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Magown, Johnston (d. 1836)
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Aler's History of Martinsburg and Berkeley County, West Virginia
by F. Vernon Aler, 1888
Printed for the Author by 
The Mail Publishing Company, Hagerstown, MD.

CHAPTER VIII.
Historical Pen Sketches of the Early Residents of Berkeley County
by the late Hon. Chas. James Faulkner.

Page 149, JOHNSTON MAGOWN

For many years one of the most efficient and active magistrates in
the County of Berkeley. He resided in Martinsburg, and kept his
office in the frame building attached to the Stewart Hotel. He was
a man of strong mind, with clever common sense views of the law.
Few, if any, appeals were ever taken from his decision, for all had
abounded confidence in his integrity and sense of justice. He
possessed much quaint and original humor. His memory was stored
with anecdotes, and being a bachelor, with none of the cares of a
family about him, his office, in which he also slept, was the
regular resort of a coterie of visitors during the long evenings in
winter. He died after a short illness, in 1836, to the regret of
all who knew him.

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