Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... valuable phases of the Club's work has been its success in inducing the children of the city to plant flowers in their yards and in vacant lots, and in line with this movement some factory owners have beautified their grounds with flowers, shrubs and grass. The City Beautiful Club of Chattanooga has not only worked as a body, but its individual members have pressed the enthusiasm of the movement, both in public and in private and the ideals and principles for which the club originally stood have now become possessed of potencies of themselves, and are vital and vigorous forces for development and improvement in this city. The City Beautiful Club of Chattanooga has also helped organize similar societies for several other cities. Robert Madison Johnston. The Johnston family, prominently represented at Loudon and vicinity, where they have resided since the opening of the Hiawassee purchase more than ninety years ago, are of Scotch origin, and were among the Presbyterians Dissenters who emigrated to the north of Ireland and took up the confiscated lands of the Irish barons deposed by the King of England. The other people like them are always called Scotch-Irish, but among many of the families will be found no trace of Irish blood, largely due to the fact that there was the greatest antipathy existing between the natives and the Scotch immigrants, and intermarriage was of rare occurrence. The founder of this particular branch of the family in America was Joseph Johnston born in Ireland between 1755 or 1760, coming to America about 1780. His first home was in Rockbridge county, Virginia, where he was married, the name of his wife being Margaret Graham. Later he moved to the York District in South Carolina. Then in 1808, he brought his family...
