WILLIAM McEWEN JOHNSTON, banker, born in Tennessee, July 20, 1850, is a son of Ebenezer Johnston and of Scotch-Irish ancestry. Educated in Washington College, Lexington, Va., 1866-70, Mr. Johnston began life as a clerk in the banking house of R. T. Wilson & Co. in New York city. In 1879, he was admitted as a partner and has since been an active and progressive member of that enterprising firm, paying much attention to the development of railroad traffic in the South and aiding in the development of the mineral and mining industries of that part of the country. Mr. Johnston has now become thoroughly identified with the life of the metropolis and is a member of the Manhattan, Union, Metropolitan, Tuxedo, Racquet, Coney Island Jockey and New York Yacht clubs. Dec. 31, 1892, he married Miss Flewellyn Reese of Macon, Ga., and has one child Viola. Source: America's Successful Men of Affairs: An Encyclopedia of Contemporaneous Biography; edited by Henry Hall, Volume I; The New York Tribune 1895, page 355.

W. M'E. JOHNSTON DIES; CAPITALIST OF MACON

Macon Ga. December 16 - (Special) W. McEwen Johnston, vice president of the American National Bank and one of the leading capitalists of Macon died at his home on Georgia avenue this morning following an illness of several weeks due to a stroke of apoplexy. He had been gradually sinking for several days and his family had fortified themselves for the end which they knew to be near.

Besides his widow, Mr. Johnston leaves his daughter, Miss Viola Johnston and one son, W. McEwen Johnston jr., three brothers, J. Y. Johnston and james Johnston of Knoxville, Tenn. and A. Von Johnston of Macon and one sister Mrs. T. J. Cook of Macon.

For more than twenty years Mr. Johnston had been one of the leading financiers of this city and he was considered one of the wealthiest men in this portion of the state.

The funeral will be held tomorrow at noon from Christ Episcopal church, Rev. John S. Binting, the rector officiating. The interment will be in Riverside cemetery. Source: The Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia, Wednesday 17 December 1913, Page 16, Col. 2.