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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
A Standard History of
THE HANGING ROCK IRON REGION OF
OHIO
An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with the Extended
Survey of the Industrial and Commercial Development
Vol. II
ILLUSTRATED
Publishers - The Lewis Publishing Company
1916
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FRANK D. CAMPBELL, M.
D. to no profession do greater
opportunities for quiet and effective social service come than
to the medical fraternity, and a physician and surgeon who has
well utilized and accepted his privileges for faithful
performance and skillful work is Dr. Frank D. Campbell,
who has spent over twenty years in his profession in the Hanging
Rock Iron Region, and is now located at Coal Grove in Lawrence
County.
Frank D. Campbell was born in Burlington,
Lawrence County, Ohio, Oct. 17, 1867. His parents were
William A. and Rebecca (Dillon) Campbell. Grandfather
Dillon was a prominent early citizen of Lawrence County, and
for many years administered the duties of justice of the peace,
and during that time was a terror to evildoers, through his
strict and stern administration of justice and the law.
William A. Campbell was born in Fayette Township of Lawrence
County in 1839, served as county clerk for one term, ahs been an
active farmer during many years, and now lives at Burlington,
Lawrence County. the mother was born at Burlington in
1841. Their children are: Frank D., Fannie M.,
Edward E. and George H.
Dr. Frank D. Campbell was educated in the Fayette
Township schools until eighteen years of age, then spent three
years as a teacher, and with the means thus supplied entered the
Miami Medical College at Cincinnati and was graduated M.D. in
1894. His practice began the same year at Rock Camp, in
Lawrence County, and continued there until he removed to Coal
Grove on Oct. 1, 1912. Doctor Campbell has a large
general practice in medicine and minor surgery. He has
membership in the County and State Medical societies and the
American Medical Association.
Doctor Campbell married Mary A. Williams
of Burlington, Ohio. They have one child, Dorothy M.
Doctor Campbell is affiliated with the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, is a democrat in politics, and a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church of Coal Grove. He is the
owner of a comfortable residence in that city and other real
estate. Outside of the profession to which he has given
his best energies for twenty years, Doctor Campbell
acknowledges as his principal hobby the art of photography, in
which he is exceedingly skillful.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of
Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing
Company, 1916 - Page 1076 |
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HARRY H. CAMPBELL.
A man of marked prominence in business, political, church and
social circles, Harry H. Campbell has been an important
factor in the substantial growth and development of Ironton, and
as president of the Ironton Wood Mantel Company, is the
directing head of an enterprise that contributes substantially
to the prestige of this city as an important business center.
Mr. Campbell has been a resident of the city all of his
life, having been born here May 17, 1853, and is a son of
Hiram and Elizabeth (Woodrow) Campbell.
Hiram Campbell was born at Blue Lick
Springs, back of Maysville, Kentucky, in 1812, and as a young
man migrated to Ohio, where for a long period of years he was
identified with iron furnaces and was known as a substantial and
resourceful business man. In his later years he retired
with a competency, and lived quietly until his death, which
occurred in 1896. Mrs. Campbell was born at
Hillsboro, Ohio, in 1816, and is also deceased, she being the
mother of four children, namely: Marie, who became the
wife of J. H. Moulton and now resides at Ironton; John
W., whose home is in Virginia; Joseph H., of
Cincinnati, Ohio; and Harry H.
Harry H. Campbell received his education in the
public schools of Ironton, and at the Miami University, and as a
young man joined his father in business. Subsequently he
embarked in ventures own, and eventually became the founder of
the Ironton Wood Mantel Company. Which he has since
continued to conduct with much success. He is a
stockholder in the Ohio Iron and Coal Company, and has various
other interests of an important character, and has evidenced his
confidence in the future of Ironton by investing in property
here, owning his own home and two other houses and lots.
He has done much to advance Ironton's interests in a business
way, and has been one of the most active members of the Chamber
of Commerce, with which he has been connected since its
inception. A republican in politics, he has stood high in
the councils of his party, and for eight years has served
conscientiously and capably as a member of the city council,
winning re-election by reason of his support of his
fellow-citizens' interests and privileges. Always an
active, virile man, Mr. Campbell has found much pleasure
in out-door sports. Educational and religious movements
have in him a stanch supporter, and he holds membership in the
Presbyterian church, where he is serving in the dual capacity of
elder and treasurer.
On May 27, 1878, at the home of the bride, Mr.
Campbell was united in marriage with Miss
Lizzie Bixby, daughter of E. Bixby, a resident
of Ironton. Six children have been born to this union,
namely: Marian, who became the wife of R. E. Mitchell,
a professional singer of Ironton, and has four children:
Gordon, Edwin, Elizabeth, and an infant;
Lawrence, who was married June 27, 1907, to Alice
Clarke, daughter of C. C. Clarke, a prominent
business man of Ironton, and has one child, Rolston C.;
Henry, and Frank, who are single and reside with
their parents; and two children who are deceased.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of
Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing
Company, 1916 - Page 674 |
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DENNIS H. CLARKE.
It becomes the fortune of but few men to attain the success that
has rewarded the efforts of Dennis H. Clarke before
reaching their fortieth year and to gain it through individual
endeavor and without the assistance of financial support or the
influence of those already established in life. Still in
the prime of manhood, with his best yeas before him. Mr.
Clarke has attained a position that many men would deem
sufficient at the end of a lifetime of honest endeavor, and as
half owner of the properties of the Model Laundry he must be
accounted one of the influential factors in the business life of
the Hanging Rock Region.
Mr. Clarke is a native son of Ironton,
Lawrence County, born June 27, 1875, his parents being
Columbus and Sadie (Kouns) Clarke. His father, a
native of Millersport, Ohio, was born in 1853 and for a number
of years was engaged in the grocery business at Ironton, where
he died February 17, 1914. Mrs. Clarke, who
was born at Burlington, Lawrence
County, Ohio, in 1856, died in 1904, leaving only one child, Dennis H.,
and the father contracted a second marriage with Mrs.
Ella Guerin, who still survives and makes her home at Logan,
this state. Dennis H. Clarke was given good
educational advantages in his youth, attending the public and
high schools of Ironton and then spending three years at
Cornell University, which institution he left in 1896 to accept
the position of bookkeeper in the Bank of Steele, North Dakota.
He spent only one year in this capacity, however, then returning
to Ironton, where from 1898 until 1905 he was superintendent of
the water works and during this time established himself firmly
in the public confidence. In the latter year he invested
his savings in a one-half interest in the Model Steam Laundry
Company, and with this concern has been connected to the present
time. Associated with him is Mr. A. C. Shubert, who
has charge of the company's other establishment at Williamson,
West Virginia, which is operated under the same name. The
name of this business is no misnomer, for it is model in every
respect. The buildings have been arranged with the idea of
securing the greatest sanitary conditions, the machinery is of
the latest manufacture known to the trade, and every detail of
the business has been worked out along the most up-to-date
lines. Mr. Clarke is progressive by nature,
and is known as a hustler and a business-getter, as well as a
man of high business principles and of fidelity in the meeting
of engagements. He has steadfastly "boosted" the interests
of his city, and is an active and working member of the Chamber
of Commerce. Politically a republican, his only office has
been that of superintendent of the water works, but he has
always taken an interest in politics as they have affected
Ironton and its people. His fraternal connections include
membership in the Masons, the Odd Fellows, the Knights of
Pythias and the Elks. With his family he attends the
Episcopal Church.
On October 5. 1904, Mr. Clarke was
married to Miss Minnie B. Massie, daughter of Ephraim
Massie. now deceased, who was formerly a well-known
hotelkeeper of Ironton. One child has been born to this
union: Dennis H., Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Clarke
reside in their own comfortable home at Ironton.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of
Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing
Company, 1916 - Page 753 |
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JOSEPH J. CLORAN.
Engaged in the wholesale and retail grocery business in the
metropolis and judicial center of Lawrence County, Mr. Cloran
is one of the most progressive and loyal citizens of his native
city, to the civic and commercial prestige he has made valuable
contribution, not alone through his prosperous and substantial
commercial enterprise but also through his effective operations
in the handling of real estate. He is the owner not only
of improved realty in every ward in the City of Ironton but also
owns valuable farming properties in Lawrence County, a specialty
being made of rentals in connection with his general real estate
business. Mr. Cloran is vigorous and alert as a man
of affairs and takes a lively interest in all that touches the
social and material wellbeing of his home city and county for
fully sixty years.
Joseph J. Cloran was born in Ironton on the 13th
of September, 1869, and is a son of Owen and Catherine
(Carey) Cloran, both natives of Ireland, where the former
was born in the year 1823 and the latter in 1832. Owen
Cloran became a resident of Lawrence County, Ohio, about the
year 1850, and as an iron worker he was long identified with the
great industrial activities of the Hanging Rock Iron Region.
He attained to venerable age and was one of the sterling and
honored pioneer citizens of Ironton at the time of his death, in
1906, his loved wife and helpmeet having passed to the life
eternal in 1901 and both having been devout communicants of the
Catholic Church. In the respective older of birth the
names of the ten children are here entered: Mary A.,
Bridget, Catherine, Malcolm, Thomas, Martin, Owen P., Martha,
Joseph J. and Luke W. All of the children are
living except Bridget, Catherine and Malcolm.
In the excellent parochial school
of St. Lawrence Parish, Ironton, Joseph J. Cloran
acquired his early education, and at the age of fifteen years he
obtained employment in the furniture store of C. C. Clark,
where he soon proved himself an effective salesman. After
holding his position one year he went to the City of St. Louis,
Missouri, where he served one year as collector for a clothing
establishment. Returning to Ironton, Mr. Cloran
entered upon an apprenticeship to the plumbing trade, and his
technical training comprised three years of service in the
establishment of Ezra Manning, on Railroad Street.
After the completion of his apprenticeship Mr. Cloran was
employed one year as stock clerk in the establishment of the
Dunker Truck Company, in the City of Cincinnati, and he then
returned to Ironton and assumed a clerkship in the grocery store
of Cloran Brothers, and three months later he became
associated with his brother, Martin, in opening a grocery
store at the corner of Third and Lawrence streets, whence
removal was made one year later to more eligible quarters, on
Railroad Street, between Third and Fourth streets. The
firm of M. & J. J. Cloran built up a large and
substantial business and the partnership continued until 1900,
when Martin retired from the firm. Since that time
the representative wholesale and retail grocery business has
been continued by Joseph J. Cloran, in the original
quarters, and he has secure vantage ground as one of the
reliable, enterprising and representative business men of his
native city, his sterling character and genial personality
having gained to him a host of friends, in both business and
social circles. With increasing prosperity, Mr. Cloran
began to make judicious investments in city and country realty,
and he has become the owner of much valuable property, as
intimated in the opening paragraph of thsi sketch, his
operations in this field of enterprise having brought to him
good returns and having had direct influence on the social and
material progress and prosperity of Lawrence County and its
thriving county seat.
In an unostentatious but effective way Mr. Cloran
wields much influence in public affairs of a local order and he
is recognized as a liberal and progressive citizen. Though
he accords unwavering allegiance to the republican party and has
been zealous in the support of wise municipal government in
Ironton, he has never sought official preferment, though he
served a number of years as judge of elections in the Second
ward. Mr. Cloran is a valued member of the Ironton
Chamber of Commerce and he is a zealous communicant of the St.
Lawrence Catholic Church, as was also his wife, he having been a
member of the committee that had charge of the installation of
the fine chime of bells in the church edifice. He is
affiliated with the Knights of Columbus, the Tribe of Ben Hur,
the Modern Woodmen of America and the Modern Brotherhood of
America.
In the year 1899 was solemnized the marriage of Mr.
Cloran to Miss Catherine Barron, daughter of
Thomas Barron, of Ironton, and she passed to the life
eternal of the 21st of September, 1903, the one surviving child
being Elizabeth C.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron
Region of Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis
Publishing Company, 1916 - Page 1346 |
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LUTHER MALCOLM COCKE.
The Superior Portland Cement Company is an industry of large
proportions, and employs a staff of expert officials, each one a
master in his particular line. Luther M. Cocke is
at the present time superintendent of mines for the company, and
a man whose experience and natural qualifications make him a
valuable factor in the company's enterprise.
Luther Malcolm Cocke was born in
Bedford County, Virginia, Feb. 6, 1881. His parents were
James R. and Dinatia Ann (Murphy) Cocke, both natives of
Bedford County, where they still reside. The father was
born in 1857 and the mother in 1854. James R. Cocke
has spent his career as a farmer. The eight children are:
Luther Malcolm, Emily Frances,
James Esmond, Lula Viola, Gaury
McKinnie, Gilla Idella, Henry Clay
and Roy Webster.
Luther M. Cocke was educated in the schools of
Bedford County, Virginia, until eighteen, then spent three years
on the farm with his father. His career in his own
interest began at the age of twenty-one, first as bridge
carpenter, and he was connected with that line in the railroad
service for four years. Mr. Cocke in 1908
began construction work in the mines and also performed the
duties of track man for the Superior Portland Cement Company at
Superior, and on Jan. 1, 1913, was advanced to the position of
superintendent of mines.
Mr. Cocke was married Nov. 5, 1906, at Bristol,
Tennessee, 1o Zulie Florence Murphy,
daughter of Joseph Murpby, a farmer of Bedford
County, Virginia. They have three children. Opal
May, Verl Marinda and Zulie Ann. Mr. Cocke
owns a residence at Roanoke, Virginia. He is a democrat in
politics and a member of the Methodist Church.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of
Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing
Company, 1916 - Page 1088 |
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REV.
JAMES H. COTTER, LL. D.
Ceaselessly to and fro flies the deft shuttle that weaves the
web of human destiny, and into the vast fabric enters the
accomplishment of all individuality, penetrating both warp and
woof and lending either the sheen of usefulness and beauty or
the dark and zigzag lines of unintelligible obscurity. to
place final valuations is not within the power of human kind but
remains the prerogative and function of the One who is above all
and over all, but there be those whose gracious and noble
personalities, splendid powers and unlimited consecration give
an impression that can not fail to be appreciated by all who
have aught of cognizance of the true significance of human
thought and motive. To give within the pages of a work of
the circumscribed province assigned to the one at hand adequate
tribute to the character and services of Doctor Cotter is
in the realm of the impossible, but it is imperative that there
be mention of the man, the priest, the patriot, the scholar, the
lover of humanity whose name initiates this paragraph and who is
rector of St. Lawrence church in the City of Ironton. Not
alone has his zeal been fruitful in good works and large results
in the high calling to which he has consecrated himself, but he
has gained also a national reputation as an orator and author.
His intellectual attainments are on a parity with his devotion
to the great mother church of Christendom and to the aiding and
uplifting of his fellow men; better commendation than this could
be given to no man.
Rev. James H. Cotter was born in County
Tipperary, Ireland, in the year 1857, "amid scenes calculated to
inspire poetry and eloquence." He is a son of George
and Sarah (Delhanty) Cotter, representatives of stanch old
families of the fair Emerald Isle, where both George Cotter
and his wife were born in the year 1826, having passed the
closing period of their lives at Ironton, Ohio, where they found
a home in 1893, and where both died in the year 1896, their
gracious evening of life having been solaced by the filial
devotion of their son, Doctor cotter, of this review.
the names of their nine children are here entered, in respective
order of birth: Fannie, Thomas, Jane, James H., George,
Richard, Albert, Sarah, and William.
Doctor Cotter was fifteen years of age at the time
of the family immigration from Ireland to America and he
acquired his early education in the parochial schools in the
State of New York, where also he pursued his higher academic
studies in Manhattan College, in New York City, an institution
in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1877 and
with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He later received the
degree of Master of Arts from his alma mater, and the
institution further honored him, in 1906, by conferring upon him
the degree of Doctor of Laws, the same degree having likewise
been accorded to him by Blount St. Mary's Seminary, Maryland, in
1908. Concerning this period in his career the following
statements have been written: "During his years at Manhattan he
was noted for his devotion to literature and for his assiduous
cultivation of good style in prose and verse. He completed
his course in theology at Mount St. Mary's Seminary, and in 1881
was ordained to the priesthood of the Catholic Church, in the
diocese of Columbus, Ohio. Before his ordination he taught
rhetoric at Mount St. Mary's in the third and fourth collegiate
classes."
Father Cotter has held the rectorship of St.
Lawrence Church, Ironton, since 1889, and thus this parish has
received his ministrations and pastoral supervision during the
greater part of the time since holy orders were conferred upon
him. Under his administration the church has waxed strong
along both spiritual and temporal lines, and his gracious
personality has gained him the affection of the entire
community, irrespective of sectarian affiliations. Under
the zealous supervision of Doctor Cotter there was
erected, in 1891, the present fine church of St. Lawrence; the
modern and model parish house, in 1904; and the large and finely
appointed parish school building, in 1911.
From a previously published sketch of the career of
Doctor Cotter are taken, with but slight paraphrase,
the following extracts: "Father Cotter is the
author of many sermons and lectures, and of 'Shakespeare's Art,'
a volume embracing many valuable critical studies in nine of
Shakespeare's masterpieces - which he prepared in recreation
hours during busy years of pastoral life. He has also been
chosen as orator of the day on many historic occasions. He
succeeded the late lamented Father Cronin as the
principal editorial writer on the Catholic Union and Times, of
Buffalo, New York, a position which he still retains. A
collection of his editorials on papal questions, gorgeously
bound in gold and crushed levant, was made by the Catholic
Publication Society, of Buffalo, and presented to the Holy
Father, Pius X, in his jubilee year, 1908. As a
lecturer Doctor Cotter's reputation is national.
His lectures on 'Liberty,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'The
Merchant of Venice,' and 'Macbeth' are among the classics of
platform eloquence. The Boston Journal of Education says
of his work entitled 'Shakespeare's Art:' 'One Cotter,
with his zealous vision of the son of Stratford, does more than
all the defenders of the play to steady the faith of the world
in the personality of Shakespeare.' "
A really wonderful work is that which has been more
recently written and published by Doctor Cotter, and which is
entitled "Lances Hurled at the Sun." The preface to this
volume was written by Rt. Rev. Charles H. Colton, D. D.,
Bishop of Buffalo, New York, and was issued by the Catholic
Union and Times Press, of Buffalo. From many commendatory
statements it is appropriate that in this volume be perpetuated
the following words by Most Rev. John Ireland, D. D.: "I
thank you very cordially for the gift of your volume, 'Lances
Hurled at the Sun,' and at the same time I take the liberty to
thank you for the talent and industry with which you have, as
this volume shows, defended before American public the truths of
Holy Religion. You are a model to the priesthood of
America, in the reading of events and occurrences bearing one
way or another upon the life and teachings of the Church, in the
readiness to take a lance in hand to vindicate her honor; in the
skill with which you ply the arms of defense and offense.
May God bless and prosper your pen."
From a critical review appearing in the Catholic
Standard and Times, Philadelphia, are taken the following
excerpts: " 'Lances Hurled at the Sun,' after a simile of
Tennyson's in 'Locksley Hall,' is a simile the more remarkable
from the fact that the barbarians who today hurl their weapons
at the God of Heaven are not children, but mature men and women
who think themselves qualified to out-reason religion and who
laugh at the revelations of Christ and the Apostles as unfit
food for an age that demands 'strong meat for men.'
Father Cotter's themes are the monstrosity of many of
the theories put forward by the crowd of ' know-it-all '
university professors and agnostic quacks, the pretentions of
the 'modernists' and other lance-hurlers. He is the
possessor of a keen method of logic and Celtic sense of delicate
humor that in season flavors his essays with Attic salt.
Many a quaint conceit and apt illustration brighten the stream
of his exposition as it ripples, indignantly or merrily, as the
subject demands, along its course."
Doctor Cotter has traveled extensively in
Europe and the United States and few men have been capable of
learning and imparting more valuable lessons from experiences
with men and affairs. The Doctor presided at the third
annual meeting of the Catholic Press Association of the United
States and Canada, and was with Archbishop Ireland, of St. Paul,
and Judge Minehan, of Seattle, Washington, one of
the mass- meeting orators at the Federation of the Catholic
Societies of the United States, held in the City of Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, in 1913. He was also one of those who delivered
addresses at the second Missionary Congress, held in the City of
Boston, in 1913.
With the nations of Europe plunged deep in the
sanguinary vortex of warfare, there is signal interest attaching
to an editorial written by Doctor Cotter for the
Catholic Union and Times, under the title of "Faith and
Country." This article breathes of the loftiest spirit of
patriotism and deep humanitarianism and was inspired by the
obsequies incidental to the funeral of the sailors killed in the
recent conflict between the United States and Mexican forces at
Vera Cruz, Mexico. The editorial appeared in May, 1914,
and from it brief quotation may consistently be made in
conclusion of this sketch:
"A classic writer of antiquity said, 'It is sweet and
glorious to die for one's country.' Christianity has
approved the pronouncement but supernaturalized the motive.
With the Christian, love of country goes farther than the
feeling which clings to old associations and to our fellows,
kindred in manners and affiliations; he is a patriot because it
is a duty of faith. St. Thomas has given all the
obligations of a good Catholic in one concise passage: 'My God
first, country second, and self last.' * * * There is much jingo
about love of country, but the man who writes his devotion in
the red ink of his heart, he it is who, in the words of
President Wilson, gives 'patriotic service' -
something that can not be underrated in fact nor discounted in
purpose. * * * Truth and Liberty have ever been and will forever
be linked. 'The truth shall make you free' is good ethics
as well as correct scripture. The Catholic who loves the
truth must perforce love liberty, and love America, its 'holy
ground.' Truth unchains high aspirations, while falsehood
dwarfs and stifles them. Truth is light, and in light
liberty always happily disports herself. * * * May the same God
who founded the Church set securely and forever on lasting
foundations the country of our love - America! big, generous
America, that the Omnipotent hid for centuries behind His hand
from the gaze of Europe, so that afterward it might be the
worthy home and safe retreat of liberty violated in Europe."
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of
Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing
Company, 1916 - Page 713 |
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