Short Name: | Emma M. Johnston |
Full Name: | Johnston, Emma M. (Mansfield), 1835-1904 |
Birth Year: | 1835 |
Death Year: | 1904 |
Born: October 18, 1835, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Died: February 15, 1904, Ocean Grove, New Jersey.
Buried: Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Daughter of Robert Elliott Johnston and Grace Acheson Johnston, Emma was baptized at the Salem Methodist Episcopal Church. She attended different churches in Philadelphia, including Ebenezer Methodist Episcopal Church, where composer William Kirkpatrick also worshipped. She worked as a school teacher, and McElroy’s 1873 Directory of Philadelphia listed her as an authoress.
After her elder sister, Esther Elliott Johnston Boyd, was widowed, the two sisters moved to Asbury Park, New Jersey, and later to Ocean Grove, New Jersey, where they shared a house.
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Texts by Emma M. Johnston (12) | As | Authority Languages | Instances |
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Why should life a weary journey seem | Emma M. Johnston (Author) | English | 11 |
When the port of heaven opens to a world redeemed from sin | Emma M. Johnston (Author) | English | 5 |
We sing the water pure | Emma M. Johnston (Author) | English | 2 |
To what of earth need I aspire? | Miss Emma M. Johnston (Author) | English | 2 |
There is nothing like the old, old story | Emma M. Johnston (Author) | English | 12 |
There's a land that is far away | Emma M. Johnston (Author) | English | 2 |
There's a beautiful time to come to the weary of heart and sad | Miss Emma M. Johnston (Author) | English | 4 |
Sing the song the ransomed sing | Mrs. Emma M. Johnston (Author) | English | 5 |
See the host of redeemed ones advancing | Emma M. Johnston (Author) | English | 4 |
O why should we wrestle with fears | Emma M. Johnston (Author) | English | 11 |
O think of the work to be done | Emma M. Johnston (Author) | English | 4 |
By Samaria's wayside well | Emma M. Johnston (Author) | English | 24 |