This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Johnston Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Fm.2ADI/311 Message Board Post: THE CHANUTE TRIBUNE, MARCH 31, 1908 DEATH OF CAPTAIN JOHNSTON HE HAD LIVED IN CHANUTE 24 YEARS-FUNERAL SERVICES AT LATE HOME AT 8 O’CLOCK THIS EVENING AFTER WHICH BODY WILL BE TAKEN EAST FOR BURIAL. Captain G. W. Johnston died at his home, 219 South Steuben avenue at 2 o’clock this afternoon. Service of comfort for the friends and loved ones will be held at the home by the Rev. H. G. Mathis, pastor of the Presbyterian church at 8 o’clock this evening. The family will leave on the midnight train for Pittsburg, Pa. Taking with them the body to be laid to rest in the family burying ground in Allegheny cemetery. Death was caused by a general breaking down due to age. It came after an illness which lasted for sev- eral months. George Wintermute Johnston was born September 8, 1832, at Brownsville, Pa. He spent his boyhood days in the schools there and completed his education, at Kenyon College, Gambier, O. He then returned to Brownsville and engaged in mercantile pursuits. A little later he was attracted to steamboating and rose from the position of clerk to captain and owner. He continued in this work on the Ohio and the Mississippi rivers for seventeen years and during the Civil war was several times called to carry United States troops down the river. In 1868 he moved with his family to Iowa near the City of Des Moines where he became a large land owner. Again, in 1884, with his family, he moved to Kansas and engaged in the banking business here. At one time he was the proprietor of the Chanute Bank, afterward merged into the Chanute National of which he was president. Some ten years ago he retired from active business life and has continued to make his home in this city. September 30, 1862 he was united in marriage to Miss Mary Josephine Ewing, the daughter of Judge Wm. D. Ewing of Pittsburg, Pa. To this Union were born six children: John Oley of Baltimore, Md.; George Anson, Wm. Ewing, and Chestor F., all of Pittsburg, Pa.; Mrs. Mabel Bertha Camp of Chicago, and Mrs. Mary Johnton Pates, Whose sad death occurred in Monongahela, Pa., Feb. 15, 1907. Captain Johnston was christened in the Episcopal Church, professed his faith in Christ in 1892 and Joined the Presbyterian church of Chanute at that Time. Of this church he continued an unassuming But faithful member until his death.