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A. C. Johnston, M. D., physician and surgeon of Mulberry Township, and a resident of Mulberry, was born in North Carolina, near Rollins, February 24, 1825, and is the son of Whitmill and Elizabeth (Mercer) Johnston, both natives of North Carolina. Their native county was settled by a colony of his ancestors, who located there prior to the Revolutionary War, and where many of their descendants are now living. He was a distant relative (third cousin) of Gen. Joseph Johnston. He was reared on a farm which occupation he followed all his life. His son, Dr. A. C. Johnston, reached fifteen years of age in his native county (Burke) and then moved with his parents to Alabama. In 1859 he left that State, and settled in Arkansas, where he remained until 1863, when he went to Texas, and after remaining there two years returned to Arkansas. He then commenced the study of medicine under John C. Lewis, and afterward attended New Orleans College from which institution he graduated in 1866. He then commenced the practice of his profession in White (now Miller) County, Ark., but came to Franklin County, Ark., in 1868, and has since been engaged in the constant practice of his profession. After one year in this county he went to Waldron, Scott Co., Ark., where he remained until 1875, when he returned to Franklin County. He was married, in 1849, to Miss Rebecca C. Simmons, a native of Alabama, born in 1829, and they became the parents of an excellent family. Dr. Johnston is a member of the Masonic fraternity, a Royal Arch Mason, and is an honest, upright citizen, and an excellent practitioner.