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William Preston Johnston. Soldier, scholar, poet and educator. A Sketch of his noble career. [Died, with mind serene, in perfect peace with God, July 16, 1899, at the residence of his son-in-law, Hon. Henry St. George Tucker, Col. Alto, Lexington, Va., Colonel William Preston Johnston, President of Tulane University, New Orleans, La. It may be of interest to note that he died in the same bed in which he was born, at the residence of his maternal grandfather, Colonel William Preston, Louisville, Kentucky, and in the same house in which his first wife expired suddenly, fourteen years before, when seated in the drawing room, while on a visit to the late Judge J. W. Lea, who was also a native of New Orleans. The so-lamented deceased had for many years proven himself a zealous member of the Southern Historical Society. He was present, as the delegate from the State of Kentucky, at our Southern Historical Convention, which assembled August 14, 1873, at the White Sulph