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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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WILLIAM J. MAHONEY.
As one of the able and representative members of the bar of
Lawrence County, Ohio, Mr. Mahoney is entitled to
specific recognition in this history, as he is also by reason of
his status as a broad-minded, loyal and public-spirited citizen
of sterling character and high ideals. He is engaged in
the successful practice of his profession in the City of
Ironton, the judicial center of Lawrence County, and his
clientage indicates in its personnel and importance the popular
estimate placed upon his ability as a resourceful advocate and
well fortified counselor.
Mr. Mahoney claims the fair old Emerald
Isle as the place of his nativity, and in both the agnatic and
maternal lines he is a scion of the stanchest of Irish stock.
He was born in County Wexford, Ireland, on the 14th of June,
1862, and is a son of Patrick and Elizabeth Mahoney, the
former of whom was born in County Tipperary, Ireland, in 1834,
and the latter County Wexford, Ireland, in 1839. Patrick
Mahoney served as a captain in the British army during
his lifetime, and was district inspector of Irish troops and
police for the Province of Leinster, where his death occurred in
1894. The mother of him whose name initiates this review
was summoned to the life eternal in 1868, when he was a lad of
about six years. Of the children William J. is the
elder of the two now living, his brother Thomas when at
home being a resident of Dublin, Ireland, being now in the
diplomatic service of the British government. Three
children are deceased, two sons and one daughter.
In a private school in his native land William J.
Mahoney acquired his early educational discipline, and he
there also attended the preparatory department of a college.
At the age of ten years he came to the United States, and
settlement was made at Center Station, Lawrence County, Ohio,
where he spent two years, and was reared to adult age in
Ironton, Ohio, being there afforded the advantages of the public
schools. He made good use of his scholastic privileges,
and for two and one-half years was numbered among the successful
teachers of the district schools, besides which he worked in
various iron furnaces in the States of Virginia and Tennessee,
having charge of iron plants as manager and in other capacities.
His ambition led him to form definite plans for his future
career, and after deciding to adopt the legal profession he
entered the law department of Washington University at
Lexington, Virginia, in which he was graduated as a member of
the class of 1898 and from which he received his degree of
Bachelor of Laws. Since the time of his graduation Mr.
Mahoney has been engaged as a teacher and instructor in
law and has practiced his profession for varying intervals in
Virginia, Washington, Ohio and other states. He has been one of
the leading representatives of his profession in Lawrence
County, Ohio, since 1908. He controls a large and
important law business and has appeared in connection with much
notable litigation in the various courts of this section of
Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia. Mr. Mahoney
is independent in his political opinions. He is well
fortified in his conviction concerning economic measures and
government policies, as he is a close student of the questions
and issues of the hour, as well as of the best in general
literature, including that of his profession.
In the year 1885 was solemnized the marriage of Mr.
Mahoney to Miss Ella Scherer, who was born in
Ironton, Ohio, April 14, 1862, a daughter of Michael
Scherer, a pioneer in Ironton business circles. Mr.
and Mrs. Mahoney have two children, Elizabeth and John L.
The daughter is now the wife of Henry Horschel, of
Ironton, and they have one son, William E. M., their
daughter, Henrietta, having died in childhood.
John L. Mahoney is unmarried and resides in Oklahoma.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of
Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing
Company, 1916 - Page 790 |
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GEORGE MARKINS
is one of the young men in the industrial activities of Lawrence
County, has had a thorough practical training, and his
usefulness is indicated by his position as assistant maser
mechanic to the Superior Portland Cement Company at Superior.
He has come up from the ranks of the laborer, knows his business
as one who has learned it through actual experience, and is one
of the most popular officials connected with this large
industry.
George Markins was born in Aid Township of
Lawrence County, Ohio, Jan. 23, 1887. His father,
Alexander, who was born in the same township of Lawrence
County in 1861, is a miner, and is now connected with the
Superior Portland Cement Company. The mother's maiden name
was Elma Large, who was born in Aid Township in 1864.
Their eleven children are: Sadie, Nora, George, Edward,
Myrtle, Blanche, Ora, Maggie, William, deceased; Louis,
deceased, and Willard.
George Markins grew up in Aid Township, was
educated in the public schools until sixteen, and then spent
three years as a laborer in the Ironton Portland Cement Company.
Eight months were then employed in work for the laborer for one
year, for two years as miller in the plant, and then for two
years was mechanical repair man. In June, 1913, came his
well deserved promotion to the position of assistant maser
mechanic.
Mr. Markins was married Jan. 12, 1912, to
Lillie Mays, daughter of John and Mary (Willis) Mays.
Her father is a farmer in Lawrence County. To their
marriage have been born three children: Thelma Pauline,
Alexander and William. Mr. Markins is
affiliated with the Improved Order of Red Men, is a republican
in politics and his family belongs to the Methodist Church.
Besides his work and profession he is the owner of eighty acres
of wild land in Aid Township.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock
Iron Region of Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The
Lewis Publishing Company, 1916 - Page 1107 |
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JONAS MARSHALL.
Although not now a resident of the Hanging Rock Region, having
retired from active labor and moved to Columbus, Jonas
Marshall is known as one of the pioneers of this section,
where for many years he was identified with a number of the
leading industries as a blacksmith and wagonmaker. He was
born at Etna Furnace, Lawrence County, Ohio, Aug. 15, 1849, and
is a son of Richard J. and Kathryn (Clutts) Marshall.
His father, a native of Hagerstown, Maryland, where he was born
in 1828, was a wagonmaker and blacksmith by trade, and came to
Ohio about 1845, settling at Franklin Furnace. He became
one of the prominent and influential men of his community,
served as a justice of the peace of Decatur Township for nine
years, was assessor six terms and for a number of years occupied
a place on the school board. He died in 1895, while
Mrs. Marshall, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1823, died in
1862. They were the parents of five children: Mary A.,
Harriet, Josephine, John and Elizabeth.
The district schools of Decatur Township, Lawrence
County, furnished Jonas Marshall with his primary
education, and at the age of eighteen years he laid aside his
books temporarily and took the position of stable foreman at the
Buckhorn Furnace, there remaining five years. Realizing
the need of further education, he again entered school,
remaining two years, and this training enabled him to secure the
position of store manager for the Buckhorn Furnace, a capacity
in which he also had charge of the wood business. After
eighteen years he went to the Gallia Furnace, in Gallia County,
but after four years as clerk returned to Lawrence County and
entered the employ of the Lawrence Furnace. Here for
thirteen years he worked as blacksmith and wagonmaker, and then
went to the Hecla Furnace as the incumbent of the same positions
and remained three years. Mr. Marshall then came to
Ironton to accept the position of blacksmith for the Ironton
Fire Brick Company, and one year later became identified with
the Ironton Portland Cement Company as clerk and timekeeper, but
after seven years, in 1913, went to Columbus with the Ralston
Steel Company as a member of the draughting department. In
1914 he retired from active life, and has since been living with
his son, at East Columbus. An industrious and energetic
workman, ever faithful to the duties devolving upon him, Mr.
Marshall has labored so well that he is able to spend the
evening of life in the enjoyment of a handsome competency.
His life has covered one of the greatest periods of development
in this part of Ohio, and he can well remember early incidents,
when the native timber covered this section; when ironmaking
here was in its infancy and in its prime; when the father of
Ironton, Mr. J. Campbell, gave him employment for weeks
at a stretch; when the old Iron Railroad was built, and when
Mr. J. Steen erected the first, or one of the first,
charcoal iron furnaces in Lawrence County, the old Mount Vernon
Furnace. Through it all he has known some of the leading
men of this region, and has been held in high esteem and respect
by all with whom he has come into contact. He still
retains his love for his vocation, and is able to hold his own
in labor or workmanship with any of the present-day blacksmiths.
Mr. Marshall is a member of the Methodist Church.
On Apr, 7, 1889, Mr. Marshall was married at
Buckhorn Furnace to Miss Sarah R. Dennison, daughter of
John Dennison of Scioto Furnace, Scioto County, Ohio, a
farmer. Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs.
Marshall, namely: George W., a plumber of East
Columbus, Ohio, married Mary McConnell, and has one
child; Nellie, who married Joseph Taylor, a
machinist of Kalamazoo, Michigan, has one child; Herman,
a cement worker of Bloomington, Indiana; Hattie, who
married George Barber, a lawyer of Bloomington, Indiana,
has no children; Nannie, who married Ross Faulks,
an electrician of Huntington, West Virginia, has two children;
and John F., who is single and a laborer.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of
Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing
Company, 1916 - Page 1281 |
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WILLIAM
H. MARTING. A retired merchant and honored citizen
of Ironton, Lawrence County, and a scion of a sterling pioneer
family of the Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio, Mr. Marting
was born at Jackson Furnace, Scioto County, on the 7th of
September, 1854. He is a son of Henry W. and Katherine
(Ketter) Marting, both natives of the Kingdome of Hanover,
Germany, where the former was born in 1831 and the later in
1833. Henry W. Marting became a resident of Scioto
County when a young man and there achieved independence and
prosperity through his activities as a farmer and in the
conducting of a general store at Gebhart's Station, where
he held the office of postmaster for many years. At the
time of the Civil war he showed his loyalty to the land of his
adoption by serving ninety days as a soldier of the Union, in an
Ohio regiment of volunteers. He passed the closing years
of his life in Scioto County, where he died in 1904, his widow
being summoned to the life eternal in 1906. Following is a
list of the names of their surviving children, given in
respective order of birth: William H., Mary, Charles,
Caroline, Louis E., Lizzie. Three children are
deceased.
William H. Marting attended school in the Lick
Ridge district of Scioto County until he was sixteen years of
age and in the meanwhile had gained practical experience in
connection with his father's farming operations. He soon
engaged in agricultural operations on his own responsibility and
he continued to be engaged in farming in his native county until
1880, when, at the age of twenty-six years, he removed to
Ironton and opened a grocery store at the corner of Third and
Walnut streets. There he built up a prosperous enterprise
and incidentally entrenched himself most fully in popular
confidence and esteem. He continued his business
successfully until 1902, in the same location, and since that
time has lived virtually retired, having turned his well
established grocery business over to his sons, William F.,
Frank A., and Charles G.; William F. being now a
representative physician and surgeon in Ironton and Frank A.
being here engaged in the automobile business, so that to the
youngest of the three sons is left the management of the
business established by the father more than thirty years ago,
the enterprise being still conducted under the firm name of
Marting Brothers.
Though Mr. Marting has relieved himself of the
cares and exactions of active business he is still a stockholder
in the Foster Store Company, the Marting Dry Goods
Company, and the Scioto Flour Mill Company. He s a staunch
advocate of the principles and policies of the democratic party,
served six years as a loyal and progressive member of the city
council of Ironton, and was for one year a trustee of the
Lawrence County Children Home. He is affiliated with the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Junior of United
American Mechanics, and both he and his wife held membership in
Emanuel Methodist Episcopal Church.
On the 9th of November, 1874, was solemnized the
marriage of Mr. Marting to Miss Caroline Frouein,
daughter of the late Frederick Frouein, of Scioto County,
and of the eight children of this union three are deceased -
Emma, Nora and one son who died in infancy. Those
surviving are Dr. William F., Frank A., Charles G., Louis,
and Emerson.
Dr. William F. Marting was graduated in the Ironton
High School in 1893, and in preparation for the work of his
chosen profession he attended the Ohio Medical College, in the
City of Cincinnati, in which he was graduated as a member of the
class of 1897, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He
established himself in practice of Lyra, Scioto County, but he
soon turned to answer the call of patriotism, at the inception
of the Spanish-American war, in which he served as a member of
the reserve ambulance corps of the Second Army Corps, in 1898-9
He wedded Miss Emma Drayer of Ironton and is now
established in the successful practice of his profession in this
city, his children being Anna d., Marion R. and Esther
C. Frank A. Marting, who is engaged in the automobile
business in Ironton, as previously noted, wedded Miss May
Gates. Charles G. Marting, who conducts the
grocery business established by the father, married Miss Alma
Hawenauer. Louis Marting, who is principal of the high
school in the City of Akron, Ohio, married Miss Bertha Barr.
Emerson Marting, the youngest of the sons, married
Miss Esther Beasley and is now engaged in the automobile
business at Ashland, Kentucky.
William H. Marting, to whom this sketch is
dedicated, is the owner of valuable realty in Ironton, including
his own residence property, five acres of land and an attractive
dwelling, at 369 South Seventh Street; a house and lot on South
Second Street; the business block in which is conducted the
Marting grocery store, at Third and Walnut streets; and a
garage on South Seventh Street.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of
Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing
Company, 1916 - Page 1341 |
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EPHRAIM L. MAYBERRY.
He whose name initiates this review is one of the popular young
men and efficient officials of his native county, maintains his
home in the City of Ironton, and is the incumbent of the
position of assistant county surveyor.
Mr. Mayberry was born in Windsor Township,
Lawrence County, on the 16th of September, 1880, and is a son of
John and Martha (Calliflower) Mayberry, both likewise
natives of Lawrence County, where the former was born in 1856
and the latter in 1861, dates that indicate that the respective
families were founded in this county in the pioneer days.
John Mayberry received his education in the public
schools and as a young man was a successful and popular teacher
in the schools of Lawrence County. He and his wife now
reside on their well improved farm in Windsor Township, and he
is giving special attention to fruit culture, having on his
place a fine orchard of 5,000 apple trees. The four
children are Bertha, Owen, Ephraim L. and Irwin.
Ephraim L. Mayberry continued to attend the public
schools of his native county until he had attained to the age of
eighteen years, and thereafter he was for five years engaged in
teaching, as one of the efficient and popular representatives of
the pedagogic profession in Lawrence County. In 1905 he
was graduated in the Northwestern Ohio Normal University, at
Ada, Hardin County, and from this institution he received the
degree of civil engineer. Thereafter he was identified
with government contract work on the Ohio and Allegheny rivers
until 1909, since which time he has held the position of deputy
county surveyor of Lawrence County, an incumbency in which he
has accomplished a large amount of important work.
Mr. Mayberry renders allegiance
to the republican party, he and his wife are members of the
First Baptist Church of Ironton, and he is affiliated with the
local lodge and chapter of the Masonic fraternity.
On the 16th of July, 1906, Mr. Mayberry was
united in marriage to Miss Grace Reed, daughter of
John W. Reed, of Scottown, Lawrence County, and their three
children are John B., Bon E., and Joseph D.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of
Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing
Company, 1916 - Page 701 |
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GEORGE MAYNE,
chief of the department of police of the city of Ironton has won
promotion to the head of his department both because of his
fearlessness as an officer and his executive talents. A
native of Ironton, he has been connected with the police force
for a period of seventeen years, and his record is one of which
any official might well be proud. Chief Mayne was
born Feb. 3, 1868, and is a son of John C. and Luema (Rowe)
Mayne.
John C. Mayne was born near
Blossburg, Pennsylvania, in 1835, and in his native locality was
engaged as a teamster and rolling mill man. Subsequently
he enlisted for service in the Civil war as a member of the
Forty-fifth Kentucky Mounted Infantry. After serving for
eighteen months under arms he was made a teamster, and so
completed his military service, being thus engaged for two
years. Following his honorable discharge, Mr. Mayne
came to the Hanging Rock Region, about the year 1865, and here
continued to follow rolling mill work during the balance of his
active career. Mrs. Mayne was born in Pike
county, Kentucky, in 1810, and was eighteen years of age when
she came to Ironton, Ohio, where she still makes her home.
She has been the mother of six children, as follows: John A.,
George, Thomas R., Charles A., Esther A. and Grace.
George Mayne received only ordinary educational
advantages in the public schools, for at the age of twelve years
he laid aside his books to begin to learn the trade of cooper.
He continued to be employed at that vocation for some thirteen
years, and then entered the rolling mills, where he remained
three years. In 1897 Mr. Mayne qualified for
the police force of Ironton and began his duties in that year,
and as a tribute to his character as a brave, active and
efficient officer, he speedily won promotion until Feb. 13,
1914, he reached the height of his deserved promotions, being
appointed chief of police. He has since demonstrated a
marked administrative ability, and has instilled a new spirit of
earnestness and reform into the service.
Chief Mayne was married Feb. 11, 1898, at
Ironton, to Miss Emma Evans, daughter of Evan Evans
of this city, and six children have been born to this union:
Newell E., George E., Irving, Ruth, Elizabeth, and
Avonell, of whom Ruth is deceased. Politically,
Chief Mayne is a republican. With his
family, he attends the Baptist church, in the work of which he
has been active. He owns an attractive home and spends
much of his time there, but is also fond of the companionship of
his fellows and is a popular member of the Encampment of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, and
the Junior Order United American Mechanics. When he can
spare the time from his arduous official duties he takes hunting
trips and fishing excursions into the mountains, always
accompanied by his family.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of
Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing
Company, 1916 - Page 668 |
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JAMES F. McCONNELL.
The City of Ironton has become one of the most thriving and
prosperous commercial and industrial centers of the Hanging Rock
and Calumet Region, and its prestige in the business world is
due to the efforts and activities of such men as James F.
McConnell, who for twenty years has been engaged as a
commission merchant in the line of wholesale fruits and produce.
Mr. McConnell's contributions in advancing the material
interests of Ironton are so generally recognized that they may
be considered as no secondary part of his career of usefulness,
for he belongs to that class which appreciates the fact that
community prosperity spells individual success.
Mr. McConnell was born at Gallipolis,
Ohio, March 18, 1867, and is a son of James W. and Amelia
(Wooly) McConnell. His father, born in Pennsylvania in
1835, was brought to Ohio as a lad of seven years, the family
locating in Gallia County, and there he has spent his life, his
active career being devoted to the trade of cooper. He
retired from active pursuits in 1912 and is now living quietly
at Gallipolis. Mrs. McConnell, who was born
in Pennsylvania in 1842, died in 1885. There were ten
children in the family of James W. and Amelia
McConnell, namely: Flora, who is single;
Charles, who died at the age of twenty-one years;
James F., of this review; Belle, who married
Col. A. M. Woolridge, a coal operator of West Virginia;
Morris, who is storekeeper at the Gallipolis Hospital;
Fred, who is a coal operator in West Virginia; Anna,
who died at the age of eighteen years; Robert, an
engineer on the C. & O. Railway; Clara, who married
Sam McConnahay, of Dakota, West Virginia; and Thomas,
who is a clerk in the offices of the C. & O. Railway.
James F. McConnell attended the public schools
of Gallipolis, Ohio, until sixteen years of age and then entered
upon his career in the capacity of clerk in a grocery store of
his native place. He came to Ironton in 1892 and became a
salesman for a shoe company here, but in 1894 entered business
on his own account, and since that time has been engaged as a
wholesale commission merchant, handling fruit and produce.
His business has grown steadily, and in addition ho has
interested himself in various other enterprises, being president
of the Iron City Building and Loan Association and a stockholder
and director in several of Ironton's and Lawrence County's
important industries. His large business interests make
him a very busy man, yet he has found time to assist the city in
its advancement in various ways. For many years he was
financial secretary of the old board of trade and at this time
is a member of the chamber of commerce, is a member of the board
of health and president of the Board of the Children's Home, and
no worthy movement is considered complete that does not have his
name on its list of supporters. Since 1904 Mr.
McConnell has been agent at Ironton for the American Express
Company. He owns his own home at Ironton, in addition to
several other pieces of city realty, and has also 540 acres of
good farming land in Scioto County. In polities Mr.
McConnell is a democrat, with independent leanings.
He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in the work of
which he has taken an active part, and at this time holds
membership on the board of trustees.
On March 9, 1898, at the home of the bride, Mr.
McConnell was married to Miss Jennie Davis,
daughter of George B. Davis, one of the first ironworkers
of the old iron region. Three children have been born to
this union: Miriam, Clara and Gwendolyn.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of
Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing
Company, 1916 - Page 772 |
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JOHN A. McDOWELL. The standing of a city or community rests almost entirely
upon the character and reputation of its business men, their
reliability, enterprise, initiative and integrity being, in the
greater number of instances, a standard by which may he measured
the prosperity and importance of the place. Ironton has
been especially fortunate in possessing business men of fine
abilities and strict fidelity, and among them none is held in
higher esteem than John A. McDowell, president of the
Ironton Transfer and Storage Company and general manager of the
Home Telephone Company.
Mr. McDowell was born at Tarlton, Pickaway
County, Ohio, Apr. 6, 1877, and is a son of James W. and
Susannah (McClenand) McDowell. James W. McDowell was
born in 1841, at Tarlton, Ohio, there grew to manhood, and
during the Civil war enlisted in the Fifty-ninth Regiment, Ohio
Volunteer Infantry, as a private seeing active service in a
number of important engagements and suffering two wounds, one in
the shoulder and one in the hip. On his return to his home
he engaged in poultry raising, and also became prominent in
public affairs, serving two terms as commissioner of Pickaway
County. He now makes his home at Columbus, Ohio, as does
also Mrs. McDowell, who was born at Tarlton in 1842.
Mr. and Mrs. McDowell were the parents of five children:
Minnie, who is unmarried; Loretta L., who married
Georbe W. Volkwein, a roofer and stave manufacturer of
Columbus; May F., who married W. C. Bates, a
practicing attorney of Columbus; John A., of this review;
and Josephine M., who married F. B. Lewis, a
railroad cashier of Columbus.
John A. McDowell completed the curriculum of the
graded schools of Columbus, following which he went through the
first year of high school, and at the age of fifteen years
became a messenger boy in the service of the Western Union
Telegraph Company. An earnest industrious and faithful
youth, his ability and conscientious performance of duty won him
steady promotion, so that at the end of six years he had reached
the position of superintendent of Construction. In this
capacity Mr. McDowell remained until 1899, and in that
year transferred his services to the United States Long Distance
Telephone Company, with which he was engaged in various
capacities for something under three years. In 1901 Mr.
McDowell became the founder of the Ironton Transfer and
Storage Company, which in 1904 was incorporated as a stock
company, of which he became manager. He held this position
until his election to the presidency, and at this time is a half
owner of the business. In 1906 Mr. McDowell became
one of the organizers of the Home Telephone Company, and in the
following year was made its general manager, a position which he
still retains, being also a stockholder and director in this
concern. His able management, keen discrimination and
executive ability have contributed largely to the success of the
enterprises with which he has been connected and have gained him
a high reputation among business men of this community.
On July 18, 1900, Mr. McDowell was married at
Columbus, Ohio, to Miss Clara J. Dorn, daughter of
Conrad and Mary W. (Mihm) Dorn, natives of Germany who came
to the United States as children. Three children have been
born to this union, namely: Allen E., Dan C. and Helen
C. Mr. McDowell is well known in fraternal circles,
being a Chapter Mason and a member of the Knights of Pythias and
the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. With his
family he belongs to the Methodist Church. He is fond of
all out-of-door sports, particularly automobiling, although he
is also a great lover of fine horses. Mr. McDowell's
military record consists of three years spent as a member of the
signal corps of the Ohio National Guard. He has proved his
good citizenship on a number of occasions, and may be justly
numbered among the influential men who are contributing to
Ironton's prestige.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of
Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing
Company, 1916 - Page 1342 |
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JOHN H. McGEE.
There is special consistency in the vocation followed by this
venerable and honored citizen of Ironton, for as a pension
attorney he has achieved a worthy work in behalf of his old
comrades of the Civil war, his having been the distinction of
serving through virtually the entire course of the great
conflict through which the integrity of the nation was
perpetuated and his loyalty in the times of peace having been of
the same intense order, begotten, as it is, of high ideals and
impregnable integrity of character. Mr. McGee has
been a resident of Lawrence County for more than half a century,
is the oldest notary public in the county and here he has a
circle of friends whose number is limited only by that of his
acquaintances. Well it is that this publication should pay
a special tribute to this honored pioneer citizen of the Hanging
Rock Iron Region of Ohio.
Mr. McGee was born in Russell County, Virginia,
on the 2nd of April, 1840, and is a son of Benjamin F. and
Nancy (May) McGee, both natives of Virginia and
representatives of sterling old families of that historic
commonwealth. The father, who was a farmer or planter by
vocation, died in 1847, when the subject of this review was a
lad of seven years, and well did the devoted mother meet the
responsibilities and burdens that devolved upon her in the care
of her four children, of whom John H. is the only son and
the eldest of the number, the names of his sisters, in order of
birth, being as follows: Elizabeth, Cynthia, and Mary.
The mother was born in Russell County, Virginia, on the 13th of
September, 1821, and was summoned to the life eternal in 1892,
in Kentucky. She eventually contracted a second marriage,
by becoming the wife of Hardin Hurley, who likewise is
deceased.
Mr. McGee was afforded the advantages of the
schools of his native county, his mother having been a skilled
weaver and having defrayed by her work as such the expenses of
educating her children. She finally re- moved with her
family to Kentucky, and in the Village of Pikeville, Pike
County, that state, John H. McGee continued his studies
in the public schools. In July, 1858, when seventeen years of
age, he came to Lawrence County, Ohio, and established his
residence in Ironton. He found employment in the Hecla
Furnace, in the mines and at such other work as was available,
until the inception of tlic Civil war, when he promptly put
aside all personal considerations and interests to tender his
aid in defense of the Union. On the 9th day of July, 1861,
in response to the first call for volunteers for the three
months' service. He enlisted in the first independent
cavalry company organized in this section of the State, Company
A of the First Ohio Cavalry, and with this command he served
until the expiration of his term of enlistment. He then
re-enlisted, as a member of Battery L, First Ohio Light
Artillery, on the 2d of October, 1861, and he received his
honorable discharge on the 1st of January, 1864. He
received his discharge at Warrenton Junction, Virginia, after
having participated in numerous engagements on the soil of his
native State, but his patriotic ardor was not in the least
diminished, as shown by the fact that he at once re-enlisted, as
a veteran, in the same battery, with which he continued in
active service until the close of the war, his having been the
misfortune to encounter the irony of fate and to lose his right
foot in the last battle in which his command was involved.
This wound was inflicted by the last shot fired in the battle of
Cedar Creek, on the 19th of October, 1864, and the ball which
caused the loss of the right foot of Mr. McGee took also
the left foot of one of his comrades, a man named Jones,
besides wounding five other members of Battery L. The
service of Mr. McGee covered a total of three years,
eleven months and eight days, and among the more important
engagements in which he took part may be noted the following:
Port Republic, Chantilly, Second Battle of Bull Run, Antietam,
Winchester, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Mine
Run, Fort Stevens, Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek, in which last
mentioned battle he received the wound that destroyed his foot.
He was with his battery on marches covering a total distance of
3,500 miles, and his record as a soldier was in every sense a
model of valor, fidelity and earnest devotion. He never
indulged in spirituous liquors of any kind, never took part in
any riotous actions such as were at times in evidence in the
ranks of the contending forces, never gambled and never was on
the sick list until he required the services of the surgeon in
the last battle of his splendid military career. He and
his comrade, Jones, lay on the field of battle at Cedar
Creek during an entire night and suffered intensely from cold,
while their wounds caused them nearly to bleed to death before
they were rescued and given necessary care. Mr. McGee was
in the hospital from the 21st of October until June, 1865, when
he was discharged at Cincinnati.
After the close of the war Mr. McGee returned to
Ironton, where he was engaged in the retail grocery business for
the ensuing five years. He then removed to Rock Camp,
likewise in Lawrence County, and there he conducted a general
store from 1870 until 1892. He was one of the leading
business men and influential citizens of the town, where he
served eighteen years as postmaster and where he held
impregnable place in the confidence and esteem of the entire
community. In the year last mentioned Mr. McGee returned
to Ironton, where he was engaged in the drygoods business for
one year, since which time his activities have been principally
in his effective service as a pension attorney and his official
service as notary public, a position of which he is the oldest
incumbent in the county, besides having held the post for a
longer period than any other notary in the county, his original
appointment having been made in 1874.
It may readily be inferred that Mr. McGee has
retained a deep interest in his old comrades in arms and that he
is an appreciative and valued member of that noble organization,
the Grand Army of the Republic, in which his affiliation is with
Dick Lambert Post, No. 165, at Ironton. He is a republican
in his political allegiance, served six years as a director of
the county infirmary, and both he and his wife are zealous
members of the Pine Street Methodist Episcopal Church. The
Christian faith of Mr. McGee has been signally
exemplified in his daily life, and he is kindly, tolerant and
charitable in his judgment of others, so that in the gracious
evening of his well spent life he finds himself surrounded with
troops of friends and with those comforts and associations that
should ever reward earnest and honorable living. In
addition to his membership in the Grand Army of the Republic he
is affiliated with the Royal Arcanum.
On the 21st of January, 1864, Mr. McGee wedded
Miss Mary A. Holliday, while in Lawrence County on a
furlough. The devoted wife and mother was called to the
life eternal on the 7th of July, 1912, and her memory is revered
by all who came within the circle of her gracious influence.
Of the five children the eldest is Miss Sadie, who
now resides in the City of Chicago; Martha J. is the wife
of Charles G. Bazell, engaged in the lumber business in
the State of Tennessee; Mamie died in childhood;
Maggie is the wife of Isaac H. Booth, a teacher in
the State Normal at Richmond, Kentucky, and Addie is the
wife of Frank Bazell, a farmer and carpenter, residing at
Rock Camp, Lawrence County, Ohio.
On the 12th of December, 1912, Mr. McGee married
Mrs. Sarah A. Kemp, widow of James H. Kemp, and
she presides most graciously over their pleasant home. In
1913, fifty years after he had fought on its battlefield, Mr.
McGee visited Gettysburg.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of
Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing
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EDGAR E. McKEE,
superintendent of the fitting department of the Excelsior Shoe
Company, one of the principal industries of Ironton, is an
excellent example of an individual finding his proper groove in
life and then so directing his efforts as to make the most of
his opportunities and to gain a full measure of success
therefrom. Commencing his career as a teacher, after some years
he turned his attention to the manufacture of shoes, and,
commencing in the most humble capacity, thoroughly learned every
detail of the business and worked his way steadily to a position
of importance.
Mr. McKee was born at South Point, Lawrence
County, Ohio, Feb. 12, 1872, and is a son of Barton G. and
Cessie (Roberts) McKee, the former born at South Point in
1849 and the latter at Buffalo Creek, Lawrence County, in 1850.
The father, who is still a resident of South Point, has been
engaged in farming and fruit growing for many years, and has had
a hand in directing educational matters as a member of the
school board. There were twelve children in the family:
Edgar E., of this notice; Delbert, who died at the
age of two years; Ira B.; Ollie V.; Howard C.; Herbert;
Vessie; Harland; Harry B.; Zella; Lilla and Mason.
Edgar E. McKee was given good educational
advantages in the Lawrence County public schools, which he
attended until eighteen years of age, and at that time adopted
the vocation of educator. His career as a teacher included
one year at Hampton City, Kentucky, one year at Olive Furnace,
Ohio, one year at Hecla, Ohio, three years at Russell, Kentucky,
one year at Alderson, West Virginia, one year at Laura,
Kentucky, two years at Martinsville, Kentucky, and one year at
Clarksdale, Mississippi, and at each of these places he won the
confidence and friendship of those with whom he came in contact.
With the understanding that should his abilities warrant it he
was to be given the superintendency of a factory, Mr. McKee
took a position in the shoe shop at Portsmouth, Ohio, June 10,
1901, as a laborer at the block, and was steadily advanced from
one position to another until June 12, 1907, when he founded the
fitting department of the established firm of Excelsior Shoe
Company, at Ironton, on North Second Street. This he
conducted until 1909, when the company built an addition to the
first department, and this has now become one of the modern
factories of the Hanging Rock Region, developed to its present
proportions largely through Mr. McKee's able and
intelligent direction. A skilled workman, he has a
comprehensive knowledge of every detail of the business which
comes under his supervision. While the greater part of his
attention is given to the duties of his position, he has also
interested himself in other enterprises, being a stock-holder in
the company, a stockholder and director in the Union Glove
Company of Portsmouth, Ohio, and founder of the Brotherhood
Garter Company, of Ironton. He owns a residence at
Huntington, West Virginia, and another at South Point, Ohio, and
at the latter has ten acres of land, on which he indulges his
hobby of raising fruit and poultry. He has never lost his
interest in educational matters, and has contributed of his time
and means in behalf of fronton's public schools. Mr.
McKee is a republican. He is a member of the Ironton
Chamber of Commerce, and his fraternal connections include
membership in the Masons, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows
and the Modern Woodmen of America. With his family he
attends the Baptist Church.
Mr. McKee was married at Greenup, Kentucky, May
29, 1899, to Miss Cora Alice DuPuy, daughter of John
M. and Anna (Blair) DuPuy, of Portsmouth, Scioto County,
Ohio. Eight children have been born to this union: Donald E.;
Marjorie, who is deceased; Roy; Ralph H.;
Dorothea H.; Lorenna and Rowenna, twins, who
are both deceased; and Ruth May.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of
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EDWIN E. McNARY.
Among the younger business men of Ironton this energetic,
wide-awake merchant has been numbered for the past ten years.
His career is but another proof of the statement that practical
industry, wisely and vigorously applied, never fails to win
success, for with only ordinary advantages in his youth, he
started out to make his own way in the world, and his diligence
and judicious management have brought him a full measure of
prosperity for his labors. Mr. McNary has spent his
entire life at Ironton, having been born here January 21, 1879.
a son of William and Eleanor (Woods) McNary.
William McNary was
born in Pennsylvania in 1842. and there grew up amid
agricultural surroundings, so that on reaching his majority he
adopted farming as his life work. He was twenty-eight
years of age when he came to Lawrence County, and here, in the
vicinity of Ironton. be rounded out a life of usefulness and
industry in the pursuits of the soil, passing away in 1902, with
the respect and esteem of those who had known him. Mrs.
McNary, who was born at Steubenville, Ohio, survived her
husband for some time, dying in 1910, when seventy years of age.
They became the parents of six children, of whom all survive at
this time: Elmer, in the real estate business in Granite
City, Illinois; George engaged in the grocery business in
Ironton; Dr. Wilber, a successful practicing
physician of East St. Louis, Illinois; Minnie, a
stenographer in Ironton; Margaret, who is also a
stenographer and makes her home at Ironton; and Erwin E.,
of this review.
Erwin E. McNary prosecuted his studies in the
graded and high schools of Ironton, and after his graduation
from the latter in 1896 received his introduction to commercial
life in the capacity of clerk for the clothing business
conducted by A. J. Brumberg, a merchant of this city.
He remained with Mr. Brumberg. thoroughly
familiarizing himself with every detail of the business until
1904, when, feeling qualified to enter business on his own
account, he invested his capital in a stock of clothing and
gentlemen's furnishing goods, and in partnership with Mr.
Isaac Mearan opened an establishment which has
steadily advanced in patronage and public favor. Mr.
McNary fortunately possesses those qualifications which
are essential to success in any line of business, and, having
had much experience in the commercial world, is an able man of
business. Thoroughly understanding the needs and wants of
his customers, he spares no efforts to please them and to meet
their wishes in every regard. He devotes his time strictly
to his business, but when he is able to lay its cares aside,
finds enjoyment in fishing and hunting trips. A member of
the Chamber of Commerce, the high esteem in which he is held by
his associates is evidenced by the fact that he has been elected
a member of the board of directors of that body, a position
which he now holds. Mr. McNary is a
republican, but not an active politician. He is a
consistent member of the Episcopal church, and his fraternal
connections are with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
and the Modern Woodmen of America. He has shown his faith
in the future of Ironton by investing his means in real estate
in this locality.
Mr. McNary was married February 22, 1902,
at Ironton, to Miss Mildred Peters, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. James Peters, who died about 1892, and whose
family belonged to the oldest settlers of the mining locality of
the Hanging Rock Iron Region. Three children have been
born to Mr. and Mrs. McNary;
Mildred and Ethelyn, twins, the latter of whom
died in 1913; and Helen.
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GEORGE T. McNARY.
The thriving industrial city of Ironton, Lawrence County, claims
as one of its representative business men and progressive
citizens Mr. McNary, and special interest attaches to his
standing in the community by reason of his being a native of the
county in which he has achieved noteworthy success.
Mr. McNary was born in the little village of
Sedwick, Lawrence County, Ohio, on the 4th of April, 1876, and
is a son of William and Eleanor (Woods)
McNary, the former of whom was born in Pennsylvania, in
1842, and the latter of whom was born at Steubenville, Jefferson
County, Ohio, in 1840, as a member of a sterling pioneer family
of that section of the state. William McNary was
reared and educated in the old Keystone State and came to Ohio
about the year 1870. Soon after his marriage he settled on
a farm near Sedwick, Lawrence County, and he became one of the
substantial agriculturists and influential citizens of that part
of the county. He continued his residence in Lawrence
County until his death, which occurred in 1902, his devoted wife
having been summoned to eternal rest in 1911. Of the six
children the eldest is Elmer, who is engaged in the
real-estate business in the City of St. Louis, Missouri;
Minnie is a skilled stenographer and is employed as such in
the City of Ironton; George T. is the immediate subject
of this review; Erwin E. is individually mentioned on
other pages of this work; Wilbur is a physician and
surgeon by profession and is engaged in practice in the City of
East St. Louis. Illinois; and Margaret is employed as a
stenographer, at Ironton.
George T. MeNary is indebted to the public
schools of Lawrence County for his early educational advantages,
which included those of the Ironton High School. He left
school at the age of seventeen years and he then became
identified with the operations of the iron furnaces and
incidental enterprises in Lawrence County. After a period
of eleven months' service he was promoted to the position of
assistant superintendent, and he continued to be actively
concerned with this important line of industry for nine years in
Lawrence County, and for the ensuing decade he was identified
with the wire and nail department of the Belfort Iron & Nail
Company. Later he held for nine months a position as machinist
in tlie works of the Ironton Engine Company, and in March, 1914,
he engaged in the retail grocery business in his present
attractive and eligible quarters, at 979 South Third street,
where his personal popularity and the effective service given
have gained to him a substantial and appreciative patronage.
In politics Mr. McNary gives his
allegiance to the republican party, both he and his wife hold,
membership in the Presbyterian Church and he holds membership in
the Ironton Chamber of Commerce. His long association with
the iron industry in this section of the state has made Mr.
McNary familiar with all details of this line of enterprise,
in which he still continues to take much interest and the value
of which as a contribution to the general well-being of the
community he fully appreciates. He is the owner of a residence
property in his native town of Sedwick.
On the 20th of March, 1900, Mr. McNary
wedded Miss Effie Kinkaid daughter of
John and Kate Kinkaid, of Ironton, and
the two children of this union are Georgia Eleanor
and Mildred May.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of
Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing
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ISAAC MEARAN.
As a mere boy Mr. Mearan came from his native
Germany to the United States, and as a stranger in a strange
land, with but slight command of the English language and
without influential friends or financial reinforcement, he
proved himself equal to the task that confronted him and has
achieved through his own efforts distinctive and gratifying
success. He is now numbered among the representative
merchants and popular citizens of Ironton, Lawrence County, in
which city he is junior member of the firm of McNary &
Mearan, which is engaged in the clothing and men's
furnishing goods business, with a well appointed and essentially
metropolitan establishment on South Second Street.
Mr. Mearan was born in Germany, on the
19th of December, 1876, and the excellent schools of his native
land afforded him his early educational advantages. He
subsequently severed the home ties and, with indomitable
ambition and self-reliance, set forth, alone, to seek his
fortunes in the United States. For some time he found
employment in the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and in 1893
he came to Ironton, Ohio, where he was an efficient and popular
salesman in the clothing store of A. J. Brumberg until
1904, when he put his experience and ambition into effective
play by initiating an independent enterprise in the same field
of business. He formed a partnership with Erwin E.
McNary, concerning whom individual mention is made elsewhere
in this publication, and they established their present
business, under the firm name of McNary & Mearan.
The business has become one of the most successful of its kind
in Ironton and the finely equipped store caters to the best
class of trade, with a select and comprehensive stock of
clothing and the most attractive lines of furnishing goods, the
two members of the firm having found that one of their best
assets is the strong hold they personally have upon popular
confidence and esteem.
Mr. Mearan has aligned himself as a
supporter of the cause of the republican party, holds membership
in the Ironton Chamber of Commerce, and is affiliated with the
local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
He is not only enterprising and energetic as a business man, but
is known also as a citizen of distinct progressiveness and
public spirit—one interested in all that tends to advance the
civic and material welfare of the community.
On the 27th of November, 1903, was solemnized the
marriage of Mr. Mearan to Miss Sadie Cohen,
daughter of Mose Cohen, who was at the time a resident of
Ironton and extensively engaged in the lumber business in
Lawrence County. Since 1907 Mr. and Mrs. Cohen have
maintained their home at Huntington, West Virginia. Mr.
and Mrs. Mearan have two children—Antonia
Lila and Hugh Lester.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of
Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing
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GEORGE
A. MEYERS. Though he has passed the psalmist's span
of three score years and ten, Mr. Meyers is signally
vigorous and alert and is active in business in the City of
Ironton, Lawrence County, where he has long been an honored and
influential figure in civic and business affairs and where
abiding popular esteem is his grateful portion.
Mr. Meyers was born in Germany, on the 5th of
April, 1839, and he has been a resident of Ironton for more than
half a century and where he is now successfully conducting a
general plumbing business, with well equipped headquarters at 18
South Third Street. To him must be accorded enduring honor
for the gallant service given by him as a soldier of the Union
in the Civil war, and in the "piping times of peace" his course
has been characterized by the same intrinsic loyalty that
prompted him to go forth and battle for a righteous cause.
Mr. Meyers is a son of John J. and Christina (Roelky)
Meyers who, in the German Fatherland, were born respectively
in the years 1817 and 1800. The father was a weaver by
trade and also had much ability as a musician. He came
with his family to America in the year 1844 and he attained to
the patriarchal age of ninety years, his death occurring in the
year 1907, his wife having been summoned to the life eternal in
1881, at the age of eight-one years. They became the
parents of six children - Charles H., George A.,
Christopher P. B., Herman L., Edward F. and Elizabeth.
Upon immigrating to the United
States, John J. Meyers, established his home at Frederick
City, Maryland, where he found employment at his trade, his
career in America having been marked by earnest and consecutive
industry and the closing period of his life having been passed
in Ohio.
At Frederick City, Maryland, George A. Meyers
was reared to the age of seventeen years, he having been about
five years old at the time when the family came to the United
States. He attended the common schools of the locality and
period and from his boyhood was associated with his father in
work at the weaver's trade, at varying intervals, until he
severed the home ties and came to Ohio, in 1857. He
established his residence at Ironton, which was then but a
village, though the center of considerable manufacturing and
other activities in connection with the iron industry. He
worked in the roller mills about three months and then entered
upon an apprenticeship to the machinist's trade, in the works of
the Olive Foundry and Machine Company, with which he remained
four years.
At this juncture in his career Mr. Meyers put
aside all other considerations to tender his aid in defense of
the Union. In response to President Lincoln's first
call for volunteers, he enlisted as a private in Company A,
Eighteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, his being the first company
to leave Ironton, under the three months' term of enlistment.
The company was assigned to the work of guarding the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad, in West Virginia, and Mr. Meyers continued
in service until the expiration of his term, when he received
his honorable discharge, on the 19th of August, 1861. The
memories of the climacteric period of the Civil war are by him
vitalized through his affiliation with the Grand Army of the
Republic.
After the close of his military career, Mr. Meyers
returning to Ironton, and here he worked as machinist in charge
of the old-time railroad locomotives until 1873, when he became
associated with two other skilled mechanics in the establishing
of a machine shop, under the firm name of J. H. Fisher &
Company. He continued an active member of this firm until
1876, when he again entered railroad service, and was overseer
of the round house for nearly twenty years, these relations
being severed in 1894, when he felt that advancing age entitled
him to less exacting occupation. In the year mentioned,
Mr. Meyers purchased the plumbing business of the Cricher
Brothers, and he has since continued the enterprise
successfully, his fine mechanical ability and personal
popularity having gained to him a substantial and appreciative
supporting patronage.
In politics Mr. Meyers is a stalwart in the camp
of the republican party and he served eleven years as a member
of the city waterworks board.
On the 10th of June, 1866, was solemnized the marriage
of Mr. Meyers to Miss Margaret C. McKeun, daughter
of Patrick and Rebecca McKeun, of Ironton, and of the
eight children of this union five are living - John G., Mary
R., George P., Frederick W. and Samuel E. The
names of those deceased are: Charles E., Florence and
Emma. George P. is married and is employed as a
locomotive engineer on the line of the Cincinnati, Hamilton &
Dayton Railroad, with headquarters in the city of Cincinnati,
where he maintains his home. Samuel E. is now a
resident of New York City. Frederick W., who is
engineer at the Ironton waterworks, married Miss Caroline
Rudd and they have five children. Mary R.,
the eldest of the children is the wife of Charles A.
Woodworth, engaged in the insurance business, and they
reside at Suffern, Rockland County, New York.
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CHARLES F. MILLER.
A resident of Ironton since 1871, Charles F. Miller has
been long identified with the business interests of this city,
and through enterprise, industry and good management has gained
a place for himself among the substantial class of citizens.
He is a native of Germany, born at Worms, Nov. 29, 1848, and is
a son of Charles F. and Kathryn (Mumm) Miller. His
father, a police officer in Germany, never came to the United
States, passing away in 1860, at the age of fifty years.
The mother, born in Germany in 1830, survived until 1902.
There were four children in the family: William, Louisa,
Elsie and Charles F.
Charles F. Miller attended the public schools of
his native land until reaching the age of twelve years, at which
time his father died and he was forced to go to work in order to
assist in the support of the family. Learning the tinner's
trade, he worked thereat in Germany until 1866, and in that
year, deciding that opportunities for success were greater in
America, came to this country and settled at Allegheny,
Pennsylvania, that city being his home until 1868.
Following this he spent three years at Marietta, Ohio, but in
1871 came to Ironton, and here worked at his trade as a
journeyman until 1891, when, with Joseph Marquard
as a partner, he established a business of his own. The
firm of Miller & Marquard grew and prospered until
1901, when Mr. Marquard died, and since that time
Mr. Miller has continued the business alone. He
has been very successful, and feels that prosperity has come to
him because he has endeavored faithfully to give full value for
every dollar received by him, and to give his own personal
attention to details of the business. In addition to his
place of business, on South Second Street, Mr. Miller
owns his own home at No. 257 South Seventh Street. He is a
valued member of the Chamber of Commerce, and in numerous ways
has assisted in the growth and development of his adopted city,
where he has resided for so many years. He is a democrat,
but not a politician, and has never asked favors of his party.
Mr. Miller is a member of St. Joseph's Catholic
congregation and of the Knights of Columbus.
Mr. Miller was married Apr. 23, 1872, at
Marietta, Ohio, to Miss Barbara Schillott,
daughter of John Schillott, and seven children
were born to this union: Clara, who married Matthew
Shaunessy, a clerk at Columbus, Ohio, and has four
children: Miller M., Mary, Kathryn, and
Jack; George, who married Nellie Gillman,
a salesman and lives in California; Emory, who married
Lena Heitsman, is a tinner in partnership with his
father, and has one child, Charles J.; Otto, who
is deceased; Karl, who is single and resides with his
parents; Helen, who married Elmer Anderson,
now employed by the Union Gas and Fuel Company at Huntington,
West Virginia; and Ida, who is deceased. The
members of this family are all widely known and highly esteemed.
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RALPH W. MOUNTAIN.
The responsible and exacting office of clerk of the courts has
in Lawrence County an efficient and popular incumbent in the
person of Mr. Mountain, who is a native of
Ironton, the city in which he now maintains his home and
official headquarters, and he is a representative of one of the
well known and highly esteemed families of this section of the
Buckeye State.
Mr. Mountain was born in Ironton on the 9th of
December, 1874, and is a son of Samuel and Margaret (Johnson)
Mountain, the former of whom was born near Lexington,
Lancaster County Pennsylvania, and the latter of whom was born
at Aetna Furnace, Lawrence County, Ohio, in 1841.
Samuel Mountain was reared and educated in the old Keystone
State and as a young man was a successful teacher in the common
schools. He came to Ironton, Ohio, prior to the Civil war
and became prominently identified with the iron industry in this
section of the State, his death occurring, at Ironton; in 1876,
when his son Ralph W., of this review, was a child of
about two years. His widow survived him by nearly forty
years and was summoned to the life eternal in 1913. Of
their three children the second born is Harry, who is one
of the representative business men of Ironton, where he is
engaged in general contracting on an extensive scale. He
served two terms as mayor of the city and is one of its
influential citizens of marked public spirit and
progressiveness. He wedded Miss Amelia Frost, who
had been a successful teacher of music, and they have no
children. Ralph W. was the third child, and
the first born, Anna, died at the age of six years.
To the public schools of his native city Ralph W.
Mountain is indebted for his early educational discipline,
and he continued his studies until he had completed, at the age
of seventeen years, the curriculum of the high school.
Thereafter he was for four years in the employ of the Piedmont
Lumber Company, and for twelve years after his severing his
relations with this company he was a valued attache of the tie
department of the New York Central Railroad Company, with
headquarters at Cincinnati and Chicago.
After resuming his association with local interests in
Ironton Mr. Mountain held for two years the position of
inspector for the Ironton water works, and he then became
candidate, on the ticket of the newly organized progressive
party, for the office of representative, in November, 1912.
He was appointed clerk of courts at the death of the regular
incumbent, and thus his service became consecutive when he
assumed the office through regular election, in November, 1914.
Mr. Mountain is essentially loyal to and
appreciative of his home city, which is endeared to him by many
gracious memories and associations. He is progressive and
public-spirited to a degree and has identified himself with
various enterprises that lend to the industrial and commercial
prestige of his native city. He is a stockholder of the
Ironton Portland Cement Company and the Marting Iron &
Steel Company, owns a half-interest in the Lyric Theater
Building, and is the owner also of his attractive residence
property. Both he and his wife hold membership in the
Presbyterian Church and he is affiliated with the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Pythias.
Prior to the Spanish-American war Mr. Mountain
had been actively identified with the Ohio National Guard, as a
member of which he enlisted for service in the conflict
mentioned, his company being in active service until the close
of the war when he was mustered out and received his honorable
discharge. He thereafter continued his membership in the
Seventh Regiment of the Ohio National Guard for several years,
and he held the office of captain in the same until his
retirement from active membership. He is affiliated with
the Spanish-American War Veterans' Association.
On the 6th of June, 1907, was solemnized the marriage
of Captain Mountain to Miss Mary Alice Pixley,
daughter of Charles L. Pixley, a representative business
man of Ironton, and the children of this union are Jean C.
and Ralph W., Jr.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of
Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing
Company, 1916 - Page 700 |
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NATHANIEL K. MOXLEY,
M. D. The best criterion by which to
judge the technical ability and personal popularity of any
physician and surgeon is that afforded in the extent and
importance of the practice controlled by him, and from this
viewpoint Dr. Moxley is to be designated with all
consistency as one of the representative members of his
profession in the Hanging Rock Iron Region. He is engaged
in active general practice in the City of Ironton, has a
substantial and representative clientage and is a citizen whose
genial personality and intrinsic civic loyalty have gained to
him inviolable place in popular esteem in his native city and
county, where his status renders impossible any application of
the aphorism that "a prophet is not without honor save in his
own country."
Doctor Moxley was born at Ironton, Lawrence
County, on the 18th of May, 1860, a date that indicates that the
family name became identified with the history of this section
of the Buckeye State more than half a century ago. He is a
son of Dr. Nathaniel K. Moxley, Sr., and Sophia (McConnell)
Moxley, the former of whom was born in Tunbridge, Orange
County, Vermont, on the 8th of February, 1818, and the latter of
whom was born in Scioto County, Ohio, in 1829. The senior
Doctor Moxley came to Ohio in 1843 and in 1817 he
became a pioneer physician in Scioto County, where his marriage
was solemnized in the following year. In 1852 he removed
with his family to Ironton, where he became a prominent and
honored representative of his profession and achieved high
reputation as one of the able physicians and surgeons of this
part of the state. Loved by all who had come within the
sphere of his influence, this sterling pioneer continued his
residence in Ironton until his death, in 1895, his widow
surviving him by a decade and being summoned to the life eternal
in 1906. Dr. Nathaniel K. Moxley, Sr.,
served many years as a member of the board of school examiners
for Lawrence County, was county physician during the period of
the Civil war, and was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity
and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. The names of
both him and his noble wife merit enduring place on the roll of
the honored pioneers of Ironton, which was a mere village when
they here established their home. Of the four children the
eldest is Miss Alice M., who still resides in Ironton;
Clara A. is the wife of Harry Kinkade, of
Marysville, Union County; Nathaniel K., Jr., of this
review, was the next in order of birth and his name is still
enrolled on the list of eligible bachelors in Lawrence County;
and Lucy M., likewise unmarried, maintains her home at
Ironton.
Dr. Nathaniel K. Moxley, Jr., continued to
attend the Ironton public schools until he had completed the
curriculum of the high school, in which he was graduated in
1878. In furtherance of his plan to adopt the profession
that had been signally dignified and honored by the services of
his father, he was matriculated in the Miami Medical College, in
the City of Cincinnati, and in this institution he was graduated
as a member of the class of 1883, with the concomitant reception
of the degree of Doctor of Medicine. During the long
intervening period of more than thirty years the doctor has been
engaged in the practice of his profession in Ironton, where he
has not only maintained but added new laurels to the
professional reputation of the name which he bears. He has
given special attention to the diagnosis and treatment of the
diseases of children, in which branch of professional work he
has been most successful and is a recognized authority, no
attention having been given by him to surgical work since the
earlier period of his professional career. He has served
for a total of seven years as county coroner, having been the
incumbent at different intervals, and for eight years he was
retained in the office of city health officer of Ironton, his
labors having been admirable in the promotion of sanitary
conditions and measures and thus in safeguarding the health of
the community. He is actively identified with the Lawrence
County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the
American Medical Association, besides which he is serving as a
member of the Board of United States Pension Examining Surgeons
for Lawrence County.
Doctor Moxley is found aligned as a
stanch supporter of the principles of the republican party, is a
member of the Congregational Church, holds membership in the
Ironton Chamber of Commerce, and is a life member of Ironton
Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of which
he has served as exalted ruler. The doctor has become
widely known throughout this section of Ohio and it may
consistently be said that his circle of friends is limited only
by that of his acquaintances
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of
Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing
Company, 1916 - Page 676 |
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