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JOSEPH G. LEE,
vice-president of The Knowles, Taylor & Knowles Company,
of East Liverpool, has been closely identified with this
and other large business interests, in the "Ceramic
City" and elsewhere in the State, for a long period,
covering indeed almost all of his mature life.
Mr. Lee was born at Salem, Ohio, in 1855 and was
reared and educated there.
Circumstances pushed Joseph G. Lee into the
business and at the early age of 12 years, and as years
increased his business responsibilities became larger
and larger, until his name became very familiar in
financial and manufacturing circles. He was 24
years of age when he came to East Liverpool, Ohio, and
for the past quarter of a century he has been actively
interested in the pottery business. For three
years he was associated with The Harker Pottery
Company, and for the past 18 years he has been connected
with The Knowles, Taylor & Knowles
Company. He has but recently retired from the
presidency of the United States Potters’ Association, a
position he filled for two years, but his other active
connections continue. He is president of The
Citizens’ National Bank, of East Liverpool; a director
of The Dollar Savings Bank; secretary and manager of The
Potters’ Mining & Milling Company; president and
director of the North American Manufacturing Company;
and vice-president and a director of the Newell
Bridge Company.
Mr. Lee is one of the indefatigable
businessmen who have contributed largely to the
upbuilding of this city. He is a prominent Mason,
a member of East Liverpool Commandery and of the
Consistory of the Scottish Rite at Cleveland.
Source: History of Columbiana County, Ohio and
Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing
Co. , Chicago, Illinois - 1905 - Page 515 |
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ELI C. LEWTON,
one of Center township’s first-class farmers and
prominent citizens, owns a fine farm of 163 acres in
section 13, which compares favorably with any Other farm
of like size in Columbiana County. Mr.
Lewton is also a survivor of the great Civil War.
He was born Oct. 18, 1836, at Scroggsfield, Carroll
County, Ohio, and is a son of Jacob and Elizabeth
(George) Lewton.
The Lewton family is of English
extraction and those in America are undoubtedly
connected with the owners of the great estate known as
Lewton Place, London, England. The family
has been established in America for some generations,
however, as the grandfather, Isaac Lewton,
was born in Maryland. Jacob Lewton,
the father of our subject, was born in Maryland and was
five years of age when his parents came to Carroll
County, Ohio, and he probably entered the State with as
unusual a steed as ever boy rode, this being a pet
sheep, who eased many a weary mile of the road.
Jacob Lewton became a prominent agriculturist
and at one time owned 240 acres of well-improved land.
Early in life he was a strong Whig, but after the
formation of the Know Nothing party he identified
himself with the Democrats, and our subject recalls
going to the polls with his father, when he cast his
first vote, his own ballot being for Abraham Lincoln
and that of his father for Stephen A. Douglas.
The death of Jacob Lewton took place in
1871, at the age of 62 years. He was a consistent
member of the United Presbyterian Church.
The mother of our subject was born in 1812, at
Scroggsfield, Ohio, and her whole life was spent in that
locality, where she died at the age of 74 years.
The children of Jacob and Elizabeth Lewton were:
Eli C., of this sketch; Thomas and
Lucinda, both deceased; Andrew, who was a
soldier in the Civil War, with our subject, deceased in
1872; Elizabeth Ann, a resident of
Minerva, Ohio; Henry Albert, of Indiana;
and Jacob Calvin, of East Liverpool.
Our subject grew up a farmer boy and was educated in
the local schools where he made such good use of his
opportunities that when but 16 years old he was engaged
as teacher. He continued to teach through the
winters and also taught two summers prior to enlisting
for service in the Civil War. On Aug. 1, 1862, he
was entered as a corporal in Company H, 98th Reg., Ohio
Vol. Inf., under Colonel Webster and
Captain Thomas, and he saw much hard service
until honorably discharged after the Grand Review at
Washington, June 1, 1865. He took part in the
battles at Perryville and Chickamauga and participated
in all the engagements of the southwestern campaign and
of the long march to the sea until Atlanta was taken.
He was never .absent from his regiment except when
prostrated with typhoid fever in the hospital at
Nashville, Tennessee.
After his return to Carroll County, Mr.
Lewton soon married and entered into a mercantile
business in partnership with Major Scott,
the firm being Lewton & Scott, which
continued three years. After the partnership was
dissolved, Mr. Lewton continued in
business for four years, when the death of his father
recalled him to the farm, which he operated for the next
six years. In 1878 he came to his present farm in
section 13, which he has improved with a fine brick
residence, substantial barns and other necessary
buildings. He has made this a very valuable as
well as attractive farm. For about four years he
paid a great deal of attention to dairying, but now
devotes his land to general farming and the raising of
fine stock. He has always been more or less
interested in sheep growing, Merinos exclusively.
Mr. Lewton was married on Sept. 14, 1863,
to Elizabeth M. Campbell, who was born in Carroll
County, Ohio, Dec. 11, 1842, a daughter of William
and Mary (Welsh) Campbell,
natives of Pennsylvania. The children of this
union were: Elmer, of Center township, who
married Mina Switzer, of Center township;
Jessie, who married Harry L. Ingledue, a
resident of Washingtonville; William, of Lisbon,
who married Carrie Johnson, of Lisbon; and
Walter, Mary and Henry Leroy.
Mr. Lewton has always been identified
with the Republican party. Although he has never
sought public office, he was elected township trustee
while residing in Carroll County and has always been
looked upon as a responsible, representative man
wherever he has lived. He was reared by careful,
Christian parents in the faith of the United
Presbyterian Church, in which he has been an elder for
many years.
Source: History of Columbiana County, Ohio and
Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing
Co. , Chicago, Illinois - 1905 - Page 726 |
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