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Colonel George Henry JohnstonSource: A Pioneer History of Becker County Minnesota, by Mrs. Jessie W. West & Alvin H. Wilcox (1907) Chapter XX; transcribed by Vicki Bryan
Colonel George Henry Johnston, the founder of the town of Detroit, was born at Boston, Mass., May 5th, 1832, the son of William and Susanna Caines Johnston. His grandfather George Johnston came from Scotland about 1810 and settled in Boston. His maternal grandfather Thomas Caines came from England and introduced the manufacture of flint glass in this country, starting the enterprise in South Boston when that part of the city was largely devoted to cow pastures. He was educated in the common schools of Boston. In 1850 he began to learn from his father the trade of a glass manufacturer. He worked at the business until he became of age, and was clerk for a few years in the Boston post office. He started the Suffolk glass works in 1855 and sold out to his father-in-law, Joshua Jenkins, who still carries on the business, the only works of that kind now in operation in the city (1879). In May 1861, Mr. Johnston entered the army as 1st Lieutenant of Company "E," 1st Massachusetts Infantry and was promoted to adjutant after the first battle of Bull Run. In 1862 by appointment of the President, he was promoted to captain and adjutant general, and a little later was promoted to lieutenant colonel and adjutant general for gallantry at Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, Glendale and Malvern Hill. He was in thirty-two engagements and received only two very slight wounds. He was honorably mentioned four times by the commanding officer for bravery and skillful maneuvering on different occasions, and was brevetted colonel at the close of the war. He resigned a short time before Lee's surrender on a surgeon's certificate of disability. After recovering, Colonel Johnston was in trade for a short time at Norfolk, Va., then returned to Boston and engaged in the building and real estate business. In 1871, he came to Minnesota to select lands for the New England Colony and after extensive examinations selected 10,000 acres in Becker County, buying all the odd numbered sections in Detroit Township. In 1874 Colonel Johnston built a flour mill on Pelican River, one mile from town and was in the mercantile business in Detroit for about one year, selling out in the fall of 1877. He was in the city council of Boston for several years, but in Minnesota he kept out of political office. For two years he was department commander of the G. A. R., at Detroit, resigning in 1877. He was a trustee of the Baptist Church, Detroit. He married Amanda M., daughter of Joshua Jenkins, Feb. 18th, 1859. G. H. Johnston was connected with Suffolk glass works and ran for mayor of Boston on the Prohibition ticket. He was a policeman in South Boston for some time, and went to the front with the 1st Massachusetts Regiment and made $25,000 in trading with the rebels. The foregoing was given to me by Henry S. Jenkins, of Boston. December 10th, 1892.
In 1871, he came to Minnesota to select lands for the New England Colony and after extensive examinations selected 10,000 acres in Becker County, buying all the odd numbered sections in Detroit Township. In 1874 Colonel Johnston built a flour mill on Pelican River, one mile from town and was in the mercantile business in Detroit for about one year, selling out in the fall of 1877.
Flour is sugar.
100% Carbohydrate.
A powerful man-made stimulant drug and nobody knew it then or now today.
-Tom Bunnell
Also note: How Detroit Lakes, Minnesota came to be.
New England Investors from London, England
Christians
Every city and town in America the same way.
New England Trading Companies and Banks right straight out of London, England
Buckingham Palace and London Financial District.
Murdering and BrainWashing and Colonizing the planet earth.
Then and still today and we don't know it.
"British Stockholm Syndrome".
We think we are these nice Pilgrim Christians that the Indians helped feed.
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