, senior member of the firm of H. J. Bailey & Co., wholesale
and retail carpet dealers of Portland, was born in Cornwall on the Hudson, N.Y.,
May 1, 1852, son of David and Lettie (Clark) Johnston. His father, who was a
native of Trenton, N.J., was a tanner, which business he successfully followed
in Cornwall. His wife, Lettie Clark, who was born in Cornwall on the Hudson,
became the mother of nine children, as follows: Hannah J., who became the wife
of Moses Bailey; Colonel Frank C., who was on the staff of Major-general Thomas
G. Lawler, ex-Commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic; Joseph H.,
who was killed at the battle of the Wilderness during the Civil War; Phebe A.,
who married Allen W. Pinkham, of Vassalboro, Me.; Mary B., who became the wife
of Ellsworth Gerow, of Plattekill, N.Y.; Dr. Charles Lindley, now a practicing
physician, residing at 467 Vanderbilt Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Etta H.; Carrie
L.; and Thomas M., the subject of this sketch. The mother of these children is
no longer living.

Thomas M. Johnston acquired the rudiments of his education in the public schools
of Plattekill, and pursued a supplementary course of study at Oakwood Seminary,
a Friends' school at Union Springs, Cayuga County, N.Y. In 1872 he went to
Portland, and became a chore boy in the wholesale carpet store in which he is
now senior partner. He applied himself closely to the task of obtaining a
thorough knowledge of the business, and has worked his way step by step to his
present position. He possesses business ability of a high order, is energetic,
progressive, and well up with the times. The firm of which he is the leading
representative does a large wholesale and retail business in carpets, rugs, oil-
cloths, draperies, etc., and has an extensive local as well as outside trade. In
politics Mr. Johnston is a Republican, and in 1892 he was a member of the Board
of Aldermen from Ward 4. Socially, he is a member of Portland Lodge, A. F. & A.
M., and of Unity Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

Mr. Johnston married Nellie L. Jones, of Winthrop, Me., daughter of Reuben and
Phebe (Winslow) Jones, and has two children - Theo Edna and Inez Earle. He and
his wife are members of the Friends' Society of Portland, and their residence is
at 31 Ocean Street, Deering.