"An Illustrated History of Whitman County, state of Washington." San Francisco:
W. H. Lever, 1901.  p. 409.
 
WILSON JOHNSTON, M.D.

     Among the successful young professional men, of whom Whitman county has so
many, must be ranked the gentleman whose name forms the caption of this article,
and to whom representation is certainly due in a work of this character. Our
subject is a highly educated and skilled physician, having devoted the assiduous
efforts of so many years to the study of the profession in all its various
phases, thereby acquiring a knowledge of the same such as few practitioners many
years his senior possess.
     Dr. Johnston was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1867. He acquired his
preparatory education in the excellent public schools for which that province is
especially noted, also taking a course in a collegiate institute. After
completing his educational discipline he served an apprenticeship in the
bricklaying trade, but his ambitions were for a higher vocation, so in the
spring of 1890 he removed to Louisville, Kentucky, and entered the Kentucky
School of Medicine, from which he graduated. He began the practice of medicine
in Addison, West Virginia, which city continued to be his home until November,
1895, when he was requested to and did become resident physician to the
Louisville City Hospital.
     In April, 1896, Dr. Johnston went to New York City to take a post-graduate
course in surgery and diseases of the eye, nose and throat, after completing
which he came west, locating first in Moscow, Idaho. He remained in the practice
there until the spring of 1898, then removed to Colfax, where we now find him.
His abilities as a physician and surgeon are being more and more widely
recognized and his practice is growing accordingly. He is local surgeon for the
0. R. & N.
     The Doctor is a charter member of the Whitman County Medical Association,
which he has served in the capacity of secretary and of which he is now
vice-president. He also belongs to the state medical societies of both
Washington and Idaho. Fraternally, he belongs to the F. & A. M. and the Woodmen
of the World.
     In Tacoma, Washington, in 1899, Dr. Johnston's marriage to Miss Florence
Corbett, a native of California but a daughter of Canadian parents, was duly
solemnized. They have one child, Margaret.
 

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