850 - HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY born May 31, 1834, at Amsterdam, Jefferson County, Ohio, and died at Steubenville October 21, 1897. The Zink family is of German extraction, but the family has been American for generations. James H. Zink, father of the late Dr. William R. Zink, was born in Ohio in 1812, and was twice married, William R. having been born of his first marriage, with Elizabeth Shearer. In 1835 James Zink moved his family to Steubenville, and in 1840 to Smithfield, where his first wife died in 1866, leaving six children. William R. Zink grew from childhood to manhood at Smithfield, and his first work away from home was as a clerk in a grotcery store at Bloomington, Ill. One year later he went into a wholesale and retail drug house at Bloomington, still later continued his drug training at Steubenville, and in the spring of 1863 he embarked in the drug business for himself, doing a large retail business until 1877. With his knowledge of drugs went a large amount of medical learning, and he subsequently applied himself to the study of medical science, under the direction of the late Dr. J. C. Mairs. For a time he was associated with Dr. Mairs in medical practice, both being advocates of the remedial system known as the electro-thermal. In 1878 he turned his attention to an entirely different line of activity, in March of that year entering into railroad work as assistant freight agent on the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railway, and in March, 1886, he was appointed agent. He was well and favorably known to a large proportion of the offitcials, employes and patrons of the road, who ever found in him a capable and efficient officer. On June 8, 1871, Dr. Zink was married to the estimable lady who survives him. She was Mrs. Jane E. (Ragan) Shane. who was the widow of Col. James M. Shane, and is a daughter of Rev. Dr. Zachariah C. Ragan. The latter was chaplain of a regiment during the Civil War. and at the time of his death was a chaplain in the regular army. Mrs. Zink was born January 18, 1830, in Jefferson County, Ohio. On November 14, 1854, she was married to Col. James M. Shane, a son of Henry and Elizabeth Shane. Colonel Shane enlisted for service in the Civil War in July, 1862, in the 98th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. A brave and gallant soldier, he fell at Kenesaw Mountain, June 27, 1864. He was prominently identified with the Masonic fraternity. Mrs. Zink resides at No. 256 North Third Street, Steubenville, which is also the home of John F. Flood, who is an adopted son of Dr. and Mrs. Zink. Mr. Flood is one of the prominent business men of this city and is general manager of the TritState Traction Company. SAMUEL M. PHILLIPS, a well known and highly esteemed citizen of Amsterdam, 0., and manager and partner in the firm of H. Phillips & Brother, dealers in gents' furnishing goods, was born in New York City, N. Y., a son of Joseph and Mary Phillips, the former of whom is deceased, while the latter is a resident of Steubentville. Mr. Phillips secured his education in New York City, and in 1904 engaged as a merchant with his brother at Mingo Junction, the firm still carrying on business there. The store at Amsterdam was opened in 1907, and since its opening has had its share of the patronage of the people of this community. Mr. Phillips has acted as manager of both stores and it is probably clue to his business ability that the firm has met with such success. Mr. Phillips is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Red Men, both of Amsterdam. In his political views he is independent. WILLIAM T. NELSON, merchant at Steubenville, dealing in groceries. notions. flour, feed and salt meats, with other commodities, was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1872, and is a son of the late John Nelson, who spent the larger part of his life in this county and died in 1907. William T. Nelson obtained his education in Jefferson County and the first work he ever did away from home was in a brick AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 851 yard, where he spent two summers. After that he worked in the mills at Mingo for three. or four years and then turned his attention to his present line of business. In 1897 he started into business at Nos. 934936 Lincoln Avenue, Steubenville, purchasing the building, together with resident property adjoining. Mr. Nelson carries only first class goods and enjoys a reasonable amount of patronage in his section of the city. In 1894 Mr. Nelson was married to Miss Nellie Lopeman and they have five children : Robert, Grace, Dora, William and Florence. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson are members of the Finley Methodist Episcopal Church and he belongs to its official body. He is identified with the order of Woodmen. JAMES H. GILL, president of the Automobile and Motor Boat Company, at Steubenville, comes of an old and prominent family of Jefferson County, Ohio. He is a son of Samuel C. Gill, whose death occurred on August 17, 1909. Mr. Gill's boyhood was passed at Steubenville and his education obtained in a preparatory school at Lawrenceville, N. J., and at. Princeton University, in which he was a member of the class of 1909. He is interested with Mr. A. G. Lee, F. S. Sinclair and H. ID. Wintermyer in the Automobile and Motor Boat Company, the officers of the company being: James H. Gill., president; A. G. Lee, vice-president; and Nelson D. Miller, secretary and treasurer. Mr. Gill is a director of the Ohio Valley Clay Company, and is identified With a number Of other enterprises. He is a member of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church. he hold' membership with numerous organizations and clubs, including the Y. M. C. A. and the Country Club of Steubenville ; Club of Princeton; the Caledon Trout Club, and the Royal Canadian Yacht Club, both of Toronto, Canada ; and the Athletic Club of Pittsburgh. ABEL J. CRAW FORD, a representative stockman of Island Creek Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, who has. been interested in breeding and dealing in stock for sixty years, owns a farm- containing :300 acres and is also engaged in extensive farming. He is a native of Island. Creek Township, born here May 3, 1831, and is a son of James and Anna (Taylor) Crawford. James Crawford was born also in Jefferson County and was a son of James Crawford, who came from Washington County, Pa., to Jefferson County, in pioneer days. The family is of English extraction and Quaker stock, although on the Taylor side there is an Irish strain. The combination has produced the highest type of citizenship, as several generations in Jefferson County have demonstrated. Great-grandfather Crawford was probably born in Pennsylvania. Grandfather James Crawford served as a justice of the peace in Island Creek Township, where he died in 1840. The second James Crawford, father of Abel J., died in 1872. He was a leading member and for many years an exhorter in flue Mt. Tabor Methodist Episcopal Church. In his early political life he was a Whig but later became a Republican and was frequently elected to township offices. In his later years he gave his attention exclusively to his land and rattle but formerly had both mercantile and milling interests. Abel J. Crawford was reared in his native township and after attending the trict schools became a student at Richmond College, Richmond, O., after which he went into his present industries. He has resided no his farm for half a century and his resitdence was built fully forty years ago, its present excellent condition reflecting credit upon its builder, who has long since passed away. Mr. Crawford was married first to Miss Mary Hammond, a native of Salem Township, Jefferson County, and a daughter of George Hammond. 'Nine children were born to that union and seven of them survive; Harry J., who is a member of the prominent law firm, Crawford, Squire, Dempsey & Sanders, of Cleveland; John T., 852 - HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY who lives near Richmond, O.; Lillian, who lives at Avelon, Pa.; Cora, who is the wife of Frank Ford, of Cleveland; Emma, who is the wife of Andrew Nixon, of Ross Township; Wilma, who lives at home; and Rena, who is a deaconess in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Bridgeport, 0. Mr. Crawford was married secondly to Mrs. Rachel Bracken. He is a member and one of the trustees of Mt. Tabor Methodist Episcopal Church. In his views on public questions he has always been consistent and casts his vote with the Prohibition party. HENRY L. WILSON, a respected citizen of Steubenville, 0., residing in liis pleasant home which is located at No. .South Fourth Street, for many years lived on his farm in Steubenville Township. Jefferson County, Ohio, and also for a long period has been interested in the coal industry. He was born on the old Wilson homestead, in Steubenville Township, in 1846, and is a son of John Wilson. John Wilson and his uncle, Hans. Wilson, Were born in Ireland, and the latter was one of the earliest settlers in Jefferson County. The Wilson homestead came to the family through Hans Wilson. John Wilson settled on this farm in Steubenville Township, in 1818,, and lived on it until his death, in 1851. He married Susanna Lloyd, who was born in Cross Creek Township and died in 1850. They were survived by tour children. all sons, namely: James, who died in 1863 while serving as a soldier in the Civil War: ,John. a merchant at Wilson's Corners. who served also in the Civil War under General McCook, in the 100-day enlistment ; Henry 1,.; and Isaac M., the last named dying in 1877. The family was out of prominence in Steubenville Township. Henry L. Wilson was reared on the old family farm and attended the country schools. To sonic extent he engaged in agricultural pursuits. but a large part of his time was given to the development of coal, there being a valuable mine on his land. He has other interests and spent two years looking after them in Loudon County, Tennessee. In 1900 he retired to Steubenville and takes life much easier than formerly but still retains the management of his farm, his mine being under lease. Mr. Wilson was married in 1878 to Miss H. J. Adams, a daughter of Henry Adams, and they have three children: Stewart -M., who i.s residing in Oklahoma; and Bertha and George. H., who live at home. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson are members of the First Presbyterian Church at Steubenville. He is an active member of the Odd Fellows at Steubenville and has been, a member of this fraternal organization since 1870. ROBERT LAUGHLIN, M.D., an eminent physician and surgeon it Steubenville. O., where his period of practice has covered thirty-four years of well directed effort -and has been rewarded by a large measure of professional success, was born in Meigs County, Ohio, June 18, 1851. and is a soil of Robert R. and Mary ( Warner) Laughlin. The father of Dr. Laughlin was born in Beaver County. Pennsylvania in 1843, was married in Meigs County, Ohio in 1848 and in 1856 returned to Beaver County, where he engaged in farming during the remainder of his active life. Dr. Laughlin's mother was born in 1826, in West Virginia. Until he was fifteen years old the subject of this sketch lived on the farm. He was a boy of considerable ambition and determination and about that time assumed the burden of his own support. securing a school to teach which gave him an opportunity to enter the Hookstown high school and thus better qualify himself fora professional life upon which he had decided. He continued to teach school and thus provided for a term of three years in Beaver Academy, and in the same manner he supplied himself with the means to enter upon the study of with Dr. Hamilton, at Georgetown.. Pa. he devoted the winters of 1874-75-76 to attending Cleveland AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 853 Medical College, and from this institution he was graduated on March 16, 1876, having made a brave and manly struggle for his coveted degree. In 1886 he spent six months in Bellevue Medical College, New York City, taking a post-graduate course, and in the following year took a course in the Polyclinic College, and subsequently has taken numerous others in order to practically study the modern' scientific discoveries of his beloved profession. He has thus kept himself thoroughly informed through attendance on clinics, through scientific lectures, wide reading and a large practice, until he has won for himself an enviable position in his profession. He is an active citizen in the general sense, but is averse to being numbered with those who hold themselves eligible to public office. he is identified with the Republican party. On November 20, 1878, Dr. Laughlin was married to Miss Mary M. Warrick, who is a daughter of Jonathan Warrick, formerly of Columbiana Comity, and they have three children : Curtis L., Ford and Perry. The eldest son is also a physician and is engaged in practice at Steubenville. Dr. Laughlin and family enjoy a beautiful home which is situated at No. 477 South Fourth Street, his office being maintained at No. 112 South Third Street. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, a Knight Templar and Shriner. FRANK B. McCULLOUGH, a successful farmer and well known citizen of Cross Creek Township, resides on a valuable his of 1:37 acres known as the old Oliver farm. He was born in Wayne Township, Jefferson County. November 4, 1872, and is a son of Walter A. and .Tulin K. (Ford) McCullough. His paternal grandparents were John and Jane McCullough, and his grandparents on his mother's side, Nicholas and Caroline Ford. The parents of Mr. McCullough still live in Wayne Township and are agricultural people. They are members of the M. E. Church, and the father is a Republican in polities. They had two sons born to them, Frank B. and William. Frank B. McCullough attended the public schools and later Scio College for two years. He then went to work at farming, which has always been his occupation. He remained on the home farm with his father until his marriage, and then moved to his present place, which was inherited by his wife and her sister from their father. In addition to general farming, he has considerable business as an auctioneer and an established reputation in that line of work. He makes a specialty of raising fine harness and draft horses, and is the owner of two fine stallions, namely: Black Crook, coal black in color, with a mark of 2 :18, and an imported Belgium draft horse, coal black in color and weighing 1,830 pounds, he latter costing him $2,000. He is a Republican in. politics and. has served two terms as assessor, one term in Wayne Township and one in Cross Creek. In October, 1899, Frank B. McCullough was united in marriage with Mary E. Oliver, who comes of a prominent old famtily of the township, being a daughter of Alexander and Jemima (McCain) Oliver, and a granddaughter of. Charles and Anna Oliver. Tier maternal grandparents were Myron and Elizabeth. McCain. Tier parents were buried at Center Church cemetery. She has one brother, Burns Oliver, and a sister, Anna, who is the wife of William. Birchfield, one of the commissioners of Jefferson County. One daughter was born to the subject. of this sketch and his wife, Julia Oliver McCullough, the date being September 22, :1903. Religiously, they are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. in fraternal affiliation he is a member or the Masonic Lodge at Smithtfield. ENOCH PEARCE, M. D., Surgeon 61st- Regt. O. V. I., Major and Brevet Lieut.-Col. (Medical Staff) U. S. Volunteers, Civil War, was born Nov. 18th., 1832 at Westminster (near Baltimore), Md.—a son of 854 - HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY Enoch and Rachel (McKenzie) Pearce. Both parents were Marylanders. His father followed mechanical pursuits, moved to Pittsburgh, Pa., and later moved to Ohio, in 1840, settling at Steubenville, Ohio. Dr. Pearce was educated in the public schools and later at the Grove Academy at Steubenville, Ohio. In 1848 he began the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. Benjamin Tappan of that place. He attended the Medical Department of the University of New York City in 1851-52, and also the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, Pa., in 1853-54, graduating from the Jefferson Medical College in March, 1854. He commenced the practice of Medicine and Surgery in Steubenville, Ohio, in May, 1854, and continued to so practice until he entered The U. S. Vol. Army in 1861. He was married to Miss Cecelia Jane Savary, daughter of Richard and Betsy (Keene) Savary, December 25th, 1860, at Pittsburgh, Pa. The following children were born to them : George Grant, Jessie B., Frank Savary, Olive Branch, Beulah Viola and E. Stanton Pearce. Military record : Appointed by Gov. Dennison, of Ohio, Asst. Surgeon 24th Ohio Volunteer Infantry July 2nd, 1861, which appointment was not accepted. Appointed by David Tod, Governor of Ohio, Surgeon 61st Ohio Vols., Oct. 15th, 1861, and accepted said appointment. Made Surgeon in Chief 1st Brig. 3rd Div. 11th Corps, Army of The Potomac, Jan'y 3rd, 1863. Appointed by President Lincoln Asst. Surgeon U. S. Vols., Sept. 2, 1863. Promoted by Pres. Lincoln to Surgeon U. S. Vols., Sept. 9, 1863, and ordered to report to The Medical Directory of the 11th Army Corps, Oct. 19th, 1863, for duty. Appointed by the President Brevet Lieut.-Col. U. S. Vols. for gallant and meritorious services, to date from Mch. 13th, 1865. Served in Mountain Dept. of West Virginia, May-August, 1862, 1st Brig., 3rd Div., 1st Army Corps. In Army of Virginia from June to September, 1862, 1st Brig., 3rd Div., 11th Army Corps. In Army of The Potomac, Sept. '62 to Oct. '63. In Department of The Cumberland to April 11th, 1864. SERVICE. Operations under Gen. Kelley and Gen. Fremont in West Virginia, Mountain Dept., May-Aug., 1862. Slaughter Mountain, Aug. 9. Operations on The Rappahannock, Aug. 22t25. Freeman's Ford, Aug. 22. White Sulphur Springs, Aug. 23. Waterloo Bridge, Aug. 25. Plains of Manassas, Aug. 28-29. Second Battle of Bull Run, Aug. 30. Duty near Chain Bridge, to October 2. Exp. to Thoroughfare Gap, and Warrenton, Nov. 1t8. Duty at Aquia Creek and Stafford C. H., Dec. 1862, to April, 1863. Surgeon in Chief 1st Brig., 3rd Div., 11th Corps, Jan. 3 to Dec. 19, 1863. Burnside's 2nd Campaign, Jan. 20-24, 1863. Battle of Chancellorsville, May 1-5. (Pennsylvania Campaign, June 12-July 16.) Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3. Near Hagerstown, July 12. Duty on Orange and Alexandria, R. R., to Sept. 25. Repulse of Night Attack on Lookout Creek, base of Lookout Mountain, Tenn., Oct. 28, 29, Battle of Wauchatchie. Reported to Commander of Army of Cumberland, Nov. 23, 1863, for assignment to duty. In Charge of U. S. Army Hospital No. 3, near Louisville, Ky., Jan. 3rd to March 13, 1864. In Charge of Branch No. 2 Eruptive Hospital, March 13-April 1st. Reported April 1st to Examining Board for Sick Officers at Cincinnati, 0. Honorably discharged as a sick officer April 12, 1864. At Battle of Gettysburg, Pa., in morning of July 3rd, '63, Wm. S. Moore, Asst. Sur- AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 857 geon of same Regt. 61st O. V. I., was mortally wounded, also his horse was killed under him, both by the same cannon bail. He was the only medical officer of Union Army reported killed at that battle. And on the afternoon of the same day, July 3d, the Confederate Brig. Gen'l Armistead, who had attained the most advanced point of the battle, was brought mortally wounded to Field Hospital of 1st Brig., 3rd Div., 11th Army Corps, where Surg. E. Pearce examined him and found that a fragment of an exploded shell had entered his chest in region of heart, severed a rib and lodged in chest, lacerating left lung, and was bleeding internally. Some time that night he was removed—said to have been taken to Gen'l Mead's Headquarters, and died. After close of Civil War he was appointed by Gen'l Grant, then President, a United States Examining Surgeon for Pensions at Steubenville, Ohio, in May, 1869, and serving as such continuously for more than 20 yrs. Member of Loyal Legion, Dep. Ohio, Cincinnati. Insignia Number 10677. Member of Stanton Post, Grand Army of The Republic at Steubenville, Ohio. Pres. Soldiers & Sailors Monumental Association of Jefferson County, Ohio, ever since its organization. Member of The Jefferson County Medical Society ever since its organization in 1857. Member of Ohio State Medical Society, and of The American Medical Association. He was a delegate from The Ohio State Medical Society to represent the Society at the Centennial Medical Congress held at Philadelphia, Pa., 1876. He was also a member of the 9th International Medical Congress held in Washington, D. C., September, 1887. Member of The International Congress on Tuberculosis, Washington, D. C., September 21st to October 12th, 1908. At this date—June 24th, 1910, Surgeon E. Pearce is practicing medicine and surgery in Steubenville, Ohio. E. STANTON PEARCE, attorney-at-law, and official court reporter of Jefferson County, Ohio, is one of the leading younger professional men of Steubenville. He comes of illustrious ancestry, and was born on the 5th day of July, 1876, at his father's residence the former homestead of Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, at Steubenville, 0., where he has ever since lived, and is the youngest son of Dr. Enoch and Cecelia J. (Savary) Pearce. His middle name was given him as a result of the warm friendship which existed between his father and Mr. Stanton. Mr. Pearce received his early education in the Steubenville public schools and graduated from the high school in 1894. He then took up the study of phonography, solely as an adjunct to his chosen profession, law, and became so proficient in the art that he began reporting in the courts of Jefferson and Harrison Counties. While engaged in court work Mr. Pearce continued the study of law, prepared for college with a local attorney, and then entered the law department of the University of Michigan, and in October, 1899, took the examination for admission to the Ohio bar and was highly successful in passing, when fortytnine per cent of the applicants failed, being admitted to the bar on October 14, 1899. He immediately became associated in the practice of law with Mr. P. P. Lewis, at Steubenville, 0., and on January 1, 1901, was appointed official reporter of the courts of Jefferson County, a position which he still retains, being recognized as one of the most skillful and accurate court reporters in his native state. By reason of his continuous contact with various courts and his broad experience in legal matters, Mr. Pearce has naturally acquired an especially comprehensive knowledge of the law for one of his years, and, although engaged as court reporter, he still keeps up his law practice which is becoming more extensive with each succeeding year. 858 - HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY As a native of the city of Steubenville, he is closely identified with its civic, social and business interests, being a stockholder in some of the city's financial institutions, and has other interests. Mr. Pearce is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association, the Jefferson County Bar Association and the National Shorthand Reporters' Association. He is a Knight Templar and Scottish Rite Mason, a member of the Steubenville Lodge of Elks, the Steubenville Country Club and the Assembly and attends St. Paul's Church. W. J. CURN, who is engaged in the marble and granite business conducting monumental works at No. 131 South Fourth Street, Steubenville, 0., is a native of this city, born in 1869, and is a son of John Cum, one of the old business men of this city who was well and favorably known here for years. John Curn was born at Steubenville in 1837, and died in 1891. He was a son of Patrick Curn, who was a native of County Clare, Ireland, and a settler at Steubenville some years before the birth of his son, John Curn. The latter grew to manhood in the old home on Logan Street and learned the trade of molder in the Means foundry. He served as a soldier in the Civil War for three years and ten months. After he returned to Steubenville he engaged in the monument business and met an accidental death while engaged in building a stone bridge on the Pennsylvania Railroad, at Steubenville, being run down by a fast train. W. J. Curn attended the public schools and the well remembered old academy and then learned his business with his father and uncle, George Swords, and for fourteen years has been in business for himself. He is additionally interested in other city enterprises and one of these is a nickleodian located on the corner of Fourth and Market Streets. On February 1, 1898, Mr. Curn was married to Miss Ida. McMasters, a daughter of Stanton McMasters, of Mt. Pleasant, and they have one child. Gertrude E. Mr. and Mrs. Curn are members of the Fifth Street Methodist Protestant Church. GEORGE N. HENRY, secretary and manager of the Pleasant Heights Improvement Company, at Steubenville, 0., is a native of this city and has been identified with its business interests since the age of fifteen years. He was born January 11, 1854, and is a son of Joshua and Ann (Lee) Fleury. Mr. Henry comes of Irish ancestry, both grandfathers coming to America from County Down, Ireland, at the same time. His father, Joshua Henry, was born at Pittsburgh, Pa., and died in Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1878. For a number of years he followed an agricultural life in Island Creek Township. His widow survived him into extreme old age. George N. Henry, the third born in a family of six children, received a good public school education and at the age of fourteen years was mentally prepared to assume business responsibilities and from that time until October, 1873, he served continuously and faithfully and efficiently with two firms of old business men of Steubenville, Thomas Stanton, and Keller & Whitaker. In 1873 an opportunity came for him to embark in business for himself, as the successor to Keller & Whitaker and George L. Whitaker, and in October of that year he embarked in the grocery business in partnership with Samuel Cox. The death of Mr. Cox within six months threw the entire responsibility of the enterprise on Mr. Henry, which he successfully assumed and continued alone in this business until 1880. In the fall of that year, in association with John C. Brown and George A. Maxwell, he established a cold storage business, under the firm style of Brown, Maxwell & Henry. Three years later a disastrous fire destroyed the plant and at that time Mr. Brown retired. Mr. Henry and Mr. Maxwell joined their interests and engaged in the wholesale fruit business, which proved a very successful venture, the firm of Maxwell & Henry building up the largest trade in this line in this section of AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 859 the state. Mr. Henry has .been a most active citizen and, a very useful member of the city council, to which he was first elected in the spring of 1885, and served, until 1892. He was there recognized as a thoroughly experienced and practical business man, and very soon was made president of the council, and during his many years of civic service has held other positions of responsibility, being made a member of the finance committee and chairman of the streets committee. He has always counseled good citizenship and has set the example. In 1891 the Pleasant Heights Land Company was. organized, selling out to the Pleasant Heights Improvement Company in July, 1901. Mr. Henry was a stockholder in the original organization and retained stock in the new company, of which he has been manager from the beginning. On March 31, 1876, Mr. Henry was married to Miss Mary E. Cable, who is a daughter of William Cable, a former postmaster of Steubenville. They have one daughter. In politics Mr. Henry is an ardent Republican. He is identified fratertnally with a number of organizations and is connected with benevolent bodies. MICHAEL GALLAGHER, president of the People's National Bank of Mt. Pleasant, 0., and general manager of some of the largest coal mining interests in Ohio, is identified also with many other large enterprises and is the owner of rich coal and farm lands in several localities. He was born at Latrobe, Pa., September 3, 1870, and is a son of William and Mary ( Welch) Gallagher. William Gallagher and wife were both born in County Mayo, Ireland, and came to America prior to 1860. The father was a coal miner and followed that occupation until his death. He left a widow who still survives and they had a large family of children. Michael Gallagher, under the above circumstances, had few initial advantages and these he provided largely for himself. The great business ability be has shown came to him as a natural gift, no circumstances. Ai environment ever smoothing his way to success. He obtained his education in the public schools and prior to 1889, was variously engaged, being largely connected with mining interests. In that relation he came to Startle, Long Run, Jefferson County, where he took charge of the stores for a mining company and was made postmaster and served in that capacity for six years. Later he went on the road as a traveling salesman. In the spring of 1899 he embarked in the coal business and was purchasing agent for different companies throughout Jefferson, Belmont and Monroe Counties, his purchases aggregating some sixty thousand acres of coal land. Mr. Gallagher secured a tract of 4,000 acres in Mt. Pleasant Township, purchasing it from the farmers and later disposed of it to Peter M. Hitchcock and W. D. Reese, of Cleveland. He afterwards sold, for these purchasers, the same land to the Lone Tree Coal Company, later repurchasing and selling it to the Upstill Coal Company, which he had organized and in which he was a director. Later he negotiated the sale of that company to the Morris Paston Coal Company, the present owners, who have established one of the best equipped mines in the country, one mile northwest of Mt. Pleasant. Mr. Gallagher is a. director in the Glenn Run Coal Company, which owns about 3,500 acres of coal land in Jefferson County, the plant for mining the same being established at Rush Run, on the Pennsylvania Railroad ; also a mine on the Wheelting and Lake Erie Railroad, one and one-half miles northeast of Dillonvale. He is also vice-president of the St. Clair Coal Company which owns 2,600 acres, the mine at present having one opening two miles south of Flushing, in Belmont County ; is largely interested in undeveloped coal lands in Belmont County located partly in Captina Valley, adjacent to the B. Z. & C. Railroad ; and was active in the development of the O'Neal Coal Mining Company, located at Herrick, 0., on the Wheeling 860 - HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY & Lake Erie Railroad, but later sold the same to M. A. Hanna & Co., which mine is at present under his management. He negotiated also the deal for the coal that is owned and operated by the Provident Coal Company, of Belmont County, which is a large, modern plant located two miles north of. St. Clairsville, around which a prosperous town has grown up. He also organized the E. N. Boggs Coal Company, located at Barton, on the C. L. & W. Railroad and later sold the same to the Y. & 0. Coal Company, which company at the present time is operating this mine. He has been equally prominent in the organizing and furthering of other important enterprises which have been beneficial to a large number of his fellow citizens in many ways. He was one of the organizers of the Mt. Pleasant Telephone Company and was its president in 1904, serving two years, and then disposing of the property to its present owners. He was one of the first to recognize the need that is supplied by the People's National Bank, which he subsequently organized, and later gained control of the Mt. Pleasant National Bank and was president of that institution also until it liquidated. He is a director of the Security Trust Company, of Wheeling, W. Va.; is president of the Dillonvale Building Company and owns the largest building at Dillonvale, which is occupied by the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad Company as a pastsenger station and telegraph office ; by the offices of the W. & L. E. Coal Mining Comtpany; the First National Bank of Dillon-vale ; the drug store of Dr. J. C. Jones ; the headquarters of the Dillonvale Heat and Power Company; a large clothing and gents' furnishing store, and the lodge rooms of the fraternal order of Red Men. The structure is of large proportions, two stories in height and is built of brick. The mining companies of which Mr. Gallagher at present is manager are as follows : The Boomer Coal and Coke Comtpany, of Boomer, W. Va., which operates four large mines, producing a million tons a year ; Pittsburgh and Eastern Coal Com pany at Cherry Valley, Pa., with three mines producing 700,000 tons annually ; W. & L. E. Coal Mining Company, at Dillonvale, Connor and Herrick, 0., producing 800,000 tons a year ; the Massillon Coal Mining Company, located in the vicinity. of Massillon, 0., with eight mines and an annual capacity of about 600,000 tons, the production being considered the best of its kind in existence for domestic use. The various mines give a vast army employment, aggregating about 5,000 men and the above is the largest independent concern in the country. The mining companies were formerly directed by the late Senator Hanna and his connection continued until his death. Mr. Gallagher has been active and interested in local measures as well as in the great outside business transactions which have been placed in his hands.. Mt. Pleasant owes a great deal to his interest and public spirit for many of the comforts and conveniences enjoyed, as he was greatly concerned in securing the establishment of the various city utilities. Mr. Gallagher married Miss Sarah Louise Humphreyville, a daughter of A. D. Humphreyville, of Mt. Pleasant, and they have had the following children : Pauline, who is a member of the graduating class of 1910, at the Laurell Private School, an exclusive establishment at Cleveland ; William Alexander and Mary Theresa, both in school; Helen Virginia, who is an attractive little maid of four years ; and Ruth Louise, who can claim but twenty-two months. The family home is one of the most attractive residences at Mt. Pleasant, a large brick structure which was formerly owned by Hon. J. T. Updegraff. Mr. Gallagher owns other valuable property intcluding a tract at Brookside, near Bridgeport, 0., a farm of 337 acres. underlaid with coal, in Harrison County ; 190 acres in Jefferson County ; 32 acres in Belmont County, and 268 acres in Monroe County, Ohio. Mr. Gallagher is a pleasant man to meet, genial in manner and of agreeable personality but he impresses one immediately AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 361 with a feeling of power., ability, forcefulness, and in his poise may be recognized that natural gift which has. made his life more successful than that of nine-tenths of his fellow creatures. CHARLES L. FOREMAN, one of Steutbenville's leading citizens and representative business men, who has made this city his home since 1876, has long been also a factor in both city and county politics, and served for five years .as county treasurer of Jefferson County. He was born at New Cumberland, W. Va., in 1861. After his school days were over, Mr. Foreman came to Steubenville and here learned the tailoring trade and for ten years worked as a tailor before he embarked in the merchant tailoring business for himself. He restricted his business to that line until 1906, when he added a stock of shoes and has added shoe merchandising to his former activities. He is additionally interested in a number of other prosperous enterprises, in the oil industry and in street car lines, and is secretary of one concern and a director in two land companies. From early' manhood he has taken an interest in public affairs, and has received the support of his fellow citizens when he has sought public office and has justified their confidence by the honesty and efficiency of his service. His record as county treasurer showed that he was the right man in the right place and he was equally acceptable during his six years of service on the board of trustees of the city water works, of which body he was secretary and a member during the building of this fine city utility. Mr. Foreman is a very useful member of the Steubenville Chamber of Commerce. In 1882 Mr. Foreman was married to Miss Mary B. McKinney, who died in 1894, leaving two children : Blanche B., who married Harry C. McConnell; and Helen M. Mr. Foreman and daughters are members of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. He is identified with Steuben Lodge Knights of Pythias and the Elks, and belongs also to the Country Club. JAMES M. REYNOLDS, auditor of Jefferson County, Ohio, and a prominent citizen of Steubenville, where he has been identified with railroad work for a number of years in the offices of the Pan Handle Company, was born at Steubenville, 0., December 24. 1857. The father of Mr. Reynolds, the late Henry K. Reynolds, was born and reared in Cecil County, Maryland, and came to Steubenville after his marriage to Miss Ann E. Davidson, also of Cecil County. He became very prominent in the business life of Steubenville, engaged in mercantile pursuits, and was the senior member of the lumber firm of Reynolds & Anderson, and was also interested in the river trade and for a time was captain of a steamboat. Quite active and influential in politics, he was elected and entered upon the duties of recorder of Jefferson County, but did not live to complete his term, his death occurring April 10, 1877. James M. Reynolds was educated in the common and High Schools of Steubenville, and his business activities have been confined to his native city. He learned telegraphy in the offices of the P. C. C. & St. L. Railroad and has been identified with railroad work ever since. He has always been a consistent Republican and a zealous worker for his party's success. As a representative citizen he has been elected to office at various times, and in 1885 he was appointed clerk of the city council, and in November, 1904, he was elected to the office of auditor of Jefferson County. Mr. Reynolds has put forth his efforts to appraise all property at its actual value according to the law and the constitution and believes that property should be equalized and each tax payer pay the just proportion of taxes. On October 8, 1884, Mr. Reynolds was married to Miss Carrie G. Underwood, who is a daughter of John Underwood, of Cross 862 - HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY Creek Township and a former county commissioner of Jefferson County. Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds are members of the Episcopal Church. In his fraternal relations he is a member of both branches of the Odd Fellows and of the Patriarchs Militant, and belongs also to the Elks. C. C. WHITWORTH, a well known business man of Amsterdam, 0., who deals in hardware, furniture, farming implements, wagons, buggies and harness, was born December 25, 1869, in Dalton, Wayne County, Ohio, and is a son of Thomas and Mary A. (Jacobs) Whitworth. Mr. Whitworth received his education in the schools of Dalton, and on August 4, 1892, he was united in 'marriage with Louella. Smith, the daughter of Samuel and Mary A. (Sawvel) Smith. After marriage he resided for eleven years at Jefferson, and then came to Amsterdam, where for three years he was engaged in mining. On November 17, 1906, he founded his present business, confining his stock at first to general hardware, but later enlarging it to cover furniture and a large line of farming implements, buggies, wagons and accessories, and he now has a large trade and utilizes a store space 24x40 feet in size. Mr. Whitworth is a member of the Knights of Pythias, and the Red Men, while his wife is connected with the Rebeccas, the W. C. T. U. and the Pocahontas. Both attend the Lutheran Church. A Democrat in his political views, Mr. Whitworth has served his community as a member of the school board. Mr. and Mrs. Whitworth have had two children : Darrell Floyd, who was born January 10, 1895, and died January 29th of that year, being buried at Jefferson; and Gladys Vivian, who was born March 28, 1896, and is now attending high school at Amsterdam. F. M. WORK, one of the leading merchants of Steubenville, O., a member of the firm of F. M. Work & Co., with business quarters at Nos. 168-170 South Fourth Street, has been a resident of this city for eight years. He was born at Wheeling, W. Va., December 24, 1864. After his school days were over, Mr. Work went into the nail mill connected with the La Belle Iron Works at Wheeling and continued there for eighteen years, and was also in the grocery business at Wheeling for a number of years, and then came to Steubenville. Here he embarked in the general mercantile and grocery business, under the firm name of F. M. Work & Co., and conducts a large and increasing business. Employment is given to fourteen people and trade territory is all over the city. Mr. Work is interested in other successful enterprises. He is president and a director of the Buckeye Rolling Mill Company, of Newark, 0.; a director of the Wheeling Enameling Company; a director of the People,s National Bank, at Steubenville; and a stockholder in the La Belle Iron Works. In all these concerns he is connected with men of capital and energy, representatives of solid and effective citizenship. In 1887 Mr. Work was married to Miss Josephine Baron, of Wheeling, W. Va. They are members of the First Methtodist Episcopal Church. He is identified with the fraternal order of Elks. JAMES F. SARRATT, optician, one of the older business men of Steubenville, 0., a highly respected citizen and a. survivor of the great Civil War, has made this city his home for more than a half century. He was born at Washington, Washington County, Pennsylvania, in 1828, and in his native section learned the trade of tin and coppersmith, after which he learned the jewelry business and then traveled in different parts of the country in search of a desirable location, which he finally found at Steubenville. In 1857 he settled here among the early business men and became associated with his brother Joseph in a jewelry store, and had made some business progress when the Civil War broke out. In answer to the first call for troops, he enlisted in Company T, 20th Ohio Volun- AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 865 teer Infantry, and went into the army. He passed safely through his first enlistment and then became a veteran, re-enlisting in Company G, 2nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry, contracting for three years or during the war. He was elected captain of his company and later was commissioned major. He lived to return home and resume life once more as a peaceful, private citizen. He again opened his jewelry store and continued in that business until 1890, when he gave up that line of work, and was appointed postmaster under President Harrison’s administration. He filled that position four years and since then has given all his attention to his optical business. Mr. Sarratt invented a remarkable astronomical clock that was recommended by the educational department of the Columbian Exposition at Chicago. He has been an active and prominent citizen and is a valued member of the Loyal Legion and of E. M. Stanton Post, No. 166, G. A. R. In 1867 Mr. Sarratt was married to Miss Elizabeth Turnbull, a member of an old family of Steubenville, and a daughter of James Turnbull, who came to Steubenville in 1816. Mr. and Mrs. Sarratt have two living children, James T. and Isabella, and one deceased, Carrie T. The family belongs to the Second Presbyterian Church. For sixty-one years Mr. Sarratt has been a member of the Odd Fellows. HON. THOMAS W. PORTER, mayor of Steubenville, O., is efficiently serving in this highest municipal office and is giving his fellow citizens a clean, business adminisration that is winning the approbation of all who have the best interests of this beautiful city at heart. He was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, August 29, 1861 , and is one of a family of four children born to his parents, who were Joshua M. and Rachel (Williams) Porter. The father of Mayor Porter died at Steubenville in 1872. He was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, where he learned a trade and continued to work at the same long after he settled in Jefferson Comity. Ohio, in 1857. Thomas W. Porter obtained his education in the public schools of Jefferson County and when he reached manhood came to Steubenville .and entered the rolling mills, where he continued an employe until 1887. In that year he embarked in the retail grocery business and continued in that line until called upon to assume the duties of his present office. Mayor Porter may be described as a man with no frills or fancies, his life having been a very practical one and this fact makes him a most satisfactory mayor, at a time when the city’s needs are insistent and a clearheaded, courageous and honest man is needed at the helm of public affairs. In politics Mayor Porter is a Republican and his election on the Republican ticket to his present office, on November 4, 1907, was by a majority of 467 votes. He is fraternally identified with both the Masons and the Knights of Pythias. J. F. SARRATT, Jr., who is engaged in the jewelry business at No. 410 Market Street, Steubenville, O., was born in this city in 1858, and is a son of the late Joseph B. and Ruth E. Sarratt. Joseph H. Sarratt was born at Washington, Washington County, Pennsylvania, and came to Steubenville in 1844 and engaged in the jewelry business, in which he continued until his death, January 22, 1899. He was one of the three or four early Abolitionists of this section and was one of the promoters of the underground railway which managed the escape of many fugitive slaves to Canada. His wife died in 1876. They had a family of children and the following survive : Helen B., wife of Spence Wallace, who is city treasurer of Steubenville and also grand vice chancellor of the order of Knights of Pythias of Ohio ; .Tames F.; Samuel A., a watchmaker, who is with his brother, James F.; and Julia May, a physician at Waco, Texas, who is a graduate of the Kirksville, Mo. School of Osteopathy. J. F. Sarratt, Jr., was reared at Steubenville and educated in the public schools. 866 - HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY In 1871 he began learning the jewelry business and watchmaking trade with his father and for twelve years worked at different points including New Castle, Pa., Cairo, Ill., and Paducah, Ky., returning to Steubenville in 1896 before the death of his father. Here, with his brother Samuel, he entered into business under the firm style of Sarratts, Watch and Clock Repairing Company. The partnership was mainttained for three years, since when James F. Sarratt has been sole proprietor, continuing in the business which has been attached to his name at Steubenville, for sixty-six years. He is a member of the Steubenville Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Sarratt was reared and confirmed in St. Paul's Episcopal Church at Steubenville. J. H. CAMPBELL, postmaster at Island Creek, Jefferson County, Ohio. where he has been conducting a mercantile business since 1900, at which time he entered upon his public duties, is one of the representative citizens of Island Creek Township and a. member of an old county family. He was born in Knox Township, Jefferson County, in February, 1841, and is a son of Jefferson and Harriet Campbell. Jefferson Campbell and also his wife were born in Jefferson County, Ohio, and he was a son of William Campbell, who was one of the first settlers in Knox Township and was probably of Scotch parentage. Jefferson Campbell was a well known man in this section of the county and was very highly respected. He was a member of the Island Creek Presbyterian Church and constant in his attendance until the time of his death, in 1890. In his political opinions he was a Republican. Of his children the following survive : John H.; George, retsiding in Knox Township; Emeline, wife of W. W. Gray, of Knox Township ; Mary, residing in Knox Township ; Thomas J., residing at Toronto ; Charles F., living in Knox Township ; David E., living also in Knox Township ; and Catherine J., widow of J. B. Rex, who lives at Akron, 0. John H. Campbell was reared to man's estate in Knox Township and after preparatory training in the district schools, became a student at Richmond College, at that time a flourishing institution at Richmond, 0. In April, 1861, Mr. Campbell enlisted in Company I, 20th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and during his first enlistment was on duty guarding railroads in West Virginia. In 1864 he became a member of the Home Guards, a patriotic body that responded to the call of the President for men to guard the State from invasion and take care of prisoners and he was stationed for about four months at Port Delaware engaged in these duties and was honorably discharged in September, 1864, then returning to Jefferson County. For a number of years afterward he was engaged in general farming in Knox Township and served for twelve years as a justice of the peace, afterward moving to Toronto, where he was elected assessor and a member of the school board, of which he was president for a part of the time. After coming to Island Creek Township he served three years as a justice of the peace and in 1900 was appointed postmaster at Island Creek. In 1866 Mr. Campbell was married to Isabel Joseph, of Island Creek Township and of their nine children eight have survived the mother : Harriet E., who is the wife of T. W. Morrow, a prominent merchant at Toronto ; Margaret, who is the wife of F, F. Carnes, of Alliance, 0.; Annie, who is the wife of John W. Young, of Wellsville, 0.; William R., who lives at Steubenville ; Jane, who is the wife of Frank Beaumont, of East Liverpool ; Irene, who is the wife of James Dunbar, of Island Creek Township ; Jessie, who is the wife of George Kennedy, of Wellsville; and Charles A., who resides at Brilliant, 0. Mr. Campbell was married secondly to Mrs. Sallie Martin, widow of James Martin, formerly of Island Creek Township, and a daughter of the late George Davis of the same township. He is a member of the Island Creek Presbyterian Church. In polities be is a Republican. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 867 EMMETT McDONALD ERWIN, of the firm of Erwin & Robinson, proprietors of what is the largest establishment at Steubenville in the line of merchandising, stands high in business circles all through Eastern Ohio, where the firm has a large trade. He was born at Steubenville and is a son of J. W. Erwin, a former prominent citizen of Steubenville, his father having been one of the early settlers. Emmett McD. Erwin started to work when ten years old as an errand boy in the store of Crumrine & Timberlake and after an experience of about ten years went to Pittsburgh, where for five years he was with the firm of J. R. Weldin & Co. He returned then to Steubenville and in 1899, with G. W. Robinson, bought the Timberlake and Kendall book and stationery store, the firm name becoming Erwin & Robinson, as it continues. Both Mr. Erwin and his partner are practical business men and when they took charge they displayed the energy and enterprise that soon attracted attention and subsequently gained confidence, and from the beginning they realized that they had an excellent business field before them. They possessed the foresight and good judgment to take advantage of it and the result is, that they now possess what is called the "big store" at Steubenville, owning their fine three-story brick building with basement, equipped with their own electric light plant which has a capacity of 1,000 lights, and occupying 17,000 square feet of floor space with their stock which includes books, stationery, furniture, china, wall paper, carpets, rugs, draperies, beds and bedding while they are also wholesale jobbers in wall paper and window shades. Mr. Erwin is a member of the Second Presbyterian Church, is identified with the order of Elks and belongs to the Steubenville Country Club. R. E. BLINN, county treasurer of Jefferson County, Ohio, and a leading citizen of Steubenville, is also an honored veteran of the great Civil War and a valued mem ber of E. M. Stanton Post, G. A. R. Mr. Blinn was born in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, in 1832, and remained in his native county until 1855, when he came to Steubenville. Mr. Blinn’s first official position was that of deputy sheriff in the office of his father, James H. Blinn, who was sheriff of Jeftferson County from 1855 until 1859. He then entered the employ of the Adams Express Company and remained until 1862 when he enlisted for service in the Civil War, entering Co. A, 98th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and continued in the army until the close of the war, when he was honorably discharged and mustered out in 1865. He was one of that famous band that marched to the sea under General Sherman. After the war closed he returned to Steubenville and embarked in the grocery business and continued in that line until he was elected to the office of county treasurer, in Novemtber, 1908. He has served in numerous public offices with the greatest efficiency. For twelve years he was a member of the board of directors of the Jefferson County Infirmary and for four years was a trustee of the city water works company. In July, 1859, Mr. Blinn was married to Miss Ellen Martin, of Steubenville, 0., and they have five surviving children: Jean Marie Ermine, who is the widow of William Sheritt, lives at home; James H., who is in business at Steubenville ; Edwin C., who is assistant wreck master for the P. C. & St. L. Railroad ; and Frank, who is an official under his father. Mr. Blinn and family are members of the Second Presbyterian Church, of which he is a deacon. He is identified with the Knights of Honor. H. N. HAMMOND, president of the First National Bank of Dillonvale, 0., and one of Jefferson County’s substantial and representative citizens, was born on his father’s farm in Smithfield Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, December 13, 1859, and is a son of Nathan and Eliza Ann (Naylor) Hammond. 868 - HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY Nathan Hammond was also a native of Jefferson County, his father having been one of the very early settlers in Smithfield Township and a part of the land acquired by the latter is still in the Hammond name. Nathan Hammond received a part of his father's estate and engaged here in agricultural pursuits during early and middle life and then turned it over to his sons, retiring to Smithfield, where he died in 1906, aged about eighty years. He married Eliza Ann Naylor, a daughter of John S. Naylor, an early settler, and they had five children : Mary, who married John Copeland and William, John, Henry N., and George N. The mother died in 1908. Henry N. Hammond attended the public schools and later, in 1881, graduated from Hopedale College, where he had taken a business course. He came into possession of the old Thomas Hammond farm and continued to engage in agricultural pursuits until 1909, when he sold 113 acres of it to W. A. Henderson. He bought 12 acres upon which he now resides. This property has been finely improved and the name of Windanola has been given it. It is one of the most attractive suburban homes in this section and is located on the east edge of Smithfield. In February, 1882, Mr. Hammond way married to Miss Catherine Sixsmith, a daughter of George and Jane (Lewis) Sixsmith, of Warren Township, both of whom are now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Hammons have one daughter, Olive, who is the wife of W. E. Crawford, who is teller in the Dillonvale Bank, and they have one child Catherine. For three years before he became inter ested in banking, Mr. Hammond was in the insurance business at Bridgeport, 0. He was one of the organizers and one of the leading stockholders in the First Nationa Bank of Dillonvale, and John Henderson was the first president. In 1903 Mr. Ham mond became a director and in 1907 be came president, succeeding the late Jasper N. Richardson. Politically a Republican Mr. Hammond is always interested in the I success of his party but he lays no claim to being a politician. He comes of an old Quaker family but both he and his wife belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church. A. E. SMYSER, assistant general manager of the La Belle Iron Works, at Steubenville, O., of which city he has been a resident for seven busy years, was born at Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1873. When he was four years old his parents removed to Minnesota and there he was reared. Mr. Smyser was afforded excellent educational advantages and after graduating from the Shattuck Military Academy, at Faribault, Minn., and having shown decided aptitude for mechanics, he was sent to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Boston, Mass., where he was graduated in mechanical engineering, in 1896, receiving his B. S. degree, and after two years of work took a post graduate course in mining and mettallurgy and in 1898 received his degree of M. S. Mr. Smyser was connected with the American Steel Casting Company of Chester, Pa., from July, 1898 until May, 1899, when he was sent to take charge of the Pittsburgh plant and remained there until 1900, when he became assistant superintendent for the Carnegie Steel Company at Duquesne, having charge of the open hearth department, where he continued until 1903 and then came to the La Belle Iron Works as superintendent of the open hearth department, and in February, 1905, he was advanced to be assistant general manager of the whole plant. He is one of the stockholders in this concern and has other interests. I I is standing in his profession is very high. In September, 1901, Mr. Smyser was married to Miss Leila Hall Palmer, of Pittsburgh, and they have two children : Helen Frances and Eugene Palmer. Mr. and Mrs. Smyser are members of the Shady Side Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh, and he is identified with the Steubenville Y. M. C. A. and the Country Club. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 869 JOHN Q. ADAMS, general merchant at Empire, 0., where he has been established since 1880, is a representative business man of this place and a highly respected citizen. He was born at Toronto, 0., December 14, 1841, and is a son of John C. and Eliza (Elliott) Adams. John C. Adams was born in Knox Township, Jefferson County, Ohio. He was a son of William and Patience (McClain) Adams, the former of whom lived to be ninety-two years old. In early manhood John C. Adams was employed for some years as a clerk in a store at Toronto, 0. In 1848 he moved to Greensburg, Ky., where he engaged in the practice of law and some years afterward was elected judge of the Court of Common Pleas, in which office he served for six years. Judge Adams later retired to Covington, Ky., where he still lives and is now a nonogenarian. He married Eliza Elliott, who was born in Hancock County, now West Virginia, who died when their sop, John Q., was twelve years old. After his mother died, John Q. Adams went to live with his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Jane Elliott, in Hancock County, W. Va., with whom he remained for three years, in the meanwhile attending school. He was fifteen years old when he became connected with Freeman Bros., the firm of fire brick and sewer pipe manufacturers, whose plants were in operation on both sides of the Ohio River, and he remained there for about a quarter of a century. In 1880 he came to Empire where he has been prosperous as a merchant. He has taken an active interest in town and township affairs and served two terms, elected on the Democratic ticket, as trustee of Knox Township. Mr. Adams was married first to Miss Rebecca Hukill, of Hancock County, W. Va. She is deceased, as also are all their four children : William, Annie, Jesse and John. On May 1, 1876, Mr. Adams married Miss Elizabeth Hinkle, who was born at Malvern, 0., a daughter of George and Mary (Outman ) Hinkle, former residents of Empire. Mr. and Mrs. Adams are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Empire, in which he is a class leader. In fraternal life, Mr. Adams belongs to the Masons at New Cumberland, W. Va., to the Knights of Pythias at Empire, and to the Odd Fellows at Toronto, 0. He is well and favorably known all through Jefferson County. J. H. MAPLE, postmaster at Amsterdam, 0., who took charge of the office in November, 1906, succeeding S. J. Smith, has proven himself a very efficient public official and is popular with all classes. He was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, and is a son of Alexander and Margaret (Telfer) Maple, the latter of whom survives and resides with her son at Amsterdam. J. H. Maple was small when his parents moved from Jefferson to Carroll County, and there he attended school and completed his education at a college at Harlem Springs, 0. He then went into the railroad service and came to Amsterdam as section foreman, in 1903, and then learned the plastering trade. He has always taken an active interest in politics, votes with the Republican party, and before receiving his appointment to the present office, he served six years as village clerk. Considerable business passes through the Amsterdam office and it requires care and discipline to transact it all satisfactorily. In 1905, Route No. 1, rural free delivery was started, and in 1909, Route No. 2, while the Star Route is operated from this office to Wolf Run. The rural deliveries cover a territory of about twenty-five miles each and the village has four mails in and out daily. Mr. Maple was married in Carroll County, Ohio, to Miss Cora Johnson, a daughter of James Johnson, of Jefferson County, and they have six children : Frederick, Adda, Walter, Nannie, Hallie and Helen. Mr. Maple and family belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a member of the order of K. 0. P. 870 - HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY WILLIAM J. YOST, general manager of the W. J. Yost Company, is one of the representative younger business men of Steubenville, 0., of which city he has been a resident for five years. He was born at Quaker City, 0., in 1882, and remained in Guernsey County through his school period and until he had completed his apprenticeship to the plasterer’s trade. When he was seventeen years old, Mr. Yost went to New York City in order to perfect himself in the higher branches of his trade and learned ornamental plaster and stucco work, remaining in the great metropolis for three years and working afterward at different points until 1905, when he came to Steubenville, embarking in contract plastering under the firm name of Yost & Wilcox. This was succeeded in 1907 by the W. J. Yost Company. This has developed into a large enterprise, doing all kinds of ornamental plaster work and all lines of general plaster work. Mr. Yost is additionally interested in other business concerns here and for three years has been president of the Steubenville Real Estate Company. In September, 1905, Mr. Yost was married to Miss Anna Griffin, of Quaker City, 0., and they have one son, Marshall James. Mr. Yost is a member of the Brotherhood of the Christian Church at Bellevue. He is identified with the Odd Fellows and fills the office of vice grand of Jefferson Lodge No. 6, at Steubenville. EDWIN S. ANDERSON, who carries on a general contracting business at Steubenville, 0., was born in the old homestead on South Third Street, this city, April 13, 1867, and is a son of Joseph Anderson and a grandson of Peter Anderson, one of the early pioneers. Joseph Anderson was born at Steubenville, February 1, 1826, and died in the same city, January 14, 1898. His father, Peter Anderson, had come here in 1815, finding little more than an Indian trading post. Joseph Anderson became a leading citizen and prominent business man. He enjoyed the confidence of such men as Governor Tod, who, in 1863, commissioned him a lieutenant in Co. A, 1st Ohio militia, from Jefferson County, to assist in the capture of General Morgan. Far back the Andersons came from Scotland. Edwin S. Anderson obtained his education in the schools of his own city and graduated from the High School in the class of 1885. He then served an apprenticeship to the carpenter,s trade with Thomas Burke and has been engaged in that line ever since, his main business now being contract house building: He has served in the city council, elected on the Republican ticket, and at present is precinct committeeman. On October 23, 1902, Mr. Anderson was married to Miss Annie Mary Price, who was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and they have three children: Mary B., Martha Grace and an infant. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson are members of the Christian Church. He is a skilled musician, a member of the American Federation of Musicians, and for fifteen years has been identified with the Patten band. He belongs also to the Carpenter,s Union. EDWARD G. CRAWFORD, postmaster and merchant at Port Homer, Jefferson County, Ohio, and a representative citizen of this place, was born here on March 27, 1863, and is a son of Abel and Amelia (Garrison) Crawford. WINFIELD S. MARTIN, a representative business man of Steubenville, 0., who is engaged in general contracting and dealing in real estate, has been a resident of this city for eight years. He was born at Shade River, Meigs County, Ohio, in May, 1859. After his school days were over, Mr. Martin learned the carpenter trade, which, to a large degree, he has followed ever since. He has also been identified with oil development in this section and early invested in property in the outskirts of Steubenville which now forms the desirable suburb of Pleasant Heights. Mr. Martin AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 871 owns considerable property in this choice residence part of the city and has done a great deal to develop and improve this section, in which his family was the first one to locate. Since coming to Steubenville he has been engaged in general contracting and does a heavy business in this line. Mr. Martin was married in 1890, to Miss Elizabeth Lewis, of Huntington, W. Va., and they have five children, Charles B., Marguerite A., Carl E., Elmer S. and Ward Henry, all residing at home. The beautiful family residence is situated at No. 433 Lawson Avenue, Pleasant Heights. ALFRED DAY, who is in charge of the office and general sales department of the American China Company at Toronto, 0., has been prominently identified with the business affairs of Steubenville and vicinity for many years. He makes his home in the latter place, residing at No. 314 North Third Street. He was born in this city, July 16, 1848, and is a son of William Day, who was a pioneer business man of the county. Alfred Day was graduated from the Steubenville High School in 1865, and was then for years associated with his father in the produce and grocery business. In 1879 he with others organized the Steubenville Pottery Company, of which he was secretary and treasurer fore twenty years. During that time he was interested in developing the Lonhuda art ware. The company finally sold out to parties at Zanesville, 0., and Mr. Day then became identified with the American China Company at Toronto, 0., being in charge of the office and general sales department. He has been a director in the Miners and Mechanics Bank at Steubenville for a score of years. On July 16, 1876, Mr. May was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth J. Rea, daughter of Dr. Francis Rea, of Washington, Guernsey County, Ohio, and five children have been born to them, as follows : Harry S., who is with the Nernst Lamp Company of Pittsburgh; Walter Rea, who is with the American China Company at Toronto Helen and Frances, who are graduates of Steubenville High School and reside with their parents and Alfred Day, Jr., who is in attendance at school. The family attends St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church. In fraternal affiliation, Mr. Day is a member of the Royal Arcanum, Mystic Circle and the Order of Odd Fellows. JOHN ROLAND WAUGH, owner and proprietor of a general store at New Alexandria, 0., of which place he has been a resident since 1905, was born in West Virginia, May 8, 1868, and is a son of Elias and Anna (Roland) Waugh. The parents of Mr. Waugh were natives of West Virginia and the mother died there. The father is a resident of Wells Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, where he follows farming. The children born to Elias Waugh and wife were : John Roland, Albert, Samuel and Sarah (twins), the latter of whom is the wife of 0. L. Roe; William R., who conducts a general store at Bridgeport, O.; and Robert. To the second marriage of Elias Waugh were born : Jessie, Joseph, Mary, Edward and Birdie. John R. Waugh attended school both in West Virginia and in Jefferson County but not very regularly. Being the oldest son his services were needed by his father and he led an unusually industrious life through boyhood and youth. He remained at home and continued to give assistance to his father until he came to New Alexandria and embarked in the mercantile business. he has prospered and enjoys a reasonable amount of the trade of the town and surrounding district. On June 5, 1897, Mr. Waugh was married to Miss Ora V. Gilgrist, a daughter of Thomas B. and Rosa (George) Gilgrist, farming people of Cross Creek Township. Mrs. Waugh has one brother and two sisters : Garfield; Eva, who is the wife of Lee Imhuff and Lucy, who is the wife of John McCullough. Mr. and Mrs. Waugh have two children : Glenn and Ruth. They are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics Mr. Waugh is a Demo- 872 - HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY crat. He is identified with Wildwood Lodge, No. 590, Odd Fellows, at New Alexandria, and is treasurer of the same. A. M. BLACKBURN, M. D., general medical practitioner at Steubenville, 0., and a member of the Jefferson County, the Ohio State and the American Medical Associations, is also a veteran of the Civil War. He was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1842, and is a son of John C. Blackburn. The Blackburn family has been known in Jefferson County since the days of the doctor,s grandfather, who settled here in 1796. Many descendants of this sturdy pioneer are now living. The father of Dr. Blackburn was a millwright by trade and spent the whole of his life in Jefferson County except the last twenty years, which he passed in California. Dr. Blackburn was reared in his native county and attended the local schools. Although preparing for a professional career at the time, in 1862, the young student enlisted for service in the Civil War, and for a. term of three months was at the front as a member of Company F, 84th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. After he returned he completed his medical studies and in 1.864 he was graduated from the Ohio Medical college of Cincinnati. He again entered the service of his country, enlisting in Company B, 157th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, of which he was made sergeant, serving one hundred days. Immediately afterward he located at Steubenville, where, with the exception of a short period, he has been engaged in practice. Dr. Blackburn is widely known and he has won his reputation through professional ability. In 1865 Dr. Blackburn was married to Miss Sarah C. Lowe, a daughter of Orr Lowe, and they have five children: Charles E., who resides in West Pittsburg; Dora B., who is the wife of M. C. Cunningham, and lives in Pennsylvania; John F., who is a resident of Steubenville Sarah, who is the wife of Samuel Pearce, of Bellevue and Gertrude, who is the wife of Albert E. Stewart. Dr. Blackburn and family are members of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he is recording steward. He is identified with E. M. Stanton Post, No. 166, G. A. R. WILLIAM J. McKEE, residing in the old McKee family homestead at No. 1039 Wilson Avenue, Steubenville, O., was born here in 1863 and is a son of Samuel and Lizzie (Brannagan) McKee. Samuel McKee was born in 1821, in County Down, Ireland, and died at Steubenville, in October, 1902. His parents were William and Mary (Wilson) McKee. In 1850 the McKee family came to America, all reaching these shores except the father, who died on the ocean. The widow and children came on to Jefferson County and settled on the farm in Steubenville Township which had already been selected.. There Samuel McKee engaged in farming and teaming for some ten years. In 1860 he embarked in the meat business at Steubenville and for many years was one of the representative business men. In 1856 he was married to Lizzie Brannagan and they had six children : Mary, John, Anne C., William J., Henrietta and Henry. William J. McKee was reared in his native city and obtained his education in the Steubenville schools. He learned the meat business with his father and continued in it until 1900, since which time he has been mainly engaged in dealing in stock and also in looking after his large real estate interests. In association with his brother, John McKee, he owns twenty-five houses that they rent, and he has other holdings in city and county. He is a large dealer in realty but handles only his own or family property. In connection with his sisters he has built two fine flat buildings on Fourth and Adams Streets, which are modern in every particular and are superior in construction and appearance to any in this part of the city. Mr. McKee takes very little interest in politics, being absorbed in business, but his good citizenship is never questioned. He resides in the old home