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Thomas Murphy Jerome JOHNSTON  1836 - 1869

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• Birth	Jul 1836	MA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	1860	460 Washington Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA   [2]
  	listed as a crayon artist.
  Died	28 Mar 1869	Paris, France
  Person ID	I7	Cartwright
  Last Modified	31 Jan 2008
  Father	David Claypoole JOHNSTON, I,   b. 25 Mar 1798, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA ,   d. 08 Nov 1865, 32 Payson Avenue, Dorchester, Suffolk County, MA
  Mother	Sarah Elizabeth MURPHY,   b. 26 Dec 1810, Concord, Middlesex County, MA ,   d. 1880
  Married	06 Nov 1829
  Census	06 Sep 1850	25 Franklin Place, Boston, Suffolk County, MA
  Family ID	F4	Group Sheet

• Photos		Thomas Murphy Jerome Johnston, ca. 1852 Status: Located.
  		Thomas Murphy Jerome Johnston, ca. 1859 Status: Located.
  		The Light of Our Home by TMJ Johnston Status: Located. C.H. Brainard has published a beautiful portrait of a beautiful child, and called it "The Light of Our Home." Such a light in a household is a blessing. The picture is splendidly photographed by Black & Batchelder, from a crayon by T.M. Johnston. (Copyrighted and published by C.H. Brainard in 1860 as reported in a Boston newspaper June 2, 1860)
  		Thomas Murphy Jerome Johnston, ca. 1867 Status: Located.
  Documents		The Missing 49th Massachusetts (Irish) Regiment in the Civil War Status: Located. Union army recruiting escalated when Lincoln called for 300,000 troops in August 1862. In Boston, the Irish Society made a special pitch to the large, heavily Democratic Irish immigrant population. Drive coordinators planned to organize an all-Irish 47th Massachusetts Regiment under the command of "Colonel" Frank H. Ward. As other regiments began…
  		Thomas Johnston Visits Philadelphia Relatives (Pg 1) Status: Located. In July 1860, Abraham Lincoln, was campaigning for the presidency in Springfield, IL. C.H. Brainard, a Boston lithograph publisher, hired Thomas Murphy Jerome Johnston, a noted Boston portrait artist and son of David Claypoole Johnston, to go to Springfield, IL to complete a portrait of Lincoln. On his way, Thomas wrote a letter to his father…
  		Thomas Johnston Visits Relatives in Philadelphia (Pg 2) Status: Located. In July 1860, Abraham Lincoln, was campaigning for the presidency in Springfield, IL. C.H. Brainard, a Boston lithograph publisher, hired Thomas Murphy Jerome Johnston, a noted Boston portrait artist and son of David Claypoole Johnston, to go to Springfield, IL to complete a portrait of Lincoln. On his way, Thomas wrote a letter to his father…

• Sources

  [S1] Freeman Family Records. [S20] City Directory, Massachusetts, Boston, 1860.