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20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio
by Joseph B. Doyle -
Publ Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago -
1910

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  JAMES MCBANE, one of the substantial citizens of Wells Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, who is engaged in stock buying, and in general fanning on a tract of eighty-one acres, located about two miles west of New Alexandria, was born July 27, 1870, on his father's farm in Wells Township, and is a son of William and Margaret (Whitten) McCain.
      David McCain, the grandfather of our subject, was a native of Ireland, and during his early life came to America, where he settled in Jefferson County, Ohio.  Here he lived to the advanced age of eighty years and reared a family of eight children.  By his first union he became the father of six children: Ann, William, Cloya, Eliza Jane, Andrew and James, all desceased.  By his second marriage he had two children: David W. and Charles.
     William McCain, father of William H., was born and always lived in Wells Township, where he followed agricultural pursuits.  He married Margaret Whitten, who came of one of the old established families of Jefferson County, and to them were born six children, two of whom died in infancy:  David L., a resident of Wells Township; John L., of Wells Township; Nancy, who married George Vermillion of Wells Township; and William H., the subject of this record.  William McCain died in 1887 aged fifty-one years, and his widow died in 1908, aged seventy-five years.
     William H. McCain passed his boyhood days on the home farm, and at an early age began assisting his father with the work.  After his marriage he located on his present farm, which he rented for five years
from William Armstrong, and purchased in 1895.  Here he has always followed farming in connection with stock buying and butchering, and disposes of his meat in wholesale quantities.  Mr. McCain was married Sept. 14, 1892, to Vernia B. Moore, a daughter of John Moore, deceased, formerly sheriff of Jefferson County, and to them were born: Harry, Gladys, and ElwoodMr. McCain is politically
identified with the Republican party.
Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ. Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page Page 717
  A. J. McCARTY, proprietor of marble and granite works at No. 108 Eighth Street, Steubenville and one of the city's reliable business men, was born in Frederick County, Virginia, in 1858, and resided there until he was eighteen years of age.  After deciding on the trade that he wished to learn, Mr. McCarty went to Wheeling and put himself under a skilled workman in marble and granite and served out a full apprenticeship.  He had a natural aptitude for the business and learned rapidly and after a training of four years was an expert workman.  He went into the monument business in Wayne County, Ohio, where he continued until 1894, when he came to Steubenville, where for eight years he was manager for Mrs. W. J. Archer and then engaged in the business for himself.  He does all kinds of monumental and vault work, plain or ornate, and many of the resting places of the dead in and around Steubenville are beautified with specimens of his artistic chiseling.  In 1882 Mr. McCarty was married to Miss Belle McLaughlin of Wayne County, Ohio, and they have three children:  Lloyd J., Arthur J. and Delpha, the second son being associated with the father.  Mr. McCarty is identified with the order of Maccabees.
Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ. Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 845
  JAMES McCONVILLE, who deals extensively in real estate at Steubenville, Ohio, was born in 1850 at Warren Point, County Down, Ireland, and is a son of Daniel and Martha (Cochrane) McConville.
     Daniel McConville, Sr.
, came from Ireland to America about 1851 and located at Steubenville, where he became one of the leading merchants and business men, conducting both a wholesale and retail store from 1851 until 1878.  Mr. McConville was strictly an upright business man, one who always took a deep and active interest in the promotion of Steubenville's welfare, and was one of the first men to erect a substantial business block.  His marriage with Martha Cochrane resulted in the birth of the following children:  Daniel, a resident of Washington, D. C., who was sixth auditor of the treasury under the first administration of President Cleveland, was one of the directors of the Ohio Penitentiary, under Governor Hoadley during his administration, and has also served as chairman of the Democratic Committee of Ohio; James, who is the subject of this article; Thomas, who succeeded his father in the mercantile business, has for several years been identified with Reese-Hammond & Company, brick manufacturers of Pittsburg; Edith, who is the wife of P. P. Lewis one of the leading attorneys of Steubenville, Ohio; Anna, who is the widow of John Ingham, is a resident of Allegheny, Pa.
     James McConville received his education in the local schools of Steubenville and at Pittsburg College, and afterwards, embarked in the dry goods businesses.  From 1883 to 1885 he served as Mayor of Steubenville, and on the failure of the Metropolitan Bank of Cincinnati, was appointed receiver of the same by the Cleveland administration, and after settling up the bank's affairs went to Washington, where he engaged in the real estate business.   Since returning to Steubenville, Mr. McConville has dealt extensively in real estate,, and has been prominently identified with the Democratic party, having been their last candidate for Representative.  He was, however, defeated, the Republicans of this locality being about 5,000 in the majority.  Mr. McConville is a member of the Steubenville Chamber of Commerce, and of the Taxation Committee.  Mr. McConville was first married in 1881 to Emma C. Elliott, now deceased, and his second marriage was with Mary McCrystal, no children having been born of either union.
Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ. Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 1067
  H. D. McCULLOCH, M. D., who has been engaged in the practice of his procession at Toronto, O., since July, 1906, maintains offices in the Morrow Building, on Fourth Street.  He was born on a farm near Cambridge, Guernsey County, Ohio, Aug. 4, 1871, and is a son of W. C. and Sarah E. (Sproat) McCulloch.
     Dr. McCulloch
was reared on the farm and for a period of twelve years was engaged in teaching school, a profession which his father also followed many years.  During the latter part of the period mentioned he attended college at Ohio Normal University at Ada, O., and afterwards became instructor in the high school at Washington, Guernsey County, of which institution he became superintendent.  He took up the study of medicine and attended lectures at Ohio Medical University at Columbus, O., graduating therefrom in May, 1906.  In July of the same year, he located at Toronto, where he has built up a splendid practice.  The doctor was united in marriage with Miss Jennie R. Jeffrey, of Washington, Guernsey County, O.  In religious attachment, they are members of the Presbyterian Church.
Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ. Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 793

David Underwood McCullough
  DAVID UNDERWOOD McCULLOUGH, vice-president of the National Exchange Bank of Steubenville, is a well known citizen and comes of one of the pioneer families of the county.  He was born in East Springfield in 1843, where his father Alexander McCullough also was born, in 1822.  The latter was one of the leading farmers and stock raisers of the leading farmers and stock raisers of the county, and was a son of John McCullough who came to Jefferson County, Ohio, as early as 1802.
     David U. McCullough received his educational training in the district schools of his home community, and also at Harlem Springs and Scio College.  In 1862 he enlisted in the Union army as a private in Company E, 52nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and remained in the service until the close of the war.  He rose to the rank of corporal and color bearer and held that rank at the time he fell in the charge at Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia, having been shot in the breast and shoulders.  He was in the hospital for two months, after which he was transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps.  After the war he lived four years in the West, then returned to Island Creek Township, where he has met with success at farming and stock raising.  He is a man of recognized business standing and ability.
     Mr. McCullough was united in marriage with Miss Sarah Jane Watson, and they have a son, Clark W. McCullough.  Religiously, they are members of the United Presbyterian Church, and he is a member of the session.  He also belongs to E. M. Stanton Post, G. A. R., at Steubenville.

Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ. Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 1144
  EDWIN G. McCULLOUGH, who comes of an old and prominent family of Cross Creek Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, is the owner of a tract of 100 acres of well improved land.  He was born in this township Feb. 28, 1864, and is a son of Joseph and Mary Jane (Brown) McCullough.  His paternal grandparents were John and Jane (Hanlin) McCullough, and his maternal grandparents, George and Isabel (Cunningham) Brown.
     Joseph McCullough
was for many years engaged in farming in Cross Creek Township, and met with a high degree of success.  He was in the 100 day service during the Civil War, being a member of Company E, 157th Ohio Volunteer Infantry.  A Republican in politics, he was elected to the office of township trustee which he filled most creditably.  He and his estimable wife were members of Longs M. E. Church, and were both buried in the cemetery at that church.  They were parents of three sons: William C., John W., and Edwin G.
     Edwin G. McCullough
attended the public schools of his native township, after which he took up farming.  For a period of twelve years he rented his present farm of 100 acres from his father, and at the end of that time purchased the place.  For many yeas he has operated a threshing outfit and shredder in partnership with his brother, William C. McCullough.  He was married Oct. 25, 1893, to Miss Anna Ekey, a daughter of Edward T. Ekey, a well known agriculturist residing in Fernwood.  She was one of the following children born to her parents: Anna, James, Harriet, John Howard, Mary E., and Ida S.  The subject of this sketch and his wife have one son, Howard Stanton, who is attending school.  Mr. McCullough is a Republican in politics, but is not a seeker for office.  He and his wife are members of Long's M. E. Church.

Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ. Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 802
  FRANK B. McCULLOUGH, a successful farmer and well known citizen of Cross Creek Township, resides on a valuable farm of 137 acres known  as the old Oliver Farm.  He was born in Wayne Township, Jefferson County, Nov. 4, 1872, and is a son of Walter A. and Julia K. (Ford) McCullough.  His paternal grandparents were John and Jane McCullough, and his grandparents on his mother's side, Nicholas and Caroline Ford.  The parents of Mr. McCullough still live in Wayne Township and are agricultural people.  They are member of the M. E. Church, and the father is a Republican in politics.  They two sons born to them, Frank B. and William.
     Frank B. McCullough
attended the public schools and later Scio College for two years.  He then went to work at farming, which has always been his occupation.  He remained on the home farm with his father until his marriage and then moved to his present place, which was inherited by his wife and her sister from their father.  In addition to general farming, he has considerable business as an auctioneer and an established reputation in that line of work.  He makes a specialty of raising fine harness and draft horses, and is the owner of two fine stallions, namely: Black Crook, coal black in color, with a mark of 2:18, and an imported Belgium draft horse, coal black in color and weighing 1,830 pounds, the latter costing him $2,000.  He is a Republican in politics and has served two terms as assessor, one term in Wayne Township and one in Cross Creek.
     In October, 1899, Frank F. McCullough was united in marriage with Mary E. Oliver, who comes of a prominent old family of the township, being a daughter of Alexander and Jemima (McCain) Oliver, and a granddaughter of Charles and Anna Oliver.  Her maternal grandparents were Myron and Elizabeth McCain.  Her parents were buried at Center Church cemetery.  She has one brother, Burns Oliver, and a sister, Anna, who is the wife of William Birchfield, one of the commissioners of Jefferson County.  One daughter was born to the subject of this sketch and his wife, Julia Oliver McCullough, the date being Sept. 22, 1903.  Religiously, they are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  In fraternal affiliation he is a member of the Masonic Lodge at Smithfield.

Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ. Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 853
  JAMES ALEXANDER McCULLOUGH, a prominent and influential citizen of Wells Township, who is engaged in farming and dairying on the old Smiley H. Johnson homestead, about one and one-half miles northwest of Brilliant, was born Feb. 19, 1866, on a farm in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and is a son of John and Esther (Reed) McCullough.
     John McCullough
was born and reared in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and after reaching manhood went to Washington County, where he located on a farm.  He married a Miss Marshall, who died leaving two children: Margaret, who married John Cook; and John J. F.  He subsequently married Esther Reed, and to them were born four children: Harriet, who married P. H. Gilbert; Ella, deceased, who was wife of Mr. Swerrington; Mollie, who married W. G. Scott; and James A., our subject.  John McCullough died in Washington County, Pennsylvania, aged sixty-six years, and his widow died aged sixty-four years, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. G. Scott, of Wellsville, O.
     James A. McCullough was but ten years old when his father died and afterward lived with his half-brother, J. J. F. McCullough.  He early in life began working on the farm and obtained but little schooling.  He came to Jefferson County with his brother, with whom he remained until eighteen years of age, and in the fall of 1883 started out in life for himself.  He first worked as a mason on the Pan Handle Railroad, then as a brakeman for two years, on the C. P. R. R., after which he returned to the farm.  He also worked for sometime in the steel mills at Mingo Junction and then came to his present location, where he began in the dairy business with his brother, J. J. F. McCullough.  One year later he and his brother's son, F. M. McCullough, began operating the dairy on share, and four years later our subject took entire charge of his present place and F. M. McCullough took the Mingo trade.  Mr. McCullough cultivates a tract of 275 acres and owns twenty-five head of thorough-bred Holstein cattle, ad operates a milk route in Brilliant.
     Mr. McCullough was married May 24, 1899, to Sadie Andrews, who is a daughter of James and Anna Andrews, of Burgettstown, Pa., and they have three children: James Marshall, Charles Kenneth, and Anna May.  Mr. McCullough is a Republican in politics.  He attends the Presbyterian Church.

Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ. Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 832
  JAMES B. McCULLOUGH, M. D., deceased, an old and eminent physician of Steubenville, who had been engaged in the active practice of his profession in this city for thirty-five years, was a native of Ohio, and was born in Harrison County, June 22, 1832.  His parents were Joseph and Sarah (Lyons) McCullough.
    
The McCulloughs came from the Scottish Highlands and settled in Beaver County, Pa., removing from there in 1812 to Harrison County, Ohio.  The grandfather of Dr. McCullough was then a youth of seventeen years.  He applied himself to the law, became a prominent member of the bar and subsequently the first circuit judge of Southeastern Ohio.
     When fifteen years of age, James B. McCullough became a student at Franklin College, West Athens, Ohio, where he remained through his junior year.  Having then decided to adopt medicine as his profession, he began his preparatory reading and during this time paid his own expenses by teaching school.  Later he entered the Cleveland Medical College, where he was graduated in 1853.  For ten years following his graduation.  Dr. McCullough was engaged in practice at Franklin, in Harrison County.  The next decade was spent at Carrolton, Carroll County, and in 1873, Dr. McCullough came to Steubenville.  Here he occupied a position no other practitioner could fill, his long and intimate connection with the people giving him this distinction, his mere presence in many homes having health-giving properties, so entire was the confidence felt in him.  He died Sept. 18, 1897.  In later years his son, Dr. Joseph A. McCullough was associated with him.
     On Oct. 5, 1854, Dr. James B. McCullough was married to Miss Martha M. Megaw, who was born in Harrison County, Ohio, a daughter of James and Elizabeth (Gault) Megaw.  Two sons were born to this marriage: Joseph A., and James V.  The former was associated with his father and the latter is the senior member of the mercantile firm of McCullough & McComb, and resides at No. 507 North fourth Street.  Dr. McCullough was a member of the Presbyterian Church.
     Dr. Joseph A. McCullough was born in Harrison County, Ohio, Dec. 14, 1857.  When only seventeen years of age he graduated from the Massillon High School, later studied both pharmacy and medicine and in the fall of 1878, was graduated from the Cleveland Medical College.  For eighteen months he served as resident physician and surgeon in the Cleveland City Hospital, and took a post-graduate course in London, in 1897, since when he has been established at Steubenville.  He a member of numerous medical organizations and scientific bodies.  He was married in October, 1885, to Miss Mary Beatty, and their handsome residence is situated at No. 842 North Fourth Street, Steubenville.
Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ. Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 952
  JOHN COOK McCULLOUGH, a well known farmer and dairyman of Cross Creek Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, who is operating a farm of 210 acres which belongs to his father, was born in Brooke County, W. Va., and is a son of John L. F. and Esther Margaret (Hall) McCullough.
     John J. F. McCullough was born in West Virginia and from there came to Jefferson County, Ohio, where he engaged in farming until he retired from active pursuits.  He married Esther Margaret Hall, who was born in Pennsylvania, and they had the following children:  Marshall, who conducts in dairy business in Cross Creek Townships; John Cook; Samuel, who is a farmer in Trumbull County; Nancy, who married Ralph Farmer; and Clyde, who married Ralph Farmer; and Clyde, who lives with his brother, John Cook.  The parents of the above mentioned family live in Steubenville Township.  They are members of the Presbyterian Church.
     John Cook McCullough has been engaged in farming and dairying ever since he left school.  He keeps fifteen head of cattle the whole year through and conducts a milk business at Mingo Junction.  When his father retired he took charge of the old home farm and has carried on large farming operations here ever since, growing the usual crops of this section, raising some excellent stock and paying particular attention to dairy interests.
     On Sept. 11, 1901, Mr. McCullough was married to Miss Lucy Gilgrist, a member of an old county family.  Her parents, now living retired, were Thomas B. and Rosanna (George) Gilgrist, and they had the following children: Garfield; Eva, wife of Leander Imhuff; Ora, wife of Roland  Waugh, and Lucy, wife of Mr. McCullough.  To Mr. and Mrs. McCullough three children have been born: Elden, Anna Margaret and an infant.  They are members of the Presbyterian Church.  In his political views, like his father, Mr. McCullough is a Republican.

Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ. Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 1107

John Johnston Fullerton McCullough
JOHN JOHNSTON FULLERTON McCULLOUGH, a highly respected retired farmer, residing on a tract of three acres of land in Steubenville Township, about two miles south of Mingo Junction, O., owns one of the best farms in Cross Creek Township, Jefferson County, which comprises 210 acres.  Mr. McCullough was born on a farm in Marshall County, West Virginia, Dec. 23, 1840, and is a son of John and Rebecca (Marshall) McCullough.
     John McCullough
was born and reared in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and was a farmer all through life.  In early manhood he went to Washington County and there subsequently married Rebecca Marshall, who died in 1845.  They had two children: Margaret C., who married John Cook, and John L. F., of Steubenville Township.  John McCullough married Esther J. Reed for his second wife, and she survived him.  They had four children: Harriet R., who married Henry Gilbert; Charity Ellen, deceased, who was the wife of Cyrus Swearengen; Mary, who married William Scott, and James A.  With the exception of one year spent in West Virginia, John McCullough lived after marriage until death in 1876 in Washington County, Pennsylvania.
     John J. F. McCullough resided on the home farm in Cross Creek Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, until he married, in 1870, and then lived two years more in Washington County, after which he moved to West Virginia.  He remained there for two years, but found that agricultural conditions were better in Pennsylvania, and returned for one year more to Washington County, afterward engaging in farming for six years in Beaver County, Pennsylvania.  In 1884 he came to Jefferson County and bought the old Thompson farm of 155 acres in Cross Creek Township, to which he later added fifty-five acres, and there Mr. McCullough engaged in general farming and dairying until 1907, when he retired from active pursuits.  He took up his residence in Steubenville Township, where his small farm of three acres gives him opportunity to still have growing things about him and to oversee them without taxing his strength.  The larger farm is very capably managed by his sons.
     On June 30, 1870, Mr. McCullough was married to Miss Esther Margaret Hall, a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Reed) Hall, and seven children were born to them, namely: Fullerton M., who married Flora May Tarr and has four children - Beulah M., Margaret E., Mary M. M., and Dora G.; John, who married Lucy Gelgrist and has three children - Elden G., Rosanna M. and an infant; Charles C., who died aged nine months; Samuel C., who married Ruby McCann and has one child, Clarence M.; Nannie May, who married Ralph Farmer and has one child, John Edwin; Hetty E., who died aged nine weeks; and Clyde R.  Mr. McCullough and sons are Republicans.

Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ. Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 707
  WILLIAM C. McCULLOUGH, a substantial farmer of Cross Creek Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, resides on the old home farm of 106 acres, on which he was born June 7, 1861.  He is a son of Joseph and Mary Jane (Brown) McCullough.  He attended the public schools until he was twenty years of age, and has always engaged in farming.  He purchased the farm of the other heirs of his father and has a valuable and well improved tract.  During the past thirty years he has engaged in the threshing business, in which he has his brother, Edwin G., as a partner.  They also operate a shredder and do considerable clover hulling.  Mr. McCullough raises quite a bit of stock, generally keeping some seventy-five head of sheep.  He is well known over the township and has many friends.  He is a Republican in politics, and a member of the Methodist Church.
Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ. Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 805
  THE McCUNE BROTHERS, Joseph A. and Samuel J., who are general merchants at Brilliant, O., carry on an extensive business in this section of Jefferson and adjoining adjoining counties, and come of one of the old established families of Jefferson County.  The McCunes can trace their ancestry back to the time of the persecution for their religious views, in Scotland, when they then spelled their name McCewen; one of the McCewens wrote a book on religious liberty and on account of this publication the family was persecuted; some of the family were burned at the stake, other members of it fled to the North of Ireland, changing their name to McCune; the McCunes came to this country early in its history.
     James McCune, the great-great-grandfather of this branch of the McCunes, was born near Philadelphia, Pa., July 12th, 1757.  His wife's maiden name was Elizabeth Rotherham Thomas McCune, son of James, was married to Mary Brady, daughter of Gen. Joseph BradyThomas was a Colonel in the Revolutionary army.  He was buried in a cemetery about two miles east of Mt. Pleasant, O.  A simple stone marks his resting place.
     Thomas McCune was born on the old McCune homestead in Warren Township, May 30, 1799.  He married Martha Dunlap, Apr. 21, 1825; died Dec. 10, 1847; buried in the Seceder Cemetery, Mr. Pleasant, O.
     Joseph McCune, son of Thomas, was born on the same farm as his father.  May 13, 1826.  He married Mary Jane Medill, daughter of Joseph Medill Aug. 9, 1849, Joseph McCune died Sept. 20, 1877, and his wife.  Mary Jane McCune died Apr. 27, 1901.  They rest in Steuhenville
Cemetery.
     To them were born the following children: Thomas Fleming, who died in 1908, graduated from the Washington-Jefferson College in 1877 and spent thirty years as superintendent of the Iowa College for the Blind, at Vinton, Iowa.
     Mary Margaret married James A. McConnell, who is secretary of the Pennsylvania Loan Association, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Nancy Jane, married T. M. M. Conahey now a retired farmer of Mt. Pleasant, O.; Joseph A., subject of this sketch; Kerenhappauch, married F. A. Kimball, city auditor of Pittsburgh, Pa.; Albert Elsworth, a manufacturer of Pittsburgh, Pa.; Samuel James, who is engaged in business with our subject; Jessie Ellen, who for the past twenty-three years has been an instructor in the public schools at Brilliant, O.; Laura Alma, at home, and Theresa Maxima, who married Rev. James Mease Potter, pastor of the Vance Memorial Presbyterian Church of Wheeling, W. Va.
     Joseph Addison McCune was born Mar. 18, 1857 on the old homestead place in Warren Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, and remained under the parental roof until about twenty-five years of age.  He then spent some time clerking in the west and in the spring of 1883 embarked in business in partnership with W. H. Rodgers.  Four years later they dissolved partnership and Mr. McCune and his brother Samuel J. established their present business in a small room about twenty feet square.  Two years later they erected their present building on Main Street where they conduct a very extensive business, carrying a full line of dry goods, notions, boots, shoes, hardware, farm implements, wagons, buggies, engines, etc.  Mr. McCune is politically a Republican.  He is a 32nd degree Mason, a member of the Lake Erie Consistory at Cleveland, O.  He is a member and an elder of the First Presbyterian Church at Brilliant.
Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ. Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page
  WILLIAM McDOWELL, who is engaged in the lumber business at Steubenville, with planing mill situated at No. 215 South Seventh Street, is one of the representative citizens, and came to Steubenville about 1868.  He was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, Apr. 29, 1834.
     Mr. McDowell remained in his own county until early manhood and then went into the milling business in Washington County, Iowa, where he remained for seven years.  In 1862 he entered the Union army for service in the Civil War, enlisting in Company C, 19th Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and won promotion, being commissioned corporal.  He earned until almost the close of the war and was then discharged on account of disability.  During this period he was a prisoner of war for then months and received a slight wound in the leg.  After receiving his honorable discharge, Mr. Dowell came to Jefferson County and spent some few years in the country before coming to Steubenville.  For a time he worked at stair building and in a planing mill and later acquired his own mill, which he has fitted up with first class equipments.  He has lumber interests also, and as a reward to years of well directed effort he enjoys a competency.
     Mr. McDowell was married to Miss Nancy McConnell, who was born in Jefferson County, and they have two surviving children: Jane Walker and John, the latter of whom is a general contractor and is in business with his father.  Mr. McDowell and son are Republicans.  He is widely known and enjoys the respect and confidence of his fellow citizens, with whom he has had relations extending over thirty years.

Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 550

Residence of
Charles McKinney,
Smithfield
CHARLES McKINNEY, vice-president of the First National Bank of Smithfield, O., has been identified with this place nearly all his life and is one of the representative men of the town.  He was born at York, Jefferson County, Ohio, Apr. 11, 1843, and is a son of Nathan and Margaret (Mather) McKinney.
     Nathan McKinney, father of Charles, was born on his father's farm in Wells Township, Jefferson County, where his parents had settled at an early day.  His father was Nathan McKinney, a native of Scotland, who married Margaret Armstrong, who was born in Ireland.  They came to Ohio prior to the War of 1812, in which Grandfather McKinney took part and his death was caused, a few years afterward, from the injuries received when a soldier.  He had three sons: John A., Archibald and Nathan, all of whom are deceased.
     Nathan McKinney, the father of Charles, helped to clear the homestead in Wells Township, and after his marriage moved to York, where he engaged in shipping stock, his markets being New Orleans and Philadelphia.  It was his custom to buy sheep and cattle and hire drovers and then to ride ahead on horseback and engage places for his men to sleep and rest while on the way.  His business was so large that his custom was profitable to those who could provide such accommodations.  Shortly after the birth of his son Charles, he moved to Smithfield, where he continued his shipping business until his health failed.  He then operated a hotel for a short time at Smithfield but he had spent so many years in travel that he was not satisfied and soon resumed his former activities although in another direction.  Buying a boat load of apples he shipped them to Cincinnati and accompanied the shipment, but died after reaching that city.  His widow, Margaret Mather McKinney, survived him but a short time.  Her parents lived near Edinburg, Scotland, from which place she came to America while young.  Four children were born to Nathan and Margaret (Mather) McKinney: Charles and John, both of Smithfield; William, of Cincinnati; and Edwin, who is deceased.
     Charles McKinney grew, to manhood at Smithfield and here he has continued to reside, finding his business opportunities right at hand and a pleasant social environment with those who have known him as boy and man.  After leaving the public school he became a clerk in a local store and later was teller in the First National Bank of Smithfield.  He then operated a general store for some years which he subsequently sold to his uncle, Charles MatherMr. McKinney then became associated with his brother, John McKinney, in breeding horses and this partnership lasted until 1910.  He has long been a stockholder in the First National Bank and for a number of years has been its vice-president.
     In politics Mr. McKinney is a Republican.  For the past forty years he has been township treasurer and is also treasurer of the County Agricultural Society.  He is identified with the Masonic fraternity at Smithfield, and with the Elks at Steubenville.  He attends the Presbyterian Church.
Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ. Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 1102
  R. L. McLAUGHLIN, one of the rising young members of the Jefferson County bar, who has been a resident of Steubenville, O., for about a year, was born in 1874 at Adena., and is a son of the late William McLaughlin, of Adena, Jefferson County, Ohio.
     William McLaughlin was born in 1837 at Adena, O., where his father, James McLaughlin, located at an early period, and was there reared to maturity and spent his entire life engaged in agricultural pursuits.  He was a man of public spirit and enterprise, always taking an interest in local politics, and was for many years justice of the peace at Adena.  His death occurred in 1905.
     R. L. McLaughlin was educated in the common schools of Adena, and at Muskingum College.  Before entering college he devoted three years to school teaching   After leaving college he engaged in teaching for another year and during that period devoted his leisure time to the study of law.  He entered the junior class in the law development of the Ohio State University in September, 1903.  In December, 1904, he was admitted to the bar, but continued his residence at Adena with his father for three years, at which place he served for two years as justice of the peace, resigning that position to locate at Steubenville, where he has since been successfully engaged in the practice of law.  Mr. McLaughlin is a member of the United Presbyterian Church.
Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ. Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 754

George C. McNeal

 

 GEORGE C. McNEAL, who is successfully engaged in the real estate business at Steubenville, O., comes of an old and prominent family of the community.  He was born in Steubenville and is a son of William and Jane (Baxter) McNeal, and a grandson of Archibald McNeal, who in the early days erected the house in which our subject now lives.  He was born in Scotland and was for a time located at Lisbon, O., prior to coming to Jefferson County.
     William McNeal was born in Lisbon, O., and was very young when his parents moved to Steubenville.  He became a prominent citizen here, and for many years prior to his death was engaged in the butcher business.  He married Jane Baxter and they reared a large family of children.
     George C. McNeal was born and reared where he now lives, and received a public school education.  Early in life he engaged in butchering, but in 1904 he sold out his shop and in recent years has given his attention to his real estate interests.  He builds, sells and rents houses and has quite an extensive business.  He resides with two sisters in the old home place at No. 1120 Lincoln Avenue.  Religiously, he is a member of the Finley M. E. Church.
Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ. Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 1129
  JAMES McWHA, one of the representative citizens of Jefferson County, Ohio, now living retired after an active business career of many years, was born in Brooke County, W. Va., in 1847, and is a son of George McWha.
     George McWha
was born in County Down, Ireland, in 1811 and came to Brooke County, W. Va., in 1821, where the remainder of his life was spent on his farm, his death occurring in February, 1890.  He married Mary Swearengen, who is also deceased, and they had six children, the three survivors being: Violetta, who is the wife of L. J. Tucker, who is in the prothonotary's office at Pittsburg, Pa.;  Lou M. Smith, who resides in Florida; and James of Jefferson County.
     James McWha was reared on the home farm in Brooke County, where he remained until 1883.  He then came to Steubenville where he was engaged successfully in the mercantile and meat business for twenty years.  In 1908 he retired from business activity and occupies himself merely with the care of his farming and oil interests in West Virginia.  He is one of the substantial men of the city.
     In 1881, Mr. McWha was married to Miss Clarabel Criss, and they have four children:  Mary A., residing at home; Carrie Louis, wife of Wilbur J. Workman; Jean D.; and James, who is a student at Bellefonte, Pa.
Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 1075
 

JACOB MANSFIELD, a well known citizen of Bloomfield and a member of its town council, was born in Wayne township, Jefferson County, Ohio, Oct. 19, 1843, and is a son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Pumphrey) Mansfield. 
     Samuel Mansfield
was born in Wayne Townships, where his father, Thomas Mansfield, had settled at a very early date, securing government land among the earliest of the pioneer home-seekers.  During his early years of manhood, he operated a flat boat on the river route between Steubenville and New Orleans, but later became a farmer.  He married Elizabeth Pumphrey, who was born in Smithfield Township, Jefferson County, and of their family of children the following survive:  Albert O., and Jeremiah B. both of whom reside at Hopedale, Ohio; Elijah P., who lives at Youngstown; William, who is a resident of Greensburg, Ind.; Jacob; and Keturah, who lives in California, who is the widow of Charles Moore.  The parents of the above family were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
     Jacob Mansfield was reared in Wayne Township and was educated in the district schools and a college at Harlem Springs, in Carroll County.  During all his mature life he has been engaged in agriculture pursuits and for some years previous to moving to Bloomfield, in the summer of 1909, operated a dairy business at Fair Play.  Having spent his whole life of this part of Jefferson County he is widely known and enjoys the confidence and esteem of his fellow citizens and this was definitely shown by his election to office soon after locating in his present home.  He is a Republican in his political attachment.
     Mr. Mansfield was married Oct. 19, 1869, to Miss Sarah C. Burris, who was born in Wells Township, Jefferson County, a daughter of Charles Burris, who was once an extensive farmer and sheep and stock raiser and well known all over the county.  Mr. and Mrs. Mansfield  have three living children: Mary E., who is the wife of William Cookston, of Bloomfield; Thomas T., who is a telegraph operator at Jewett, Ohio, for the Panhandle Railroad; and William C., who is a mail clerk on the Dennison Accommodation line of the Panhandle, between Dennison and Pittsburg.  During the Civil War, Mr. Mansfield  was in the Union army, a member of Co. G., 1857th O. Vol. Inf., and during his four months of service was stationed at Fort Delaware.  With his family he belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ. Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 983

  JAMES R. MANSFIELD, a leading citizen of Wayne Township, where he has been prominently identified with Republican politics for many years, has resided on his present farm of ninety-seven acres since the spring of 1860, and has been one of the township's well known agriculturists and stockmen.  Mr. Mansfield was born in Wayne Township, Jefferson County, O., June 20, 1831, a son of James and Susan (Davis) Mansfield, the former a native of Wayne Township, and the latter of Mt. Pleasant Township.
     James Mansfield, the father of James R., was a son of Thomas Mansfield died during the early '80s.  Of his children the following survive: James R.; John W., residing in Wayne Township; Nancy, who is the wife of John Hill, residing at Hopedale, O.; Amanda, who is the widow of Samuel Baxter, residing at Hopedale; Mary E., who is the widow of Alexander Rittenhouse, residing in Wayne Township, near Unionport; Emmeline, who is the widow of Reason Holmes, residing at New Athens, Harrison County, O.; and Susan, who is the widow of Leslie Harrah, residing in Harrison County.
     James R. Mansfield was reared to manhood in Wayne Township, where his education was secured in the public schools.  His youth was spent much the same as other farmers' sons, and he chose the calling of an agriculturist as his life work, settling on his present place in the spring of 1860.  For a period of five years, prior to this date he worked in a number of western states.  He finally bought a quarter section of land within three miles of Winterset, Iowa.  He returned to his old home and was married and then for two years he and his wife lived in their western home.  In 1860 he returned but did not sell his Iowa farm until a couple of years later.  During the Civil War he became a member of Company G, 157th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in the 100 days' service, and received an honorable discharge, after which he returned to his farm, where he has resided ever since.  Mr. Mansfield is a self-made man, having achieved success through his own individual efforts.  In addition to his agricultural interests and the raising of valuable cattle, he keeps, on an average, of 200 sheep.
     On Apr. 22, 1858, Mr. Mansfield was united in marriage with Miss Lizzie Coe, who was born in Island Creek Township, Jefferson County, a daughter of Moses Coe, a well known agriculturist of that township.  She died in 1908, having been the mother of five children, of whom three are living: Ida, who is the wife of Amos Hammond, residing in Wayne Township; Ellsworth E., who farms the home farm in Wayne Township, and also owns a farm two miles south of here; and James C., a prominent attorney of Cleveland.  Miles C. and Esther E. are deceased.
     Mr. Mansfield has been an active and useful citizen and served several terms as township treasurer.  His religious connection is with the Bloomfield Methodist Episcopal Church, where he is now acting in the capacity of steward and class leader.
Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 697

Hon. John A. Mansfield
JOHN A. MANSFIELD, formerly probate judge of Jefferson County and a prominent member of the Steubenville bar, senior of the firm of Mansfield & Merryman, with offices at 327 Market Street, was born Sept. 20, 1854, near Bloomfield, O., and is a son of Jacob Y. and Margaret (Deter) Mansfield.
     The Mansfield family in Ohio was founded by the grandfather, Thomas Mansfield, in 1798, who secured the land in Jefferson County which has never since been out of the possession of his descendants.  He was a native of Maryland, was twice married, and he reared sixteen of his numerous children.  Jacob Y. Mansfield, father of Judge Mansfield, was born in Wayne Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, and died on the old homestead, July 5, 1871.  He was thrice married and had ten children, Judge Mansfield being born to the second union.
     Until he was sixteen years of age, John A. Mansfield seldom left the home farm except to attend school, but as he had literary ambitions and a bright intellect, his well-to-do father decided to send him to Hopedale College, where he spent three years.  Deciding upon the law as a profession, in October, 1877, the young man entered the law department of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, where he was graduated two years later, and in April, 1879, was admitted to the bar.  He entered into practice at Steubenville, at first alone, but in April, 1881, he admitted W. C. Ong as a partner, this association lasting for two years.  Judge Mansfield's second partner was W. A. Walden, and they continued together for three years, the removal of Mr. Walden from Steubenville, in 1886, terminating this connection.  The election of Mr. Mansfield to the bench in the following year, removed him from private practice for fourteen years.  In November, 1887, he was first elected probate judge, and was re-elected in November, 1890.  This office he resigned in February, 1892 to become judge of the Common Pleas Court, having been first elected to that position in November, 1891, and re-elected in November, 1896.  Judge Mansfield proved his judicial qualities during this long period and returned to his practice at the bar, followed by the confidence and good will of the profession all over the county.  In 1906 he formed his present law partnership, and this firm occupies a very prominent place on the Jefferson County bar, and has successfully handled a large amount of the important work of the courts during the past three years.  In his political affiliation.  Judge Mansfield is a stanch Republican and was presidential elector in the Republican ticket in 1908.  On Aug. 30, 1877, Judge Mansfield was married to Miss Nettie Mansfield.  They are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Steubenville.
Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Published by Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 878
  JOHN W. MANSFIELD, a former trustee of Wayne Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, and an extensive farmer, stockman and sheep grower, owns 200 acres of exceedingly valuable land, all of which lies in this township.  Mr. Mansfield was born in Wayne Township, Sept. 18, 1847, and is a son of James and Susan (Davis) Mansfield.
     James Mansfield was also born in Wayne Township and was a son of Thomas Mansfield, who acompanied his parents to this section in pioneer days, this family being one of the oldest in Wayne Township.  James Mansfield lived on the farm  which his son, John W. Mansfield now owns, and for many years the early built log cabin stood on the land.  Prior to his death he moved to Bloomfield.  He was a man of excellent public standing, a liberal supporter of the schools and of temperance and reform movements of all kinds and was a pillar in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Bloomfield, in which he was a steward and class leader.  He married Susan Davis, who was born in Mt. Pleasant Township, and seven of their children survive, namely: Nancy, who is the wife of John Hill, of Hopedale; James R., who lives in Wayne Township; Mary, who is the widow of Alexander Rittenhouse and resides at Unionport; Emeline, who is the widow of Reason Holmes and resides at New Athens, Ohio; Amanda B., who is the widow of Samuel Baxter and resides in Hopedale; John W.; and Susan, who is the widow of Leslie Harrah, late of Harrison County, where she resides.
     John W. Mansfield grew to man's estate on the home farm and with his brothers and sisters attended the district schools.  His father was a busy farmer and large sheep grower and the son followed his example and has been equally successful in the same industries.  He keeps an average of 250 sheep, making sheep raising a specialty.  His farm shows many improvements.  The comfortable farm residence was built in 1882, and barns and sheep pens have been erected as necessity called for them.
     On Mar. 28, 1872, Mr. Mansfield was married to Miss Sarah J. Moores, who was born in Wayne Township, Apr. 7, 1850, and is a daughter of John and Nancy (Russell) Moores.  Her father and mother were both born in Jefferson County, the latter near Hammondsville.  Her grandfather was James Moores, who came to Ohio from Maryland and was probably of Scotch parentage.  Mrs. Mansfield has two brothers and one sister: Thomas E., who lives near Wellsville, Ohio; James, who lives in Wellsville; and Rosella D., who is the wife of George Jewell, of Wayne Township.  The parents of Mrs. Mansfield were active and valued members of the Methodist Church at Bloomfield.  Mr. and Mrs. Mansfield are the parents of seven stalwart sons, namely: Hally R., of Chagrin Falls, Ohio; John E., of Bloomfield; James A., and Charles T., both of Stevens County, Wash.; and Homer H., Howard M., and Paul T., all of Wayne Township.  Mr. and Mrs. Mansfield are members of the Bloomfield Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he has been a trustee for several years.  He is a Republican in politics and has served two terms as a trustee of Wayne Township.  Mrs. Mansfield is an active church worker and is an interested member of the Home and Foreign Missionary Society.
Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 1000
  NIMROD P. MANSFIELD whose valuable farm in Wayne Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, contains 300 acres of land, is one of the representative men of this section.  He was born in Wayne Township, May 2, 1838, and is a son of Edward and Mary (Pumphrey) Mansfield.  Both parents of Mr. Mansfield were born in Jefferson County, his father in Wayne Township and his mother in Smithfield Township.  Edward Mansfield was a son of Thomas Mansfield, who was probably a native of Maryland, one of the very earliest settlers in Wayne Township.  It is said that his son, John Mansfield, was the first white child born in Jefferson County.  The Mansfields came originally from England.  Edward Mansfield was one of the citizens of Wayne Township whose memory is held in respect on account of his sterling character.  He led an agricultural life and cared nothing for political preferment.  He was a Republican after the formation of that party and always recognized the duties of citizenship.  He died June 27, 1877, and five of his children still live, namely: Ann E., who is the widow of William Clark, of Martin's Ferry, Reason P. and Nimrod P., both of whom reside in Wayne Township; Ross J., who resides in Los Angeles, Cal.; and Adaline C., who is the wife of J. W. Long.
     Nimrod P. Mansfield attended the public schools in Wayne Township and for a short period was a student in the old Richmond College, which was then conducted at Richmond, Ohio, since when he has spent the larger part of his life in the cultivating of his lands and the growing of fine stock.  During the Civil War he served for four months as a member of Co. G, 157th O. Vol. Inf., during that period being on garrison duty at Fort Delaware.  On Mar. 31, 1880, Mr. Mansfield was married to Miss Amanda Springer, a native of Wheeling, W. Va., and a daughter of Benjamin and Melissa (Pumphrey) Springer, both now deceased.  They spent their closing years near Elm Grove, W. Va.  The Springer family came to West Virginia from Philadelphia, Pa.  Mr. and Mrs. Mansfield are members of Long's Methodist Episcopal Church.  He casts his vote with the Republican party.
 Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 978
  DANIEL L. MAPLE, who resides on his fine farm of 110 acres in Saline Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, comes of a family which has for generations been numbered with the prominent citizenship of the county.  He was born near the mouth of Yellow Creek in Saline Township, Nov. 19, 1831, and is a son of Jesse R. and Margaret (Marshall) Maple.
    
The first of the Maple family to come to Jefferson County, Ohio, was William Maple, great grandfather of the subject of this record a soldier of the Revolutionary War, who came here while this was the northwestern territory.  He served in the battle of Trenton, and other engagements of the war.  William Maple was of English parentage, the family having been transplanted to American soil in the colonial days.  He moved from Trenton, N. J., to Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and subsequently to Jefferson County, Ohio, crossing the river between Elliottsville and Empire, and locating in what now is Knox Township.  He was buried on the hill above Port Homer, on the Patrick Haley place.
     Capt. Benjamin Maple, grandfather of Daniel L., gained his title through service in the War of 1812.  He was thrice married, his first union being with Mary Rich, his second with a Miss Lewis, and his third with a Miss Fitzpatrick, and he was father of twenty-one children, in addition to which he reared a lad named John Grimes.  Of his children, Pizarius Maple was a soldier in the Mexican War.  Captain Maple was buried at Pine Grove.
     Jesse R. Maple was born near Somerset, Jefferson County, Ohio, July 18, 1809, and spent his entire life in Saline Township.  In 1850, he moved upon the place now occupied by his son, Daniel L. Maple, and there he continued to reside until his death in December, 1905, at the unusual age of ninety-six years.  He was married to Margaret Marshall, who was born in Knox Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, and was a daughter of Joseph and Mary Marshall, who had come from Pennsylvania at an early date.  Mrs. Maple died in 1854, and was survived by the following children: Mary, who died in 1909, at the age of seventy-eight years, and was the widow of Samuel McClain; Caroline, who lived but a few years after her marriage to Benjamin Peckham; Kiziah, widow of George Phillips, residing in Chester, W. Va.; Frances Ann, of Cleveland, O., widow of E. H. Gray, who was a soldier in the Union army during the Civil War; Sarah Melinda, of Cleveland, O., is the wife of Charles Shipley who served in the Union army throughout the entire Civil War; Daniel L., whose name heads this records; and Albert G., who is in the oil supply business at Oil City, Pa.  The last named married Susan Stevenson, of Wellsville, O.
     Daniel L. Maple attended the public schools of his native county, where he remained until the Civil War, when he went to Allegheny, Pa., and worked on then railroad.  After the war he returned to Jefferson County and located on his present farm, where he has lived continuously since 1866.  The farm consists of 110 acres and in finely equipped with buildings and well improved, bespeaking the labor and care Mr. Maple has given to it.  He has always taken a public-spirited interest in the affairs of the community and county, and is a Democrat of the Jefferson and Jackson type.  He is an active party man and has been a delegate to every county convention during the past forty years.  He has served as central committeeman and has been a member of the election board ever since the enactment of the Australian ballot.  He has served on the United States jury at Columbus, and many times on the jury in his county.
     On May 6, 1858, Mr. Maple was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Albaugh, of what then was Bowling Green, now Osage, Jefferson County.  She is a daughter of Reuben and Sarah (Rider) Albaugh, her maternal grandfather being George Rider.  She was one of the following children born to her parents.  Jacob of Oxford, Burton County, Indiana; Catherine (Pierce), deceased; Isaac, who lived at Hot Springs, Ark., at his death; Jane, widow of David Eddy, of Toronto, O., George who married Emma Maple, and resides at Cleveland, O.; William, who met an accidental death near Somerset; Levi, who married Lydia Stanley and resides in Indiana; Margaret, who married Cephus Eddy and resides in Toronto; Harriet, who died young, and Elizabeth (Maple).  Mr. and Mrs. Maple reared the following children: Jeanette, who married W. H. McCarle, of Wellsville, and has three sons - Frederick, Charles and Jay; Emma, who married Charles Bradley, of Wellsville, and has three children - Elizabeth (wife of James Harrison), Jeanette, and George Bradley; and Francis Marion, who married Mary McGinley, of Pittsburg, and has two children, - Daniel and Catherine  The last named is proprietor of a restaurant at Salineville, where he resides.  The subject of this sketch is a member of the Christian Church at Hammondsville.  He was formerly a member of the Independent Order of Old Fellows.
Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ. Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 791
  J. H. MAPLE, postmaster at Amsterdam, O., who took charge of the office in November, 1906, succeeding S. J. Smith, has proven himself a very efficient public official and is popular with all classes.  He was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, and is a son of Alexander and Margaret (Telfer) Maple, the latter of whom survives and resides with her son at Amsterdam.
     J. H. Maple was small when his parents moved from Jefferson to Carroll County, and there he attended school and completed his education at a college at Harlem Springs, O.  He then went into the railroad service and came to Amsterdam as section foreman, in 1903, and then learned the plastering trade.  He has always taken an active interest in politics, votes with the Republican party, and before receiving his appointment to the present office, he served six years as village clerk.  Considerable business passes through the Amsterdam office and it requires care and discipline to transact it all satisfactorily.  In 1905, Route No. 1, rural free delivery was started, and in 1909, route No. 2, while the Star Route is operated from this office to Wolf Run.  The rural deliveries cover a territory of about twenty-five miles each and the village has four mails in and out daily.
     Mr. Maple was married in Carroll County, Ohio, to Miss Cora Johnson, a daughter of James Johnson, of Jefferson County, and they have six children:  Frederick, Adda, Walter, Nannie, Hallie and HelenMr. Maple and family belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church.  He is a member of the order of K. O. P.
Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ. Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 869
  FRANK S. MAXWELL, D. D. S., who occupies a prominent position in the professional circles of Steubenville, O., where he has been in the active practice of dentistry since 1880, was born in Washington, D. C., July 15, 1859, and is a son of the late John S. and Mary L. (Wilson) Maxwell.
    
When Dr. Maxwell was twelve years old, his parents settled at Steubenville and the youth had the advantages afforded by this city's excellent schools.  He proved his mental capacity by graduating from the High School at the age of seventeen years.  He immediately decided upon the study of dental surgery, and after suitable preparation, in the fall of 1878 he entered the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery at Philadelphia graduating with his coveted diploma in February, 1880.  After a few months of practice in Philadelphia, he returned to Steubenville.  His profession has proved a congenial one to him and he has never ceased to be a close student.  He is identified with the Ohio Valley Dental Society, the Ohio State Dental Society, the Ohio State Dental Society, the Odontological Society of Western Pennsylvania, and the American Dental Association, being held in esteem in all these bodies and serving officially in some of them.
     On June 3, 1886, Dr. Maxwell was married to Miss Anna Tracy Means, a daughter of Hon. Joseph Menas, formerly of Steubenville.  They enjoy a beautiful home, situated at No. 831 North Fourth Street.  Dr. Maxwell maintains his office, which is equipped with all the appliances demanded by the latest and most approved methods of practice, at No. 402 Market Street.  Politically he is identified with the Republican party and has served from the old fifth ward on the school board for four years.

Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ. Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 741
  JAMES BUCHANAN MAXWELL, who has been identified with the business affairs of Mingo, Ohio, since Oct. 19, 1882, has river interests and is extensively engaged in ferrying, and is a stockholder of the Tri-State Investment Company.  He was born Feb. 13, 1858, on a farm in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and is a son of Daniel and Sarah (Watters) Maxwell, and comes of one of the early pioneer families of Washington County.  The Maxwell family is of Scotch Irish descent.
     Daniel Maxwell was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and died at the age of sixty-six years at Wheeling, W. Va., where he had located about 1867.  His wife was a native of Wheeling, and died there at the age of fifty-five years.  Daniel and Sarah Maxwell were the parents of twelve children: William; James Buchanan; John, deceased; Maggie, who is the wife of William Horner; Laura; Clara M., and George, both deceased; Catherine; Charles, deceased; Daniel S.; Anna, who is the widow of Charles Frieberger, and Clarence.
     James B. Maxwell
was seven years of age when his parents removed to Wheeling, and after attending the local schools for three terms began working as a puddler, in the La Belle Iron Works.  In 1882, when the Laughlin Junction Iron, Steel and Nail Company was established, he came to Mingo and worked with that concern as a puddler until that form of work was abolished.  He was then elected marshal of Mingo on the Democratic ticket, and served five successive terms in that capacity, being elected for the last two terms on the Independent ticket.  Since April , 1892, Mr. Maxwell has been engaged in ferrying.  He has served as a member of the council, board of trade, and is at present a member of the Mingo School Board.  Mr. Maxwell is the owner of several pieces of residence property at Mingo Junction.
     Mr. Maxwell was first united in marriage with Louise Baker, who died in Wheeling, W. Va., leaving one child, John William, a resident of Glassport, Pa., who married Minnie Garrety and has two children, Gladys and Anna.  Mr. Maxwell formed a second union on May 19, 1886, with Catherine Mazingo, and to them have been born: Alma, who married Edwin Galvin, and they have one child, Catherine; Reah; James A. Arthur; Della V., and Charles, who died aged two years and two weeks.
     Mr. Maxwell is a member of the improved Order of Red Men, degree of Pocahontas, of which he is also a trustee; the Golden Eagles; F. O. E.; Uniform Rank of Knights of Pythias, of which he is trustee, and is also a member of the German Schutzen Club, of Mingo Junction.
Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ. Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 551
  JOHN S. MAXWELL, deceased, whose long connection with the business interests of Steubenville, together with his acceptance of the duties of good citizenship, made him well known and universally respected, was born at Steubenville, O., in November, 1822, and die at Steubenville, O., in Nov. 1822, and die in his native city Nov. 7, 1898.  His parents were Thomas and Martha (Ramsay) Maxwell, and his paternal grandfather was Hamilton Maxwell.  The ancestral line stretches back to Scotland - perhaps the grandfather was born there - but Thomas Maxwell was the founder of the family in Jefferson County, and was one of the early merchants and hotel men of Steubenville.  In 1830 he moved to a farm situated five miles west of Steubenville, where he died in 1831.  He was survived by his widow until 1872.
     John S. Maxwell attended school in Jefferson County until he was about fifteen years of age.  His desire to see something of the world coupled with an ambition to make his own independent career, led to his leaving home and to his subsequent acceptance of a clerks up in Washington, D. C.  During a service of seven years he became well instructed in the dry goods business, in which he then embarked for himself, and he continued in mercantile pursuits in Washington for two decades.  When he retired from mercantile life he decided to return to Jefferson County, where he purchased a farm adjoining the one his father had bought so many years previously.  He enjoyed rural life for some five years and then gave up the farm and removed to Steubenville in order to give his children better educational advantages.  In this city he became interested in the five insurance business, in which he subsequently continued during his active years.  He was a man of superior qualities of mind and character, a broad-minded, unselfish and public-spirited citizen.  As a duty he accepted public office and served with fidelity, being a member of the school board and also of the city council.  Mr. Maxwell was a liberal contributor to benevolent objects and was an earnest member of the Second Presbyterian Church, in which he was a deacon and trustee.  In his political opinions he was a Republican.
     Mr. Maxwell was married Dec. 30, 1851, at Washington City, D. C., to Miss Mary L. Wilson who died Apr. 3, 1876.  She was survived by two children: Lizzie A., who married William J. McKinney; and Frank S., now one of the leading dentists of Steubenville.  Mr. Maxwell was married, secondly, Jan. 8, 1880, to Miss Tirzah e. Wylie, of Hancock County, West Virginia, and two sons were born to this union: Clarence W., whose death occurred in October, 1909; and John S., Jr., who died in 1900.  Mrs. Maxwell is interested in insurance and real estate business, maintaining an office at No. 118 North Fourth Street, Steubenville.

Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ. Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 750
  HON. JOHN L. MEANS, the present Republican nominee for County Auditor, who ably represented Jefferson County in the Ohio State Legislature for two terms, is one of Steubenville's representative citizens and has long been identified with her business as well as her public interests.  He was born at Steubenville in 1870 and after completing his education, entered his father's office in the Means foundry.  He remained in the foundry business for fourteen years, after which he engaged in the real estate business for some time and for the past four years has been in the employ of the River Sand Company, in the accounting and sales departments.
     Since early manhood, Mr. Means has been interested in public affairs and on account of his business integrity and his recognition of the duties of good citizenship, has held high place in the confidence of his friends and of those who work for good government and civic uplift.  At the time he was elected to the legislature, he was serving efficiently as a member of the city council.  He takes a great deal of interest in the Y. M. C. A. and is a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church.  He is a Mason, belonging to the Blue Lodge, Chapter and Commandery, and also to Aladden Temple of the Shrine at Columbus.  He is identified also with Steuben Lodge No. 1, Knights of Pythias, the Red Men, the Knights of Golden Eagle, the Modern Woodmen of America, the Protective Home Circle and Order of Ben Hur.
Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ. Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 961
  JOHN A. MEDCALF, proprietor of the Steubenville Building & Lumber Company, with yards at No. 512 Dock Street, Steubenville, Ohio, is interested in other prospering enterprises of the city and section, and is a representative business man in several different lines.  He was born at Hagerstown, Maryland, in 1866.
     When John A. Medcalf was four years old his parents moved to Irwin, Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania, where he was sent to school, and later was employed in the coal mines.  When twenty-two years of age he came to Toronto, Ohio, where he worked at the carpenter trade for nine years, and then came to Steubenville.  Here he went into the general contracting and lumber business under the style of the Steubenville Building & Lumber Company, of which he is sole proprietor.  He is a stockholder in the Steubenville Ice Company and also of the Interstate Lumber Company, of Pittsburgh.  His business is conducted along well regulated lines and his name stands high commercially.
     Mr. Medcalf was married at Irwin, Pa., to Miss Anna M. Blake, and they have five children: Lydia J., who married Sherman Martin of Steubenville; and James Lewis, Laura Belle, William Lawrence, and Anna Mary.  Mr. Medcalf and family attend the Methodist Protestant church.  He is identified with the order of Maccabees and the Junior Order of American Mechanics.
Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ. Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 558
  JAMES PLUMMER MEHOLLIN, the owner of ninety acres of excellent farm land which is situated in Sections 35 and 36 in Wells Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, is one of the substantial citizens and enterprising business men of this section.  He was born on the lower part of this farm Nov. 24, 1871, and is a son of Thomas Johnston and Catherine (Plummer) Mehollin.
     Thomas J. Mehollin
was born on the old Mehollin farm on Rush Run, Wells Township, and was a son of Thomas Mehollin, who came to Ohio from Ireland.  He entered land from the government and became a man of property.  He had the following children, all of whom lived to be over sixty-eight years of age, with the exception of one that died in infancy: William; Rachel, who married William Burriss; Sarah, who married James Parr; Joseph; James J.; Thomas J.; and Martha who married William Duvall  Of the above family, Thomas J., father of James P., spent his entire life in Jefferson County, where he died in 1908, aged seventy years.  He came into the possession of 258 acres of land but later in life met with reverses and the farm of his son, James P., is all that is left of the once large estate.  He married Catherine Plummer whose father, James Plummer, was an old resident of Wells Township.  She still survives and resides with her son, James P., on the homestead.  By an earlier marriage, Thomas J. Mehollin had one son, Frank, who is deceased.  Two children were born to this second marriage: Sylvia and James P., the former of whom is now deceased.
     James P. Mehollin was reared on the home farm and attended the public schools in general farming and sheep raising, making the latter industry as well as the former a profitable one.  He has other interests in the line of summer park amusements.  He has served his township four years as assessor, but otherwise has not accepted public office.  On Oct. 11, 1898, Mr. Mehollin was married to Miss Martha J. Kithcart, who is a daughter of Joseph and Martha Kithcart, of Smithfield Township, and they have one child, Zella May.  Mr. Mehollin and family enjoy one of the finest rural homes in this section.  After purchasing the farm from his father, Mr. Mehollin began making extensive improvements and all of the buildings now standing have been erected by him.  The residence is a model of comfort and has a system of hot and cold water installed with other modern features.  In politics, Mr. Mehollin is a Democrat.
Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ. Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 815
  CHARLES P. MERRYMAN, a leading citizen of Wayne Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, and a turnpike commissioner for the Bloomfield and Smithfield turnpike, an office to which he was appointed by the county commissioners, in 1909, was born in Wayne Township, April 18, 1851.  He is a son of William and Nancy (Hoobler) Merryman, and a grandson of Nicholas Merryman.
     William Merryman
was born in Jefferson County after his father had established himself in Wayne Township.  Nicholas Merryman came to Ohio from Westmoreland County, Pa.  During a few years of his life, William Merryman lived in Harrison County, Ohio, but later returned to Jefferson and for many years carried on farming and stock raising on the farm which now belongs to his son.  Charles P. Merryman.  He was a man of excellent repute, for a number of years served as a trustee of Wayne Township and was a charter member and a deacon of the Mount Moriah Baptist Church.  He was twice married and four of his children survive, namely:  Mary, who is the widow of K. T. Cole, of Wayne Township; Nicholas, who is a farmer in Wells Township; Charles P.; and Sarah E., who is the wife of Addision F. Wood of Smithfield Township.  The two last named being children of the second union.
     Charles P. Merryman attended the country schools in his youth and gained practical agricultural experience on the home farm.  He has been engaged in farming and stock raising for himself since 1883, owning an excellent farm of 104 acres.  He makes a specialty of raising sheep, having found this industry very profitable, and keeps about 150 head over the winter.  Mr. Merryman's farm is improved with a handsome brick residence and substantial farm buildings and his surroundings indicate much thrift and general prosperity.
     On October 4, 1882, Mr. Merryman was married to Miss Durah M. Whigham, who was born in Hardin County, Ohio, a daughter of the late Andrew Whigham.  When she was three years old her mother died and she was then brought to Jefferson County and was reared in the family of her uncle, Peter Hoobler, in Wayne Township.  Mr. and Mrs. Merryman are members of the Christian Church at Smithfield, in which he is an elder.  In politics he is a Republican and he has served as a trustee of Wayne Township for six years and during a part of this time he was president of the board.
Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ. Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 1005
  ROY N. MERRYMAN, one of the rising young attorneys and a native of Steubenville, O., where his birth occurred in 1882, is a son of D. M. and Hannah May (Armstrong) Merryman, the former of English and the latter of Irish ancestry.  The father, who was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1852, is a prominent building contractor of Bloomfield, O., and is one of the active workers in the interests of the political affairs of that borough.  The mother of our subject, was also born in Jefferson County, and is a daughter of Robert Armstrong, who is an old settler of the county.  The paternal grandfather was Samuel Merryman, also a native of Jefferson County.
     Roy N. Merryman grew to manhood in Jefferson County, graduated from the Bloomfield High School, and after taking a commercial course at the Iron City Business College, at Pittsburgh, read law some time with Hon. J. A. Mansfield, of Steubenville, this county.  He completed his course in law at the Cincinnati Law School and was admitted to the bar in 1906, after which he entered into a partnership with Judge Mansfield at Steubenville, with whom he has since been associated, practicing in the various courts of the state, and in the United States courts.  Mr. Merryman is secretary and treasurer of The Tri State Investment Company, and also The Mingo Junction Water and The Mingo Junction Light Company.  He holds membership with the Second Presbyterian Church of Steubenville, and is secretary of the Brotherhood of that church.  Fraternally, he is a member of the Steubenville Lodge, B. P. O. E.  He is also a member of the Y. M. C. A. and a charter member of the Steubenville Country Club, and is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, in which body he is chairman of the legislative committee.
Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ. Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 663

Mr. & Mrs. James L. Metcalf
JAMES L. METCALF, the subject of the following sketch, was born in Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland, Aug. 26, 1857, a son of William E. and Sarah (Hammersday) Metcalf, whose ancestors were among the early settlers of the state of Maryland.  His mother died when he was about the age of eleven years, shortly after which he left Maryland and came to Irwin, Pa., where he was employed in brick and coal works for some time; then, learning the carpenters' trade, he came to Steubenville, O., in 1881.  He was married on Jan. 10, 1882, to Viola Martin, a daughter of William B. and Emeline (Wallace) Martin and located in Allegheny City, Pa., working at the carpenters' trade during that time.  Returning to Toronto, Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1887, he started in the lumber and building business with John W. Cooper and J. O. Goodlin, in 1888, with whom he was associated for four years, after which time he and A. F. Taylor started the lumber and building firm known as the Toronto Building & Lumber Company.  Mr. Taylor was only connected with the company about one year until his death, since which time Mr. Metcalf continued in the business.  Mr. Metcalf, besides being a business man and builder of noted ability, is also a good architect, having planned the Toronto High School Building, the First Presbyterian Church, which is conceded to be the most beautiful church building in the East Ohio Presbytery, besides the United Presbyterian and Greek Catholic Churches.  Mr. Metcalf has planned and built most of the good residences and business houses in Toronto, besides a number of the best residences in Steubenville and other places.  Mr. and Mrs. Metcalf are members of the Methodist Protestant Church and have always taken an active part in church and temperance work.  Always interested in politics.  Mr. Metcalf was elected and served two terms as waters works trustee; he has been a member of the Board of Education for the last three years, two years of which he has been president of the board.  Mr. and Mrs. Metcalf are great believers in education, having had six children, all of whom are being taught music, besides receiving other schooling.  Lyndale M., the oldest, a graduate of the Toronto High School and the Steubenville Business College, is now pipe organist at the Kaul Clay Manufacturing Company's works: Jay L., Jr., a graduate of the Toronto High School, is now a student at Adrian College, Michigan; Emeline, the only daughter living, is a senior and John W. is a sophomore, in the Toronto High School; Isabel, deceased, and Paul C., the youngest, complete the family.  Mr. Metcalf is a member of the Masonic fraternity and the Knights of Pythias lodge.  Mrs. Metcalf is also a member of the Eastern Star.
Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ. Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 749

B. W. Mettenberger


Residence of
B. W. Mettenberger,
Steubenville

B. W. METTENERGER, one of the leading funeral directors and embalmers at Steubenville, O., where he also conducts a livery business, has been active in the business circles of this city for a number of years, besides having additional interests at other places.  He was born at Canal Dover, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, in 1860 and came to Steubenville when seventeen years of age.
     Mr. Mettenberger is truly a self-made man and the story of his struggles and successes is interesting in that it emphasizes the fact that early hardship is often the best school of life, and that the scions of wealth have not always a great advantage over the less fortunate in the battle of life.  Mr. Mettenberger’s first industrial employment was as a messenger boy, the only compensation guaranteed him being his board.  He was thus unable to give his needy mother in Canal Dover any assistance.  Ernestly desiring to help her, he asked his employer to pay him at least one dollar per week in order that he might be able to do something to relieve her necessities, but this modest request was gruffly refused and he was turned out into the street for his presumption.  He thus found himself in a desperate situation, as he had no money and no apparent prospect of obtaining other work.  Fortunately, however, he met with a lady – a Mrs. Griesinger – who knew his sister and she proved a kind friend, taking him to her home, and it was through her efforts that he secured a position as clerk in a wholesale liquor house.  He proved industrious and reliable and continued in that position for two years.  He then worked for a time in a bottling works, after which he returned to Canal Dover.  There he entered the rolling mills and was employed continuously for four years and eight months, and there learned the boiling trade (commonly called that of puddler); after which he returned to Steubenville); after which he returned to Steubenville.  Here he was next employed by Mr. Schmorrenberg in his bottling works, having charge of delivering beer to the trade.  The business seemed a prosperous one and Mr. Mettenberger, having acquired but very little capital, later bought out his employer, although he had to contract an indebtedness of $3,800.  It seemed a large amount of money, but through industry and close attention to business and the exercise of good judgment he was able to clear himself from debt in less than eight months.  In the meanwhile he had acquired a livery stable, which his brother conducted for him and the firm of Mettenberger Bros. was thus organized.  Mr. Mettenberger had some business difficulties about this time on account of the stand taken by the other liverymen of the city, they combined to restrain his patronage, on account of his being in both the livery and liquor business, and refusing to use his teams and carriages for funerals.
     Mr. Mettenberger in self-defense then went into the undertaking business and conducted his different enterprises together until 1902, when he closed out his liquor business for $7,500, and since then has given the closer attention to his undertaking and livery.  His quarters at No. 113-117 Court Street are fitted up in a style becoming to the large amount of business he annually handles.  He has every convenience for the suitable and dignified conduct of funerals, is a licensed embalmer, and commands the respect of those who call him to their homes in a professional capacity.  Mr. Mettenberger is also interested in a glass manufacturing and decorating plant at Brilliant, O.
     In 1883 Mr. Mettenberger was married to Miss Elizabeth Hissrich, and they have two sons – Henry B., who is associated with his father in a business capacity; and Jerome, who is attending school.  Mr. Mettenberger and family belong to St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Church.  He is a very active church worker, is a liberal contributor to the charities of the church, and it was he who contributed close to the sum of $4,000 that wiped out the church debt.  He is a man of kind impulses and many a little friendless lad has found a benefactor in him.  He is identified with the Knights of St. George and the Heptasophs and is a valued member of the Steubenville Chamber of Commerce.
 
Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ. Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 1190

  W. A. MEYER, proprietor of a transfer business at Steubenville, Ohio, is also interested with G. C. Floto in the Steubenville Bottling Works, the plant being located on the corner of North and Sixth Streets.  He was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, in May, 1874.
     Mr. Meyer attended the school of his native section and remained there until eighteen eyras of age when he came to Steubenville.  He was here connected with a wholesale house until 1906, when, with G. C. Floto, he bought the Steubenville Bottling Works, which has proved a profitable investment.  He is interested in politics and in all that concerns the development of the place he is ever ready to perform a good citizen's duty.  In 1895 Mr. Meyer was married to Miss Lizzie L. Floto, a daughter of Frederick Floto, and they have two children, Wilbert and Elizabeth.  Mr. and Mrs. Meyer are members of Zion Lutheran Church.  He is identified with the Eagles, the Heptasophs and several purely German organizations of a social character.
Source:: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ. Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 1187

Carl Mildner
CARL MILDNER



Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ. Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 925
  C. G. MILLER, a member of the firm of  Miller and Dever, conducting the leading china and art store in Steubenville, has been a lifelong resident of this city and has a wide acquaintance throughout this part of Ohio.  He was born in Steubenville, in 1875, and is a son of Henry Miller, who was born in Germany and is now a resident of Steubenville.
     C. G. Miller received a public school education, after which he worked six years in the old Jefferson Iron Works.  In 1897 he formed a partnership with Mr. Dever and they established their present store, in which they carry a fine line of china and art work.  They deal exclusively in these art work.  They deal exclusively in these lines and have built up a very large trade.
     In 1898 Mr. Miller was united in marriage with Miss Lucy Burns, a native of Steubenville, and they have three children: Lucile, George and Lyda Belle.  Religiously they are members of the Congregational Church, Mr. Miller serving on its official board.  He is a member of and past chancellor commander of Steubenville Lodge, No. 1, K. P.; also a member of the Woodmen and of the Carpenters' Union.
Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ. Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 701
  GEORGE P. MILLER, who is at the head of the George P. Miller & Company firm, designers of men's clothes and shirt makers, with quarters at No. 179 Fourth Street, Steubenville, Ohio, was born at Wellsburg, W. Va., where he was reared and educated.
     Mr. Miller came to Steubenville in 1880 and established himself in the gents' furnishing goods line and as a merchant tailor.  He has elegant parlors and in every way his establishment is superior to any other of its kind in the Upper Ohio Valley.
     In 1884, Mr. Miller was married to Miss Mary Johnson, a daughter of Samuel Johnson, a well known citizen of this section, and they have three children: Mildred N., S. Johnson and Helen M.  Mr. and Mrs. Miller are members of the First Presbyterian Church, of which Mr. Miller is a trustee and an official.  He is a Thirty-second Degree Mason, belonging to the Masonic bodies at Steubenville and to the Lake Erie Consistory at Cleveland.  He is identified also with the Elks and the Knights of Pythias.  Although never very active in politics, Mr. Miller has always shown his respect for good citizenship and is a member of the Steubenville Chamber of Commerce.  He belongs to the Country Club.
Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ. Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 943

James E. Miller
JAMES E. MILLER, M. D., who has been established at Steubenville, O., since April, 1902, and is in the enjoyment of a substantial practice, was born at Fairview, W. Va., in 1868.
     Dr. Miller attended the public schools and later the State Normal School at Edenboro, Pa., for one year, after which he entered the medical department of the Western Pennsylvania Medical College, now the University of Pittsburgh, and was graduated in the class of 1894.  He located first at Richmond, in Jefferson County, Ohio, where he was engaged in general practice for five years and then moved to Cadiz, in Harrison County, three years later coming to Steubenville.  This city has a large number of able medical men but Dr. Miller has easily advanced to a front rank among them and occupies a place in the confidence of the public, both personally and professionally.  He is a member of the Jefferson County and the Ohio State Medical Societies.  In 1894 Dr. Miller was married to Miss Nora Wilson, of Fairview, W. Va., and they have one daughter, Elizabeth.  They are members of the Second Presbyterian Church, Dr. Miller being a ruling elder in the same.  Fraternally he is identified with the Masons and the Maccabees.
Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ. Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 1064
  JOSEPH MILLER, one of the representative citizens of Island Creek Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, who owns a farm of exceeding productiveness, containing 212 acres, has lived on this place since 1892 and has been a resident of the township since 1876.  He was born in Wertemberg, Germany, Oct. 25, 1834, and is a son of John and Mary A. (Kummer) Miller.
     The parents of Mr. Miller came to America in 1852, accompanied by their one son and three daughters, and settled at first in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, where they died a few years later.  In 1859 Joseph Miller went to Placer County, Cal., where he remained until 1868, during this time engaging in gold mining.  He returned then to Pennsylvania, where, on Nov. 4, 1868, he was married to Miss Mary A. Eichenlaub, who was born in Bavaria, Germany, Mar. 4, 1841.  Her parents were Joseph and Barbara (Martin) Eichenlaub.  Mrs. Miler came to America in 1867 and was married in the following year.  To Mr. and Mrs. Miller five children were born, namely: Joseph P., who lives in Moab, Utah; Peter H., who lives in Washington County, Idaho; Oliver and Frank W., both of whom reside in Island Creek Township; and Margaret H., who is the wife of Charles Kister, and they live in Salem Township.  Oliver Miller, of the above family, is the practical manager of the farm.  He married Miss Kate Rokliz and they have four children, Joseph, Alice, Agnes and John.  Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Miller are member of St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, at Steubenville.  They are well known through this section and are held in the highest respect.  Mr. Miller casts his vote with the Democratic party.  His large farm is devoted to general farming and the raising of stock.
Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ. Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 582
  M. L. MILLER, one of Steubenville's most respected citizens, who occupies his pleasant home at No. 226 North Street, came to this city away back in 1854 and has ever since been prominently identified with the leading interests of the place.  He was born in Washington Co., Pa., on the Beaver County line, July 2, 1830.
     Mr. Miller was reared in his native place and was educated at Beaver and Washington College.  He came to Steubenville in 1854 to engage in the drug business having prepared for the same at Pittsburg, Pa., and continued in this line for forty years, during fifteen of these being both in the wholesale and retail trade.  When he retired he was succeeded by the firm of Beall & Steele.  After a period of rest, Mr. Miller became interested in fruit growing and was one of the pioneers in strawberry culture in this section.  Later he purchased a retail drug store from his brother and continued that for eighteen years and then sold out and started a seed store which he conducted until he was appointed postmaster by President McKinley and was re-appointed by President Roosevelt.  He served as postmaster of Steubenville for eight years, and one month and was a popular and efficient public officer.
     On Dec. 17, 1857, Mr. Miller was married to Miss Eliza A. McDonald, who died in 1893.  She was a daughter of Judge William McDonald.  To this marriage the following children were born:  William McD., a prominent citizen of Steubenville; L. A., residing at Los Angeles, Cal; Frank E., a resident of Pittsburg; Nelson D., a leading attorney of Steubenville; Olive, wife of William M. Ewing, of Beaver Falls, Pa.; and Mary, now deceased, who was the wife of John E. McClinton.  Mr. Miller is a member of the First Presbyterian Church and for thirty years has been a member of the Session.
Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ. Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 1080
  NELSON D. MILLER, a member of the legal profession of Steubenville, O., was born in this place, Sept. 6, 1876, a son of Martin L. Miller and Eliza MacDonald Miller
     Mr. Miller spent his boyhood in Steubenville, graduated from the high school, attended Stanford University in California for two years, and later took the course in the Law School of Columbia University in the city of New York, where he received the degree of LL.B. in 1901.  He was  admitted to the bar in New York state in 1901, and engaged in practice in New York City for about six months.  He then came to Steubenville, and was admitted to the bar of Ohio in 1802, since which time he has been engaged in the practice of law in Steubenville, as a member of the firm of Miller & Miller.  Mr. Miller is a member of the Masonic order, the Elks, Country Club, Y. M. C. A., Chamber of Commerce, and the Jefferson County Law Library Association.  His religious connection is with the First Presbyterian Church.
Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ. Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 651
  THOMAS MILLER, who was born in Carroll County, Ohio, near the Jefferson County line, Oct. 12, 1839, owns eighty-six acres of valuable land in Jefferson County and an adjoining eighty-five acres, situated in Carroll County.  His comfortable and commodious new residence, which he built in September, 1909, stands in Section 6, Springfield Township.
     Thomas W. Miller, father of Thomas Miller, was born near Bergholz, Ohio, in an old log house.  His father was John Miller, who, as also his wife and only child, was born in Ireland.  When John Miller and wife died there and were buried in the Bergholz Cemetery.  Thomas W. Miller married Mary Peterson, who was a daughter of John Peterson who was a daughter of John Peterson, of Carroll County, Ohio, and they were the parents of eight children.
     Thomas Miller was reared and educated in Carroll County, and when he reached manhood was married to Miss Katherine Rileybush a daughter of Jesse Rileybush, who lived near Salineville in Carroll County.  They have had four children: Alice, who is deceased; Charles; Harry, who married Della Shields; and Alert, who married Francis Wilson, a daughter of Hugh Wilson, of Salineville, and has one son Warren.
     For some months after marriage Mr. Miller continued to live on the home farm and then moved to the farm on which he now resides, occupying and old farm-house for years.  This accidentally caught fire on July 7, 1909, and the house and contents were entirely destroyed.  Fortunately the barn - a comparatively near structure, having been erected in 1905 - was saved.  Mr. Miller and family managed to live in a small shanty until the present residence was erected, and since then have enjoyed every comfort.  Mr. Miller has engaged in general farming and sheep raising, keeping about 175 head.  All his land is utilized either for cropping or pasturage with the exception of twelve acres which he has in woodland.  No coal has ever been sold nor have any tests been made for oil or gas, Mr. Miller having reached his present independent condition through his excellent agricultural methods and the consequent productiveness of his land.  He is identified with the Republican party but holds no public office.  With his wife he is a member of the United Brethren Church at West Union, of which he is a trustee.
Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ. Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 1099
  WILLIAM McD. MILLER, a member of the bar at Steubenville, O., and a prominent citizen who is identified with that section, was born October, 1858, in Steubenville, O., and is a son of Martin L. Miller.
     Martin L. Miller
was born on the boundary between Beaver and Washington Counties, at a place then known as Millersburg and in 1854 came to Jefferson County, Ohio, locating at Steubenville, where he became one of the most successful business men.  He was one of the first pharmacists to locate here.  He became a white lead manufacturer and afterward served eight years as postmaster of Steubenville under the McKinley and Roosevelt administrations.
     William McD. Miller secured a common school education, graduating from the Steubenville High School, after which he spent two years studying Latin and Greek under Profs. Andrews & Rowe.  He then took up the study of law under McCurdy and Spencer, Esqs., was admitted to the bar in 1883 and one year later embarked in the practice of law at Steubenville, where he was soon after elected and served seven years as city solicitor.  Mr. Miller has always been an active participant in the work of the Republican party, and was especially interested during McKinley's administration, as a member of the State Central Committee.  He was appointed probate judge by McKinley and served eight years in that capacity.  Mr. Miller represents various companies and corporations as counsel, making a specialty of traction, telephone, gas and oil companies.  He was for nine years president of the Herald Printing Company, organized The Steubenville Building and Loan Association and is a director of the Steubenville and East Liverpool Railway and Light Company.  He is also a director in various other smaller concerns.
     Hon. William McD. Miller was married in June, 1892, to Jessie Mossgrove, of Steubenville.  He holds membership with the First Presbyterian Church, and is a member of the board of Trustees and treasurer of the same.
Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ. Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 587
  JAMES MURRAY, sheriff of Jefferson County, Ohio, was born in 1866 and was reared and educated at Toronto, Jefferson County, where he attended school until he was sixteen years of age.  Sheriff Murray is a self-made man and from boyhood not only took care of himself, but also of his widowed mother.  When he left school he went to work for the Sewer Pipe Company, at Toronto, and remained there for thirteen years.  Mr. Murray developed an interest in politics in early manhood, and as he possessed courage and stability of Character, he was chosen for office by his fellow citizens while almost a youth.  He served for seven years as town marshal of Toronto and then became deputy under Sheriff Voorhees, whom he succeeded as sheriff through election in November 1908, on the Republican ticket.  His administration of the office has been an entirely satisfactory one to the county.
     On December 19, 1889, Sheriff Murray was married to Miss Nannie M. Martin, and they have one son and three daughters: John H., who graduated from the Toronto High School in 1908, and is now in the employ of the Tri-State Gas Company; and Emeline E., Louise and Nellie.  Mr. Murray and family belong to the Second Methodist Episcopal Church of Steubenville.  He is identified with the Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, the Elks and the Modern Woodmen of America.
Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ. Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 751
  WILLIAM W. MURRAY, a leading farmer of Mt. Pleasant Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, where he owns a well improved and finely cultivated farm containing 163 1/2 acres, was born near East Wheeling, in Ohio County, West Virginia, Jan. 27, 1852, and is a son of William and Euphemia (Mason) Murray.
     William Murray
was born in the city of Edinburg, Scotland, where he was married, in 1848 he came to America and shortly afterward entered the employ of Albany & Richards at New York, and had charge of their greenhouse, gardening being his business.  From there he went to Wheeling, W. Va., but later removed across the Ohio River and located on Glenn's Run, on the east side of Martin's Ferry, where he remained until 1860.  He then came to Mt. Pleasant Township and for about eleven years lived one mile west of the village of Mt. Pleasant, on the old plant road.  Later he returned to West Virginia and engaged in farming for three years in Marshall County.  Returning again to Jefferson County he settled on what was called the Nathaniel Rix farm, which property he later bought from Milton Pettit.  He lived on that farm for about ten years and then moved back to Mt. Pleasant.  While residing here he made a trip to Scotland, and subsequently while on a second trip to his native land to revisit the scenes of his earlier life, his death occurred on March 13, 1902, when he was aged sixty-two years.  He was buried as he would have wished, with his forefathers, in the historic old city of Edinburg.  He was twice married, first to Euphemia Mason, who died in 1884, and afterwards to Miss Betsey Fowler, also in Scotland, who died in 1904.  To the parents of William W. Murray there were born eleven children, several of whom died in infancy, and of these, John, the first born, died on the Atlantic ocean.  James grew to manhood and died at Martin's Ferry.  William W. was the third in order of birth.  Elizabeth, who is deceased, was the wife of James CaldwellEffie belongs to that hand of courageous and self-sacrificing women, who have devoted their lives to missionary work in far-off China.  Mary is the wife of William Heburn, a road contractor, residing at Mt. Pleasant.  Annie died when aged eighteen years.  John owns an excellent farm near Smithfield, O., and is also engaged in teaming.  George died at the age of three years.  The parents of this family were members of the Presbyterian Church at Martin's Ferry.
     William W. Murray obtained his education by attending school for a short time t Emerson, O., and also at Long Run, W. Va.  He early began agricultural work, and after his marriage operated the Nathan Pettit farm in Jefferson County.  Subsequently he moved to the Maggie Harrison place, in Warren Township and from there, two years later, to the old home place.  He then purchased a farm of thirty-two acres, south of Mt. Pleasant, but subsequently moved to the Lloyd farm in Belmont County, and lived there for three years before coming to the property he now occupies.  He bought this land from George Sixsmith or his heirs.  It was formerly known as the Washington Mitchell farm and after it had changed hands, as the Dr. Updegraff farm.  Mr. Murray has lived on this place for the past eight years.  He has put the land under fine cultivation and has made excellent improvements.  Through and has made excellent improvements.  Through his own industry and prudence he acquired the capital he has thus invested, and through his excellent agricultural methods his farm is increasing yearly in productiveness.
     On August 28, 1882, Mr. Murray was married to Miss Rachel Scramhorn, a daughter of Aaron and Emeline Scramahorn, of Warren township
Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ. Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 680
  FRANK M. MYERS, deputy recorder of Jefferson County, and one of the rising young business men of Steubenville, O., was born in Toronto, O., in 1884, and is a son of A. W. and Harriet (McFerm) MyersA. W. Myers, now deceased, was born in Toronto, O., in 1835, and during his active career carried on a general contracting business at Toronto.  He is survived by his widow, who is a resident of Toronto, O., and the following children: Mary, who is the wife of Charles W. Moran, of Jeddo, O.; Frank M.; Sadie, who married Hugh Wilberts, of Toronto; and Jennie, who is the wife of D. D. Huscroft, county recorder of Jefferson County.
     Frank M. Myers was reared in Toronto, O., and after a common school education was engaged in the wall paper business at Toronto with his brother for some time, then entered the employ of the American Sewer Pipe Company, after which he was employed at the Carnegie Steel Works at Mingo until September, 1909, since which time he has been serving as deputy recorder of Jefferson County.  Mr. Myers holds membership with the Methodist Protestant Church, of Toronto, O.  He is a Mason of the 14th degree, recognized as one of the able and efficient men of the younger generation at Steubenville.
Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 587
  J. ROSS MYERS, president and treasurer of the Myers Company, of Steubenville, O., scene painters, decorators and expert fresco artists, was born at Steubenville, in 1874, and is a son of John K. Myers.  The latter was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1843, and was a son of John Myers, who came to this section among the pioneers of 1800.  John K. Myers founded the present business of the Myers Company.
     J. Ross Myers has been identified with the decorating and painting business ever since he left school—in fact, may be said to have grown up in the industry which he has made his life work.  In 1904 the Myers Company was organized and incorporated and the present officers are: J. Ross Myers president and treasurer and S. H. Carey vice president and secretary.  All kinds of inside decorating is their specialty, expert workmen being employed in the fine fresco work, and they contract in every kind of scenic painting and general painting of every description.  Their artistic decorating may be found in many of the finest buildings in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky, and their contracts for scene painting come from all over the country.  There are few houses of this kind in eastern Ohio that can enter
into competition with the Myers Company, whose name stands for perfection in design and finish and punctuality and honesty in the practical part of the work.
     In 1897 J. Ross Myers was married to Miss Daisy C. Johnson, of Cadiz, O., and they have four sons and one daughter:  Walter, Charles, Ralph, John and Marion MarieMr. and Mrs. Myers are members of St. Paul's Episcopal Church.
Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 685
  JAMES W. MYERS, a member of the city council of Toronto, Jefferson County, Ohio, is a representative citizen and business man and comes of a family which has for generations been well known in the county.  He has lived his entire life thus far on the farm situated on River Avenue, which his paternal grandfather acquired in pioneer days.
     Mr. Myers was born on the farm above mentioned May 2, 1840, and is a son of William and Sarah Ann (Abraham) Myers.  His grandfather, known to history as "Auver Mike" Myers, was a scout in the government service at an early date and in return for his service was offered either money or land.  He chose the money, and with it purchased the farm now owned by his grandson, James W. Myers.  He for some time lived in an old stone house down by the river, but owing to floods sought higher ground.  In 1832 he built a brick house which still stands, and is located on what is now known as River Avenue.
     William Myers grew up on the home farm and always engaged in agricultural pursuits.  He owned 150 acres of land, now mostly laid out in town lots, and in 1852 erected the large brick house now occupied by his son, located on River Avenue, just opposite the old brick erected by his father.  He and his wife both lived on the home farm until their respective deaths.  James W. Myers was reared on this place and received his education in the local schools.  He has made farming his main business, owning some forty acres of the old place, Init was also interested in the Myers Fire Clay Company and in the real estate business.
     Mr. Myers was married to Miss Jennie Robertson, a native of Island Creek Township and a daughter of Andrew Robertson.  She died, and was survived by three of the four children born to them, namely:  Dorcas L., wife of B. T. Hodgens; Julia, deceased; Homer, of Toronto; and William R., who lives with his father, Mr. Myers formed a second union with Amanda Brown, a daughter of James Brown, of Hancock County, West Virginia.  Religiously they are members of the Methodist Protestant church.
Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 674
  KIRK MYERS, who does a large grocery business at Steubenville, Ohio, being located on the corner of Fifth and Ross Streets, was born in this city in 1872, and is a son of the late W. C. Myers. The latter was also a native of Steubenville and was born in 1825.  His father was a very early settler at Pleasant Heights, Jefferson County, and the family is well known all through this section.
     Kirk Myers was educated in the Steubenville schools, and during almost the whole of his business life he has been in the grocery trade.  About 1900 he settled at his present location stock of staple and fancy groceries, catering to first-class trade.  He is a good citizen as well as a successful business man.  He early identified himself with the Chamber of Commerce and is always ready to do his duty in helping to advance the interests of the community.  He is identified with the Knights of Pythias, the Elks, the Woodmen and the Turners' Society, all at Steubenville.  He is a member of the Fifth Street Methodist Episcopal Church.
Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 1157
  W. D.  MYERS, senior member of the firm of Myers & Stewart, general contractors in all kinds of plastering and a leading firm in this line at Steubenville, O., was born in the old homestead on Fourth Street, in this city, Dec. 13, 1863, was one of Steubenville's best known citizens for many years.  He was one of the leading contractors here and his contract work may be pointed out in some of the most substantial structures of the city.  His death occurred in 1891.  W. D. Myers was reared in his native place and attended the excellent city schools until ready to learn a self-supporting trade.  With his father's advice, in 1880, he went into the plastering business, and hired Joseph Hollis to work for him.  Mr. Hollis was a well known plasterer and Mr. Myers learned the trade while in business for himself and followed it successfully for a time and then began contracting.  In 1884 he entered into partnership with John T. Stewart and has carried on his large operations ever since under the firm name of Myers & Stewart.  The firm is noted for its enterprise as well as its trustworthy methods and has handled a large amount of the important city contracts completed in the last few years in the line of public improvements and also much done by private parties, a large amount of capital having been spent here in the last decade.  Mr. Myers is a member of the Steuben Lodge No. 1, Knights of Pythias.
Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ. Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 842

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