"Who's Who on the Pacific Coast.  A Biographical Compilation of Notable Living
Contemporaries West of the Rocky Mountains."  Franklin Harper, Ed.  Los Angeles:
Harper Publishing Co., 1913.  p. 305.

BERNARD H. JOHNSTON

JOHNSTON, Bernard H., Mining; born, Warsaw, Ill., Sept. 18, 1861; son, Robert
Alexander and Caroline Emily (McMahon) J.  Edu.: public schools, Warsaw, Ill.,
and Carthage, Ill.  Married, Clara Francis Moore, June 25, 1887, at Unionville,
Mo.  Opened the Mendota, Wash. mines; built the town of Mendota and the
Centralia Eastern to Mendota.  Has been in coal mining business for 25 years.
Gen. Mgr., Mendota Coal Co., Mendota, Missouri, Gen. Mgr. and Secy., Mendoata
Coal and Coke Co., Centralia, Wash.; Occidental Coking Coal Co., Bayne, King
Co., Wash.; Vice-pres. and Gen. Mgr., Centralia Eastern R. R., Centralia, Wash.;
Vice-pres., Farmers and Merchants Bank, Centralia, Wash.  Pres. and Treas.,
Rogers Coal Co., Mendoat, Missouri; Pres., Armstrong Coal Co., Cincinnati, Iowa.
Member: F. & A. M., B. P. O. E., Modern Woodmen, Democrat.  Res: 411 North Rock;
Office: rms. 14-15-16, Union Loan and Trust bldg., Centralia, Wash.


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