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Source:
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 Elwood.
Mr. 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
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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 |
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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 -
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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 -
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 Brady. Thomas 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 |
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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 Mather. Mr.
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 Helen. Mr. 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 Caldwell. Effie 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 |
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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) Myers. A. 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 |
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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 Marie.
Mr. 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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