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BIOGRAPHIES
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A Standard History of
THE HANGING ROCK IRON REGION OF
OHIO
An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with the Extended
Survey of the Industrial and Commercial Development
Vol. II
ILLUSTRATED
Publishers - The Lewis Publishing Company
1916
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ROY W. HANEY.
The popular and capable superintendent of Woodland Cemetery,
Roy W. Haney, is well known to the citizens of Ironton, not
alone in his official capacity, but as a business man, for
during several years he was at the head of a contracting
business here in which he did some of the city's best street and
sewer work. He is a native son of Ironton, and was born
Sept. 6, 1880, his parents being a. Judson and May (Clarke)
Haney, the former a general mechanic of Ironton, where he
was born in 1860, while the latter is a native of Alleghany
County, Pennsylvania, and was born in 1859. There were six
children in the family: Roy W., Anna L., Rose May, Edward H.,
David J., and William C.
Roy W. Haney attended the
public and high schools of Ironton, graduating from the latter
in 1901, at which time he became an assistant to the city and
county engineers, as well as to civil engineers in private
practice, in Lawrence and other counties of Ohio, and in
Kentucky. In the spring of 1910 he engaged in business on
his own account, having become an expert on cement and in cement
contracting, and during the following four years was extensively
engaged in street and sewer work in Ironton, one of his best
achievements being the building of the upper end of Pine Street,
in 1911. His work was at all times characterized by the
utmost thoroughness and fidelity to contracts, and those with
whom he was associated in business found him a man of the
highest principles. Mr. Haney continued in
business as a contractor until Aug. 1, 1914, when he was elected
superintendent of Woodland Cemetery. A promising young man
of pleasing personality, he is energetic and Industrious,
faithful to his trust and possessed of progressive ideas, and
has gained the good will of the people by the admirable manner
in which he has discharged his duties. A republican in
politics, he served three years in the capacity of central
committeeman. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce
and has a wide acquaintance among business men. Mr.
Haney is possessed of some reputation as a fisherman and
enjoys frequent trips to the streams of Lawrence County, but his
chief pleasure is in his home among his books. He is also
possessed of more than ordinary talent as an artist, although he
has confined himself in this line to drawing for his own
pleasure and that of his friends. Mrs. Haney
and children are members of the Methodist Church.
Mr. Haney was married Nov. 4, 1910, at
Jackson, Ohio, to Miss Marie A. Simmons, daughter of
Peter Simmons, a farmer of Marion, Lawrence County.
Two children have been born to this union, namely: Nancy
Mary, and Jack Simmons.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of
Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing
Company, 1916 - Page 1225 |
A. J. Hannan |
HON. ARTHUR JOHN HANNAN.
The vocation of railroading has attracted many young men when
starting out in life, and has proven a field rich in
opportunities for those who are willing to scorn hardships, face
dangers and prove fidelity to the systems by which they are
employed. The engineer knows that on his judgment, formed
in the fraction of a second, the fate of his train may depend.
The engineer's position is not the top of the ladder, though no
place in the world's work has greater responsibilities.
Firing and running a locomotive constitute one of the best
vocations to develop a man's best qualities. It is not
unusual, therefore, to find men holding high positions in
business and public life who began their careers as hostlers and
firemen. In this category is found Arthur John Hannan,
mayor of Ironton, who but a few years back was to be found
balancing himself on the rocking floor of the tender, tossing
coal into the insatiable firebox, and subsequently handled the
throttle of a powerful locomotive. Although now retired
from railroading, owing to an accident which all railroad men
may be called upon to face, Mayor Hannan was not
forgotten the discipline of his early training, nor the value of
the judgment which it brought.
Arthur John Hannan was born July 26, 1880, at
Ironton, Ohio, and is a son of John and Katie (Campbell)
Hannan. His father was born in Lawrence County, Ohio,
Nov. 11, 1859, and is now the oldest conductor on the D. T. & I.
Railroad, having been in actual service since 1878 and during
this time has had but one accident. Mrs. Hannan was
born at Ironton, in 1864, and has been the mother of seven
children, as follows: Arthur John, Carl C., Louis, Clarence,
Raymond, Marjorie and Elsie.
Until fifteen years of age
Arthur John Hannan attended the public and high schools of
Ironton, and at that age secured a clerkship in the office of
the Iron Railroad, where he remained six months, thus securing
his introduction to railroading. For three months
thereafter he was a tie inspector at the elevator of the same
company, and then became a locomotive fireman, remaining with
the Iron Railroad for 3½ years
in that capacity. Firemen as a rule are picked men,
and have to be, for theirs is the most tremendous physical task
of all, the increasing grate-area of fireboxes of big engines
having brought the limit of their effort distressingly close.
Mr. Hannan, during the time he stood on the
heaving, pitching steel deck in front of the furnace door,
showed he had the muscle and endurance necessary to shovel from
15 to 20 tons of coal in 8 to 12 hours, and when his term as
fireman was completed, in 1897, he was given an engine on the D.
T. & I. Railroad. There he continued at the throttle until
1910, when in a head-on collision, at Sand Cut, 1¼
miles north of Ironton, he lost one of his legs and was
compelled to retire from the service. He was ill for seven
months, and when he recovered was elected justice of the peace
of Lawrence County, in 1911. During the two years that he
thus acted he displayed his official and executive ability so
well that in the fall elections of 1913 he was elected mayor of
Ironton, taking office Jan, 2, 1914. He has proved himself
a capable executive, and is giving the people of his community a
sane, progressive and business-like administration.
Although his time is given unreservedly to his official duties,
Mayor Hannan is interested in the business growth
and welfare of his city, and is interested in the Marting Iron &
Steel Co. and in the Etna Building and Loan Association of
Ironton, of which he is also a director. He continues to
maintain membership in the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,
and is also connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows
and the Junior Order United American Workmen. With his
family, he attends the Pine Street Methodist Episcopal Church.
On Sept. 19, 1900, Mr. Hannan was married
at Ironton to Miss Lettie Wilson, daughter
of John Wilson, of this city, and four children
have been born to this union, namely: Gerald, Arthur
John, Jr., Clarence and William.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of
Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing
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EDWARD F. HANNAN.
With all of consistency may this publicatoin enter a memorial
tribute to the late Edward Francis Hannan, who wielded
potent influence in connection with civic and business affairs
in Lawrence County and whose life was guided and governed by the
loftiest principles of integrity and honor. His character
was the positive expression of a strong and noble nature.
His character was the positive expression of a strong and noble
nature, and he accounted well to himself and to the world, with
the achievement that marked him as a man of superior ability and
foresight. He was a native of Lawrence County and a
representative of an honored pioneer family of the Hanging Rock
Region, his having been the distinction of becoming eventually
one of the most prominent and successful merchants and most
popular and influential citizens of Ironton, in which city he
died on Friday morning, Sept. 19, 1913. The entire
community manifested its deep sense of personal loss and
bereavement when he passed forward to the life eternal, and it
is well to perpetuate in a preliminary way quotations from an
obituary published in an Ironton newspaper at the time of the
death of Mr. Hannan, but slight change being made
in the quoted context:
"With the departure of the clouds of night on Friday
morning, the soul of Edward Francis Hannan, one of
Ironton's most prominent citizens, departed from the pain-wraeked
body, a few minutes after six o'clock. Mr. Hannan's
death had been expected for a number of weeks, and some time ago
the family was informed by specialists that there was no chance
for his recovery. He was afflicted with a peculiar and
baffling throat disease, against which the skill of the best
physicians of the country was unable to combat successfully.
He had undergone operations, but without avail. Despite
the fact that death was expected, when the end of the life of
this noble man was announced by the tolling of the chimes of St.
Lawrence church, it came as a shock to his many friends and
relatives throughout the city, and occasioned general regret,
for all who knew Mr. Hannan, either in a personal
or business way, have only the highest praise for him, - for
honesty and uprightness were the prime factors in his life and
won for him an enviable reputation as a business man whose honor
and integrity were unquestioned."
Edward Francis Hannan was born at Vesuvius
Furnace, Lawrence County, Ohio, on the 12th of July, 1860, and,
as has been written, "his death, at the age of fifty-three
years, cut him off in the prime of his manhood and at the height
of a successful business career." He was a son of John
and Bridget (McDermott) Hannan, both natives of Ireland,
where the former was born in the year 1821 and the latter in
1824. The parents passed the closing years of their lives
in Ironton, where the father died in 1893, the devoted wife and
mother having been summoned to eternal rest in 1890; they became
the parents of seven children, of whom Edward F. was the
only son and the sixth in order of birth. The parents were
reared and educated in their native land, where their marriage
was solemnized, and upon their immigration to the United States
they became pioneer settlers in the Hanging Rock Iron Region of
Ohio, where John Hannan became actively identified with
iron mining and the operation of iron furnaces. In 1876 he
removed with his family to the City of Ironton, where he engaged
in the retail grocery business, with which his only son soon
became associated, and with this line of enterprise he continued
to be identified until the close of his life, which was one of
unswerving integrity and earnest application, both he and his
wife having been communicants of the Catholic Church.
The public schools of the Vesuvius District of Lawrence
County afforded to Edward F. Hannan his early
educational privileges and he was sixteen years old at the time
of the family removal to Ironton, where he continued his studies
about one year in the high school. He then became actively
associated with his father in the grocery business, and to this
line of enterprise he continued to pay allegiance to the time of
his demise. He developed a large and prosperous wholesale
and retail grocery trade, and from 1881 until his death his
business was established at the corner of Third and Railroad
streets. The passing years brought increasing success and
definite prosperity to Mr. Hannan, and he showed his
progressiveness and civic loyalty by giving his capitalistic and
executive support to many other representative business concerns
in his native county, where he was a stockholder and director in
a number of important corporations.
With inviolable place in popular confidence and esteem
and known as a citizen of ability and worth, Mr. Hannan
was naturally called upon to serve in various positions of
public trust. He served for a total of nine years as a
valued member of the city council of Ironton and in this
connection exerted potent influence in the furtherance of wise
and progressive administration of municipal affairs, as did he
likewise during his eight years' membership on the city board of
public safety. He was one of the prominent and active
members of the Ironton Chamber of Commerce, was a democrat in
his political allegiance, and was a most zealous and devout
communicant of St. Lawrence Catholic Church, as is also his
widow. He was most active and liberal in the support of
the various activities of this parish and served many years as
treasurer of the church organization. Mr. Hannan
was for ten years president of the local organization of the
Ancient Order of Hibernians and thereafter was its treasurer for
four years, besides which he was in close affiliation with the
Knights of Columbus, the Knights of St. George, and the Young
Men's Institute.
At the home of the bride's parents, in the City of
Ironton, on the 8th of September, 1886, was solemnized the
marriage of Mr. Hannan to Miss Anna C. Goldcamp,
and thus was formed an ideal companionship that was severed only
when death set its seal upon his mortal lips. Mrs.
Hannan was born in Lawrence County, on the 15th of January,
1866, and is a daughter of the late John S. Goldcamp, an
honored and influential citizen and pioneer to whom a .special
memoir is dedicated on other pages of this work. Mrs.
Hannan still resides in the beautiful home which was
provided by her honored husband and which is endeared to her by
many hallowed memories and associations and as the gracious
chatelaine of which she has made it a center of most charming
hospitality. Concerning the four children of Mr. and
Mrs. Hannan brief record is given in conclusion of this
memorial tribute to a man whose name and memory shall long be
revered and honored in Ironton and throughout the county which
always represented his home and which he dignified by his
character and services: Olivia H. is the wife of
Richard McMahon, who is successfully engaged in the
practice of law in the City of Washington, D. C.; Lawrence J.
remains with his widowed mother and is one of the representative
young business men of Ironton; and at the family home are also
to be found the younger daughters, Monica N. and
Elizabeth G. Mr. and Mrs. McMahon have two
children, Julia Anna and May Elizabeth,
who are the only representatives in the third generation of the
Hannan family in America.
The funeral of Mr. Hannan was held at St.
Lawrence Church on the Monday following his death, and called
forth a large concourse of citizens of all classes - all
desiring to pay this last tribute of respect and sorrow.
The requiem mass was sung by Rev. James H. Cotter, D. D.,
a priest who had been a most intimate friend of the deceased,
and interment was made in beautiful Sacred Heart Cemetery.
Five of his sisters survive Mr. Hannan.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of
Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing
Company, 1916 - Page 680 |
F. E. Hayward |
FRANCIS EDWIN HAYWARD.
In fertility of resource, in the practical application of every
scientific force, in genius of organization and in breadth of
operation, America leads the world. Ohio and the Middle
West have not failed to supply their due quota of minds rich in
natural faculties to the long list of American men of ability,
and the subject of the present review, Francis Edwin Hayward,
of Ironton, has well won a place on the roll of successful
promoters and manufacturers. Mr. Hayward was born
May 13, 1848, in the Lower French Grant, Scioto County, Ohio,
and is a son of Eliphaz Hayward and Mary (Cadot) Hayward,
and a grandson of Moses Hayward and Claudius Cadot.
The boyhood and youth of Francis Edwin Hayward
were passed at the place of his nativity, his early
education being secured in the public schools, this being
subsequently supplemented by a course at Duff's Commercial
College, at Pittsburgh, where he was graduated in 1870. He
began his business career as a salesman of Singer sewing
machines for George D. Selby, his territory being
Lawrence and Jackson counties, Ohio, and the success which he
gained in this line of endeavor leads him to regard it as the
most notable achievement, all things considered, in his long and
uniformly successful career. Succeeding this, Mr.
Hayward spent three years in the mercantile department of
the Los Gatos Manufacturing Company, of Los Gatos, California,
and in the spring of 1871 returned to Ohio and established
himself in the retail grocery business at Ironton, an enterprise
with which he was identified for a period of twenty-six
years, merging it into the exclusive wholesale grocery business
with Drake S. Murdock, March 26, 1900. For a long
period of years he was a director
in the Ironton Fire Brick Company, was its secretary and
treasurer for eighteen years, and eventually became its
president, a position which he held until 1903, when, because of
ill health, he sold the two plants at Ironton and Hayward,
Carter County, Kentucky, together with his
mineral lands, to the Ashland Fire Brick Company, of which he
became vice-president. At the time of the death of the
president, S. S. Savage, in 1904, he was prevailed upon
to accept the presidency of the concern, but in 1906 resigned
from that position, sold his fire brick interests and retired
from active business. Mr. Hayward then took
his wife and daughter to California, where he spent four months,
and since returning to Ironton, in 1907, has devoted his
attention to the handling of stock and various other local
investments. Mr. Hayward has long been
greatly interested in business and financial enterprises at
Ironton, and to their upbuilding has given the benefit of his
broad experience, able management and shrewd business judgment.
He is a stockholder and director in the First National Bank of
Ironton, of which he was vice-president for six years, a
stockholder and director in the Ironton Portland Cement
Company, and was formerly .secretary of the Lawrence Telephone
Company. One of his most notable achievements is the brick
plant at Hayward, Carter County, Kentucky, which he erected in
1900. This became known as one of the most remarkable
ventures of its kind in the Country, because of the ease with
which it was operated and the cheapness of production, and is
still known as one of the most perfect plants of its kind to be
found. Although now somewhat retired from the activities
and worries of business life, Mr. Hayward
continues to be a force and an acknowledged power in whatever
movement he engages in. As a citizen he has done much to
advance the best interests of Ironton, and his name is
synonymous with strict integrity, business probity and
public-spirited citizenship. In political matters he is an
uncompromising republican.
On January 28, 1874, Mr. Hayward was
married to Miss Julia A. Work, and three children have
been born to this union, as follows: Frank Roy, who was
four years with John Wanamaker and became
assistant superintendent of the great department store of
Siegel, Cooper & Company, of New York City; Claude
Cadot, who was an attorney of Ironton, was with the law
firm of Belcher & Hayward for a time and is now
sales manager for the Ashland Fire Brick Co., of Ashland,
Kentucky; and Mary Elizabeth, who resides with her
parents.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of
Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing
Company, 1916 - Page 740 |
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WILLIAM H. HEINER,
has developed a most successful nursery and market-gardening
business at Ironton, Lawrence County, where he has a well
improved tract of nine and one-half acres, devoted largely to
truck gardening, but special attention being now given to the
propagating of seeds and bulbs for food products rather than in
the line of floriculture. Mr. Heiner is one of the
progressive and loyal citizens of Ironton and takes vital
interest in all that touches it welfare and advancement.
He is a valued member of the city council at the present time
and has received other marks of popular confidence and esteem.
Mr. Heimer was born at Allegheny City, now known
simply as Allegheny, in Pittsburgh County, Pennsylvania, on the
24th of September, 1853, and is a son of George and Magdalene
(Hefner) Heiner, the former of whom was born in the Kingdom
of Hanover, Germany, in 1811, and the latter of whom was born in
the ancient City of Strasburg, capital of Alsace-Lorraine,
Germany, in 1823, her native province having been still a part
of French territory at the time of her birth and having passed
to German control as a result of the Franco-Prussian War.
Of the ten children six are living, and the names of the entire
number are indicated, in respective order of birth and with
proper noting of those who have passed away: George
(deceased), Caroline, William H., Louisa (deceased),
Elizabeth, Magdalene (deceased), Henry, Sarah, Mary,
and Edward (deceased). The father, George Heiner,
immigrated with his wife to America in 1853 and after passing
about one year in the State of Pennsylvania he came to Ohio, in
1854, and established his home at Ironton, as one of the
sterling pioneers of Lawrence County. He purchased the
tract of land on a part of which his son William H., of
this review, now lives at 3803 South Third Street, and here he
continued to apply himself earnestly and industriously to market
gardening until his death, in 1872, his wife surviving him by
more than thirty years and having been called to the life
eternal in 1905, at the venerable age of eighty-two years.
William H. Heiner attended the pubic schools of
Ironton until he had attained to the age of seventeen years, and
thereafter he worked for his father until the latter's death,
about two years later. He then assumed the management of
the home place, in the interest of the entire family, and thus
continued his labors until about 1880, when the estate was
settled and the heirs given their proper apportionment. In
the final adjustment Mr. Heiner assumed heavy
responsibilities, as he purchased the home place and paid the
other heirs, and in the intervening years he has achieved
unequivocal success, gained through zealous industry and good
management, which have placed him in independent financial
status. He has added somewhat to the area of the old
homestead, to meet the demands of his business, and now has
about nine and one-half acres of ground, improved with model
hot-beds and otherwise excellently equipped for the
market-gardening and nursery business. For a number of
years Mr. Heiner gave more or less attention to work at
the carpenter's trade, and his ability in this trade is
indicated by his membership in the carpenters' union. He
is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, holds membership in
the Ironton Chamber of Commerce, and both he and his wife are
members of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Heiner has
made excellent improvements on his residence property, and he is
the owner also of the building utilized as a store.
Mr. Heiner shows characteristic loyalty and
progressiveness in his effective service as a member of the city
council, to which he was first elected in 1911. Popular
appreciation of his labors in this municipal body, to which he
was chosen from the city at large rather than from a specific
ward, was shown in his re-election, by a gratifying majority, in
1913. He was formerly a member of the board of trustees of
the Lawrence County Infirmary, having been for two years clerk
of the board and for an equal period its president. His
political allegiance is given to the republican party and he is
well fortified in his opinions concerning governmental affairs
both local and national.
It is worthy of record that in 1877, when he was
twenty-four years of age, Mr. Heiner found an effective
means of recuperating his impaired health, by making the long
overland trip, with horse and wagon, to Southern Florida.
Another young man accompanied him on the journey and they
traversed a distance of 3,000 miles, ninety days being consumed
ere they reached their destination, and the return trip being
made by railroad.
At Ironton, on the 26th of April, 1887, Mr. Heiner
wedded Miss Caroline E. Ensinger, daughter of
Christopher and Katherine A. Ensinger, both natives of
Germany, where the former was born in 1830, and the latter in
1832. Mrs. Heiner was the fifth in order of birth
of the family of eleven children, the others being Mary B.,
Wilhelmina (deceased), George W., Agnes (deceased),
Emma D., William F., Rosa R., Charles E., and Frank A.
and John J., who are deceased. Christopher
Ensinger was a pioneer of Lawrence County, and here
conducted the well known Old Reliable Dairy from 1859 until his
death, in 1907, his wife having passed to the life eternal in
1905. He was one of a company of fifteen enterprising
citizens who first introduced into Lawrence County the pure-bred
and registered Holstein-Frisian cattle, and he became an
extensive and successful breeder of this fine type of stock, his
fine herd having been a source of much pride to him and the same
having attracted much attention on the part of breeders and
farmers. Mr. Ensinger was an influential and
honored citizen and served in various offices of local trust,
including many years' incumbency of the position of director of
the county infirmary. Mr. and Mrs. Heiner became
the parents of two children, - Chester E., who died at
the age of 11 months; and Karl W., who is engaged int he
grocery business in the City of Cincinnati; he married Miss
Garnet Brimstead and they have no children.
(Source: The Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron
Region of Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by The Lewis Publishing Company
- 1916 - Page 731) |
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JOHN D. HELBLING
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O. H. Henninger |
OSCAR H. HENNINGER
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CLAY HENRY
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REV. PATRICK HENRY.
Distinguished by a long life and by years of devoted service in
the cause of the church, Rev. Patrick Henry is one of the
oldest natives of the Hanging Rock Iron Region, and represents a
family which has been identified with this section of Ohio more
than a century. He became a minister of the Methodist
Church more than forty years ago, and has shown the qualities of
the true leader and teacher. His success cannot be
adequately measured by any figures, but it may be noted that
during his active work he received an aggregate of several
thousand people into the church. Mr. Henry is now
retired from his pastoral duties and has the satisfaction of a
long and useful retrospect and a serene confidence in the
future. Throughout his career he has been a man of strong
convictions, has stood resolutely by the articles of his belief,
and before the war was opposed to slavery and subsequently has
been equally ardent in his hostility to the rum traffic.
Much of his work was done in the iron regions and at the
various furnaces, and he has known pesonally many of the
builders and operators of most of the furnaces in the Hanging
Rock Iron Region.
Rev. Patrick Henry was born in Lawrence County,
Ohio, Sept. 7, 1836. He has an interesting and historic
ancestry. His great-grandfather, John Henry, came
from Ireland to America before the Revolutionary war, and during
that struggle for independence enlisted three times in the
colonial army. He was at the first great battle of Bunker
Hill and in many other engagements. After the war he
settled in Teays Valley, Virginia, about 1808. He was
married in Ireland. A son of John Henry, the
emigrant, was James Henry, grandfather of Rev. Patrick
Henry and a cousin to Patrick Henry, the famous
Virginia statesman. James Henry married
Elizabeth Lee, a daughter of the Rev. John Lee, and a cousin
to Gen. Robert E. Lee, the great leader of the
Confederacy. their marriage was celebrated Sept. 28, 1809.
Not long afterwards they moved out to Southern Ohio, and in
Lawrence County their son, Brice Henry was a farmer,
sawmill owner and lumber dealer. He was a man of good
business ability and useful as a citizen, though he had only a
common school education. He was a member of the Baptist
Church and in politics a whig and latter a republican.
Brice Henry married Jane Sloane, who was born in
Virginia July 11, 1810, a daughter of John and Sarah Sloane.
John Sloane was born in Virginia Oct. 31, 1778, and his
wife, Sarah Henry Sloane, was born in the same state
Sept. 13, 1780. The Sloane family came to Gallia
County, Ohio, in 1811.
Rev. Patrick Henry grew up in Lawrence County,
had a common school education, and has followed three distinct
lines of work during his lifetime, first as a farm, second as a
contractor, and lastly, until his retirement, as a minister of
the Methodist Episcopal Church. Reverend Henry
joined the church in November, 1858, and on June 18, 1870 was
licensed to exhort, was licensed as a local preacher June 7,
1873, and ordained a deacon Sept. 30, 1877. He was
ordained an elder Sept. 25, 1881, and in 1889 joined the Ohio
Conference as an active minister. At one time he was
pastor of the Methodist Church at Hanging Rock, and at different
times in his active career was pastor of churches at six of the
iron furnaces of the Hanging Rock Iron Region, namely:
Pine Grove, Laurence, Etna, Vesuvius, Hecla and Franklin.
Reverend Henry has been a lifelong republican,
but never active in practical politics or a seeker for political
honors. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity. On
Nov. 5, 1857, he married Mahala Virginia Henry, a
daughter of Isaiah and Adah Langdon Henry, who died Aug.
13, 1898. After he became to feeble for active service in
the ministry he lived in retirement at Ironton, Ohio, until Feb.
12, 1915, when he was called by his Master to his reward in
Heaven. The beautiful floral offerings and the large
concourse of friends attending his funeral service attested the
warm esteem in which he was held in all this Hanging Rock Iron
Region. His body now lies buried beside his wife in
beautiful "Woodland" at Ironton, Ohio.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of
Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing
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PETER L. HENRY
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ISIDOR C. HOFFMAN
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of
Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing
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ERNST HORSCHEL
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of
Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing
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CHARLES A. HUMPHRYES.
One of the best-known and most successful men in his own
particular line of endeavor in Ohio, Charles A. Humphryes,
of Ironton, is one of the earliest settlers of the Hanging Rock
Region, and although much of his life has been spent outside of
its
borders he is valued as a helpful citizen and as a man who
through his own achievements has contributed to the importance
and prestige of the community in which he now makes his home.
Mr. Humphryes was born in Pike County, Missouri,
November 2, 1852, and is a son of William G. and Diana (Beekmann)
Humphryes.
William G. Humphryes was a native of the old
State of Virginia, where he was born in 1827, and there grew up
amid agricultural surroundings, so that in his youth he adopted
the vocation of farmer. In 1857 he removed to Bloom
Furnace, Scioto County, Ohio, and for some years engaged in
teaming around the iron furnaces, but in later life went to
Jackson, the county seat of Jackson County, Ohio, and there
passed away in 1895. Mr. Humphryes was
married to Miss Diana Beekmann, who was
born in Ohio in 1830, and she died in 1869, having been the
mother of seven children: Ellen, Charles A., James A., Annie,
Asbury J., May and a child which died in infancy.
Mr. Humphryes was subsequently married to Margaret
Williams, a widow, who survives and
makes her home at Jackson, and three children were born to them:
Benjamin, William and Walter.
Charles A. Humphryes received only limited
educational advantages in his youth, attending the Scioto County
public schools until he was eleven years old and at that early
age entering upon life's responsibilities as a worker in the
mines. He was thus employed until reaching the age of
seventeen, when he became assistant engineer to old
John Loomis, who had charge of the machinery at Bloom
Furnace, and under his guidance received his first instruction
in the line in which he was to gain his success in life.
After remaining three years in this capacity, Mr.
Humphryes became assistant engineer at the Scioto Furnace,
where he remained one year, and then spent a like period as
engineer at the Buckhorn Furnace, following which he became
engineer for the iron and steel plant located at Ironton, and
was so engaged three years. This was followed by a similar
period in the same capacity at the Big Etna Furnace, and one
year at the Campbell Sarah Furnace, this being succeeded by four
years at the Hanging Rock Furnace. In 1890 Mr.
Humphryes became identified with the American Water and
Guarantee Company, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as constructing
engineer, and for nearly a quarter of a century was in charge of
the water works at Little Rock, Arkansas. Mr.
Humphryes is an expert in the placing, construction and
perfecting of water works and equipment, particularly in the
line of filtration plants, and at this time has two patents on
filtration improvements which are meeting with much favor among
constructing engineers all over the country. He has made a
specialty of putting in water works
machinery, and although he is now somewhat retired from active
business life, is still frequently called into consultation in
the installing of important and difficult plants.
Mr. Humphryes was married at Ironton,
November 2, 1878, to Miss Maria Lanton, daughter
of Edward Lanton of this city, and five children
have been born to this union: Edward, who is general
superintendent of the water works at Little Rock, Arkansas,
married Pearl Horschell, and has one child—Edward,
Jr.; Howard, a railroad machinist of Dellsworth,
Minnesota; Addie, a stenographer living at Erie,
Pennsylvania; Bertha, who is a well-known actress; and
Chester, a practicing chemist. Mr. Humphryes
is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the Presbyterian
Church, and his political belief is that of the republican
party. He is an ardent sportsman, and frequently takes
hunting and fishing trips, seldom returning without some worthy
trophy of field or stream. Since returning to Ironton, in
1914, he has renewed acquaintances and reestablished
friendships, and is continuing to show an interest in the growth
and development of the region to which lie first came so many
years ago.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of
Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing
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HENRY HUNTER.
The people of Ironton, Ohio, are indebted to Henry
Hunter for the opportunity he has placed in their way of
enjoying high class amusement features. It has been said,
and truly, that not least among the tasks allotted to men's
lives are those which minister to our esthetic natures, and the
successful theatrical manager is he who places before the
patrons of the stage alike the humorous and the pathetic aspects
of life. While Mr. Hunter is still a young man, he
is experienced in the amusement business, is a veteran of the
motion picture industry in Ohio, and as manager and part owner
of the Empire and Scenic Theatres is giving the people clean,
interesting and instructive exhibitions.
Mr. Hunter was born in Wayne County, West
Virginia, Sept. 3, 1878, and is a son of Peter F. and Amelia
(DelMaro) Hunter. His father, who was born in Staunton,
Virginia, in 1849, served as a member of Company K, Fifty-third
Mounted Kentucky Infantry, during the Civil war, and is now a
resident of Ironton, where he is engaged in business as a
contracting carpenter. Mrs. Hunter was born in
Lawrence County, Ohio, in 1858, and has been the mother of six
children: Henry, John A., Samuel V., Charles A., James B.
and May F. Henry Hunter attended the public schools
of West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio until he was sixteen years
of age, and at that time took up the study of engineering, to
which he applied himself for two years. He then entered
the employ of the Lawrence Telephone Company as a lineman and
remained with that firm for seven years, being advanced to the
position of wire chief and later was made manager. With
C. B. Clark, he became in 1905, one of the pioneers in the
motion picture business in Ohio. He has continued in this
business, steadily increasing his interests, and at this time is
part owner of two of the most successful amusement enterprises
of the city, the Scenic and Empire Theaters, which, under his
management, are attracting large and appreciative audiences.
During the early days of moving pictures, one of the most
dangerous features of the business lay in the liability of the
films catching fire. Mr. Hunter, a natural
mechanic, devised an attachment which did away with this danger,
and for some time it was extensively used in various parts of
the country, but has since been displaced by more recent
inventions along the same line. Mr. Hunter
has a most creditable military record, having been a member of
the Seventh Regiment, Ohio National Guard, for nine years, and
serving with Company I, Seventh Regiment, Ohio Volunteer
Infantry, during the Spanish-American war. He is a great
lover of motor-boating, promoting events of this character, and
owning the largest motor boat on the river at Ironton. He
owns his own residence at No. 69 North Sixth Street, and has a
number of other interests. Fraternally he is connected
with the local lodges of the Knights of Pythias and the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Mr.
Hunter is a republican and a consistent member of the
Episcopal Church, with which the members of his family are also
connected.
On Aug. 24, 1902, Mr. Hunter was married
at Ironton to Miss Anna M. Lewis, daughter of Louis
Lewis, who is employed at the rolling mills at Ironton.
Five children have been born to this union, namely: Helena,
Ruth, Alden F., Henrietta and Beatrice J.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of
Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing
Company, 1916 - Page 785 |
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