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A Standard History of
THE HANGING ROCK IRON REGION OF OHIO

An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with the Extended
Survey of the Industrial and Commercial Development
Vol. II
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1916
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  WILLIAM J. MAHONEY.  As one of the able and representative members of the bar of Lawrence County, Ohio, Mr. Mahoney is entitled to specific recognition in this history, as he is also by reason of his status as a broad-minded, loyal and public-spirited citizen of sterling character and high ideals.  He is engaged in the successful practice of his profession in the City of Ironton, the judicial center of Lawrence County, and his clientage indicates in its personnel and importance the popular estimate placed upon his ability as a resourceful advocate and well fortified counselor.
     Mr. Mahoney claims the fair old Emerald Isle as the place of his nativity, and in both the agnatic and maternal lines he is a scion of the stanchest of Irish stock.  He was born in County Wexford, Ireland, on the 14th of June, 1862, and is a son of Patrick and Elizabeth Mahoney, the former of whom was born in County Tipperary, Ireland, in 1834, and the latter County Wexford, Ireland, in 1839.  Patrick Mahoney served as a captain in the British army during his lifetime, and was district inspector of Irish troops and police for the Province of Leinster, where his death occurred in 1894.  The mother of him whose name initiates this review was summoned to the life eternal in 1868, when he was a lad of about six years.  Of the children William J. is the elder of the two now living, his brother Thomas when at home being a resident of Dublin, Ireland, being now in the diplomatic service of the British government.  Three children are deceased, two sons and one daughter.
     In a private school in his native land William J. Mahoney acquired his early educational discipline, and he there also attended the preparatory department of a college.  At the age of ten years he came to the United States, and settlement was made at Center Station, Lawrence County, Ohio, where he spent two years, and was reared to adult age in Ironton, Ohio, being there afforded the advantages of the public schools.  He made good use of his scholastic privileges, and for two and one-half years was numbered among the successful teachers of the district schools, besides which he worked in various iron furnaces in the States of Virginia and Tennessee, having charge of iron plants as manager and in other capacities.  His ambition led him to form definite plans for his future career, and after deciding to adopt the legal profession he entered the law department of Washington University at Lexington, Virginia, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1898 and from which he received his degree of Bachelor of Laws.  Since the time of his graduation Mr. Mahoney has been engaged as a teacher and instructor in law and has practiced his profession for varying intervals in Virginia, Washington, Ohio and other states. He has been one of the leading representatives of his profession in Lawrence County, Ohio, since 1908.  He controls a large and important law business and has appeared in connection with much notable litigation in the various courts of this section of Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia.  Mr. Mahoney is independent in his political opinions.  He is well fortified in his conviction concerning economic measures and government policies, as he is a close student of the questions and issues of the hour, as well as of the best in general literature, including that of his profession.
     In the year 1885 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Mahoney to Miss Ella Scherer, who was born in Ironton, Ohio, April 14, 1862, a daughter of Michael Scherer, a pioneer in Ironton business circles.  Mr.  and Mrs. Mahoney have two children, Elizabeth and John L.  The daughter is now the wife of Henry Horschel, of Ironton, and they have one son, William E. M., their daughter, Henrietta, having died in childhood.  John L. Mahoney is unmarried and resides in Oklahoma.

Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916 - Page 790
  GEORGE MARKINS is one of the young men in the industrial activities of Lawrence County, has had a thorough practical training, and his usefulness is indicated by his position as assistant maser mechanic to the Superior Portland Cement Company at Superior.  He has come up from the ranks of the laborer, knows his business as one who has learned it through actual experience, and is one of the most popular officials connected with this large industry.
     George Markins was born in Aid Township of Lawrence County, Ohio, Jan. 23, 1887.  His father, Alexander, who was born in the same township of Lawrence County in 1861, is a miner, and is now connected with the Superior Portland Cement Company.  The mother's maiden name was Elma Large, who was born in Aid Township in 1864.  Their eleven children are:  Sadie, Nora, George, Edward, Myrtle, Blanche, Ora, Maggie, William, deceased; Louis, deceased, and Willard.
     George Markins
grew up in Aid Township, was educated in the public schools until sixteen, and then spent three years as a laborer in the Ironton Portland Cement Company.  Eight months were then employed in work for the laborer for one year, for two years as miller in the plant, and then for two years was mechanical repair man.  In June, 1913, came his well deserved promotion to the position of assistant maser mechanic.
     Mr. Markins was married Jan. 12, 1912, to Lillie Mays, daughter of John and Mary (Willis) Mays.  Her father is a farmer in Lawrence County.  To their marriage have been born three children: Thelma Pauline, Alexander and William.  Mr. Markins is affiliated with the Improved Order of Red Men, is a republican in politics and his family belongs to the Methodist Church.  Besides his work and profession he is the owner of eighty acres of wild land in Aid Township.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916 - Page 1107
  JONAS MARSHALL.   Although not now a resident of the Hanging Rock Region, having retired from active labor and moved to Columbus, Jonas Marshall is known as one of the pioneers of this section, where for many years he was identified with a number of the leading industries as a blacksmith and wagonmaker.  He was born at Etna Furnace, Lawrence County, Ohio, Aug. 15, 1849, and is a son of Richard J. and Kathryn (Clutts) Marshall.  His father, a native of Hagerstown, Maryland, where he was born in 1828, was a wagonmaker and blacksmith by trade, and came to Ohio about 1845, settling at Franklin Furnace.  He became one of the prominent and influential men of his community, served as a justice of the peace of Decatur Township for nine years, was assessor six terms and for a number of years occupied a place on the school board.  He died in 1895, while Mrs. Marshall, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1823, died in 1862.  They were the parents of five children: Mary A., Harriet, Josephine, John and Elizabeth.
    
The district schools of Decatur Township, Lawrence County, furnished Jonas Marshall with his primary education, and at the age of eighteen years he laid aside his books temporarily and took the position of stable foreman at the Buckhorn Furnace, there remaining five years.  Realizing the need of further education, he again entered school, remaining two years, and this training enabled him to secure the position of store manager for the Buckhorn Furnace, a capacity in which he also had charge of the wood business.  After eighteen years he went to the Gallia Furnace, in Gallia County, but after four years as clerk returned to Lawrence County and entered the employ of the Lawrence Furnace.  Here for thirteen years he worked as blacksmith and wagonmaker, and then went to the Hecla Furnace as the incumbent of the same positions and remained three years.  Mr. Marshall then came to Ironton to accept the position of blacksmith for the Ironton Fire Brick Company, and one year later became identified with the Ironton Portland Cement Company as clerk and timekeeper, but after seven years, in 1913, went to Columbus with the Ralston Steel Company as a member of the draughting department.  In 1914 he retired from active life, and has since been living with his son, at East Columbus.  An industrious and energetic workman, ever faithful to the duties devolving upon him, Mr. Marshall has labored so well that he is able to spend the evening of life in the enjoyment of a handsome competency.  His life has covered one of the greatest periods of development in this part of Ohio, and he can well remember early incidents, when the native timber covered this section; when ironmaking here was in its infancy and in its prime; when the father of Ironton, Mr. J. Campbell, gave him employment for weeks at a stretch; when the old Iron Railroad was built, and when Mr. J. Steen erected the first, or one of the first, charcoal iron furnaces in Lawrence County, the old Mount Vernon Furnace.  Through it all he has known some of the leading men of this region, and has been held in high esteem and respect by all with whom he has come into contact.  He still retains his love for his vocation, and is able to hold his own in labor or workmanship with any of the present-day blacksmiths.  Mr. Marshall is a member of the Methodist Church.
     On Apr, 7, 1889, Mr. Marshall was married at Buckhorn Furnace to Miss Sarah R. Dennison, daughter of John Dennison of Scioto Furnace, Scioto County, Ohio, a farmer.  Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Marshall, namely: George W., a plumber of East Columbus, Ohio, married Mary McConnell, and has one child; Nellie, who married Joseph Taylor, a machinist of Kalamazoo, Michigan, has one child; Herman, a cement worker of Bloomington, Indiana; Hattie, who married George Barber, a lawyer of Bloomington, Indiana, has no children; Nannie, who married Ross Faulks, an electrician of Huntington, West Virginia, has two children; and John F., who is single and a laborer.

Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916 - Page 1281
  WILLIAM H. MARTING.  A retired merchant and honored citizen of Ironton, Lawrence County, and a scion of a sterling pioneer family of the Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio, Mr. Marting was born at Jackson Furnace, Scioto County, on the 7th of September, 1854.  He is a son of Henry W. and Katherine (Ketter) Marting, both natives of the Kingdome of Hanover, Germany, where the former was born in 1831 and the later in 1833.  Henry W. Marting became a resident of Scioto County when a young man and there achieved independence and prosperity through his activities as a farmer and in the conducting of a general store at Gebhart's Station, where he held the office of postmaster for many years.  At the time of the Civil war he showed his loyalty to the land of his adoption by serving ninety days as a soldier of the Union, in an Ohio regiment of volunteers.  He passed the closing years of his life in Scioto County, where he died in 1904, his widow being summoned to the life eternal in 1906.  Following is a list of the names of their surviving children, given in respective order of birth: William H., Mary, Charles, Caroline, Louis E., Lizzie.  Three children are deceased.
     William H. Marting attended school in the Lick Ridge district of Scioto County until he was sixteen years of age and in the meanwhile had gained practical experience in connection with his father's farming operations.  He soon engaged in agricultural operations on his own responsibility and he continued to be engaged in farming in his native county until 1880, when, at the age of twenty-six years, he removed to Ironton and opened a grocery store at the corner of Third and Walnut streets.  There he built up a prosperous enterprise and incidentally entrenched himself most fully in popular confidence and esteem.  He continued his business successfully until 1902, in the same location, and since that time has lived virtually retired, having turned his well established grocery business over to his sons, William F., Frank A., and Charles G.; William F. being now a representative physician and surgeon in Ironton and Frank A. being here engaged in the automobile business, so that to the youngest of the three sons is left the management of the business established by the father more than thirty years ago, the enterprise being still conducted under the firm name of Marting Brothers.
     Though Mr. Marting has relieved himself of the cares and exactions of active business he is still a stockholder in the Foster Store Company, the Marting Dry Goods Company, and the Scioto Flour Mill Company.  He s a staunch advocate of the principles and policies of the democratic party, served six years as a loyal and progressive member of the city council of Ironton, and was for one year a trustee of the Lawrence County Children Home.  He is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Junior of United American Mechanics, and both he and his wife held membership in Emanuel Methodist Episcopal Church.
     On the 9th of November, 1874, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Marting to Miss Caroline Frouein, daughter of the late Frederick Frouein, of Scioto County, and of the eight children of this union three are deceased - Emma, Nora and one son who died in infancy.  Those surviving are Dr. William F., Frank A., Charles G., Louis, and Emerson.
     Dr. William F. Marting
was graduated in the Ironton High School in 1893, and in preparation for the work of his chosen profession he attended the Ohio Medical College, in the City of Cincinnati, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1897, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine.  He established himself in practice of Lyra, Scioto County, but he soon turned to answer the call of patriotism, at the inception of the Spanish-American war, in which he served as a member of the reserve ambulance corps of the Second Army Corps, in 1898-9  He wedded Miss Emma Drayer of Ironton and is now established in the successful practice of his profession in this city, his children being Anna d., Marion R. and Esther C.  Frank A. Marting, who is engaged in the automobile business in Ironton, as previously noted, wedded Miss May GatesCharles G. Marting, who conducts the grocery business established by the father, married Miss Alma Hawenauer.  Louis Marting, who is principal of the high school in the City of Akron, Ohio, married Miss Bertha BarrEmerson Marting, the youngest of the sons, married Miss Esther Beasley and is now engaged in the automobile business at Ashland, Kentucky.
     William H. Marting, to whom this sketch is dedicated, is the owner of valuable realty in Ironton, including his own residence property, five acres of land and an attractive dwelling, at 369 South Seventh Street; a house and lot on South Second Street; the business block in which is conducted the Marting grocery store, at Third and Walnut streets; and a garage on South Seventh Street.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916 - Page 1341
  EPHRAIM L. MAYBERRY.  He whose name initiates this review is one of the popular young men and efficient officials of his native county, maintains his home in the City of Ironton, and is the incumbent of the position of assistant county surveyor.
     Mr. Mayberry was born in Windsor Township, Lawrence County, on the 16th of September, 1880, and is a son of John and Martha (Calliflower) Mayberry, both likewise natives of Lawrence County, where the former was born in 1856 and the latter in 1861, dates that indicate that the respective families were founded in this county in the pioneer days.  John Mayberry received his education in the public schools and as a young man was a successful and popular teacher in the schools of Lawrence County.  He and his wife now reside on their well improved farm in Windsor Township, and he is giving special attention to fruit culture, having on his place a fine orchard of 5,000 apple trees.  The four children are Bertha, Owen, Ephraim L. and Irwin.
     Ephraim L. Mayberry
continued to attend the public schools of his native county until he had attained to the age of eighteen years, and thereafter he was for five years engaged in teaching, as one of the efficient and popular representatives of the pedagogic profession in Lawrence County.  In 1905 he was graduated in the Northwestern Ohio Normal University, at Ada, Hardin County, and from this institution he received the degree of civil engineer.  Thereafter he was identified with government contract work on the Ohio and Allegheny rivers until 1909, since which time he has held the position of deputy county surveyor of Lawrence County, an incumbency in which he has accomplished a large amount of important work.
     Mr. Mayberry renders allegiance to the republican party, he and his wife are members of the First Baptist Church of Ironton, and he is affiliated with the local lodge and chapter of the Masonic fraternity.
    
On the 16th of July, 1906, Mr. Mayberry was united in marriage to Miss Grace Reed, daughter of John W. Reed, of Scottown, Lawrence County, and their three children are John B., Bon E., and Joseph D.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916 - Page 701
  GEORGE MAYNE, chief of the department of police of the city of Ironton has won promotion to the head of his department both because of his fearlessness as an officer and his executive talents.  A native of Ironton, he has been connected with the police force for a period of seventeen years, and his record is one of which any official might well be proud.  Chief Mayne was born Feb. 3, 1868, and is a son of John C. and Luema (Rowe) Mayne.
     John C. Mayne was born near Blossburg, Pennsylvania, in 1835, and in his native locality was engaged as a teamster and rolling mill man.  Subsequently he enlisted for service in the Civil war as a member of the Forty-fifth Kentucky Mounted Infantry.  After serving for eighteen months under arms he was made a teamster, and so completed his military service, being thus engaged for two years.  Following his honorable discharge, Mr. Mayne came to the Hanging Rock Region, about the year 1865, and here continued to follow rolling mill work during the balance of his active career.  Mrs. Mayne was born in Pike county, Kentucky, in 1810, and was eighteen years of age when she came to Ironton, Ohio, where she still makes her home.  She has been the mother of six children, as follows: John A., George, Thomas R., Charles A., Esther A. and Grace.
     George Mayne received only ordinary educational advantages in the public schools, for at the age of twelve years he laid aside his books to begin to learn the trade of cooper.  He continued to be employed at that vocation for some thirteen years, and then entered the rolling mills, where he remained three years.  In 1897 Mr. Mayne qualified for the police force of Ironton and began his duties in that year, and as a tribute to his character as a brave, active and efficient officer, he speedily won promotion until Feb. 13, 1914, he reached the height of his deserved promotions, being appointed chief of police.  He has since demonstrated a marked administrative ability, and has instilled a new spirit of earnestness and reform into the service.
     Chief Mayne was married Feb. 11, 1898, at Ironton, to Miss Emma Evans, daughter of Evan Evans of this city, and six children have been born to this union: Newell E., George E., Irving, Ruth, Elizabeth, and Avonell, of whom Ruth is deceased.  Politically, Chief Mayne is a republican.  With his family, he attends the Baptist church, in the work of which he has been active.  He owns an attractive home and spends much of his time there, but is also fond of the companionship of his fellows and is a popular member of the Encampment of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, and the Junior Order United American Mechanics.  When he can spare the time from his arduous official duties he takes hunting trips and fishing excursions into the mountains, always accompanied by his family.

Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916 - Page 668
  JAMES F. McCONNELL.  The City of Ironton has become one of the most thriving and prosperous commercial and industrial centers of the Hanging Rock and Calumet Region, and its prestige in the business world is due to the efforts and activities of such men as James F. McConnell, who for twenty years has been engaged as a commission merchant in the line of wholesale fruits and produce.  Mr. McConnell's contributions in advancing the material interests of Ironton are so generally recognized that they may be considered as no secondary part of his career of usefulness, for he belongs to that class which appreciates the fact that community prosperity spells individual success.
     Mr. McConnell was born at Gallipolis, Ohio, March 18, 1867, and is a son of James W. and Amelia (Wooly) McConnell.  His father, born in Pennsylvania in 1835, was brought to Ohio as a lad of seven years, the family locating in Gallia County, and there he has spent his life, his active career being devoted to the trade of cooper.  He retired from active pursuits in 1912 and is now living quietly at Gallipolis.  Mrs. McConnell, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1842, died in 1885.  There were ten children in the family of James W. and Amelia McConnell, namely:  Flora, who is single; Charles, who died at the age of twenty-one years;
James F., of this review; Belle, who married Col. A. M. Woolridge, a coal operator of West Virginia; Morris, who is storekeeper at the Gallipolis Hospital; Fred, who is a coal operator in West Virginia; Anna, who died at the age of eighteen years; Robert, an engineer on the C. & O. Railway; Clara, who married Sam McConnahay, of Dakota, West Virginia; and Thomas, who is a clerk in the offices of the C. & O. Railway.
     James F. McConnell attended the public schools of Gallipolis, Ohio, until sixteen years of age and then entered upon his career in the capacity of clerk in a grocery store of his native place.  He came to Ironton in 1892 and became a salesman for a shoe company here, but in 1894 entered business on his own account, and since that time has been engaged as a wholesale commission merchant, handling fruit and produce.  His business has grown steadily, and in addition ho has interested himself in various other enterprises, being president of the Iron City Building and Loan Association and a stockholder and director in several of Ironton's and Lawrence County's important industries.  His large business interests make him a very busy man, yet he has found time to assist the city in its advancement in various ways.  For many years he was financial secretary of the old board of trade and at this time is a member of the chamber of commerce, is a member of the board of health and president of the Board of the Children's Home, and no worthy movement is considered complete that does not have his name on its list of supporters.  Since 1904 Mr. McConnell has been agent at Ironton for the American Express Company.  He owns his own home at Ironton, in addition to several other pieces of city realty, and has also 540 acres of good farming land in Scioto County.  In polities Mr. McConnell is a democrat, with independent leanings.  He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in the work of which he has taken an active part, and at this time holds membership on the board of trustees.
     On March 9, 1898, at the home of the bride, Mr. McConnell was married to Miss Jennie Davis, daughter of George B. Davis, one of the first ironworkers of the old iron region.  Three children have been born to this union:  Miriam, Clara and Gwendolyn.

Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916 - Page 772
  JOHN A. McDOWELL.  The standing of a city or community rests almost entirely upon the character and reputation of its business men, their reliability, enterprise, initiative and integrity being, in the greater number of instances, a standard by which may he measured the prosperity and importance of the place.  Ironton has been especially fortunate in possessing business men of fine abilities and strict fidelity, and among them none is held in higher esteem than John A. McDowell, president of the Ironton Transfer and Storage Company and general manager of the Home Telephone Company.
     Mr. McDowell was born at Tarlton, Pickaway County, Ohio, Apr. 6, 1877, and is a son of James W. and Susannah (McClenand) McDowell.  James W. McDowell was born in 1841, at Tarlton, Ohio, there grew to manhood, and during the Civil war enlisted in the Fifty-ninth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, as a private seeing active service in a number of important engagements and suffering two wounds, one in the shoulder and one in the hip.  On his return to his home he engaged in poultry raising, and also became prominent in public affairs, serving two terms as commissioner of Pickaway County.  He now makes his home at Columbus, Ohio, as does also Mrs. McDowell, who was born at Tarlton in 1842.  Mr. and Mrs. McDowell were the parents of five children: Minnie, who is unmarried; Loretta L., who married Georbe W. Volkwein, a roofer and stave manufacturer of Columbus; May F., who married W. C. Bates, a practicing attorney of Columbus; John A., of this review; and Josephine M., who married F. B. Lewis, a railroad cashier of Columbus.
     John A. McDowell completed the curriculum of the graded schools of Columbus, following which he went through the first year of high school, and at the age of fifteen years became a messenger boy in the service of the Western Union Telegraph Company.  An earnest industrious and faithful youth, his ability and conscientious performance of duty won him steady promotion, so that at the end of six years he had reached the position of superintendent of Construction.  In this capacity Mr. McDowell remained until 1899, and in that year transferred his services to the United States Long Distance Telephone Company, with which he was engaged in various capacities for something under three years.  In 1901 Mr. McDowell became the founder of the Ironton Transfer and Storage Company, which in 1904 was incorporated as a stock company, of which he became manager.  He held this position until his election to the presidency, and at this time is a half owner of the business.  In 1906 Mr. McDowell became one of the organizers of the Home Telephone Company, and in the following year was made its general manager, a position which he still retains, being also a stockholder and director in this concern.  His able management, keen discrimination and executive ability have contributed largely to the success of the enterprises with which he has been connected and have gained him a high reputation among business men of this community.
     On July 18, 1900, Mr. McDowell was married at Columbus, Ohio, to Miss Clara J. Dorn, daughter of Conrad and Mary W. (Mihm) Dorn, natives of Germany who came to the United States as children.  Three children have been born to this union, namely: Allen E., Dan C. and Helen C.  Mr. McDowell is well known in fraternal circles, being a Chapter Mason and a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.  With his family he belongs to the Methodist Church.  He is fond of all out-of-door sports, particularly automobiling, although he is also a great lover of fine horses.  Mr. McDowell's military record consists of three years spent as a member of the signal corps of the Ohio National Guard.  He has proved his good citizenship on a number of occasions, and may be justly numbered among the influential men who are contributing to Ironton's prestige.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916 - Page 1342
  JOHN H. McGEE.  There is special consistency in the vocation followed by this venerable and honored citizen of Ironton, for as a pension attorney he has achieved a worthy work in behalf of his old comrades of the Civil war, his having been the distinction of serving through virtually the entire course of the great conflict through which the integrity of the nation was perpetuated and his loyalty in the times of peace having been of the same intense order, begotten, as it is, of high ideals and impregnable integrity of character.  Mr. McGee has been a resident of Lawrence County for more than half a century, is the oldest notary public in the county and here he has a circle of friends whose number is limited only by that of his acquaintances.  Well it is that this publication should pay a special tribute to this honored pioneer citizen of the Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio.
     Mr. McGee was born in Russell County, Virginia, on the 2nd of April, 1840, and is a son of Benjamin F. and Nancy (May) McGee, both natives of Virginia and representatives of sterling old families of that historic commonwealth.  The father, who was a farmer or planter by vocation, died in 1847, when the subject of this review was a lad of seven years, and well did the devoted mother meet the responsibilities and burdens that devolved upon her in the care of her four children, of whom John H. is the only son and the eldest of the number, the names of his sisters, in order of birth, being as follows: Elizabeth, Cynthia, and Mary.  The mother was born in Russell County, Virginia, on the 13th of September, 1821, and was summoned to the life eternal in 1892, in Kentucky.  She eventually contracted a second marriage, by becoming the wife of Hardin Hurley, who likewise is deceased.
     Mr. McGee was afforded the advantages of the schools of his native county, his mother having been a skilled weaver and having defrayed by her work as such the expenses of educating her children.  She finally re- moved with her family to Kentucky, and in the Village of Pikeville, Pike County, that state, John H. McGee continued his studies in the public schools. In July, 1858, when seventeen years of age, he came to Lawrence County, Ohio, and established his residence in Ironton.  He found employment in the Hecla Furnace, in the mines and at such other work as was available, until the inception of tlic Civil war, when he promptly put aside all personal considerations and interests to tender his aid in defense of the Union.  On the 9th day of July, 1861, in response to the first call for volunteers for the three months' service.  He enlisted in the first independent cavalry company organized in this section of the State, Company A of the First Ohio Cavalry, and with this command he served until the expiration of his term of enlistment.  He then re-enlisted, as a member of Battery L, First Ohio Light Artillery, on the 2d of October, 1861, and he received his honorable discharge on the 1st of January, 1864.  He received his discharge at Warrenton Junction, Virginia, after having participated in numerous engagements on the soil of his native State, but his patriotic ardor was not in the least diminished, as shown by the fact that he at once re-enlisted, as a veteran, in the same battery, with which he continued in active service until the close of the war, his having been the misfortune to encounter the irony of fate and to lose his right foot in the last battle in which his command was involved.  This wound was inflicted by the last shot fired in the battle of Cedar Creek, on the 19th of October, 1864, and the ball which caused the loss of the right foot of Mr. McGee took also the left foot of one of his comrades, a man named Jones, besides wounding five other members of Battery L.  The service of Mr. McGee covered a total of three years, eleven months and eight days, and among the more important engagements in which he took part may be noted the following: Port Republic, Chantilly, Second Battle of Bull Run, Antietam, Winchester, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Mine Run, Fort Stevens, Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek, in which last mentioned battle he received the wound that destroyed his foot.  He was with his battery on marches covering a total distance of 3,500 miles, and his record as a soldier was in every sense a model of valor, fidelity and earnest devotion.  He never indulged in spirituous liquors of any kind, never took part in any riotous actions such as were at times in evidence in the ranks of the contending forces, never gambled and never was on the sick list until he required the services of the surgeon in the last battle of his splendid military career.  He and his comrade, Jones, lay on the field of battle at Cedar Creek during an entire night and suffered intensely from cold, while their wounds caused them nearly to bleed to death before they were rescued and given necessary care. Mr. McGee was in the hospital from the 21st of October until June, 1865, when he was discharged at Cincinnati.
     After the close of the war Mr. McGee returned to Ironton, where he was engaged in the retail grocery business for the ensuing five years.  He then removed to Rock Camp, likewise in Lawrence County, and there he conducted a general store from 1870 until 1892.  He was one of the leading business men and influential citizens of the town, where he served eighteen years as postmaster and where he held impregnable place in the confidence and esteem of the entire community. In the year last mentioned Mr. McGee returned to Ironton, where he was engaged in the drygoods business for one year, since which time his activities have been principally in his effective service as a pension attorney and his official service as notary public, a position of which he is the oldest incumbent in the county, besides having held the post for a longer period than any other notary in the county, his original appointment having been made in 1874.
     It may readily be inferred that Mr. McGee has retained a deep interest in his old comrades in arms and that he is an appreciative and valued member of that noble organization, the Grand Army of the Republic, in which his affiliation is with Dick Lambert Post, No. 165, at Ironton.  He is a republican in his political allegiance, served six years as a director of the county infirmary, and both he and his wife are zealous members of the Pine Street Methodist Episcopal Church.  The Christian faith of Mr. McGee has been signally exemplified in his daily life, and he is kindly, tolerant and charitable in his judgment of others, so that in the gracious evening of his well spent life he finds himself surrounded with troops of friends and with those comforts and associations that should ever reward earnest and honorable living.  In addition to his membership in the Grand Army of the Republic he is affiliated with the Royal Arcanum.
     On the 21st of January, 1864, Mr. McGee wedded Miss Mary A. Holliday, while in Lawrence County on a furlough.  The devoted wife and mother was called to the life eternal on the 7th of July, 1912, and her memory is revered by all who came within the circle of her gracious influence.  Of the five children the eldest is Miss Sadie, who now resides in the City of Chicago; Martha J. is the wife of Charles G. Bazell, engaged in the lumber business in the State of Tennessee; Mamie died in childhood; Maggie is the wife of Isaac H. Booth, a teacher in the State Normal at Richmond, Kentucky, and Addie is the wife of Frank Bazell, a farmer and carpenter, residing at Rock Camp, Lawrence County, Ohio.
     On the 12th of December, 1912, Mr. McGee married Mrs. Sarah A. Kemp, widow of James H. Kemp, and she presides most graciously over their pleasant home.  In 1913, fifty years after he had fought on its battlefield, Mr. McGee visited Gettysburg.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916 - Page 757
  EDGAR E. McKEE, superintendent of the fitting department of the Excelsior Shoe Company, one of the principal industries of Ironton, is an excellent example of an individual finding his proper groove in life and then so directing his efforts as to make the most of his opportunities and to gain a full measure of success therefrom. Commencing his career as a teacher, after some years he turned his attention to the manufacture of shoes, and, commencing in the most humble capacity, thoroughly learned every detail of the business and worked his way steadily to a position of importance.
     Mr. McKee was born at South Point, Lawrence County, Ohio, Feb. 12, 1872, and is a son of Barton G. and Cessie (Roberts) McKee, the former born at South Point in 1849 and the latter at Buffalo Creek, Lawrence County, in 1850.  The father, who is still a resident of South Point, has been engaged in farming and fruit growing for many years, and has had a hand in directing educational matters as a member of the school board.  There were twelve children in the family: Edgar E., of this notice; Delbert, who died at the age of two years; Ira B.; Ollie V.; Howard C.; Herbert; Vessie; Harland; Harry B.; Zella; Lilla and Mason.
     Edgar E. McKee was given good educational advantages in the Lawrence County public schools, which he attended until eighteen years of age, and at that time adopted the vocation of educator.  His career as a teacher included one year at Hampton City, Kentucky, one year at Olive Furnace, Ohio, one year at Hecla, Ohio, three years at Russell, Kentucky, one year at Alderson, West Virginia, one year at Laura, Kentucky, two years at Martinsville, Kentucky, and one year at Clarksdale, Mississippi, and at each of these places he won the confidence and friendship of those with whom he came in contact.  With the understanding that should his abilities warrant it he was to be given the superintendency of a factory, Mr. McKee took a position in the shoe shop at Portsmouth, Ohio, June 10, 1901, as a laborer at the block, and was steadily advanced from one position to another until June 12, 1907, when he founded the fitting department of the established firm of Excelsior Shoe Company, at Ironton, on North Second Street.  This he conducted until 1909, when the company built an addition to the first department, and this has now become one of the modern factories of the Hanging Rock Region, developed to its present proportions largely through Mr. McKee's able and intelligent direction.  A skilled workman, he has a comprehensive knowledge of every detail of the business which comes under his supervision.  While the greater part of his attention is given to the duties of his position, he has also interested himself in other enterprises, being a stock-holder in the company, a stockholder and director in the Union Glove Company of Portsmouth, Ohio, and founder of the Brotherhood Garter Company, of Ironton.   He owns a residence at Huntington, West Virginia, and another at South Point, Ohio, and at the latter has ten acres of land, on which he indulges his hobby of raising fruit and poultry.  He has never lost his interest in educational matters, and has contributed of his time and means in behalf of fronton's public schools.  Mr. McKee is a republican.  He is a member of the Ironton Chamber of Commerce, and his fraternal connections include membership in the Masons, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Modern Woodmen of America.  With his family he attends the Baptist Church.
     Mr. McKee was married at Greenup, Kentucky, May 29, 1899, to Miss Cora Alice DuPuy, daughter of John M. and Anna (Blair) DuPuy, of Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio. Eight children have been born to this union: Donald E.; Marjorie, who is deceased; Roy; Ralph H.; Dorothea H.; Lorenna and Rowenna, twins, who are both deceased; and Ruth May.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916 - Page 762
  EDWIN E. McNARY.  Among the younger business men of Ironton this energetic, wide-awake merchant has been numbered for the past ten years.  His career is but another proof of the statement that practical industry, wisely and vigorously applied, never fails to win success, for with only ordinary advantages in his youth, he started out to make his own way in the world, and his diligence and judicious management have brought him a full measure of prosperity for his labors.  Mr. McNary has spent his entire life at Ironton, having been born here January 21, 1879. a son of William and Eleanor (Woods) McNary.
     William McNary was born in Pennsylvania in 1842. and there grew up amid agricultural surroundings, so that on reaching his majority he adopted farming as his life work.  He was twenty-eight years of age when he came to Lawrence County, and here, in the vicinity of Ironton. be rounded out a life of usefulness and industry in the pursuits of the soil, passing away in 1902, with the respect and esteem of those who had known him.  Mrs. McNary, who was born at Steubenville, Ohio, survived her husband for some time, dying in 1910, when seventy years of age.  They became the parents of six children, of whom all survive at this time: Elmer, in the real estate business in Granite City, Illinois; George engaged in the grocery business in Ironton; Dr. Wilber, a successful practicing physician of East St. Louis, Illinois; Minnie, a stenographer in Ironton; Margaret, who is also a stenographer and makes her home at Ironton; and Erwin E., of this review.
     Erwin E. McNary prosecuted his studies in the graded and high schools of Ironton, and after his graduation from the latter in 1896 received his introduction to commercial life in the capacity of clerk for the clothing business conducted by A. J. Brumberg, a merchant of this city.  He remained with Mr. Brumberg. thoroughly familiarizing himself with every detail of the business until 1904, when, feeling qualified to enter business on his own account, he invested his capital in a stock of clothing and gentlemen's furnishing goods, and in partnership with Mr. Isaac Mearan opened an establishment which has steadily advanced in patronage and public favor.  Mr. McNary fortunately possesses those qualifications which are essential to success in any line of business, and, having had much experience in the commercial world, is an able man of business.  Thoroughly understanding the needs and wants of his customers, he spares no efforts to please them and to meet their wishes in every regard.  He devotes his time strictly to his business, but when he is able to lay its cares aside, finds enjoyment in fishing and hunting trips.  A member of the Chamber of Commerce, the high esteem in which he is held by his associates is evidenced by the fact that he has been elected a member of the board of directors of that body, a position which he now holds.  Mr. McNary is a republican, but not an active politician.  He is a consistent member of the Episcopal church, and his fraternal connections are with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Modern Woodmen of America.  He has shown his faith in the future of Ironton by investing his means in real estate in this locality.
     Mr. McNary was married February 22, 1902, at Ironton, to Miss Mildred Peters, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Peters, who died about 1892, and whose family belonged to the oldest settlers of the mining locality of the Hanging Rock Iron Region.  Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. McNary; Mildred and Ethelyn, twins, the latter of whom died in 1913; and Helen.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916 - Page 776
  GEORGE T. McNARY.  The thriving industrial city of Ironton, Lawrence County, claims as one of its representative business men and progressive citizens Mr. McNary, and special interest attaches to his standing in the community by reason of his being a native of the county in which he has achieved noteworthy success.
     Mr. McNary was born in the little village of Sedwick, Lawrence County, Ohio, on the 4th of April, 1876, and is a son of William and Eleanor (Woods) McNary, the former of whom was born in Pennsylvania, in 1842, and the latter of whom was born at Steubenville, Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1840, as a member of a sterling pioneer family of that section of the state.  William McNary was reared and educated in the old Keystone State and came to Ohio about the year 1870.  Soon after his marriage he settled on a farm near Sedwick, Lawrence County, and he became one of the substantial agriculturists and influential citizens of that part of the county.  He continued his residence in Lawrence County until his death, which occurred in 1902, his devoted wife having been summoned to eternal rest in 1911.  Of the six children the eldest is Elmer, who is engaged in the real-estate business in the City of St. Louis, Missouri; Minnie is a skilled stenographer and is employed as such in the City of Ironton; George T. is the immediate subject of this review; Erwin E. is individually mentioned on other pages of this work; Wilbur is a physician and surgeon by profession and is engaged in practice in the City of East St. Louis. Illinois; and Margaret is employed as a stenographer, at Ironton.
     George T. MeNary is indebted to the public schools of Lawrence County for his early educational advantages, which included those of the Ironton High School.  He left school at the age of seventeen years and he then became identified with the operations of the iron furnaces and incidental enterprises in Lawrence County.  After a period of eleven months' service he was promoted to the position of assistant superintendent, and he continued to be actively concerned with this important line of industry for nine years in Lawrence County, and for the ensuing decade he was identified with the wire and nail department of the Belfort Iron & Nail Company. Later he held for nine months a position as machinist in tlie works of the Ironton Engine Company, and in March, 1914, he engaged in the retail grocery business in his present attractive and eligible quarters, at 979 South Third street, where his personal popularity and the effective service given have gained to him a substantial and appreciative patronage.
     In politics Mr. McNary gives his allegiance to the republican party, both he and his wife hold, membership in the Presbyterian Church and he holds membership in the Ironton Chamber of Commerce.  His long association with the iron industry in this section of the state has made Mr. McNary familiar with all details of this line of enterprise, in which he still continues to take much interest and the value of which as a contribution to the general well-being of the community he fully appreciates. He is the owner of a residence property in his native town of Sedwick.
     On the 20th of March, 1900, Mr. McNary wedded Miss Effie Kinkaid daughter of John and Kate Kinkaid, of Ironton, and the two children of this union are Georgia Eleanor and Mildred May.

Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916 - Page 739
  ISAAC MEARAN.  As a mere boy Mr. Mearan came from his native Germany to the United States, and as a stranger in a strange land, with but slight command of the English language and without influential friends or financial reinforcement, he proved himself equal to the task that confronted him and has achieved through his own efforts distinctive and gratifying success.  He is now numbered among the representative merchants and popular citizens of Ironton, Lawrence County, in which city he is junior member of the firm of McNary & Mearan, which is engaged in the clothing and men's furnishing goods business, with a well appointed and essentially metropolitan establishment on South Second Street.
     Mr. Mearan was born in Germany, on the 19th of December, 1876, and the excellent schools of his native land afforded him his early educational advantages.  He subsequently severed the home ties and, with indomitable ambition and self-reliance, set forth, alone, to seek his fortunes in the United States.  For some time he found employment in the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and in 1893 he came to Ironton, Ohio, where he was an efficient and popular salesman in the clothing store of A. J. Brumberg until 1904, when he put his experience and ambition into effective play by initiating an independent enterprise in the same field of business.  He formed a partnership with Erwin E. McNary, concerning whom individual mention is made elsewhere in this publication, and they established their present business, under the firm name of McNary & Mearan.  The business has become one of the most successful of its kind in Ironton and the finely equipped store caters to the best class of trade, with a select and comprehensive stock of clothing and the most attractive lines of furnishing goods, the two members of the firm having found that one of their best assets is the strong hold they personally have upon popular confidence and esteem.
     Mr. Mearan has aligned himself as a supporter of the cause of the republican party, holds membership in the Ironton Chamber of Commerce, and is affiliated with the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.  He is not only enterprising and energetic as a business man, but is known also as a citizen of distinct progressiveness and public spirit—one interested in all that tends to advance the civic and material welfare of the community.
     On the 27th of November, 1903, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Mearan to Miss Sadie Cohen, daughter of Mose Cohen, who was at the time a resident of Ironton and extensively engaged in the lumber business in Lawrence County.  Since 1907 Mr. and Mrs. Cohen have maintained their home at Huntington, West Virginia.  Mr. and Mrs. Mearan have two children—Antonia Lila and Hugh Lester.

Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916 - Page 775
  GEORGE A. MEYERS.  Though he has passed the psalmist's span of three score years and ten, Mr. Meyers is signally vigorous and alert and is active in business in the City of Ironton, Lawrence County, where he has long been an honored and influential figure in civic and business affairs and where abiding popular esteem is his grateful portion.
     Mr. Meyers was born in Germany, on the 5th of April, 1839, and he has been a resident of Ironton for more than half a century and where he is now successfully conducting a general plumbing business, with well equipped headquarters at 18 South Third Street.  To him must be accorded enduring honor for the gallant service given by him as a soldier of the Union in the Civil war, and in the "piping times of peace" his course has been characterized by the same intrinsic loyalty that prompted him to go forth and battle for a righteous cause.  Mr. Meyers is a son of John J. and Christina (Roelky) Meyers who, in the German Fatherland, were born respectively in the years 1817 and 1800.  The father was a weaver by trade and also had much ability as a musician.  He came with his family to America in the year 1844 and he attained to the patriarchal age of ninety years, his death occurring in the year 1907, his wife having been summoned to the life eternal in 1881, at the age of eight-one years.  They became the parents of six children - Charles H., George A., Christopher P. B., Herman L., Edward F. and Elizabeth.
     Upon immigrating to the United States, John J. Meyers, established his home at Frederick City, Maryland, where he found employment at his trade, his career in America having been marked by earnest and consecutive industry and the closing period of his life having been passed in Ohio.
     At Frederick City, Maryland, George A. Meyers was reared to the age of seventeen years, he having been about five years old at the time when the family came to the United States.  He attended the common schools of the locality and period and from his boyhood was associated with his father in work at the weaver's trade, at varying intervals, until he severed the home ties and came to Ohio, in 1857.  He established his residence at Ironton, which was then but a village, though the center of considerable manufacturing and other activities in connection with the iron industry.  He worked in the roller mills about three months and then entered upon an apprenticeship to the machinist's trade, in the works of the Olive Foundry and Machine Company, with which he remained four years.
     At this juncture in his career Mr. Meyers put aside all other considerations to tender his aid in defense of the Union.  In response to President Lincoln's first call for volunteers, he enlisted as a private in Company A, Eighteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, his being the first company to leave Ironton, under the three months' term of enlistment.  The company was assigned to the work of guarding the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, in West Virginia, and Mr. Meyers continued in service until the expiration of his term, when he received his honorable discharge, on the 19th of August, 1861.  The memories of the climacteric period of the Civil war are by him vitalized through his affiliation with the Grand Army of the Republic.
     After the close of his military career, Mr. Meyers returning to Ironton, and here he worked as machinist in charge of the old-time railroad locomotives until 1873, when he became associated with two other skilled mechanics in the establishing of a machine shop, under the firm name of J. H. Fisher & Company.  He continued an active member of this firm until 1876, when he again entered railroad service, and was overseer of the round house for nearly twenty years, these relations being severed in 1894, when he felt that advancing age entitled him to less exacting occupation.  In the year mentioned, Mr. Meyers purchased the plumbing business of the Cricher Brothers, and he has since continued the enterprise successfully, his fine mechanical ability and personal popularity having gained to him a substantial and appreciative supporting patronage.
     In politics Mr. Meyers is a stalwart in the camp of the republican party and he served eleven years as a member of the city waterworks board.
     On the 10th of June, 1866, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Meyers to Miss Margaret C. McKeun, daughter of Patrick and Rebecca McKeun, of Ironton, and of the eight children of this union five are living - John G., Mary R., George P., Frederick W. and Samuel E.  The names of those deceased are: Charles E., Florence and Emma.  George P. is married and is employed as a locomotive engineer on the line of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad, with headquarters in the city of Cincinnati, where he maintains his home.  Samuel E. is now a resident of New York City.  Frederick W., who is engineer at the Ironton waterworks, married Miss Caroline Rudd  and they have five children.  Mary R., the eldest of the children is the wife of Charles A. Woodworth, engaged in the insurance business, and they reside at Suffern, Rockland County, New York.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916 - Page 686
  CHARLES F. MILLER.   A resident of Ironton since 1871, Charles F. Miller has been long identified with the business interests of this city, and through enterprise, industry and good management has gained a place for himself among the substantial class of citizens.  He is a native of Germany, born at Worms, Nov. 29, 1848, and is a son of Charles F. and Kathryn (Mumm) Miller.  His father, a police officer in Germany, never came to the United States, passing away in 1860, at the age of fifty years.  The mother, born in Germany in 1830, survived until 1902.  There were four children in the family: William, Louisa, Elsie and Charles F.
     Charles F. Miller attended the public schools of his native land until reaching the age of twelve years, at which time his father died and he was forced to go to work in order to assist in the support of the family.  Learning the tinner's trade, he worked thereat in Germany until 1866, and in that year, deciding that opportunities for success were greater in America, came to this country and settled at Allegheny, Pennsylvania, that city being his home until 1868.  Following this he spent three years at Marietta, Ohio, but in 1871 came to Ironton, and here worked at his trade as a journeyman until 1891, when, with Joseph Marquard as a partner, he established a business of his own.  The firm of Miller & Marquard grew and prospered until 1901, when Mr. Marquard died, and since that time Mr. Miller has continued the business alone. He has been very successful, and feels that prosperity has come to him because he has endeavored faithfully to give full value for every dollar received by him, and to give his own personal attention to details of the business.  In addition to his place of business, on South Second Street, Mr. Miller owns his own home at No. 257 South Seventh Street.  He is a valued member of the Chamber of Commerce, and in numerous ways has assisted in the growth and development of his adopted city, where he has resided for so many years.  He is a democrat, but not a politician, and has never asked favors of his party.  Mr. Miller is a member of St. Joseph's Catholic congregation and of the Knights of Columbus.
     Mr. Miller was married Apr. 23, 1872, at Marietta, Ohio, to Miss Barbara Schillott, daughter of John Schillott, and seven children were born to this union: Clara, who married Matthew Shaunessy, a clerk at Columbus, Ohio, and has four children: Miller M., Mary, Kathryn, and Jack; George, who married Nellie Gillman, a salesman and lives in California; Emory, who married Lena Heitsman, is a tinner in partnership with his father, and has one child, Charles J.; Otto, who is deceased; Karl, who is single and resides with his parents; Helen, who married Elmer Anderson, now employed by the Union Gas and Fuel Company at Huntington, West Virginia; and Ida, who is deceased.  The members of this family are all widely known and highly esteemed.

Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916 - Page 669
  RALPH W. MOUNTAIN.   The responsible and exacting office of clerk of the courts has in Lawrence County an efficient and popular incumbent in the person of Mr. Mountain, who is a native of Ironton, the city in which he now maintains his home and official headquarters, and he is a representative of one of the well known and highly esteemed families of this section of the Buckeye State.
     Mr. Mountain was born in Ironton on the 9th of December, 1874, and is a son of Samuel and Margaret (Johnson) Mountain, the former of whom was born near Lexington, Lancaster County Pennsylvania, and the latter of whom was born at Aetna Furnace, Lawrence County, Ohio, in 1841.  Samuel Mountain was reared and educated in the old Keystone State and as a young man was a successful teacher in the common schools.  He came to Ironton, Ohio, prior to the Civil war and became prominently identified with the iron industry in this section of the State, his death occurring, at Ironton; in 1876, when his son Ralph W., of this review, was a child of about two years.  His widow survived him by nearly forty years and was summoned to the life eternal in 1913.  Of their three children the second born is Harry, who is one of the representative business men of Ironton, where he is engaged in general contracting on an extensive scale.  He served two terms as mayor of the city and is one of its influential citizens of marked public spirit and progressiveness.  He wedded Miss Amelia Frost, who had been a successful teacher of music, and they have no children.   Ralph W. was the third child, and the first born, Anna, died at the age of six years.
     To the public schools of his native city Ralph W. Mountain is indebted for his early educational discipline, and he continued his studies until he had completed, at the age of seventeen years, the curriculum of the high school.  Thereafter he was for four years in the employ of the Piedmont Lumber Company, and for twelve years after his severing his relations with this company he was a valued attache of the tie department of the New York Central Railroad Company, with headquarters at Cincinnati and Chicago.
     After resuming his association with local interests in Ironton Mr. Mountain held for two years the position of inspector for the Ironton water works, and he then became candidate, on the ticket of the newly organized progressive party, for the office of representative, in November, 1912.  He was appointed clerk of courts at the death of the regular incumbent, and thus his service became consecutive when he assumed the office through regular election, in November, 1914.
     Mr. Mountain is essentially loyal to and appreciative of his home city, which is endeared to him by many gracious memories and associations. He is progressive and public-spirited to a degree and has identified himself with various enterprises that lend to the industrial and commercial prestige of his native city.  He is a stockholder of the Ironton Portland Cement Company and the Marting Iron & Steel Company, owns a half-interest in the Lyric Theater Building, and is the owner also of his attractive residence property.  Both he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church and he is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Pythias.
     Prior to the Spanish-American war Mr. Mountain had been actively identified with the Ohio National Guard, as a member of which he enlisted for service in the conflict mentioned, his company being in active service until the close of the war when he was mustered out and received his honorable discharge.  He thereafter continued his membership in the Seventh Regiment of the Ohio National Guard for several years, and he held the office of captain in the same until his retirement from active membership.  He is affiliated with the Spanish-American War Veterans' Association.
     On the 6th of June, 1907, was solemnized the marriage of Captain Mountain to Miss Mary Alice Pixley, daughter of Charles L. Pixley, a representative business man of Ironton, and the children of this union are Jean C. and Ralph W., Jr.

Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916 - Page 700
  NATHANIEL K. MOXLEY, M. D.  The best criterion by which to judge the technical ability and personal popularity of any physician and surgeon is that afforded in the extent and importance of the practice controlled by him, and from this viewpoint Dr. Moxley is to be designated with all consistency as one of the representative members of his profession in the Hanging Rock Iron Region.  He is engaged in active general practice in the City of Ironton, has a substantial and representative clientage and is a citizen whose genial personality and intrinsic civic loyalty have gained to him inviolable place in popular esteem in his native city and county, where his status renders impossible any application of the aphorism that "a prophet is not without honor save in his own country."
     Doctor Moxley was born at Ironton, Lawrence County, on the 18th of May, 1860, a date that indicates that the family name became identified with the history of this section of the Buckeye State more than half a century ago.  He is a son of Dr. Nathaniel K. Moxley, Sr., and Sophia (McConnell) Moxley, the former of whom was born in Tunbridge, Orange County, Vermont, on the 8th of February, 1818, and the latter of whom was born in Scioto County, Ohio, in 1829.  The senior Doctor Moxley came to Ohio in 1843 and in 1817 he became a pioneer physician in Scioto County, where his marriage was solemnized in the following year.  In 1852 he removed with his family to Ironton, where he became a prominent and honored representative of his profession and achieved high reputation as one of the able physicians and surgeons of this part of the state.  Loved by all who had come within the sphere of his influence, this sterling pioneer continued his residence in Ironton until his death, in 1895, his widow surviving him by a decade and being summoned to the life eternal in 1906.  Dr. Nathaniel K. Moxley, Sr., served many years as a member of the board of school examiners for Lawrence County, was county physician during the period of the Civil war, and was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.  The names of both him and his noble wife merit enduring place on the roll of the honored pioneers of Ironton, which was a mere village when they here established their home.  Of the four children the eldest is Miss Alice M., who still resides in Ironton; Clara A. is the wife of Harry Kinkade, of Marysville, Union County; Nathaniel K., Jr., of this review, was the next in order of birth and his name is still enrolled on the list of eligible bachelors in Lawrence County; and Lucy M., likewise unmarried, maintains her home at Ironton.
     Dr. Nathaniel K. Moxley, Jr., continued to attend the Ironton public schools until he had completed the curriculum of the high school, in which he was graduated in 1878.  In furtherance of his plan to adopt the profession that had been signally dignified and honored by the services of his father, he was matriculated in the Miami Medical College, in the City of Cincinnati, and in this institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1883, with the concomitant reception of the degree of Doctor of Medicine.  During the long intervening period of more than thirty years the doctor has been engaged in the practice of his profession in Ironton, where he has not only maintained but added new laurels to the professional reputation of the name which he bears.  He has given special attention to the diagnosis and treatment of the diseases of children, in which branch of professional work he has been most successful and is a recognized authority, no attention having been given by him to surgical work since the earlier period of his professional career.  He has served for a total of seven years as county coroner, having been the incumbent at different intervals, and for eight years he was retained in the office of city health officer of Ironton, his labors having been admirable in the promotion of sanitary conditions and measures and thus in safeguarding the health of the community.  He is actively identified with the Lawrence County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, besides which he is serving as a member of the Board of United States Pension Examining Surgeons for Lawrence County.
     Doctor Moxley is found aligned as a stanch supporter of the principles of the republican party, is a member of the Congregational Church, holds membership in the Ironton Chamber of Commerce, and is a life member of Ironton Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of which he has served as exalted ruler.  The doctor has become widely known throughout this section of Ohio and it may consistently be said that his circle of friends is limited only by that of his acquaintances
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916 - Page 676


 



 

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