700 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION one child—Almeta ; and Edward, also an electrician, is single and resides with his parents. Chief George is the owner of a comfortable residence in Ironton, and also has other realty, including six vacant lots. A republican in politics, his only public service outside that of fire-fighting was as postmaster at Friendship, Scioto County, some forty years ago. Fraternally he is connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and his religious affiliation is with the Methodist Episcopal Church. 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. HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 701 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 Marling 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. 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 Law- 702 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION rence 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. ALLEN L. THUMA. Developing his powers through. practical experience, Mr. Thuma has forged his way forward until he has achieved large and worthy success in his chosen field of endeavor, and he is recognized as one of the representative business men of the younger generation in the City of Ironton, the thriving metropolis and judicial center of Lawrence County. Through his own ability he has advanced to his present important position as one of the valued executive officers of the Ohio Valley Electric Railway Company, of which he is superintendent, and to the affairs of which he acords the most scrupulous attention. Allen Lee Thuma was born at Milton, Cabell County, West Virginia, on the 20th of July, 1878, and is a son of Chapman J. and Adelia (Oakes) Thuma, the former of whom was born at Bridgewater, Virginia, in 1837, and the latter of whom was born at Collins, near Charleston, West Virginia, in.1855. The father was a carpenter by trade and became a successful contractor and builder, the family removal to Ironton, Ohio, having ocurred when Allen L., of this review, was a child. Chapman J. Thuma died in the year 1886, and his widow long survived him, the closing years of her life having been passed in Ironton, where she died in 1904. Of the three children the eldest is he whose name introduces this article ; John. Clifton is barn superintendent for the Ohio HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 703 Valley Electric Railway Company ; and Bonnie likewise resides at Ironton. The public schools of Ironton afforded to Allen L. Thuma his early educational advantages, and in the same he continued his studies until lie had attained to the age of fifteen years. He then obtained a position in the Ironton offices of the Fort Wayne Electric Light Company, and with this company and its successor he has continued to be actively identified during his entire business career. From the position of office boy he made his way forward to positions of constantly increasing responsibility, and in the meanwhile he gained a thorough knowledge of all details of the line of enterprise along which he has effectively directed his energies. Since the year 1900 he has held his present important executive office, that of superintendent of the Ohio Valley Electric Railway Company, a corporation whose progressive policies and liberal enterprise have done much to further the civic and material prosperity of the Hanging Rock Iron Region of the fine old Buckeye State. Mr. Thuma is a director of the Ironton Electric Company, is a practical elec trician of distinctive ability, and as a citizen he is essentially loyal and public spirited. He is the owner of his attractive residence property at Ironton and has identified himself fully with the interests of the city that has represented his home from his childhood days. In politics he is found aligned as a stanch` supporter of the cause of the republican party, and he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias. At the time of the Spanish-American war Mr. Thuma served as a member of Company I, Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and he is now identified with the veteran association maintained by those who participated in that memorable conflict. Mr. Thuma is well known in Ironton and vicinity and has a wide circle of friends in both business and social circles. Mr. Thuma married Miss Nora Jane George, daughter of William E. George, who has been chief of the Ironton Fire Department since 1872. Mr. and Mrs. Thuma have an adopted daughter, Alma. JOHN C. THUMA. In the city that has been his home from boyhood Mr. Thuma has found ample opportunity for productive effort along normal lines of enterprise, and he is now the efficient and popular incumbent of the position of superintendent of the car barns of the Ohio Valley Electric Railway, Company, at Ironton, Lawrence County, his elder brother, Allen L., being the company 's general superintendent and being individually mentioned on other pages of this publication. John Clifton Thuma is the second in order of birth of the three children of Chapman J. and Adelia (Oakes) Thuma, and his parents were residents of Ironton, Ohio, at the time of their death, the father, 704 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION who was a carpenter and contractor, having died in 1886 and the mother in 1904. Chapman J. Thuma was a native of Bridgewater, Virginia, where he was born in 1837, a scion of a sterling old family of that historic commonwealth, and his wife was born near Charleston, West Virginia, in 1855. He whose name introduces this article attended the excellent public schools of Ironton until he was fifteen years of age, and he thereafter gave his attention to zealous work in saw mills and in connection with other lines of industry for six years. At the expiration of this period he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was employed in lumber yards for the ensuing six months. He then returned to Ironton and obtained employment as a general laborer for the Ohio Valley Electric Railway Company. For the first six months his work was principally in the digging of holes for the poles used for the electric lines, and for two years thereafter he was a practical lineman, his ability and faithful service bringing to him advancement to the position of line foreman, an incumbency which he retained about three years. Since 1906 Mr. Thuma has been the superintendent of the company 's well equipped car barns at Ironton, and his effective service as well as his genial personality have made him popular alike with the officers of the company, the employes and the general public. Mr. Thuma is a member of the Ironton Chamber of Commerce and is essentially loyal and progressive in his civic attitude. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, and he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Improved Order of Red Men. On the 22d of February, 1914, Mr. Thuma made consistent observance of the birthday of Gen. George Washington, in that the day marked the solemnization of his marriage to Miss Ora Alice Riter, daughter of Philip Riter, a well known citizen and furnace-man of Ironton. SMITH S. LITTLEJOHN. The subjective qualities that beget popular confidence and respect are not lacking in the character of the present treasurer of Lawrence County, and the mere fact that he has been called to the important fiscal office of which he is the valued-incumbent shows significantly the estimate placed upon him in the county of which he is a representative citizen and in which he stands exponent of most loyal and liberal citizenship. Mr. Littlejohn is a scion of a family whose name has been closely and worthily linked with the history of Ohio during virtually an entire century, and his ancestral record in the Buckeye State is one of which he may well be proud, even as may he also of the more remote genealogical history in both the agnatic and maternal lines. Mr. Littlejohn was born at Jackson, the judicial center of Jackson HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 705 County, Ohio, and the date of his nativity was June 18, 1858. He is a son of James and Cynthia (Smith) Littlejohn, the former of whom was born in Scioto County, Ohio, in the year 1820, and the latter of whom was born in Greenup County, Kentucky, in 1824. The Littlejohn family was founded in Ohio within a short time after the admission of the State to the Union, and its representatives in the various generations have proved sterling citizens of industrious habits -and definite loyalty to all that makes for civic and material development and progress. James Littlejohn devoted the major part of his active career to agricultural pursuits and was a man who ever commanded inviolable place in popular confidence and esteem. He was originally a whig and later a republican in politics and he was sixty-five years of age at the time of his death,' in 1885. His widow attained to the venerable age of eighty-seven years and was summoned to the life eternal in 1911, her memory being revered by all who came within the compass of her gentle influence. They • became the parents of ten children, two of whom died in infancy. Those who attained to years of maturity are here designated by name and in order of nativity : William H., Alice, James I., Louis C., Smith S., Margaret E., Mary, and Marion E. Smith S. Littlejohn was reared to adult age in Scioto County and there was afforded the advantages of the public schools of Wheelersburg, after which he attended the National Normal University, at Lebanon, this State, until he had attained to the age of twenty years. Through this effective discipline he admirably fortified himself for the pedagogic profession, and for seven years he was numbered among the representative teachers in the schools of Scioto County. After his retirement from this line of professional endeavor he rented a farm in the same county, and for two years he devoted his attention to agricultural pursuits. He then, in 1879, removed to Lawrence County, where he located in the little village of Steece, in Elizabeth Township, and assumed the position of manager of the general store of the firm of E. B. Willard & Company, with which firm he continued for fifteen years and one month—a period within which he gained wide acquaintanceship through the county and made for himself a. host of loyal friends. In 1901 he removed to, Ironton, the county seat, where he remained one year, and for the ensuing nine years he had charge of the Hanging Rock Furnace property, with residence and headquarters at Pine Grove. He was thus prominently concerned with the great iron industry of this section of the State and at the expiration of the period noted he was transferred to the charge of the firm's general store at Hanging Rock, where he remained thus engaged for three years. Thereafter •he was assistant secretary of the Union Furnace Company until 1913, when he was elected county treas- 706 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION urer, the duties of which position he has since discharged with characteristic zeal and ability and to the distinct benefit of the county and its people. He is a man of fine administrative ability and marked capacity for detail, so that the business of the treasurer's office is found at all times in the best of order, the while he is punctilious in doing all in his power to subserve the financial prosperity' of the county through the effective management of its fiscal affairs. While a resident of Scioto County Mr. Littlejohn served six years as justice of the peace, and incidentally he gained comprehensive and accurate knowledge of the principles of law. He has proved worthy of the implicit trust reposed in him by others and has had much to do with the management of estates and properties of important order. In politics Mr. Littlejohn has been found a stalwart supporter of the principles and policies for which the republican party has ever stood sponsor in a basic way, and he holds membership in the Baptist Church. He is actively affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, including its adjunct organization, the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. His interests center in his home, and the family residence, an attractive property owned by him, is made a center of generous and refined hospitality, with his wife and daughter as its popular chatelaines. On the 30th of August, 1881, at the home of the bride's parents, William and Augusta Raushahous, of Portsmouth, Ohio, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Littlejohn to Miss Amelia Raushahous, and the only child of this union is Miss Addie A., who remains at the parental home. ARNO C. ROBISON. Among those who have borne a substantial and helpful part in the development and progress of the Hanging Rock Iron Region during modern times, one deserving of special mention is Arno C. Robison, of Ironton. An able and successful lawyer, a former auditor of Lawrence County, a worker in public spirited enterprise, and. a citizen who has gained hosts of friends in this section of the state. Arno C. Robison was born in Monroe County, Ohio, February 16, 1874, a son of James W. and Adaline M. (Stark) Robison. His father was born in Noble County, Ohio, in 1836, and now lives retired in Proctorville, Lawrence County. His career during his active years was that of school teaching and farming. The mother, who was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1836, died in 1900. Their seven children are briefly mentioned as follows: Lula B., now Mrs. C. W. McClure, of Huntington, West Virginia ; Mary. E., a teacher in Sharon, Pennsylvania ; Margaret, a teacher at Huntington, West Virginia; Ralph, a salesman in HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 707 Huntington, West Virginia; Arno C.; Chester T., a bookkeeper for one of the lumber companies at Ironton; and Etta, now Mrs. Konns, of Huntington, West Virginia. The early education of Arno C. Robison was acquired at the common schools of Crown City, Ohio, and at LaBelle, Ohio, and his higher training was at the Ohio Northern University at Ada. Twelve years were spent in teaching, and during six years of that time he was on the examining board. His career as a teacher was followed by his election to the office of county auditor of Lawrence. County, and he was one of the county officials at the time the present courthouse was erected. It is the judgment of people well informed that the business of the auditor's office was never better managed than during the six years Air. Robison had charge. After leaving that office he entered the law department of the Northern Ohio University at Ada, and continued his studies until graduating LL. B. in 1911. Since then he has been in active practice at Ironton, and his partner is J. L. Anderson, the Nestor of the Lawrence county. bar. His success as an attorney has been due to his high standing as a citizen and gentleman, his broad acquaintance over the county, and a demonstrated ability for handling the intricate problems of the law whether in office or before a jury. Mr. Robison is a Knight Templar Mason, a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Knights of the Goldenagle, both Lodge and Encampment of Odd Fellowshipand the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. Among his business interests he is a stockholder in the Marting Iron & Steel Company, has stock in the Ironton Portland Cement Company and in the Home Telephone Company. He is one of the trustees of the sinking fund of the City of Ironton. Politically hihisork has been with the republican party. While at college he was Waaber of the Cadet Corps and in the company which won the flag or being the best drilled company in the entire corps. Mr. Robison and family occupy one of the comfortable residences of Ironton, and his other property holdings include 122 acres of improved farm land in Rome Township of Lawrence County. He is assisting in the development work which is transforming Lawrence County to a fine fruit section by plplanting large part of his land in fruit trees. Mr. Robison was married April 20, 1899, at Proctorville, Lawrence County, to Emma Eaton, daughter of John Eaton, a farmer. They are the parents of four children : James C.; Dwight E., John H., deceased, and Alice M. GEORGE M. SALLADAY It may well be understood that, more than passing interest attaches to tile career of this well known and rerepre Vol. II- 5 708 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION sentative citizen of Portsmouth when it is stated that he is a scion of the fourth generation of a family whose name has been prominently and worthily linked with the history. of Scioto County since the opening year .of the nineteenth century, long before this and. other counties of Southern Ohio had been established and when this entire section was virtually an untrammeled wilderness. Mr. Salladay himself is now one of the more venerable of the native sons of Scioto County who still reside within its borders, and it is most gratifying to enter in this publication a review of his personal and ancestral history. On the farm of his father, in Clay Township, Scioto County, George M. Salladay was born on the 6th of February, 1847. His father, John Miller Salladay was born on a pioneer farmstead about one mile south of the present village of Wheelersburg, this county, and the date of his nativity was February 10, 1814. The latter was a son of George Salladay, who was born in the State of Maryland, in 1785, and who was a son of Philip Salladay, a native of Switzerland. Prior to or about the time of the War of the Revolution Philip Salladay emigrated from his native land to America and after residing a few years in Maryland he removed to Western Pennsylvania, where he maintained his home until 1800, when he came to the wilds of what was then a vast region designated as the Northwest Territory and established his residence in what is now Scioto County, Ohio, where he passed the residue of his life and where his name merits perpetual honor through his worthy achievement as one of the first settlers in this favored section of the Buckeye State. George Salladay, son of Philip, was a lad of about fifteen years at the time of the family removal to the present County of Scioto, and he was present at the time when the first tree was felled on the site Of the present thriving City of Portsmoth, the judicial center of the county. He aided in the burning of the first brush piles assembled in connection with clearing the land now occupied by the county seat, and in later years gave many interesting reminiscences concerning incidents and conditions of the earliest pioneer days, his father having been one of the prominent and .influential men of the sturdy little community of settlers in this section of the state. As a young man George Salladay entered claim to a tract of Government land in Porter Township, a few miles south of the present Town of Wheelersburg, and he lived up to the full tension of life on the frontier, many years .having elapsed ere railroads were constructed and the canals having in the meanwhile formed the best means for the transportation of produce, merchandise, etc., though none of these arteries of traffic were in evidence for a long time after he had attained to adult age. Strong and loyal also were HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 709 the noble women of the pioneer households, and upon them devolved not only the wonted domestic duties but also the spinning and weaving of the wool used in the making of the homespun cloth from which they fashioned the clothing for all members of their respective families. In that age of primitive things the pioneer farmers of this section used to combine their forces and construct flatboats, by means of which their produce was transported. down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to the nearest available market—the City of New Orleans—where the product found ready cash demand and where the boats likewise were sold. It is a matter of family record that George Salladay made two voyages to New Orleans in charge of these rude transportation boats, the return trips being made by him on foot and several months elapsing on each occasion before he again arrived at his home. This sturdy pioneer improved a productive farm and on his original homestead he continued to reside until the close of his life, his death having occurred on the 5th of October, 1860. On the 17th of May, 1812, was solemnized the marriage of George Salladay to Miss Phoebe Chaffin, who was born in Connecticut, September 30, 1794, and whose death occurred July 27, 1855. They became the parents of ten children, and in their offspring they effectually perpetuated the principles of integrity and the sterling habits of industry and frugality. John Miller Salladay was reared to adult age under the conditions and influences of the pioneer farm and early gained. appreciation of the dignity and value of honest toil. As a young man he found employment at various kinds of work, opportunities along this line being limited, and for his services he received at times the princely stipend of fifty cents a day and his dinner, the other two meals of the day having been provided at his own home. He began- his career as an independent farmer by renting land in Porter Township, and through energy and good management he finally accumulated a little sum of money, but ill health caused a cessation of his labors and involved the expenditure of all of his hard-earned savings. After recuperating his energies he rented a farm in Clay Township, the property having been owned by John Orm. Within a short time one of the township officials ordered him to leave the township, there having been no expectation that he would obey, but this action having been taken as a precautionary measure, owing to the provisions of the law of the locality and period, to the effect that in case of illness and indigence he could apply to the township authorities for aid unless he had previously been ordered to leave. The official disquietude proved, however, without cause, for within a few years the industry and good judgment of Mr. Salladay acquired sufficient funds to justify his purchase of the William Oldfield 710 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION farm, three miles north of the Chillicothe Pike Road. There he entered vigorously upon his specially successful career as "an agriculturist and stock grower, and as circumstances justified such action he purchased other lands and became one of the substantial landholders and representative farmers of his native county. He was the owner of four good farms at the time of his death, which occurred August 20, 1902, and the 'closing period of his noble and unassuming life were passed in the homes of his children, who accorded to him and to. their mother the deepest filial solicitude. May 27, 1840, recorded the marriage of John M. Salladay to Miss Martha Hayward, who was a representative of an old colonial family of New England and of one that sent sterling citizens to Ohio in the early pioneer history of. this commonwealth. Her father, Moses Hayward, was born in Connecticut, in 1766, and was a son of Captain Caleb Hayward, who gained his title through his serving as master of vessels plying the Atlantic Ocean. Captain Hayward was a native of Scotland and upon immigrating to America established his home in Connecticut. In 1787 Moses Hayward, whose name has appeared in various records as Howard, removed to Vermont, and there, in January, 1793, he wedded Hannah Smith. They continued their residence in the old Green_ Mountain State until 1814, when they set forth for the West. They passed two years at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and then came to Scioto County, Ohio, and established their home in Vernon Township. There Mr. Hayward obtained a tract of land and instituted the development of a farm, besides .which he owned and operated one of the first distilleries in this section of the state. He died on the 2d of October, 1860, at the patriarchal age of ninety-four years, his wife having passed away on the 2d of August, 1834; they reared a large family of children. Mrs. Martha (Hayward) Salladay, mother of him whose name introduces this article, was summoned to eternal rest on the 29th of May, 1892. John M. Salladay was originally a whig and later a republican in politics, and both he and his wife were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of their three children Harriet J. died at the age of nineteen. years; Lora A. became the wife of Samuel Brierly ; and George M. is the immediate subject of this review. The boyhood and youth of George Moses Salladay did not lack a due demand upon his attention in connection with the work of the home farm, and in the meanwhile he availed himself of the advantages of the common schools of the locality and period., A few months after his marriage he located on one 'of his father's farms, in Washington Township, and eligibly situated on the Galena Turnpike Road, to the HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 711 ownership of which property he later succeeded. Like his honored father, he has been a man of energy, enterprise and circumspection, and the tangible evidences of his success are shown in his ownership at the present time of a valuable landed estate of more than 700 acres, the greater part being the fine alluvial soil of the bottom lands of the Scioto Valley. He has now virtually retired from active labor but still gives his general supervision to his farms and maintains his home in the City of Portsmouth, where he owns his attractive residence, at 816 Waller Street. His political allegiance has been unfalteringly given to the republican party, he is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, and both he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church. On the 18th of February, 1874, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Salladay to Miss Nettie Iams Feurt, who likewise was born and reared in Scioto County, as was also her father, John Davidson Feurt, the date of whose nativity was March 2, 1816 ; his father, Gabriel Feurt, was born in the State of New Jersey, on the 9th of December, 1779, and was a son of Joseph and Mary (Davidson) Feurt. It is not definitely known at what time the Feurt family was founded in New Jersey, but representatives of the family have been prominent in that and other states of the Union, the original German orthography having in numerous cases been changed to Fort. Essentially authentic data indicate that Joseph Feurt came to the West as early as 1791 and established his residence near the mouth of the Scioto River, but on account of the menace from the Indians he crossed over the Ohio River and lived for a time at Maysville, Kentucky. He finally returned to Ohio and settled in what is now Scioto County, where he entered claim to Government land in the present Township of Washington, his pioneer homestead having been traversed by Pond Creek. There he continued to reside until his death, in 1806, and he was one of the earliest settlers in this section of the Territory of Ohio. His wife was born February 1, 1765, and was a daughter of George and Mary (Warren) Davidson. She survived her husband by a few years and the names of their children were as here noted : Benjamin F., Gabriel, Mary, George, Susanna, Merly, Bartholomew, and Thomas. As gauged by the standards of the locality and period, Gabriel Feurt received an excellent education, and as a young man he gave effective service in connection with early surveying work in this part of Ohio. He learned also the trade of cooper and finally he and his brother-in-law, Jacob Noel, entered claim to a large tract of Government land on the Scioto River bottoms, about five miles distant from Portsmouth. There they reclaimed much of the land from the virgin wilds, and a portion of 712 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION this large estate is now owned by descendants of Mr. Feurt, the property being one of the most valuable farms of Scioto County. On this homestead Gabriel Feurt died in 1850. His wife, whose maiden name was Lydia Hitchcock, was born in Clay Township, this county, and was a daughter of George Hitchcock, her father having been a native of Connecticut and having become one of the pioneer settlers of Scioto County, Ohio, where he owned the land now comprising the Peebles farm and a portion of the site of the Village of New Boston. After the death of her husband Mrs. Feurt removed to the City of Portsmouth, where her death occurred on the 10th of January, 1864. The names of the children are here entered in respective order of birth : Isabella, John D., James II. and Lavinia. The last mentioned became the wife of John T. Flint, a prominent lawyer and influential citizen of Waco, Texas. John D. Feurt, the father of Mrs. Salladay, eventually inherited a portion of the fine old homestead farm of his father and to this he added by the purchase of other land, until he became the owner of one of the best farms in Scioto County, his progressiveness having been indicated by his erecting fine buildings on the place and by bringing the farm up to the highest standard in all respects. He resided on his farm until his death, as did also his wife, Maria, who was a daughter of the late Judge William Oldfield, an honored and influential citizen of Scioto County. Mr. Feurt was first a whig and thereafter a republican in politics and he commanded inviolable esteem in the community which was his home throughout life. He held various township offices and served ten ye.ars as justice of the peace. The marriage of John D. Feurt and Maria Oldfield was solemnized in the year 1839, and they became the parents of nine children, and concerning those who attained to maturity the following brief record is given : Caroline C. became the wife of Henry C. Feurt; Lydia married John Lindsey; Harriet E. first wedded William H. Peters and after his death became the wife of Thomas J. Brown ; Nettie I. is the wife of Mr. Salladay of this sketch ; Frances B. became the wife of John F. Noel; and the two sons are John F. and William. Mr. and Mrs. Salladay have one daughter, Martha, who is the wife of Charles F. Tracy, of Scioto County, and whose three children are Lucille, Harold Salladay, and Edna Louise. REV. JAMES H. COTTER, LL. D. Ceaselessly to and fro flies the deft shuttle that weaves the web of human destiny, and into the vast fabric enters the accomplishment of all individuality, penetrating both warp and woof and lending either the sheen of usefulness and beauty or the dark and zigzag lines of unintelligible obscurity. To place final valua- HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 713 tions is not within the power of human kind but remains the prerogative and function of the One who is above all and over all, but there be those whose gracious and noble personalities, splendid powers and unlimited consecration give an impression that can not fail to be appreciated by all who have aught of cognizance of the true significance of human thought and motive. To give within the pages of a work of the circumscribed province assigned to the one at hand adequate tribute to the character and services of Doctor Cotter is in the realm of the impossible, but it is imperative that there be mention of the man, the priest, the patriot, the scholar, the lover of humanity whose name initiates this paragraph and who is rector of St. Lawrence Church in the City of Ironton. Not alone has his zeal been fruitful in good works and large results in the high calling to which he has consecrated himself, but he has gained also a national reputation as an orator and author. His intellectual attainments are on a parity with his devotion to the great mother church of Christendom and to the aiding and uplifting of his fellow men ; better commendation than this could be given. to no man. Rev. James H. Cotter was born in County Tipperary, Ireland, in the year 1857, "amid scenes calculated to inspire poetry and eloquence." Ile is a son of George and Sarah (Delhanty) Cotter, representatives of stanch old families of the fair Emerald Isle, where both George Cotter and his wife were born in the year 1826, having passed the closing period of their lives at Ironton, Ohio, where they found a home in 1893, and where both died in the year 1896, their gracious evening of life having been solaced by the filial devotion of their son, Doctor Cotter, of this review. The names of their nine children are here entered, in respective order of birth : Fannie, Thomas, Jane, James H., George, Richard, Albert, Sarah, and William. Doctor Cotter was fifteen years of age at the time of the family immigration from Ireland to America and he acquired his early education in the parochial schools in the State of New York, where also he pursued his higher academic studies in Manhattan College, in New York City, an institution in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1877 and with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He later received the degree of Master of Arts from his alma mater, and the institution further honored him, in 1906, by conferring upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws, the same degree having likewise been accorded to him by Mount St. Mary's Seminary, Maryland, in 1908. Concerning this period in his career the following statements have been written : "During his years at Manhattan he was noted for his devotion to literature and for his assiduous cultivation of good style in prose and verse. He completed his course in theology at Mount St. Mary's Seminary, and in 714 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION 1881 was ordained to the priesthood of the Catholic Church, in the diocese of Columbus, Ohio. Before his ordination he taught rhetoric At Mount St. Mary's in the third and fourth collegiate classes." Father Cotter has held the rectorship of St. Lawrence Church, Ironton, since 1889, and thus this parish has received his ministrations and pastoral supervision during the greater part of the time since holy orders were conferred upon him. Under his administration the church has waxed strong along both spiritual and temporal. lines, and his gracious personality has gained him the affection of the entire community, irrespective of sectarian affiliations. Under the zealous supervision of Doctor Cotter there was erected, in 1891, the present fine church of St. Lawrence ; the modern, and model parish house, in 1904 ; and the large and finely appointed parish school building, in 1911. From a previously published sketch of the career of Ddctor Cotter are taken, with but slight paraphrase,, the following extracts : "Father Cotter is the author of many sermons and lectures, and of 'Shakespeare 's Art,' a volume embracing many valuable critical studies in nine of Shakespeare's masterpieces—which he prepared in recreation hours during busy years of pastoral life. He has also been chosen as orator of the day on many historic occasions. He succeeded the late lamented Father Cronin as the principal editorial writer on the Catholic Union and Times, of Buffalo, New York, a position which he still retains. A collection of his editorials on papal questions, gorgeously bound in gold and crushed levant, was made by the Catholic Publication Society, of Buffalo, and presented to the Holy Father, Pius X, in his jubilee year, 1908. As a lecturer Doctor Cotter's reputation is national. His lectures on ' Liberty,"Julius Caesar," The Merchant of Venice,' and 'Macbeth' are among the classics of platform eloquence. The Boston Journal of Education says of his work entitled 'Shakespeare's Art:' ` One Cotter, with his zealous vision of the son of Stratford, does more than all the defenders of the play to steady the faith of the world in the personality of Shakespeare. A really wonderful work is that which has been more recently written and published by Doctor Cotter, and which is entitled "Lances Hurled at the Sun." The preface to this volume was written by Rt. Rev. Charles H. Colton, D. D., Bishop of Buffalo, New York, and was issued by the Catholic Union and Times Press, of Buffalo. From many commendatory statements it is appropriate that in this volume be perpetuated the following words by Most Rev. John Ireland, D. D.: "I thank you very cordially for the gift of your volume, 'Lances Hurled at the Sun,' and at the same time I take the liberty to thank you for the talent and industry with which you have, as this volume shows, defended before the HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 715 American public the truths of Holy Religion. You are a model to the priesthood of America, in the reading of events and occurrences bearing one way or another upon the life and teachings of the Church, in the readiness to take a lance in hand to vindicate her honor ; in the skill with which you ply the arms of defense and offense. May God bless and prosper your pen." From a critical review appearing in the Catholic Standard and Times, Philadelphia, are taken the following excerpts : " 'Lances Hurled at the Sun,' after a simile of Tennyson's in Locksley Hall,' is a simile the more remarkable from the fact that the barbarians who today hurl their weapons at the God of Heaven are not children, but mature men and women who think themselves qualified to out-reason religion and who laugh at the revelations of Christ and the Apostles as unfit food for an age that demands 'strong meat for men.' Father Cotter's themes are the monstrosity of many of the theories put forward by the crowd of `know-it-all ' university professors and agnostic quacks, the pretentions of the 'modernists' and other lance-hurlers. He is the possessor of a keen method of logic and Celtic sense of delicate humor that in season flavors his essays with Attic salt. Many a quaint conceit and apt illustration brighten the stream of his exposition as it ripples, indignantly or merrily, as the subject demands, along its course." Doctor Cotter has traveled extensively in Europe and the United States and few men have been capable of learning and imparting more valuable lessons from experiences with men and affairs. The Doctor presided at the third annual meeting of the Catholic Press Association of the United States and Canada, and was with Archbishop Ireland, of St. Paul, and Judge Minehan, of Seattle, Washington, one of the mass-meeting orators at the Federation of the Catholic Societies of the United States, held in the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1913. He was also one of those who delivered addresses at the second Missionary Congress, held in the City of Boston, in 1913. With the nations of Europe plunged deep in the sanguinary vortex of warfare, there is signal interest attaching to an editorial written by Doctor Cotter for the Catholic Union and Times, under the title of "Faith and Country." This article breathes of the loftiest spirit. of patriotism and deep humanitarianism and was inspired by the obsequies incidental to the funeral of the sailors killed in the recent conflict between the United States and Mexican forces at Vera Cruz, Mexico. The editorial appeared in May, 1914, and from it brief quotation may consistently be made in conclusion of this sketch : "A classic writer of antiquity said, It is sweet and glorious to die 716 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION for one's country.' Christianity has approved the pronouncement but supernaturalized the motive. With the Christian, love of country goes farther than the feeling which clings to old associations and to our fellows, kindred in manners and affiliations; he is a patriot because it is, a duty of faith. St. Thomas has given all the obligations of a good Catholic in one concise passage : 'My God first, country second, and self last.' * * * There is much jingo about love of country, but the man who writes his devotion in the red ink of his heart, he it is who, in the words of President Wilson, gives 'patriotic service'—something that can not be underrated in fact nor discounted in purpose. * * * Truth and Liberty have ever been and will forever be linked. ' The truth shall make you free' is good ethics as well as correct scripture. The Catholic who loves the truth must perforce love liberty, and love America, its `holy ground.' Truth unchains high aspirations, while falsehood dwarfs and stifles them. Truth is light, and in light liberty always happily disports herself. * * * May the same God who founded the Church set securely and forever on lasting foundations the country of our love—America! big, generous America, that the Omnipotent hid for centuries behind His hand from the gaze of Europe, so that afterward it might be the worthy home and safe retreat of liberty violated in Europe." FRED G. ROBERTS. The bar of Lawrence County has one of its ablest members in Fred G. Roberts, who has been in practice at Ironton since 1910 and has the further distinction of being the only democrat ever elected to the office of probate judge in Lawrence County. He began, like so many successful professional men, his career as a teacher, and by hard work and by following his ambition steadily finally perfected himself in the law,' and now holds a place in the front ranks of his profession. at Ironton. Fred G. Roberts was born at Waterloo, Lawrence County, August 18, 1880. His father, Joseph A. Roberts, was born in Summers County, West Virginia, in 1843, and during the great Civil War made a record as a soldier. Farming has been his vocation, and he still lives at Waterloo. The mother's maiden name was Amanda Hutchison, also a native of Summers County, West Virginia, and she was born in 1847 and died in 1907. Their eight children were : Emma, William H., May, Burton, Hudson, Fred G., Ernest and Roanoke. Fred G. Roberts as a boy lived on the farm and attended the village schools of Waterloo, and subsequently pursued his law course in the Cincinnati Law School. Eight years of his life were spent in the schoolroom as a teacher, and at the time of his mother's death he was ready to go. away to law school, but the loss of his mother and a sister about HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 717 the same time interfered with his plans, and he had to resume teaching for a couple of years in order to secure the means for a college course. In spite of handicaps and obstacles, Mr. Roberts since his admission to the bar in 1910 has made an unusually successful record, and his work has been characterized by a thorough ability and an extreme fidelity to the interests of all clients. Mr. Roberts was married October 12, 1911, to Bertha C. Paul, daughter of Moses D. Paul, now living retired at Ironton. They are the parents of one child, Marjorie. Mr. Roberts and family attend the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in politics he is a democrat. THOMAS J. KENNEDY. Ironton, the flourishing metropolis and judicial center of Lawrence County, claims as one of its popular and representative citizens and successful business men Thomas J. Kennedy, who is here engaged in the insurance and real estate business, as representative of fourteen different companies of stability and high reputation, his attention being given specially to the underwriting of fire insurance, in which department of his business he has a large and important elientage. Mr. Kennedy was born in the city that is now his home, and the date of his nativity was February 2, 1877. He is a son of Thomas and Adelaide (Chamberlain) Kennedy, the former of whom still resides in Ironton, where he is living, after haling long been identified with the rolling mill industry, and the latter of whom died in -1889, at the age of forty-three years, the six children of this union having been James, William, John. Thomas J., Joseph and Edward. The father was born in Ireland, in 1847, and was six years of age at the time of his parents' immigration to America, the family home being established in the City of St. Louis, Missouri, where he was reared to maturity and afforded the advantages of the local schools. He came to Ironton, Ohio, about the year 1865, and during the years of his long and useful business life he was identified almost. consecutively with the operation of the iron and steel rolling mills in this section of the state. Thomas J. Kennedy attended the parochial and public schools of Ironton until he had completed the curriculum of the high school, and at the age of seventeen years he assumed the position of clerk in the establishment of the McJoynt Hardware Company, by which he was employed two years. For the ensuing eighteen months he was an agent for the Prudential Insurance Company, of Newark, New Jersey, and in this connection he acquired his initial experience in the line of business in which he has since achieved marked success and precedence. After he had thus served as solicitor for the Prudential company there came dis- 718 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION tinctive recognition of his effective work and special ability, since the company then advanced him to the position of assistant superintendent of its agency at Portsmouth, Scioto County, where he remained three years. For the following three and one-half years he was a representative of the company in the Mansfield district of Ohio, and after an effective service of eight years with the Prudential he returned, in 1904, to Ironton, where he engaged independently in the general insurance business, to which he has since given his close attention and in which his success has been of unequivocal order. His agency is one of the largest in Lawrence County and its operations cover fire, life, accident, and other lines of insurance indemnity. Mr. Kennedy is interested in several Ironton industries, and is secretary of the Home Building & Loan Company of fronton. He is recognized as one of the alert and progressive business men and loyal and public-spirited citizens of his native city, and the secure place that he maintains in popular confidence and esteem is indicated by the fact that he served from 1912 to 1914 as mayor of Ironton, his administration being signally progressive and efficient, so that he was importuned to become a candidate for a second term, an overture which he felt compelled to decline, by reason of the demands and exactions of his private business. Mr. Kennedy is a republican in his political allegiance. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, including the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and is also a valued and popular member of the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. On the 14th of September, 1898, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Kennedy to Miss Emma Mettendorf, daughter of A. H. Mettendorf, a prominent business man and influential citizen of Ironton. The two children of this union are Lowell and Adelaide. EVAN H. JONES. A scion of sturdy Welsh lineage and a representative of a well known pioneer family of the district of the Buckeye State to which this history is devoted, Mr. Jones has been long and prominently identified with business activities in the City of Ironton, Lawrence County, where he is now engaged in the automobile sale and livery business. He was the pioneer operator of one of the important stage lines in this section and few men in the Hanging Rock Iron Region have a wider circle of acquaintances than he, this implying virtually his possession of an equal number of staunch friends. In his present enterprise, which is one of the most substantial and important in this section of the state, Mr. Jones has fully upheld the prestige and popularity which he enjoyed in the earlier period of his business career, and it is most consonant that in this publication be entered a brief HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 719 tribute to the man, the citizen, the friend whom everyone in his range of influence as accorded the fullest measure of confidence and good will. Mr. Jones was born near Centerville, Gallia County, Ohio, on the fifteenth of June, 1848, and is a son of Evan and Anna (Davis) Jones, both natives of Wales, where the former was born in the year 1829. Their acquaintanceship was formed on the sailing vessel which afforded them transportation across the Atlantic -to the United States, and their marriage was solemnized within a short time after their arrival in the land of their adoption. Mrs. Jones passed to the life eternal in 1854, and later Mr. Jones wedded Miss Frances Ray, who survived him by about four years, as she passed away in 1908 and he died in 1904. Of the three children of the first marriage the first born was Ebenezer, who died young; Mary is the wife of Edward Stratton, of Winchester, Kentucky ; and Evan H., of this review is the youngest of the three, he having been about seven years old at the time of his mother's death. The five children of the second marriage are here named in order of their birth : James, Frank, Alice, Minerva, and Charles. Evan H. Jones attended school about one year in his native county and the family then removed to Floyd County, Kentucky, where he was enabled to continue his studies in the common schools for a period of about three years, his father having there been engaged in the work of his trade, that of brick and stone mason, to which he gave his attention during the major part of his active career, his residence having been maintained in Ironton for a number of years prior to his demise. From Kentucky Evan H. Jones came to Ironton, where for three years he was employed as a teamster in the service of Benjamin Savage, a well known pioneer of Lawrence county. For the ensuing ten years he was here engaged in the coal business and then, in 1871, he established the first stage or hack line between Ironton, Portsmouth and Ashland, Kentucky. He began operation with one horse and a light vehicle and by the time four years had elapsed he had in requisition fifty horses, with other facilities in proportion. He opened the main road connecting the three cities mentioned and in his travels over his route he became well known to citizens throughout the entire section traversed. He sold the stage line in 1875 and in the meantime he became also the owner and operator. of the first moving vans in Ironton. He sold the stage line to Nicholas McMahon and thereafter continued to conduct his van business until 1884, when he sold the same to Polly Brothers. From 1885 until 1914 he was actively and successfully engaged in the livery business, with a large and well equipped establishment and a trade of very appreciable and profitable order. His services were specially in requisition in connection with funerals, and his equipments 720 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION for this line of service was recognized as the best in this section of the site. In 1914 he sold his livery business and is now 'engaged in the auto sale and livery business on South Third Street. In all the relations of life Mr. Jones has been found charitable, considerate and sympathetic, ever ready to lend aid to those in affliction or distress, and in view of this it can not be considered strange that he has a host of friends in the community which has long represented his home. He is loyal and public-spirited as a citizen, is independent in politics and his religious faith is in harmony with the Christian Science tenets, both he and his wife attending and supporting the Ironton Church of this denomination. Mr. Jones resides in a pleasant home on South Fourth Street, being the owner of this property, and his residence is known for its gracious hospitality, with a ready welcome to all friends of himself and his family. On the 3d of July, 1867, at Ironton, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Jones to Miss Lucinda Wilber, daughter of the late Henry Wilber, of Zanesville, this state. Concerning the children of this felicitous union, the basis of an ideal home life, the following brief record is available : Charles, who is engaged in the undertaking business in Ironton, wedded Miss Matilda Eberts ; they have no children. Harry, who wedded Miss Clara Morgan has no children; he being engaged as a mail carrier in the City of Cincinnati. Frank died in childhood. Rose is the wife of Oscar Chatfield, of Pikesville, Kentucky, and they have two children. Wilber, who is associated with his father in the auto business, has been twice married and has one child, Ralph. He first wedded Miss Mary Pyles and after her death he married Miss Anna Price, who likewise is deceased. Emma is the wife of Walter Rumble, of Huntington, West Virginia. Walter, employed as a salesman in the City of Cincinnati, married Miss Nora. Shurz and they have one child. 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, March 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 HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 721 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 had charge of a school in the same locality: Next he turned his attention to store k eping 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 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 Elm 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 attention, he is not indifferent . to the pleasure of companionship with his fellows, and is a great lover of all out-door sports. LEO EBERT. The late Leo Ebert, who died at his home in the City of Ironton, Lawrence County, on the 22d of February, 1908, was 'a man of strong and upright character and marked business ability, his influence having long been potent in connection with civic and material progress in Ironton and his prominence and enterprise in the business activities involved in the operation of the extensive and modern brewery that perpetuates his name having made him one of the leading business men of this section of the Buckeye State, even as he was a loyal and progressive citizen who held inviolable place in popular confidence and esteem. 722 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION Leo Ebert was born at Kingenberg, Kingdom of Bavaria, Germany, near the City of Frankfort, and the date of his nativity was June 28, 1837, so that he was nearly seventy-one years of age at the time of his death. He was a son of Theodore and Barbara (Krutzman) Ebert, and the family name has been identified with the representative brewing enterprise of Bavaria for many generations, Theodore Ebert, father of the subject of this memoir, having fully upheld the prestige of the patronymic in this field of industry, and both he and his wife having remained in Bavaria until their death. Leo Ebert, the eldest in a, family of four children, attended the excellent schools of his home town until he had attained to the age of twelve years, when he was placed by hiss father in the latter's brewery, to be initiated into the mysteries of the business. For several years he was acquiring scientific and practical experience in the brewing business,—at Mannheim, Bremen 'and other places,—and he finally returned to the parental home and stood his chances in the conscription for the army. He was successful, however, in drawing a high number and thus was relieved of the military service. At the age of twenty-one years Mr. Ebert wedded Miss Mathilda Urhlein, and in 1859, shortly after this important event, he immigrated with his young wife to the United States. Landing in the port of New York City, he there worked at his trade of brewer for nine months, and at the expiration of this period he came to Ohio and established' his residence in the City of Cincinnati. Not being able to find immediate employment at his trade, he was compelled to work one summer in a brick yard; and finally he obtained a position as laborer in a Cincinnati brewery, his ability and fine technical knowledge leading to his promotion from his humble capacity to that of foreman within the ensuing two months. After serving for foreman of the brewery for sixteen months Mr. Ebert came to Ironton, Lawrence County; iri 1861. Here he established a brewery on a modest scale, and from that time forward his Success became cumulative and substantial. He continued as the executive head of the Ebert Brewing Company until his death' and was one of the thoroughly loyal and liberal citizens of the Lawrence County metropolis, to the development and upbuilding of which he contributed in generous measure. He became financially interested in various other local enterprises and was known and honored as one of the prominent and influential citizens of this section of the state. In politics Mr. Ebert originally was aligned with the republican party, but in 1872 he followed his sincere convictions and transferred his allegiance to the democratic party, with which he continued to be actively allied during the residue of his long and useful life. He Was influential in the councils of his party and, as a convincing and effective HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 723 public speaker, he "took the stump" in-numerous campaigns. For more than seventeen years Mr. Ebert held official preferment in Ironton, where he served as a member of the city council, the board of education and the board of health. The fine intellectual ken and practical ability of Mr. Ebert marked him as eligible for office of distinguished order, and twice he received the democratic nomination for representative of his district in the United States Congress while he was unable to overcome the large and normal republican majorities in the district, he brought out the full vote of his party and greatly reduced the natural majority of his opponents. In the most significant and worthy interpretation of the expression, Mr. Ebert was essentially a self-made man, and he had the sagacity and judgment to make the best of the opportunities afforded in the land of his adoption, with the result that he won large and substantial success, the while he so ordered his course as to merit and receive the high esteem of all who knew him. He was a man of commanding presence, brilliant intellect and broad human tolerance and sympathy. His kindliness and generosity were unfailing, but he never permitted his benevolences to come into publicity if this could be avoided, having been one of those who "do good by stealth and blush to find it fame." Genial and companionable, Mr. Ebert was not only an interesting conversationalist but also had remarkable gifts as an orator. For eight years Mr. Ebert served as .president of the Ohio Brewers' Association, and for two years was president of the national organization of brewers. He was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and the Knights of Pythias. The death of Mr. Ebert caused deep and sincere sorrow in his home city, and both business and social circles manifested their sense of irreparable loss. The noble character of Mr. Ebert found its most perfect exemplification in the relations of his ideal home life, and his widow and children find their greatest measure of consolation and compensation in the memory of his devotion and abiding love and tenderness,—the gentleness of a strong and loyal nature. Of the six children of Leo and Mathilda (Urhlein) Ebert the eldest is Fannie, who is now the wife "of Henry Geiger, identified with the brewing business in Ironton, and they have seven children,—Mathilda, Leo, Henry, Frederick, Charles, Otto, and Bertha. Gretchen, the second daughter, first wedded Michael Rauch, who is survived by two children Otto and Walter. After the death of her first husband Mr. Rauch became the wife of August Ebert, a brewer by vocation, and they now reside in the City of St. Louis, Missouri, no children having been born of this union. Tillie is the wife of Charles Jones, engaged in the undertaking business Vol. II - 6 724 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION in Ironton ; Otto N., the only son, is more specifically mentioned on other pages of this publication. Emma is the wife of Frederick Wagner, a representative farmer near Pedro, Lawrence County, and they have eight children,—Leona, Frederick, Walter, Henrietta, Harold, Ironton, Roy, and Franklin. Bertha is the wife of Dr. William C. Miller, engaged in the practice of dentistry in Ironton, and they have one son, William C., Jr. OTTO N. EBERT. In his native city of Ironton, Lawrence County, Mr. Ebert is fully upholding the high prestige of the family name, both as a man of affairs and as a citizen ready at all times to give his cooperation in the furtherance of those things that contribute to the welfare of the community. He is president of the Ebert Brewing Company, one of the most substantial and important concerns of its kind in this section of the state, and of this responsible and exacting position he has been the incumbent since the death of his honored father, the late Leo Ebert, to whom a memoir is dedicated on other pages of this publication, so that at this juncture it is not necessary to enter further data concerning the family history. Otto N. Ebert was born in Ironton on the 1st of September, 1870, and is the only son in a family of six children, so that upon him have devolved almost entirely the large and exacting responsibilities that so long enlisted the able attention of his father. Mr. Ebert is indebted to the public schools of Ironton for his early educational discipline, and at the age of seventeen years he completed his studies in the high school and turned his attention to the practical affairs of life. He became identified with the operation of the extensive brewery founded by his father, and with the passing years he has familiarized himself thoroughly with all details of this line of industry and developed special ability as an executive. His father passed to eternal rest on the 22d of February, 1908, and the son was admirably fortified to become his successor in the presidency of the brewing company, an office in which he has maintained the enterprise at the high standard that has ever marked the same, and has endeavored to follow out the progressive civic policies and exemplify the high ideals which signally marked the career of his father. Mr. Ebert is a member of the Ironton Chamber of Commerce, is a democrat in his political adherence, is affiliated with the United Commercial Travelers and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and 'he attends and supports the German Lutheran Church, in the faith of which he was reared. The brewery plant is owned by the family estate. His home is at the corner of Center and Seventh Streets, here being centered much social activity, with Mrs. Ebert as the popular chatelaine of the hospitable home.