helped negotiate the Treaty of Upper Sandusky in 1842, which removed the Wyandot from Ohio to the West. It was reported that he earned a $1200.00 salary per year as an agent, and he retained that position until let go by President Jackson - a total of thirty-one years. Johnston was a Whig, and in 1844 was one of Ohio's delegates to the Whig Party's national convention. After the convention, he travelled to campaign for Henry Clay. Besides his duties as an Indian agent, he also contributed to many other facets of Ohio. He was a canal commissioner with Ohio for eleven years, president of the historical and philosophical societies in Ohio, and founder of the first Sunday school in Miami County, Ohio. John Johnston was also founder of Kenyon College, served on the board of trustees of Miami University, and was a member of the board at West Point. He wrote Indian Tribes in Ohio before he died in 1861 in Washington, D.C. Today, his Piqua farm maintained by the Ohio Historical Society. John and Rachel Johnston were married for 38 years before his wife died on 24 July 1840, after eleven days of illness. The bereavement after the death of his wife in the family home, caused him to leave and move to Cincinnati with a daughter, and then later to Dayton, where he died in 1861 at the age of 86. Notes References Hill, Leonard. Col. John Johnson and the Indians in the Land of the Three Miamis. Columbus, Ohio: Stoneman Press, 1957. History of Miami County Ohio - Col. John Johnston. Piqua Public Library (3 files). Horsman, Reginald. "John Johnston: Indian Agent and Ohio Citizen." Timeline, Ohio Historical Society, July–September 2013. Volume 30, Number 3. External links Fort Wayne Indian Agency Collection at the William L. Clements Library Johnston Farm Ohio Piqua Historical Area - Johnston farm Shelby County, Ohio History John Johnston at Find a grave 1775 births Irish emigrants to the United States (before 1923) Northwest Territory officials Ohio Whigs 19th-century American politicians People from Piqua, Ohio United States Indian agents 1861 deaths Kenyon College people Miami University trustees American people of the War of 1812 American people of the Northwest Indian War