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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
A Standard History of
THE HANGING ROCK IRON REGION OF
OHIO
An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with the Extended
Survey of the Industrial and Commercial Development
Vol. II
ILLUSTRATED
Publishers - The Lewis Publishing Company
1916
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JOSEPH C. WEBER.
One of the thriving enterprises of Ironton which occupies a
firmly-established place in the commercial world is Weber
Brothers' Greenhouse, located at No. 377 South Sixth Street.
This business is characteristic of the energy, progress and good
management which have contributed to Ironton's prestige, and its
managers, Joseph C. and Frank M. Weber, are justly
accounted leaders among the younger generation of business men
here. They are sons of Joseph and Mary (Dirker) Weber,
the former of whom was born in Germany in 1846 and came to the
United States in young manhood, settling at Hecla Furnace,
Lawrence County, Ohio. For many years Mr. Weber was
engaged in blacksmithing, and was known as an industrious and
energetic business man, but is now retired from active life and
lives quietly at his home at Ironton. The mother, who also
survives, was born in Lawrence County, Ohio, in 1854.
There were twelve children in the family, as follows:
Fred W., Joseph C., Frank M., Mary, John F., Albert M., Rosa,
Philip W., Henry, Leonard, Lizzie and Clara. Of
these, Mary, Rosa and Lizzie are deceased.
Joseph C. Weber was born in Lawrence County,
Ohio, July 14, 1878, and until reaching the age of seventeen
years attended the public school at Kelly's Mills. At that
time he began working on a farm, where he developed a love for
flowers and plants as well as decided skill in their culture.
When twenty-one years old he came to Ironton, where he received
his initiation into the greenhouse business as an employe of
Mrs. E. Miller, who had an established business. Seven
years later, in partnership with his brother, Frank M., Mr.
Weber bought Mrs. Miller's interests, and since that
time the business has been conducted as Weber Brothers'
Greenhouse. The business has steadily grown in volume and
scope, and at this time is valued at $11,000. The
buildings are modern, and thoroughly equipped with up-to-date
appurtenances, the brothers keeping fully abreast of the
advancements which have been made in their line of activity.
Joseph C. Weber is a director in the Ironton Athletic and
Amusement Company, and is greatly interested in athletics and
out-of-door sports, particularly hunting and baseball. He
takes an interest in the business growth of the city, and has
contributed thereto as a member of the Chamber of Commerce.
A consistent member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church, he has
served as trustee thereof for the past ten years, and is also an
active member of the Knights of Columbus and St. George's
Society. Politically, he is a democrat, but has only taken a
good citizen's part in public matters. Mr. Weber
is unmarried.
Frank M. Weber was born in 1880, in Lawrence
County, Ohio, and, like his brother, attended the schools of
Kelly's Mills until seventeen years of age. He also
began his career on a farm, on which he remained for five years,
following which he spent two years in the iron works. He
then joined his brother in the florist business, to which he has
since devoted all of his energies. Mr. Weber
is a member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church and of St. George's
Society. He is a democrat, but his business duties have
precluded any idea of his actively entering politics as a seeker
for personal preferment.
On Oct, 27, 1908, Mr. Weber was united in
marriage with Miss Clara M. Ball, daughter of Martin
Ball, of Ironton.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of
Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing
Company, 1916 - Page 748 |
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EDWIN
E. WHITLACH. Although he is comparatively a recent
arrival in the City of Ironton, Edwin E. Whitlach has
already become known as an energetic and progressive business
man, possessed of those traits which make him a very welcome
addition to this city's circle of commercial men. In the
conduct of the Ironton Feed Store his energies are rapidly
giving him a reputation for honorable dealing and fidelity to
engagements, and as a citizen he has shown himself disposed to
aid in all movements calculated to contribute to the community
welfare. Mr. Whitlach is a native of the Hanging
Rock Iron Region of Ohio, having been born at Mount Vernon
Furnace, Lawrence County, Mar. 2, 1876, and is a son of
George W. and Margaret (Ridge) Whitlach.
George W. Whitlach, who was an early settler of
this region of Ohio, was born in 1831 at Vinton Furnace, Vinton
County, Ohio, and early took up teaming as a vocation, an
occupation which he followed throughout the active years of his
life. He passed away in July, 1908. The mother born
in Pennsylvania in 1833, died in 1908, there being six children
in the family, as follows: Rosie, Elsie, William,
Charles, Ernest and Edwin E., of whom Ernest
is deceased. The common schools of Decatur Township,
Lawrence County, furnished Edwin E. Whitlach with his
education, but at the age of seventeen years he laid aside the
duties of student for those of teacher and for two years he laid
aside the duties of student for those of teacher and for two
years had charge of a school in the same locality. Next he
turned his attention to store keeping for Vesuvius Furnace
Company, with which concern he remained in the same capacity for
four years, and then became bookkeeper for the Vesuvius Charcoal
Company, a concern with which he was connected for a like
period. Later he went to the Halley Charcoal Company, as
bookkeeper, and remained for fifteen months, when he went to the
old Center Furnace in a like position and and remained for
eleven months. When that concern disposed of its plants
and interests to the Superior Portland Cement Company, Mr.
Whitlach remained as manager of the old Center Furnace for
two years, and then was made buyer and manager for the store at
Superior, and held this position for a period of one year.
He was then superintendent of mines for the Superior Cement
Company for two or three years, and in 1913 came to Ironton and
engaged in the feed business, in partnership with J. E.
Compliment, under the style of the Ironton Feed Store, with
a well-equipped and well-stocked establishment at corner Second
and Fifth streets. This business has enjoyed a continued
growth under his capable management and is now enjoying a good
trade, attracted from all the surrounding territory.
Mr. Whitlach is single. He is a democrat
in his political views, but has not been an active politician.
In his church matters he supports the Methodist faith.
Although his business demands the greater part of his fellows,
and is a great lover of all out-door sports.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of
Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing
Company, 1916 - Page 720 |
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OSCAR WIEHLE.
Among Ironton 's flourishing business houses, one which
contributes materially to the importance of this city in
manufacturing lines is Wiehle Brothers Soap Works,
an enterprise which has been developed under the capable
management of Oscar Wiehle. Mr.
Wiehle has been identified with this line of business
throughout his career, and is thoroughly experienced in every
detail of soap-making, while his superior executive ability is
evidenced by the high reputation in which the firm is held.
He was born at Ripley, Brown County, Ohio, Sept. 22, 1867,
and is a son of Robert and Frances (Liebert) Wiehle.
Robert Wiehle was born in Germany in
1836, and was a lad of eleven years when he accompanied his
parents to the United States, the family settling first at
Detroit, Michigan, where he secured his education and grew to
manhood. In 1860 he removed to Ripley, Ohio, and engaged
in the manufacture of soap, and subsequently came to Ironton,
where he
continued in business until his retirement in 1903. His
death occurred Nov. 18, 1913, when Ironton lost one of its
energetic and able business men and public-spirited citizens.
Mrs. Wiehle was born at Portsmouth, Scioto County,
Ohio, in 1855, and died at Ironton in 1903. She had been
the mother of seven children, as follows: Oscar,
William, Edward, Elmer, Hildegarde,
Mary and Frances, of whom the last two are deceased.
Oscar Wiehle was educated in the public
and high schools, which he attended until reaching the age of
sixteen years, and at that time entered his father's business as
a factory hand, thus working his way up through the various
departments of the industry and thoroughly familiarizing himself
with every detail. In 1892 the father and sons organized
an independent company known as the Wiehle Soap Company,
with a capital stock of $25,000. This business continued
to carry on operations successfully until 1903, when, the father
desiring to retire, the factory was sold and the affairs of the
company settled up. After a short period the sons
organized the present venture, Wiehle Brothers
Soap Works, which has continued in successful operation, the
plant and stock at this time being conservatively valued at
$10,000. While Mr. Wiehle devotes the
greater part of his interest to the soap business, he is also
connected with other enterprises, being a stockholder in the
Ironton Engine Company. Among his associates he is known
as an exceptionally capable business man, progressive in his
ideas and enterprising in his actions.
Mr. Wiehle is single. He is independent
in his political views and has not sought public office,
although any movement that affects his community at once enlists
his interest. He belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and to
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and his religious
connection is with the German Reformed Church. He has
always been fond of travel, and generally passes the winter
months in this form of pleasure, either in Cuba or Florida.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of
Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing
Company, 1916 - Page 742 |
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HARRY WILEMAN,
senior member of the brick manufacturing and general contracting
firm of Wileman & Helbling, has for many years been
prominently identified with the building interests of Ironton,
and has been an architect of his own fortune as well. The
struggle to rise from modest circumstances to affluence has been
his, and his career has been characterized by unfaltering
perseverance, strong determination and great energy.
Mr. Wileman was born at Chelsworth, England, Sept. 20, 1861,
and is a son of James and Mary Ann (Wyard) Wileman.
James Wileman was born in England in 1842, and
on emigrating to the United States with his family settled first
at Newport, Kentucky, from whence, in 1871, he removed to
Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1873 he came to Ironton, where he
followed the trade of brick mason for a number of years, and at
this time is living a retired life. He has taken an
interest in civic affairs and has served as alderman of the city
for one term. Mrs.
Wileman was born in England in 1840 and has been the mother
of four children: Harry, Lucy, Ellen and Charles.
Harry Wileman was educated in the public schools of
Cincinnati, Newport and Ironton, and at the age of sixteen years
began to learn the trade of brick mason under his father.
He worked at his trade from 1877 until 1892, and during this
time rose to a foremanship in the employ of Witherow &
Gordon, blast furnace contractors of country-wide
reputation, and was in the Birmingham, Alabama, district for
three years and in Chicago for eight months. In 1892, in
partnership with John D. Helbling, he founded the
brick manufacturing and genera] contracting firm of Wileman
& Helbling, and this has since grown to large
proportions, now owning a $7,000 plant and controlling a large
and representative business. Among the structures erected
by this firm may be named the following: the Ketter
Block, McMahon livery barn, Furlong Building,
Eberts brewery, Foster stove works, Central school
building, and the Methodist Church edifices at Hanging Rock,
Sedgwick and Ironton. Mr. Wileman is a thorough
master of every detail of his business, and bears a high
reputation in commercial circles. He is a stockholder in
the Ironton Athletic and Amusement Company, a director of the
Home Building and Loan Company of Ironton and a member of the
Chamber of Commerce, and in addition to his own residence, at
No. 655 South Sixth Street, owns about fifteen vacant lots in
Ironton. A republican in his political views, he has taken
only a good citizen's interest in political matters. His
fraternal connection is with the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, and his religious faith that of the Episcopal Church.
In all respects he is a stirring, progressive man of his
community, at all times ready to lend his co-operation to
beneficial movements.
Mr. Wileman was married Nov. 15, 1883, at
Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio, to Miss Ellen
Cheuveront, daughter of T. M. Cheuveront and five
children have been born to this union, namely: Frank, who
is a brick mason, married Nellie Henry, daughter
of I. N. Henry, of Ironton, and has four children,
Garland, Nellie L., Genevieve C. and Harry N.;
Clifford, who is deceased; James M., a brick mason of
Ironton, who married Eva Taylor and has one child,
Iantha; Charles, who is deceased; and Kathryn,
who married Arthur Bester, a brick mason, and
lives at Ironton.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of
Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing
Company, 1916 - Page 688 |
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EUGENE B. WILLARD.
Probably no one individual through his own career and through
the activities of his family has had more intimate relations
with the general industrial and commercial life of the Hanging
Rock Iron Region than Eugene B. Willard of Ironton.
As Mr. Willard is associated with the "History of the
Hanging Rock Iron Region" in the capacity of editor, the
publishers desire to take this opportunity to insert in the
biographical section a sketch of Mr. Willard and
his interesting family.
Eugene B. Willard is a native of the Hanging
Rock Iron Region, and was born at Pine Creek Landing, Scioto
County, Ohio, Sept. 23, 1842. His is one of the oldest
American families represented now in Southern Ohio. 1.
Simon Willard, the first American ancestor, was born
in the Parish of Horsmonden, County of Kent, England, in 1605,
baptized Apr. 5, 1605, a son of Richard Willard,
and came to America in April, 1634, landing at Boston. He
was a member of the General Court, surveyor of arms,
representative, major of militia County of Middlesex, and had
many years of active service against the Indians. He died
Apr. 24, 1676. Simon Willard married,
first, Mary Sharpe, daughter of Henry
and Jane Sharpe in England; second,
Elizabeth Dunster, sister of Rev. Henry
Dunster, a president of Harvard College; third, Mary
Dunster, who died at Sudbury in December, 1715. 2.
Josiah, who died at Weathersfield, Massachusetts, in 1674,
married Mar. 20, 1656-57, Hannah Hosmer. 3.
Samuel, born Sept. 19, 1658, married Sarah Clarke
June 6, 1683, died at Saybrook, Massachusetts, in 1713-14.
4. Joseph, born at Saybrook, graduated at Yale College,
1714, married Susanna Lynde, was preacher at
Sunderland, then at Rutland, and was killed by Indians Aug. 23, 1723, after a struggle in which he had killed one Indians
and wounded another. 5. Joseph, second son of
Rev. Joseph and Susanna, married Huldah
Willard, who was daughter of Lieut. Moses
Willard, who was killed by Indians June 18, 1756, near
Charlestown, New Hampshire. 6. Francis
Willoughby Willard, married Deborah Blood
Dec. 3, 1772. 7. James, born in Charlestown,
New Hampshire, and died in 1851, married Lydia, daughter
of Jonathan and Catherine Willard of Langdon, New
Hampshire. 8. James Orville, born at
Charlestown, New Hampshire, July 7, 1814, removed to
Painesville, Ohio, in November, 1834, married Anna M. Seeley
in 1839, and died at Ironton, Ohio, May 19, 1855. 9.
Eugene B. Willard, born as above stated Sept. 23, 1842.
James O. Willard, the father, was educated at
Plainfield, New Hampshire, was reared on a farm until twenty,
then became clerk at a furnace, and then furnace owner and
manager in the Hanging Rock Region in 1840. He was the
first president of the Iron Railroad in 1850, and then cashier
of the Iron Bank of Ironton. He was a Congregationalist
and a
whig in politics. His wife, Anna M. Seeley, was
born at Easton, Connecticut, was brought by her father to
Painesville, Ohio, in 1814, was educated there in the public
schools and in a seminary at New Haven, Connecticut, and she
died at Ironton June 17, 1873. Her father was Uri
Seeley, who was a son of Ebenezer Seeley,
who was son of Nathaniel Seeley, son of
Nathaniel Seeley, all of Connecticut.
Eugene B. Willard when nine years of age was
brought to Ironton, Ohio, in October, 1851, and acquired his
early education in the public schools of that city. In
September, 1859, he entered the freshman class of Marietta
College, Ohio, left there in May, 1861, because his mother, who
was then a widow, was afraid he would enlist in the army.
He was the only son, and for a time he yielded to his mother's
wishes that he should remain at home. During the winter of
1861-62 he taught school, and wrote in the office of the county
auditor at Ironton until President Lincoln called
for "600,000 more" in July, 1862. Aug. 15, 1862, he
enlisted in Company H, Ninety-first Regiment, Ohio Volunteer
Infantry, served in West Virginia and in the Shenandoah Valley,
was under Generals Hayes, Crook and
Sheridan, was wounded in battle July 20, 1864, near
Winchester, was promoted to second lieutenant in January, 1865,
and mustered out with the regiment June 30, 1865. He saw
comparatively little fighting during the first two years, since
the regiment was engaged in scouting and garrison duty in the
mountains of West Virginia. The last year was one of heavy
campaigning in Virginia. At the beginning of the
engagement on the afternoon of July 20, 1864, near Winchester,
Company H had forty-seven men present for duty, and of these
eleven were killed or mortally wounded, and fourteen wounded.
The company during its entire term of service lost but one man
by disease, and twelve killed in battle.
In October, 1865, a few months after his return from
the war, Mr. Willard became clerk at the Buckhorn
furnace in Lawrence County. In August, 1866, he went to
the Ohio furnace in Sioto County, owned by Means,
Kyle & Company, to serve as clerk. This company was owner
of the Ohio and Pine Grove furnaces and the Hanging Rock coal
works, and at that time was the strongest and most progressive
company in the business of making charcoal iron in the Hanging
Rock Region. In May, 1868, Mr. Willard
entered the general offices of Means, Kyle &
Company at Hanging Rock as general bookkeeper and cashier,
remained with the company as cashier, general manager and
president by successive promotions until October, 1902. It
was this company that built the Hamilton coke furnace at Hanging
Rock in 1884-85, and thereafter the manufacture of coke pig-iron
was its pricipal business. After nearly forty years
of active connection with the furnaces and related industries of
this region Mr. Willard resigned and ceased active
business in 1902.
While always a republican, Mr. Willard
has usually belonged to the rank and file of the party. His only
offices have been township or school board positions.
However, he was chairman of the commission which built the
Lawrence County courthouse. Mr. Willard has
been a member of the Presbyterian Church since 1866, and an
elder for more than thirty years.
On July 23, 1868, at Ironton, Ohio, Eugene B.
Willard and Alice Valentine were united in marriage.
Alice was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, Mar. 8, 1844, and
died at Ironton, Oct. 25, 1910. She attended the public
schools of Ironton until September, 1862, and then entered
Granville Female College at Granville, Ohio, from which she
graduated in
June, 1865. Her father, John Valentine, was
a mechanical engineer and lost his life in 1852 at New Orleans,
Louisiana, while engaged in erecting sugar machinery for Miles
Greenwood & Company of Cincinnati. Her mother, Phebe
Walton, was born and reared near Chester, Pennsylvania,
of Quaker stock, but came to Ohio about 1830, and died at
Hanging Rock in October, 1895.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of
Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing
Company, 1916 - Page 792 |
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WILLIAM
M. WILLIS. Among the business men of Ironton who
have established themselves firmly in the public confidence
through their integrity and fair dealing, William M. Willis,
blacksmith and wagon manufacturer, is deserving of more than
passing mention. Coming here as a stranger, in 1902, he
accepted employment in a humble capacity, soon won the esteem
and respect of those with whom he came into contact, and from
that time to the present his popularity has steadily increased.
He is the fortunate possessor of those qualities which are
essential to success in any line of business, and in addition
has manifested public-spirited citizenship which makes him a
desirable resident of his adopted community.
Mr. Willis was born in Greenup County, Kentucky,
Sept. 23, 1876, and is a son of Edward and Helen (Corm)
Willis. His father was born in Kentucky in 1854 and
has spent his entire life in Greenup County, where he is a
successful tiller of the soil. Mrs. Willis who was
born in Greenup County in 1858, died in 1884, the mother of four
children: Jacob, Edith, William M. and Viola.
Edward Willis was married the second time to Hilda Adams,
who still survives, and they have been the parents of five
children: John, Gertie, Luther, Maggie and George.
Until he was sixteen years of age,
William M. Willis attended the public schools of Greenup
County, in the meantime, as was the custom with Kentucky
farmers' sons, assisting his father with the work of the home
farm during the summer months. Following the completion of
his education, he concentrated his attention upon farming on the
family homestead, where he remained until attaining his
majority, at which time deciding that he did not care for an
agricultural life, he entered the machine shops of the C. & O.
Railroad, at Huntington, West Virginia. Eighteen months
later Mr. Willis went to the West and for one year was
employed as a bookkeeper in Denver, Colorado, but at the end of
that time came to Ohio, and for eight months was an engineer at
the mines of Blackfork. In 1902 Mr. Willis came to
Ironton and entered the employ of Compton Brothers, wagon
manufacturers, his first salary being fifty cents per day.
He was advanced from time to time, and finally, in 1911, feeling
himself qualified to enter business on his own account,
purchased the business from his employers, and has continued to
conduct the enterprise under his own name, with a constantly
increasing trade. This is now one of the firmly
established ventures of Ironton, the plant, machinery and stock
being valued at $12,000, and its success must be accredited to
Mr. Willis' forceful and energetic personality, his
excellent workmanship and the honorable manner in which he has
met each of his engagements.
Mr. Willis was married to Miss Eziouria
Dingness, in 1890, who died in 1898, having been the mother
of three children: Imogene, who is deceased;
Maxine, a student in the schools of Cleveland, Ohio; and
Cletine who is deceased. Mr. Willis was married
a second time to Sallie Forte, June 16, 1901, she being a
daughter of Kit Forte, a farmer of West Virginia, and
four children have come to them: Clifford, Buford, Merrill
and Pauline. Mr. and Mrs. Willis and their
children reside in their own comfortable home at No. 320 Monroe
Street and are members of the First Baptist Church. He is
a democrat in politics, holds membership in the Chamber of
Commerce, and is fraternally identified with the Masons, in
which he has reached the Knight Templar degree; the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows; the Junior Order United American Mechanics
and the Knights of the Golden Eagle. Mr. Willis may
claim a record which it is probable can be equalled by
few: He attended the second wedding of his father, the
second wedding of his great-grandfather, Seymour Hardy,
and the second wedding of his grandfather, who married the
daughter of John Young, who was a color-bearer for
General George Washington during the American Revolution.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of
Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing
Company, 1916 - Page |
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SCOTT W. WILSON.
A substantial contributor to the business strength and
importance of Ironton is found in the person of Scott W.
Wilson, who in the line of real estate and insurance has met
with well-merited success. A man of excellent character
and good business qualifications, his standing in the community
as a citizen is of the best, and his energetic, progressive
manner of carrying on his transactions has created a favorable
impression on all with whom he has come into contact.
Mr. Wilson is a product of the farm and of Lawrence County,
for he was born on his father's homestead in Mason Township,
Feb. 5, 1873, a son of James and Malissa (Folden) Wilson).
James Wilson was also born in Mason Township, where
the family had been founded at an early day by his father and
grew up to the pursuits of the soil, in which he engaged until
the Civil War came on to occupy men's thoughts and control their
actions. With other patriotic young men of his community he
enlisted in Battery B, Ohio Light Artillery, and served under
the flag of the Union for a little more than three years,
participating in numerous hard-fought engagements and
establishing a record for bravery and faithful performance of
duty. When his country no longer needed him he returned to
the peaceful occupation of his fathers, and continued as an
industrious tiller of the soil until his death. May 21, 1893. Malissa
(Folden) Wilson was born in Walnut Township, Gallia County,
Ohio, Nov. 21, 1849, and still survives her husband, residing on
the old home place in Mason township. She has been the
mother of four children, namely: Scott W., James C, Louis G.
and Alfred D.
Scott W. Wilson attended the public schools of
Mason Township until he readied the age of eighteen years, and
at that time began to devote all his energies to farming.
He was twenty-two years of age when he embarked in the threshing
and sawmill business, but after four years disposed of his
interests therein to enter his present line, that of real estate
and insurance, in which he has met with marked success.
During the ten years that he has been identified with this
business he has built up a wide patronage, and at this time is
the owner of seven residence properties at Ironton, his own home
at Fifth and Park Avenues, an improved farm of 180 acres and a
handsome fruit farm in Mason Township. His success has
been gained through no happy chance, but by virtue of his own
hard and unflagging labor, his comprehensive knowledge of land
and realty values and an inherent ability for his chosen line of
work. Mr. Wilson is a valued and active member of
the Chamber of Commerce. A republican in politics, he has
never found time to actively enter public affairs, except as a
good citizen seeking to secure strong men and good measures for
his community. With his family, he is a member of the Pine
Street Methodist Episcopal Church.
Mr. Wilson was married Sept. 12, 1894, to
Miss Osa Drummond, who died Feb. 25, 1911, aged thirty-three
years, having been the mother of six children: Nina M.,
Hobart McKinley, James O.,
Hollace, Dorothea V. and Gretchen.
Mr. Wilson's second marriage was to Miss
Lou Price, Nov. 15, 1911, she being a daughter of
Kingston and Julia (Preston) Price, of Johnson County,
Kentucky. Mr. Price was a grocery man and a
soldier of the Civil War. Mrs. Julia (Preston) Price,
who was born in Johnson County, Kentucky, died in 1878, having
been the mother of six children: C. Line, Alice M., Lou,
Jeremiah, Kingston F., Jr., and Jennie. Mr. Price
was married the second time to Vina Mills, and they
became the parents of two children: Mary J. and John.
Mrs. Price died in 1893, and Mr. Price
was married the third time to Martha Maynard, who
died without issue in 1913.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of
Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing
Company, 1916 - Page 726 |
Henry Winter |
MRS. HENRY WINTER.
Substantial industry, honest dealing with all his fellowmen, and
quiet but unostentatious success were the characteristics of the
late Henry Winter, who died at Ironton in 1905,
and whose widow, Mrs. Katharine Winter, now continues to
reside in that city and is one of the women prominent both in
business and .social affairs.
Henry Winter was born at Pomeroy, Ohio,
in 1853, spent most of his life in the Hanging Rock Iron Region,
and was for a number of years an iron puddler. After the
iron industry declined he opened a grocery store, and built up a
good business and eventually was rated as one of the very
successful and prosperous men of Ironton. He had along
with first class business ability the characteristics of charity
and generosity, and did a great deal for less fortunate people
that has never come to the knowledge of the world.
Mrs. Katharine Winter was born at Buena Vista,
now Princess, Kentucky, a daughter of Joseph and Rosa (Bahn)
Falter. Her father was born in Germany in 1820, came
to Kentucky in young manhood, and subsequently was one of the
early settlers of Lawrence County, Ohio, where he died in 1885.
His wife was born in Germany about 1823. Mrs.
Winter came to Ironton when about eight months of age, was
reared and educated in the city, and has known the people of the
community and been interested in its affairs for many years.
On June 9, 1885, she married Mr. Winter, and since
his death has shown unusual business capacity in looking after
the estate. To their marriage were born three children:
Bertha M., Frances R. and Henry, Jr. Bertha, who graduated
at St. Aloysius Academy in New Lexington, Perry County, Ohio, in
1906, is now living in Ironton and is organist at St. Joseph's
Church. Frances is also a graduate of the same
academy in 1907. Henry, Jr., is a graduate of St.
Mary's College at Dayton, Ohio, in 1912, and is now clerk with a
large coal company in the mining district of West Virginia.
Mrs. Winter is a member of St. Joseph's
Catholic Church, of the Christian Mothers Society and does much
practical charity both in and out of the church. She is a
stockholder in the First National Bank, in the Ironton Lumber
Company, the Ironton Engine Plant and several other local
companies. Besides her beautiful residence at 135 S. Third
Street she is the owner of a good deal of real estate in and out
of the city.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of
Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing
Company, 1916 - Page 798 |
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JOHN S. WISEMAN, M.D.
Prominent among those who are upholding the dignity and prestige
of the medical profession in Lawrence County is Dr. Wiseman,
who is engaged in practice in the City of Ironton, judicial
center of the county and the metropolis of the Hanging Rock Iron
Region. The success and high reputation achieved by the
Doctor are the more pleasing to note by reason of the fact that
he claims as his native heath the county in which he has gained
this precedence through ability and sterling worth of character.
Dr. Wiseman was born through ability and sterling worth
of character. Dr. Wiseman was born in the village
of Sherritts, Lawrence county, on the 3d of September, 1865, and
is a representative of a well-known pioneer family of this
section of the State. The doctor is a son of Louis F.
and Mary Jane (Carter) Wiseman, the former of whom was
born in Monroe County, West Virginia, in 1826, and the latter of
whom was born near Gallipolis, the county seat of Gallia County,
Ohio, in 1832, her parents having been early settlers of that
county. Louis F. Wiseman devoted the greater part
of his active career to the basic industry of agriculture and
was long numbered among the prosperous and honored
representatives of this line of enterprise in Lawrence County,
where his death occurred in the year 1896. His was the
distinction of having represented the Buckeye state as a gallant
soldier in the Civil War, in which he served two years and ten
months as a member of Company D, Ninety-first Ohio Volunteer
Infantry, in which he became sergeant of his company. In
later years he was an appreciative and popular member of that
noble patriotic organization, the Grand Army of the Republic,
the ranks of which are being rapidly thinned by the one
implacable adversary, death. Mrs. Wiseman survived
her honored husband and passed forward to the "land of the leal"
in 1905. Of the eleven children, Henry J. is the
eldest and is a resident of Lawrence County; Sarah and
Mary are deceased; Louis A. maintains his home in
Lawrence County; Sarepta is the wife of Dr. William
Griffith, of Pedro, this county; William W. is a
resident of Sherritts; Ruth J. likewise remains at
Sherritts; Dr. John S., of this review, was the next in
order of birth; Susan A. lives at Sherritts; Martha
is deceased; and Thomas F. is a representative farmer in
the vicinity of Sherritts.
Dr. John S. Wiseman was reared to the sturdy and
invigorating discipline of the home farm and continued to be
actively identified with agricultural pursuits until he had
attained to the age of twenty-three years. In the
meanwhile he fully availed himself of the advantages of the
public schools of his native county, and his ambition led him to
formulate definite plans for a broader career of usefulness than
that of the prosaic but sterling work of farming. In
consonance with his ambition he entered the Miami Medical
College, in the city of Cincinnati, and in this excellent
institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1893
and with the well-earned degree of doctor of medicine.
For the first six years of his active professional work Dr.
Wiseman maintained his residence at Powellsville, Scioto
County, and he then removed to Beaver, Pike County, where he
continued in successful practice until 1907. He then
returned to his native county and established his home in the
city of Ironton, where he has built up a large and
representative general practice and has secure status as one of
the leading physicians and surgeons of Lawrence County.
The doctor has availed himself of the best of the standard and
periodical literature of his profession and in addition to being
a close and ambitious student through this medium he has also
taken effective post-graduate course in the New York Polyclinic,
in 1898-9, and in the Chicago Polyclinic, in 1907. Dr.
Wiseman is actively identified with the Lawrence County
Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American
Medical Association. He is a member of the Ironton Chamber
of Commerce, is steadfast in his allegiance to the cause of the
republican party, whose basic principles he believes best
adapted for the safe government of the nation, but in local
affairs he is not constrained within strict partisan lines.
While a resident of Beaver, Pike County, he served three years
as president of its board of education. The doctor is
affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Knights of
Pythias, and he holds membership in the First Baptist church of
Ironton, of which his wife, now deceased, likewise was a devoted
adherent.
On the 24th of October, 1888, was solemnized the
marriage of Dr. Wiseman to Miss Sadie
Stuart, daughter of the late Calvin M. Stuart, a
prominent farmer of Symmes Township, Lawrence County, and she
was summoned to the life eternal on the 18th of August, 1912,
secure in the affectionate regard of all who had come within the
compass of her gracious influence. Dr. and Mrs. Wiseman
became the parents of five children, of whom the first.
Alma, and the third, Clayton L., are deceased.
Those who survive the devoted mother are Lucille F., Avanelle
P. and Marcelle E.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of
Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing
Company, 1916 - Page 783 |
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ROSCOE S. WISEMAN.
An Ironton citizen whose part has been quietly and efficiently
performed and who is one of the most popular men in that city is
Roscoe S. Wiseman, now assistant postmaster. A
great many people of Lawrence County know him best for his
efficient work as an educator, a profession which he followed
for a number of years.
Roscoe S. Wiseman was born in Lawrence County,
Aug. 22, 1866, a son of Wilbur W. and Martha (Armstrong)
Wiseman. His father, who was born in Virginia in 1828,
came to Lawrence County, Ohio, when a boy, followed farming with
substantial success and passed away in 1899. The mother
was born in Lawrence County in 1832 and died in 1893. They
were parents of a large family of fourteen children, four of
whom died in infancy, while the other ten are mentioned as
follows: Thomas O., Sarah A., Arminta E.,
Charles A., Margaret E., Roscoe S., Ada A., Emma F., James M.,
Louis W.
It was the ambition of Mr.
Wiseman when a boy to get a liberal education and make
himself useful in the world. From the common schools of
Lawrence County he entered the National Normal University at
Lebanon, was a student there until graduating in 1892 and has
certificate of graduation in the teachers, the business and the
scientific courses. For twelve years his work was in the
schoolroom, and during the last five years chiefly in Normal
School work and as an instructor in summer schools. Since
Aug. 30, 1903, Mr. Wiseman has been assistant postmaster,
and was appointed by Mr. J. B. Stoble. No one
understands so thoroughly all the details of that office as
Mr. Wiseman, and his efficient work has done a great deal to
popularize the postal department with the citizens of Ironton.
On Sept. 20, 1893, Mr. Wiseman married Lorena
Stewart, a daughter of O. P. Stewart of Lawrence
county. Their five children are Elizabeth I., Merrill
R., Oliver m., Elmer S. and Wilbur L. Mr. Wiseman
has affiliations with the Knights of Pythias and the Modern
Woodmen of America, is a republican in politics, and belongs to
the First Baptist church of Ironton. It should also be
said that Mr. Wiseman is regarded as the champion checker
player in the state of Ohio. Outside of his official
duties he finds recreation occasionally in fishing and hunting,
but most of his time is divided between his office and his home.
He is the owner of a good residence in Ironton.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of
Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing
Company, 1916 - Page 736 |
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