Background
Johnstone, Edward Robert was born on April 30, 1849 in Utica, New York, United States. Son of Mervin E. and Julia (Waters) Johnstone.
Johnstone, Edward Robert was born on April 30, 1849 in Utica, New York, United States. Son of Mervin E. and Julia (Waters) Johnstone.
Student Princeton, 1866, Dickinson College, 1866-1870.
Waters; married second, Ida Louise Abell, January 27, 1887. With various papers from 1870. In campaigns against Chief Joseph, 1877, Sitting Bulletin, 1880-1881.
City editor Saint Paul Pioneer Press, 1882-1892.
Correspondent in Riel rebellion, 1885. City and county assessor, Saint Paul, Minnesota, 1892-1895.
With Associated Press, 1897-1898, in New New York In charge fleet of dispatch boats, Spanish-American War, February to August 1898, at Key West, in Havana and Santiago blockades, and in Puerto Rico.
Editor Minneapolis Times, 1898-1903.
Managing editor New York Commercial Advertiser, 1903-1904. Editor-in-chief Cleveland Leader, 1904-1906. In charge of cargoes of flour-famine relief in China, 1907.
National registrar American Red Cross, 1908-1909.
Special writer Address: New York, New York Deceased.
Married Mary Griswold. Married second, Ida Louise Abell, January 27, 1887.