Joseph Johnstone of Lochwinnoch - Cabinet-maker

Johnstone was born in Salford but was of Scottish descent. He was the eldest son of Robert Johnstone a cabinet manufacturer. He was educated at Crummock School in Beith in Ayrshire, a town renowned for its furniture making industries. In 1882 he married Jane Clerk, the daughter of Alexander Muir of Beith and they had two sons and three daughters. Johnstone was widowed in 1917 and did not remarry. Jonhstone followed his father into the furniture business, going on to become head of his own furniture manufacturing concern with works situated at Lochwinnoch