HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 675 and eventually became the founder of the Ironton Wood Mantel Company, which he has since continued to conduct with much success. He is a stockholder in the Ohio Iron and Coal Company, and has various other interests of an important character, and has evidenced his confidence in the future of Ironton by investing in property here, owning his own home and two other houses and lots. He has done much to advance Ironton's interests in a business way, and has been one of the most active members of the Chamber of Commerce, with which he has been connected since its inception. A republican in politics, he has stood high in the councils of his party, and for eight years has served conscientiously and capably as a member of the city council, winning re-election by reason of his support of his fellow-citizens' interests and privileges. Always an active, virile man, Mr. Campbell has found much pleasure in out-door sports. Educational and religious movements have in him a stanch supporter, and he holds membership in the Presbyterian church, where he is serving in the dual capacity of elder and treasurer. On May 27, 1878, at the home of the bride, Mr. Campbell was united in marriage with Miss Lizzie Bixby, daughter of E. Bixby, a resident of Ironton. Six children have been born to this union, namely : Marian, who became the wife of R. E. Mitchell, a professional singer of Ironton, and has four children : Gordon, Edwin, Elizabeth, and an infant ; Lawrence, who was married June 27, 1907, to Alice Clarke, daughter of C. C. Clarke, a prominent business man of Ironton, and has one child, Rolston C. ; Henry, and Frank, who are single and reside with their parents ; and two children who are deceased. FRANK F. PHILLIPS. The active business life of Frank F. Phillips has been connected with the most important period in the development of Ironton and is linked with the founding of one of those industries which have stimulated the, city's growth and have been the basis of its manufacturing prestige. His is a career eminently worthy of emulation. Commencing life in practical obscurity and modest circumstances, laboring in humble positions with steady industry, and practicing economy and sobriety, at length he has seen his arduous efforts bear fruit and has profited beyond the fortunes of most men in the value which a growing community confers upon a fortunate location. Frank F. Phillips was born in Pike County, Ohio, October 7, 1873, and is a son of John and Harriet (Moore) Phillips. John Phillips was horn at Lancaster, Ohio, in 1843, and in young manhood learned the trade of blacksmith, which he was following at the outbreak of the Civil war, when he enlisted for service in the Thirty-third Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. After completing a very creditable military service, Vol. II-3 676 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION Mr. Phillips returned to his Ohio home and again engaged at his trade, but in 1873 came to the Hanging Rock Region, establishing the Phillips Buggy Works, on South Second Street, Ironton, of which his son, Frank F., is now the owner. Mr. Phillips continued to be connected with this business during the remaining years of his life, and died in July, 1910. He became a substantial and influential citizen of his community, took an interest in its advancement and welfare, and won the respect and esteem of his fellow-citizens through a life characterized by industry and integrity. The mother, who was born at Lancaster, Ohio, in 1847, died in February, 1912. There were five children in the family : Maggie R., who is deceased ; Harry L., John H., Frank F., and Walter M. The primary schools of Ironton furnished Frank F. Phillips with his early education, but when fourteen years of age laid aside his school books to enter his father's carriage factory, which business he has continued to be connected with to the present time. In 1910, at his father's death, he was made manager of the plant, and July 1, 1913, became sole owner thereof when he purchased the interests of the other heirs in the business. Possessing in large degree the energetic and enterprising traits of his father's character, he has continued to make the venture a successful and paying one, and his activities have resulted in broadening the scope and nature of the business. The plant is valued in the neighborhood of $15,000, having modern machinery and equipment, and the product of the factory is of such excellent character that Phillips buggies are known all over the state. Mr. Phillips is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and has taken an active and interested part in the movements which have made for Ironton's advancement along the lines of education and religion. With his family, he attends the First Methodist Episcopal Church. He is independent in his political views. Mr. Phillips was married May 15, 1912, at Ironton, to Miss Beulah Wyatt, daughter of Joseph and Mary Wyatt, and to this union there has come one son, Frank F., Jr. Mr. Phillips is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, but is essentially a home man and there spends practically all of his leisure time. NATHANIEL K. MOXLEY, M. D. The best criterion by which to judge the •technical ability and personal popularity of any physician and surgeon is that afforded in the extent and importance of the practice controlled by him, and from this viewpoint Dr. Moxley is to be designated with all consistency as one of the representative members of his profession in the Hanging Rock Iron Region. He is engaged in active general practice in. the City of Ironton, has a substantial and representative clientage and is a citizen whose genial personality and intrinsic civic HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 677 loyalty have gained to him inviolable place in popular esteem in his native city and county, where his status renders impossible any application of the aphorism that " a prophet is not without honor save in his own country." Doctor Moxley was born, at Ironton, Lawrence County, on the 18th of May, 1860, a date that indicates that the family name became identified with the history of this section of the Buckeye State more than half a century ago. He is a son of Dr. Nathaniel K. Moxley, Sr., and Sophia (McConnell) Moxley, the former of whom was born in Tunbridge, Orange County, Vermont, on the 8th of February, 1818, and the latter of whom was born in Scioto County, Ohio, in 1829. The senior Doctor Moxley came to Ohio in 1843 and in 1847 he became a pioneer physician in Scioto County, where his marriage was solemnized in the following year. In 1852 he removed with his family to Ironton, where he became a prominent and honored representative of his profession and achieved high reputation as one of the able physicians and surgeons of this part of the state. Loved by all who had come within the sphere of his influence, this sterling pioneer continued his residence in Ironton until his death, in 1895, his widow surviving him by a decade and being summoned to the life eternal in 1906. Dr. Nathaniel K. Moxley, Sr., served many years as a member of the board of school examiners for Lawrence County, was county physician during the period of the Civil war, and was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. The names of both him and his noble wife merit enduring place on the roll of the honored pioneers of Ironton, which was a mere village when they here established their home. Of the four children the eldest is Miss Alice M., who still resides in Ironton ; Clara A. is the wife of Harry Kinkade, of Marysville, Union County ; Nathaniel K., Jr., of this review, was the next in order of birth and his name is still enrolled on the list of eligible bachelors in Lawrence County ; and Lucy M., likewise unmarried, maintains her home at Ironton. Dr. Nathaniel K. Moxley, Jr., continued to attend the Ironton public schools until he had completed the curriculum of the high school, in which he was graduated in 1878. In futherance of his plan to adopt the profession that had been signally dignified and honored by the services of his father, he was matriculated in the Miami Medical College, in the City of Cincinnati, and yin this institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1883, with the concomitant reception of the degree of Doctor of Medicine. During the long intervening period of more than thirty years the doctor has been engaged in the practice of his profession in Ironton, where he has not only maintained but added new laurels to the professional reputation of the name which he bears. He has given 678 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION special attention to the diagnosis and treatment of the diseases of children, in which branch of professional work he has been most successful and is a recognized authority, no attention having been given by him to surgical work since the earlier period of his professional career. He has served for a total of seven years as county coroner, having been the incumbent at different intervals, and for eight years he was retained in the office of city health officer of Ironton, his labors having been admirable in the promotion of sanitary conditions and measures and thus in safeguarding the health of the community. He is actively identified with the Lawrence County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, besides which he is serving as a member of the Board of United States Pension Examining Surgeons for Lawrence County. Doctor Moxley is found aligned as a stanch supporter of the principles of the republican party, is a member of the Congregational Church, holds membership in the Ironton Chamber of Commerce, and is a life member of Ironton Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of which he has served as exalted ruler. The doctor has become widely known throughout this section of Ohio and it may consistently be said that his circle of friends is limited only by that of his acquaintances. VICTOR E. KRELL. There can be no measure of inconsistency in referring to the line of enterprise of which Mr. Krell is an able and popular representative as one of the "public utilities" in the City of Ironton, where he is a member of the firm of Klein & Krell, engaged in the bakery business, with an establishment that is essentially modern in all equipments, and facilities and that caters to a large and appreciative patronage ill the Iron City, the thriving metropolis of the Hanging Rock Iron Region. Mr. Krell has proved himself an enterprising and substantial business man of Ironton and his success is the more gratifying to note by reason of the fact that he has achieved the same entirely through his own efforts, the while he has so guided and governed his course as to merit and receive the unequivocal confidence and good will of those with whom he has come in contact in the various relations of life. Born in Germany, on the 22d of June, 1870, Victor E. Krell was the fourteenth in order of birth in a family of fifteen children, and he was but five years old when both of his parents died, in 1875, their entire lives having been passed in their native land, where the father was a teacher. Mr. Krell is a son of Jacob and Amelia (Helfrich) Krell, and of the family he is one of the children who have established homes in the United States. After the ,death of his parents Mr. Krell was reared by his HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 679 elder brothers and sisters and afforded the advantages of the schools of the Fatherland until he had attained to the age of fourteen years, his studies having included a course in the gymnasium, the practical German equivalent of the American high school. Not a little courage, self- reliance and youthful enthusiasm must have been manifested by Mr. Krell when, as a lad of fourteen years, he severed the ties that bound him to home and native land and came valiantly to the shores of America, with the determination to win for himself success worthy of the name—the success of independence and usefulness. He established his residence in the City of Cincinnati, Ohio, soon after his arrival in the United States, and there he served a thorough apprenticeship to the baker's trade, in all phases and details of which he is now a. recognized authority.. He was employed as a journeyman at his trade, principally in Cincinnati, until 1911, when he formed a partnership with Frederick J. Klein, under the firm name of Klein & Krell, and founded the present bakery business conducted by them with marked success. The firm have augmented their facilities with the increasing expansion of their business and the products of their well appointed establishment constitute its best advertising medium, the while both of the interested principals have a secure place in the confidence and esteem of their many patrons. Mr. Krell has been an assiduous worker, believes in work and knows the value of work. Such are the men to whom success is a natural prerogative, and such ,are the citizens who foster general progress and prosperity in any community. While essentially loyal and appreciative as a citizen of the United States, Mr. Krell has been satisfied to maintain himself virtually independent of strict partisan dictates in politics and has supported the men and measures approved by his judgment. Both he and his wife are devout communicants of the Catholic Church and in Ironton they are members of the parish of St. Joseph's Church. Mr. Krell has identified himself fully and without reservation with the spirit of American customs and institutions, but he naturally has an abiding affection for and appreciation of the land of his nativity, and he has indulged himself in five different visits to the old home in Germany since he established his residence in the United States. In his advancing march toward the goal of success and prosperity Mr. Krell has not been self-centered .or selfish, as shown by the fact that he has shared his lot with one who has proved a devoted companion and helpmeet. On the 15th of June, 1904, was solemnized his marriage to Miss Katie Margaret Klein, daughter of Conrad and Margaret Klein, who were then residents of Portsmouth, Scioto County, but who now 680 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION maintain their home in Ironton, their son Frederick J. being senior member of 'the firm of Klein & Krell. Mr. and Mrs. Krell ha five children—George Wilford, Klein Charles, Martha Amelia, May Zita, and Victor Joseph. EDWARD F. HANNAN. With all of consistency may this publication enter a memorial tribute to the late Edward Francis Hannan, who wielded potent influence in connection with civic and business affairs in Lawrence County and .whose life was guided and governed by the loftiest principles of integrity and honor. His character was, the positive expression of a strong noble nature, and he accounted well to himself and to the world; with the achievement that marked him as a man of superior ability and foresight. He was a native of Lawrence County and a representative of an honored pioneer family of the Hanging Rock Region, his having been the distinction of becoming eventually one of the most prominent and successful merchants and most popular and influential citizens of fronton, in which city he died on Friday morning, September 19, 1913. The entire community manifested its deep sense of personal loss and bereavement when he passed forward to the life eternal, and it is well to perpetuate in a preliminary way quotations. from an obituary published in an Ironton newspaper at the time of the death of Mr. Hannan, but slight change being made in the quoted context : "With the departure of the clouds of night on Friday morning, the soul of Edward Francis Hannan, one of Ironton's most prominent citizens, departed 'from the pain-wracked' body, a few minutes after six o'clock. Mr. Hannan's death had been expected for a number of weeks, and some time ago the family was informed by specialists that there was no chance for his recovery. He was afflicted with a peculiar and baffling throat disease, against which the skill of the best physicians of the country was unable to combat successfully. He had undergone operations, but without avail. Despite the fact that death was expected, when the end of the life of this noble man was announced by the tolling of the chimes of St. Lawrence church, it came as a shock to his many friends and relatives throughout the city, and occasioned general regret, for all who knew Mr. Hannan, either in a personal or business way, have only the highest praise for him,—for honesty and uprightness were the prime factors in his life and won for him an enviable reputation as a business man whose honor and integrity were unquestioned." Edward Francis Hannan was born at Vesuvius Furnace, Lawrence County; Ohio, on the '12th of July, 1860, and, as has been written, "his death, at the age of fifty-three years, cut him off in the prime of his man- HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 681 hood and at the height of a successful business career." He was a son of John .and Bridget (McDermott) Hannan, both natives of Ireland, where the former was born in the year 1821 and the latter in 1824. The parents passed the closing years of their lives in Ironton, where the father died in 1893, the devoted wife and another having' been summoned to eternal rest in 1890 ; they became the parents of seven children, of whom Edward F. was the only son and the sixth in order of birth. The parents were reared and educated in their native land, where their marriage was solemnized, and upon their immigration to the United States they became pioneer settlers, in the Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio, where John Hannan became actively identified with on mining and the operation of iron furnaces. In 1876 he removed with his family to the City, of Ironton, where he engaged in the retail grocery business, with which his only son .soon became associated, and with this line of enterprise he continued to 'be identified until the close of his life, which was one of unswerving integrity and earnest application, both he and his wife having been communicants of the Catholic Church. The public schools of the Vesuvius District of Lawrence County afforded to Edward F. Hannan his early educational privileges and he was sixteen years old .at the time of the family removal to Ironton, where he continued his studies about one year in the high school. He then became actively associated with his father in the grocery business, and to this line of enterprise he continued to. pay allegiance to the time of his demise. He developed a large and prosperous wholesale and retail grocery trade, and from 1881 Until his death his business was established at the corner of Third and Railroad streets. The passing years brought increasing success and definite prosperity to Mr. Hannan, and he showed his progressiveness and civic loyalty by giving his capitalistic and executive support to many other representative business concerns in his native county, where he was a stockholder and director in a number of important corporations. With inviolable place •in popular confidence and esteem and known as a citizen of ,ability and worth, Mr. Hannan was naturally called upon to serve in various positions of public trust. He served for a total of nine years as a valued member of the city council of Ironton and in this connection exerted potent influence in the furtherance of wise and progressive administration of municipal affairs, as did he likewise during his eight years' membership on the city board of .public safety. He was one of the prominent and active members of the Ironton Chamber of Commerce, was a democrat in his political allegiance, and was a most zealous and devout communicant of St. Lawrence Catholic Church, as is also his widow. He was most active and liberal in the support of the 682 - HANGING ROCK fRON REGION various activities of this parish and served many years as treasurer of the church organization. Mr. Hannan was for ten years president of the local organization of the Ancient Order of Hibernians and thereafter was its treasurer for four years, besides which he was in close affiliation with the Knights of Columbus„ the Knights of St. George, and the Young Men's Institute. At the home of the bride's parents, in the City of Ironton, on the 8th of September, 1886, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hannan to Miss Anna C. Goldcamp, and thus was formed an ideal companionship that was severed only when death set its seal upon his mortal lips. Mrs. Hannan was born in Lawrence County, on the 15th of January, 1866; and is a daughter of the late John S. Goldcamp, an honored and influential citizen and pioneer to whom a special memoir is dedicated on other pages of this work. Mrs. Hannan still resides in Ile beautiful home which was provided by her honored husband and which is endeared to her by many hallowed memories and associations and as the gracious chatelaine of which she has made it a center of most charming hospitality. Concerning the four children of Mr. and Mrs. Hannan brief record is given in conclusion of this memorial tribute to a man whose name and memory shall long be revered and honored in Ironton and throughout the county which always represented his home and which he dignified by his character and services : Olivia H. is the wife of Richard McMahon, who is successfully engaged in the practice of law in the City of Washington, D. C. ; Lawrence J. remains with his widowed mother and is one of the representative young business men of Ironton ; and at the family home are also to be found the younger daughters, Monica N. and Elizabeth G. Mr: and Mrs. McMahon have two children, Julia Anna and May Elizabeth, who are the only representatives in the third generation of the Hannan family in America. The funeral of Mr. Hannan was held at St. Lawrence Church on the Monday following his death, and called forth a large concourse of citizens of all classes—all desiring to pay this last tribute of respect and sorrow. The requiem mass was sung by Rev. James H. Cotter, D. D., a priest who had been a most intimate friend of the deceased, and interment was made in beautiful Sacred Heart Cemetery. Five of his sisters survive Mr. Hannan. JOHN S. GOLDCAMP. It was well within the province of the ambition and individual powers of the late. John S. Goldcamp to give to the world assurance of large and worthy achievement and to so order his course as to leave a reputation untarnished and a memory that is revered by those who came within the compass of his generous and kindly influence. HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 683 Mr. Goldcamp was a native of Ohio and a representative of one of the honored pioneer families of this favored commonwealth, which it was given him to dignify and honor by his character and achievement. He was one of the prominent and influential citizens of Ironton, the metropolis and capital of Lawrence County, for many years prior to his death, which here occurred on March 5, 1909. In according to him a brief tribute in this publication it is found expedient to reproduce the gracious estimate published in an Ironton newspaper at the time of his death, but in perpetuating the article certain paraphrase and minor eliminations are indulged, to make the data more nearly in consonance with the specific functions of this history. "Death is, indeed, laying a heavy hand upon Ironton, and is gathering many of her most prominent, honorable and influential citizens. The last to be laid low by the Grim Reaper, who is no respector of age or person, was John S. Goldcamp, whose name was known throughout the city as a synonym of honesty, sobriety, industry and all that the term 'good citizenship' implies. His eyes closed in everlasting sleep Tuesday night, at five minutes past ten o'clock, and the end came as peacefully:and sweetly as could be. As gently as the breath of spring his pure spirit fled his weary body, and, with scarcely a noticeable throb, his big heart was stilled—and John S. Goldcamp was no more. When the final summons came, his 'bedside was surrounded by his devoted wife and his loving children, with their wives and husbands, a suitable end for one who loved his family as did he. What a genuine sorrow this announcement will cause throughout the city ! John S. Goldcamp was a man honored and respected- by all and was a citizen whom the city can ill afford to lose. "While Mr. Goldcamp 's death will, cause universal regret throughout Ironton and Lawrence county, it came not as a surprise, for he had been in impaired health for the past five, years and his condition had been most• grave for the last week. His death was due to diabetes. "John Stephen Goldcamp was born at Pine Grove, Gallia county, Ohio, on the 15th of May, 1840, and resided there until he reached manhood's estate. On the 12th of February, 1861, he was united in marriage to Miss Mary Elizabeth Frische, who was spared to care for him during his declining years as only a true and loving wife can. In 1862 Mr. Goldcamp and his family removed to Ironton, where he resided until his death, save for one year passed at Lawrence Furnace. When Mr. Goldcamp came to Ironton he was employed as a contractor for shipping iron, but later he succeeded his father in the milling business. In March, 1887, Mr. Goldcamp organized the Goldcamp Milling Company, of which he was president and a director from its inception until 684 - HANGING 'ROCK IRON REGION his death. He was also president and a director of the Hannan-Cowden Dry Goods Company, the name of which was changed to the Bauer Dry Goods Company only a few days prior to his death. For many years Mr. Goldcamp was a member of the directorate of the First National Bank of Ironton and he was closely connected with and financially interested in many of the city's prominent business and industrial enterprises. "Mr. Goldcamp had no political asp- irations, being content to do what he could for his fellow citizens in his own 'quiet, unassuming Sway, but, in deference to the wishes of his friends, he served for six years as a member of the city council, with credit to himself and the municipality. He was a Democrat in his political adherency and was a zealous communicant and liberal supporter of St. Joseph Catholic church, where his funeral services were held." The widow of Mr. Goldcamp still survives him and is one of the loved and gracious women of Ironton. Of the twelve children nine are living-Frank, F. J. and Mrs. Edward F. Hannan, of Ironton ; Mrs. James M. McJoint, of Norwood, a suburb of the City of Cincinnati, Ohio ; Mrs. Hugh J. Loder, John X. and Mrs. Fred M. McPherson, of Iron Gate, Virginia ; Mrs. William D. Crossing, of Columbus, Ohio ; and Miss Victoria, who remains at the old homestead with her widowed mother. JOHN H. LYND. As proprietor of the flourishing and incidentally important enterprise conducted under the title of the Lynd Transfer and Storage Company, with headquarters at 140 South Fourth Street, the popular. citizen whose name initiates this paragraph is recognized as one of the progressive and representative business men of the younger generation in his native City of -Ironton, Lawrence County. Here he was born on the 6th of December, 1882, and he is a representative of a family whose name has been long and prominently identified with the civic and material affairs of the Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio. Mr. Lynd is a son of Benjamin F. and Margaret (Brewster) Lynd, the former of whom was born at Burlington, Lawrence County, on the 7th of January, 1861, and the latter of whom was born in the City of Louisville, Kentucky, in 1864, the subject of this review being the eldest of the three children and the other two being Carl and Herbert. The parents are prominent and honored residents of Ironton, where the father was engaged in the grocery business for thirty years and where he has lived practically retired since 1913. John H. Lynd attended the public schools of Ironton until he had attained to the .age of eighteen years, and thus his discipline included the curriculum .of the high school. HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 685 After leaving school he was clerk in the grocery establishment of his father until he gained the dignity implied in arrival at his legal majority, when he entered the employ of the Ironton Portland Cement Company, for which he was mine superintendent for seven years. In 1911 Mr. Lynd purchased the establishment and business of the Wieteki Transfer Company and he has since conducted a general transfer and storage business of most successful order, effective service and his personal popularity having contributed materially to the expansion and specially substantial status of the enterprise, the incidental equipment and stock of horses being conservatively valued at $9,000. Mr. Lynd is the owner also of his pleasant home, besides other residence property in his native city. He is affiliated with the local lodges of the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, was for three years a member of the commissary department of the Seventh Regiment of the Ohio National Guard, and both he and his wife are communicants of the Protestant Episcopal Church. On the 16th of October, 1907, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Lynd to Miss Alice Richards, daughter of William and Clara (Thompson) Richards, of Ironton, her father having been for fifteen years manager of one of the leading iron furnaces in Lawrence County and otherwise prominently identified with the iron industry in the Hanging Rock Region. Mr. and Mrs. Lynd have two children—Eloise E. and Richard Franklin. JENKEN A. JONES. It has been the privilege of Jenken A. Jones, of Ironton, to realize many of his worthy ambitions, and through the exercise of business sagacity and good judgment to wrest from his opportunities financial and general success. As the proprietor of a flourishing feed and produce store he is contributing to the community a conservative and well-established business, in the management of which ‘he has followed the most upright methods, and his good citizenship has been made manifest on a number of occasions when the welfare of the city and its people has been at stake. Mr. Jones was born in Perry Township, on his father's farm in Gallia County, Ohio, July 13, 1872, and is a son of David N. and Jane (Davis) Jones, both natives of that township. The father, although now sixty-six years of age, is still carrying on extensive agricultural operations and is known as one of the substantial citizens of Perry Township, where he has served as assessor for several years. Mrs. Jones died in 1909, at the age of fifty-one years. There were four children in the family of David N. and Jane Jones, namely : Thomas, who is a well-known contractor and builder of the village of Patrick, Gallia County ; 686 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION John E., who is engaged in farming on the old homestead in Perry Township ; Jenken A., of this review ; and Bert D., who is also a farmer of Perry Township. The boyhood of J. A. Jones was passed on his father's farm in Perry Township, and there he worked during the summer months while securing his education in the district schools during the winter terms. He remained under the parental roof as his father's assistant until reaching the age of twenty-six years, at which time he turned his attention to contracting in Gallia and Jackson counties and was so engaged four years, when he purchased a saloon at Gallipolis, and this he conducted three years. Succeeding this he had an experience of one year in the produce business at Gallipolis, and in 1908 became the candidate of the republican party for the office of sheriff of Gallia County, to which he was elected. A term characterized by faithful and capable service won him re-election to the shrievalty in 1910, and when his second term expired he came to Ironton and bought the produce and feed business established here by Mr. McNickles. Mr. Jones had as a partner Mr. Gates, and the business was conducted under the firm style of Jones & Gates until 1913, when he bought his partner's interest, and since that, time has carried on the business alone as J. A. Jones. The business has enjoyed a pleasing and satisfactory growth, and is now valued at $9,000, attracting its trade from all over this part of Lawrence County. As a business man Mr. Jones is known to be progressive, capable and enterprising, making the most of his opportunities and meeting all engagements faithfully. He is a valued member of the Knights of Pythias, the Woodmen of the World, the Modern Brotherhood of America and the Fraternal Order of Eagles, in all of which he has warm and appreciative friends. He is a member of the Baptist Church and has been liberal in his support of its movements. Mr. Jones is the owner of a nice home and six acres of valuable property at Gallipolis. On February 7, 1897, Mr. Jones was married at Patriot, Gallia County, Ohio, to Miss Ethel Carter, daughter of A. J. Carter, of that place, and two children have been born to this union : Victor amid Margaret. GEORGE A. MEYERS. Though he has passed the psalmist's span of three score years and ten, Mr. Meyers is signally vigorous and alert and is active in business in the City of Ironton, Lawrence County, where he has long been an honored and influential figure in civic and business affairs and where abiding popular esteem is his grateful portion. Mr. Meyers was born in Germany, on the 5th of April, 1839, and he has been a resident of Ironton .for more than half a century and where HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 687 he is now successfully conducting a general plumbing business, with well equipped headquarters at 18 South Third Street. To him must be accorded enduring honor for the gallant service given by him as a soldier of the Union in the Civil war, and in the "piping times of peace" his course has been characterized by the same intrinsic loyalty that prompted him to go forth and battle for a righteous cause. Mr. Meyers is a son of John J. and Christina (Roelky) Meyers, who, in the German Fatherland, were born respectively in the years 1817 and 1800. The father was a weaver by trade and also had much ability as a musician. He came with his family to America in the year 1844 and he attained to the patriarchal age, of ninety years, his death occurring in the year 1907, his wife having been summoned to the life eternal in 1881, at the age of eighty-one years. They became the parents of six children—Charles H., George A., Christopher P. B., Herman L., Edward F. and Mary Elizabeth. Upon immigrating to the United States, John J. Meyers established his home at Frederick City, Maryland, where he found employment at his trade, his career in America having been marked by earnest and consecutive industry and the closing period of his life having been passed in Ohio. At Frederick City, Maryland, George A. Meyers was reared to the age of seventeen years, he hiving been about five years old at the time when the family came to the United States. He attended the common schools of the locality and period and from his boyhood was associated with his father in work at the weaver's trade, at varying intervals, until Ile severed the home ties and came to Ohio, in 1857. He established his residence at Ironton, which was then but a village, though the center of considerable manufacturing and other activities in connection with the iron industry. He worked in the roller mills about three months and then entered upon an apprenticeship to the machinist's trade, in the works of the Olive Foundry and Machine Company, with which he remained four years. At this juncture in his career Mr. Meyers put aside all other considerations to tender his aid in defense of the Union. In response to President Lincoln's first call for volunteers, he enlisted as a private in Company A, Eighteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, his being the first company to leave Ironton, under the three months' term of enlistment. The company was assigned to the work of guarding the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, in West Virginia, and Mr. Meyers continued in service until the expiration of his term, when he received his honorable discharge, on the 19th of August, 1861. The memories of the climacteric 688 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION period of the Civil war are by him vitalized through his affiliation with the Grand Army of the Republic. After the close of his military career Mr. Meyers returned to Ironton, and here he worked as machinist in charge of the old-time railroad locomotives until 1873, when he became associated with two other skilled mechanics in the establishing of a machine shop, under the firm name of J. H. Fisher & Company. He continued an active member of this firm until 1876, when he again entered railroad service, and was overseer of the round house for nearly twenty years, these relations being severed in 1894, when he felt that advancing age entitled him to less exacting occupation. In the year mentioned, Mr. Meyers purchased the plumbing business of the Cricher Brothers, and he has since continued the enterprise successfully, his fine mechanical ability and personal popularity having gained to him a substantial and appreciative supporting patronage. In politics Mr. Meyers is a stalwart in the camp of the republican party and he served eleven years as a member of the city waterworks board. On the 10th of June, 1866, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Meyers to Miss Margaret C. McKeun, daughter of Patrick and Rebecca McKeun, of Ironton, and of the eight children of this union five are living,—John G., Mary R., George P., Frederick W. and Samuel E. The names of those deceased were : Charles E.; Florence and Emma. George P. is married and is employed as locomotive engineer on the line of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad, with headquarters in the City of Cincinnati, where he maintains his home. Samuel E. is now a resident of New York City. Frederick W., who is engineer at the Ironton waterworks, married Miss Caroline Rudd and they have five children. Mary R., the eldest of the children, is the wife of Charles A. Woodworth, engaged in the insurance business, and they reside at Suffern, Rockland County, New York. HARRY WILEMAN, senior member of the brick manufacturing and general contracting firm of Wileman & Helbling, has for many years been prominently identified with the building interests of Ironton, and has been the architect of his own fortune as well. The struggle to rise from modest circumstances to affluence has been his, and his career has been characterized by unfaltering perseverance, strong determination and great energy. Mr. Wileman was born at Chelsworth, England, September 20, 1861, and is a son of James and Mary Ann (Wyard) Wileman. James Wileman was born in England in 1842, and on emigrating to HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 689 the United States with his family settled first at Newport, Kentucky, from whence, in 1871, he removed to Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1873 he came to Ironton, where he followed the trade of brick mason for a number of years, and at this time is living a retired life. He has taken an interest in civic affairs and has served as alderman of the city for one term. Mrs. Wileman was born in England in 1840 and has been the mother of four children : Harry, Lucy, Ellen and Charles. Harry Wileman was educated in the public schools of Cincinnati, Newport and Ironton, and at the age of sixteen years began to learn the trade of brick mason under his father. He worked at his trade from 1877 until 1892, and during this time rose to a foremanship in the employ of Witherow & Gordon, blast furnace contractors of country-wide reputation, and was in the Birmingham, Alabama, district for three years and in Chicago for eight months. In 1892, in partnership with John D. Helbling, he founded the brick manufacturing and general contracting firm of Wileman & Helbling, and this has since grown to large proportions, now owning a $7,000 plant and controlling a large and representative business. Among the structures erected by this firm may be named the following : the Ketter Block, McMahon livery barn, Furlong Building, Eberts brewery, Foster stove works, Central school building, and the Methodist Church edifices at Hanging Rock, Sedgwick and Ironton. Mr. Wileman is a thorough master of every detail of his business, and bears a high reputation in commercial circles. He is a stockholder in the Ironton Athletic and Amusement Company, a director of the Home Building and Loan Company of Ironton and a member of the Chamber of Commerce, and in addition to his own residence, at No. 655, South Sixth Street, owns about fifteen vacant lots in Ironton. A republican in his political views, he has taken only a good citizen's interest in political matters. His fraternal connection is with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and his religious faith that of the Episcopal Church. In all respects he is a stirring, progressive man of his community, at all times ready to lend his co-operation to beneficial movements. Mr. Wileman was married November 15, 1883, at Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio, to Miss Ellen Cheuveront, daughter of T. M. Cheuveront and five children have been born to this union, namely : Frank, who is a brick mason, married Nellie Henry, daughter of I. N. Henry, of Ironton, and has four children, Garland, Nellie L., Genevieve C. and Harry N.; Clifford, who is deceased ; James M., a brick mason of Ironton, who married Eva Taylor and has one child, Iantha ; Charles, who is deceased ; and Kathryn, who married Arthur Bester, a brick mason, and lives at Ironton. 690 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION JOHN W. TRUBY. In his native City of Ironton, the progressive and flourishing metropolis and judicial center of Lawrence County, Mr. Truby has found opportunity for the winning of success and popularity as a representative of business activities and as a loyal and appreciative citizen. He is proprietor of the Truby Bottling Works, which represents one of the prosperous business enterprises of Ironton, with the best of facilities in all departments. Mr. Truby was born at Ironton on the 14th of September, 1870, and is a son of William W. and Henrietta (Taylor) Truby, both natives of Pennsylvania, where the former was born in 1835 and the latter in 1845, her birth having occurred in the City of Pittsburgh. William W. Truby became a resident of Ironton in 1868 and was long employed as a skilled artisan in the manufacturing of nails, in one of the leading mills of Lawrence County. He passed the psalmist's span of three score years and ten and was a well known pioneer citizen of Ironton at the time of his .death, in 1907; his wife surviving him by about six years and being summoned to eternal rest in 1913. They became the parents of five children, all of whom are living, namely : William W., Jr., Florence, Carrie, Henry and John W. John W. Truby attended the Ironton public schools until he had attained to the age of eighteen years and after completing his studies in the high school he was employed in a local nail mill for ten years, within which he became an expert workman and efficient mechanic. At the expiration of this decade, in 1900, he purchased the bottling works conducted by Charles Myers, and since that time he has greatly expanded the scope and importance of the enterprise, which is conducted under the title of the Truby Bottling Works, his energy and enterprise having brought to him unequivocal success in his independent business operations. Mr. Truby is a stockholder in the Home Telephone Company of Ironton, and further evidences of his temporal prosperity are shown in his ownership of three business blocks in Ironton—one on Center Street, between Third and Fourth streets ; another on North Third Street ; and the third on South Third Street. He is a democrat in his political allegiance and he is an attendant and supporter of the Christian Church, of which his wife was a devoted member. On the 27th of November, 1899, Mr. Truby wedded Miss Lucy Heider, daughter of August and Barbara Heider, of Ironton, and she entered into eternal rest in 1907, the two surviving children being Louise and Pauline. WILLIAM O'KEEFE. It has been within the compass of the ambition and powers of Mr. O’Keefe to gain secure status as one of the representa- HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 691 Live business men of his native City of Ironton, the metropolis and county seat of Lawrence County, and he is a scion of a family whose name has been worthily identified with the history of the Hanging Rock Iron Region for more than sixty years. He was formerly associated with his' brother James in the undertaking business that is now conducted successfully under his personal direction, the widow of his brother still retaining an interest in the business and her son Charles being the valued assistant to his uncle, whose name initiates this paragraph. With the best of modern facilities and epuipment, the establishment of Mr. O'Keefe is one of the best in the City of Ironton in the affording of effective and seemly service in the directing of funerals with unfailing sympathy and kindly consideration. Mr. O'Keefe was born in Ironton on the 21st of October, 1856, at which time this now thriving industrial city was a mere village. He is a son of John and Mary (O'Hare) O'Keefe, both natives of Ireland—the father having been born in County Cork and the mother in County Clare and both having been reared in their native land, where their marriage was solemnized. John O'Keefe, born in the year 1805, was sixty-nine years of age at the time of his death, which occurred at his old homestead in Ironton, in .1874. His widow survived him by nearly fifteen years and was sixty-five years of age at the time when she was summoned to the life eternal, in 1888, her birth having occurred in 1823. Concerning the children of this union the following brief record is consistently entered : Catherine is the widow of Daniel Boyce and maintains her home in Ironton; James who died in the year 1902, as senior member of the firm of O'Keefe & Hanichen, Was one of the founders of the substantial undertaking business now conducted by his brother William, the enterprise dating its inception back to the year 1878 and being thus one of the pioneer business concerns of the city ; Miss Margaret still resides in Ironton, and presides over the old family homestead, with her brother William, of this review; who likewise has remained unwed ; Thomas is a resident of Newport, Kentucky ; Susan died as a child. John O'Keefe, the honored father; immigrated to the United States in 1846 and after remaining for a time in the Dominion of Canada he removed to Pennsylvania, from which state he came to Lawrence County, Ohio, in 1852, here to pass the residue of his life, which was one of unostentatious worth and consecutive industry. He was well known and held in high esteem in Lawrence County and served many years as street commissioner of Ironton. He was a democrat in his political proclivities and both he and his wife were zealous communicants of the Catholic Church, in which they early became members of the Ironton parish of St. Lawrence. Vol. II-4 692 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION William O'Keefe continued to attend the schools of Lawrence County, parochial and public, until he had attained to the age of seventeen years, his educational discipline having been received principally in Ironton, though he attended school for a time at Kelley 's Mills, where the family resided for a comparatively brief period. At the age noted he obtained employment in the Star Mill, in Ironton, and in this manufactory of nails and other iron and steel products he served in the department devoted to the blueing of nails. ,After being identified with this line of enterprise for a period of five years Mr. 0 'Keefe became an assistant in the undertaking establishment of O'Keefe & Hanichen, and after the death of Mr. Hanichen, in 1887, he purchased the latter's interest from the widow and became his brother's partner in the business, this mutually grateful alliance continuing until the death of James O'Keefe, in 1902, since which time the enterprise has been continued by the latter's widow and brother, William having the direct management of the business with which he has been long identified and in connection with which he has become one of the substantial and influential business men of his native Essentially progressive and loyal as a citizen, Mr. O'Keefe has had no predeliction for the honors or emoluments of public office and in politics he maintains an independent attitude, his support being given to the men and measures meeting the approval of his judgment. He' is an earnest communicant of the Catholic Church, as a member of St. Lawrence Church, and he is a member of the board of trustees of Sacred Heart Cemetery. Mr. O'Keefe is the owner of valuable residence property in Ironton, including the old homestead. of his parents, on Lawrence Street. He is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus and the Ancient Order of Hibernians. His life has been guided by earnest principles and worthy ideals, so that he well merits the high esteem that is accorded to him in the county that has always represented his home. FRED B. DAVIES. As a general contractor Mr. Davies has built up a substantial and prosperous enterprise, and is numbered among the progressive and energetic business men of his native county, his residence and executive headquarters being maintained in the City of Ironton, the judicial center of the county, where his circle of friends is limited only by that of his acquaintances. Mr. Davies was born at Pine Grove, Elizabeth Township, Lawrence County, Ohio, on the 10th of July, 1875, and is a son of George H. and Rachel (Brammer) Davies, the former of whom was born in England, in 1850, and the latter of whom was born in Lawrence County, Ohio, in 1854, the father, Elijah Brammer, having been one of the sterling pioneers HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 693 of this county. George H. Davies was reared and educated in his native land, whence he came to the United States in the year 1873, making Ironton, Ohio, his destination and here finding employment in the capacity of bookkeeper. Later he was chosen city clerk, and of this office he continued the efficient and valued incumbent for sixteen consecutive years. In England he had held the position of railway station agent and lie developed fine ability as an accountant and executive. For a time he held the post of timekeeper for the mines at Pine Grove, Lawrence County, and he now resides in Ironton, his cherished and devoted wife having passed to the life eternal in 1909. Of the seven children, Fred B., of this review; is the eldest ; George L. is deceased ; Minnie B. remains at the paternal home ; Margaret E. married M. D. Henry and resides in Galesburg, Illinois ; and Henry, Bessie and May died in infancy. The public schools of Ironton afforded Fred B. Davies his early educational advantages, and he continued his scholastic discipline until he had attained to the age of seventeen years, when he entered upon an apprenticeship to the trade of kegmaker, in the works of the Belfort Iron Company, in the employ of which corporation he continued until 1892. Thereafter he was clerk in a dry-goods store in Ironton until 1898, when he subordinated all other interests to serve in the Spanish-American war. He served eight months as hospital steward in the hospital of the First Division of the Second Army Corps, at Camp Alger, near Washington, D. C., and after receiving his honorable discharge at Camp Meade, Pennsylvania, he resumed his clerical position in Ironton, where he continued to be thus engaged until 1890. He then went to Birmingham, Alabama, in which city he assumed the post of engineer for the Tennessee Iron & Coal Company, but eight months later, on account of the death of his brother, George L., he returned to Ironton. For two years thereafter he was a conductor on the street-railway lines of this city, and he was then appointed assistant to J. R. C. Brown, the chief engineer of the City of Ironton, Ohio. He retained this position eight years and then, in 1910, engaged in general contracting, to which he has since given his close attention and in connection with which his success has been unequivocal. In November, 1912, he was elected to the office of county surveyor of Lawrence County for a period of two years, beginning September 1, 1913, and in the August primary of 1914 was nominated for a second term without opposition. Mr. Davies accords unwavering allegiance to the republican party, is affiliated with the lodge and encampment of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, as well as with the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and both he and his wife are members of the First Baptist Church. Mr. Davies is a man of fine physique, and this fact 694 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION has inured to his preferment as drum major of the U. S. W. V. Band, of Ironton. He is a member of the Ironton Chamber of Commerce, is a loyal and appreciative citizen of Ironton, and is progressive and public-spirited. On the 2d of July, 1901, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Davies to Miss Enola Bradley, of Catlettsburg, Kentucky, and they have three children—Georgia A., Enola B., and F. Herbert. EARL GRIFFITH. Prominent among the capable officials of Lawrence County is found Earl Griffith, official court stenographer and reporter, a capacity in which he has been favorably before the public for six years. Mr. Griffith was for several years a teacher in the public schools of Lawrence County, and although still a young man has had wide experience and training that fits him eminently for the duties of his office. He is a product of Lawrence County, having been born near Arabia, May 21, 1887, a son of Samuel D. and Louisa (Bradshaw) Griffith. Samuel D. Griffith was born at Sherritts P. 0., Lawrence County, about 1854, and throughout his life has followed the trade of carpenter, at which he is still engaged at Arabia. He is well known in that town, where his reputation is that of a reliable and industrious man of business and a good and public-spirited citizen. Mrs. Griffith was born at Arabia, Lawrence County, in 1856, and also survives, being the mother of seven children, namely : James L., Myrta, Maude, George, Ernest E., Earl and Guy. The early education of Earl Griffith was secured in the Griffith School, situated in the vicinity of Arabia, which he attended until reaching the age of seventeen years. He then secured a license to teach, and for two years had charge of the Bradshaw School, in the same locality, following which, realizing the need of further training, he entered the Davidson Business College at Ironton, and for one year studied stenography and shorthand. In 1908 Mr. Griffith was appointed official court stenographer of Lawrence County, and was reappointed in 1911 and again in 1914, his present -term expiring April 6, 1917. His career has been characterized by efficient and faithful service, and his work has been entirely satisfactory to all connected with the court business of the county. Mr. Griffith is a rapid operator and has made a thorough -study of his vocation, and holds membership in the National Shorthand Reporters' Association. Fraternally, he is connected With. the Masons, lodge, chapter and council ; the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; the Knights of Pythias, and the Knights of the Golden Eagle. He has shown an interest in the welfare of Ironton and its industries, and is an active member of the Chamber of Commerce. His political support is given HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 695 to the republican party, and his religious connection is with the Baptist Church. Mr. Griffith is single. PERCY W. DEAN. Among the public officials of the Hanging Rock Region of Ohio who are steadfastly maintaining the excellence of service in their various departments is found Percy W. Dean, city auditor of Ironton, Lawrence County. Mr. Dean has just entered public life, this being his first official position, but he is well known as an active worker in the ranks of the republican party, and has an honorable record behind him in civic life. His election 'came as a result of a desire of the people to secure an energetic, aggressive and stirring man in the city auditor's office, and Mr. Dean has up to date vindicated their confidence in him and there seems to be no reason that he will not continue to do so in the future. Percy W. Dean is a native son of Ironton, Ohio, and was born December 31, 1880, his parents being William and Elvira (Silbaugh) Dean. The family is well known in Lawrence County and has been located here for many years. William Dean-was born here in 1850, and during his career followed a variety of vocations, being at the time of his death a watchman. He passed away in 1907, a worthy man and good citizen. Mr. Dean was twice married ; first to Elvira Silbaugh, who was born in Lawrence County, Ohio, in 1855, and died in 1893, and then to Olivia Lewis, who survived him and makes her home at Newport, Kentucky. To the first union there were born four children : Oscar, Percy W., Mary and Anna. There were no children born to the second union. Percy. W. Dean was given good educational advantages in his youth, first attending the schools of Hecka Furnace until he reached the age of sixteen years and then becoming a student in the high school at Ironton. Upon leaving the latter, he began to learn the trade of molder in stoves, and after mastering the details of this calling continued to work as a stove molder in Ironton until 1914. Through fidelity, energy and good workmanship, he won promotion from time to time, and in the meanwhile interested himself in republican politics, gaining a wider and wider influence among his fellow citizens until in 1913 he became his party's candidate for the office of city auditor. His popularity was shown by his election to that office in the fall of the same year, and in 1914 he laid aside other matters to take over the management of the city auditor's affairs. In his first experience as a city official he is living up to his promises made before his election, and the people have no reason to be discontented with his services. Mr. Dean was married at Ironton, August 24, 1902, to Miss Maud 696 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION Thomas, who was born in Logan County, Ohio, daughter of R. W. Thomas, a brick yard man of Ironton. Three children have been born to this union : Horace, Mary and Ivan. Mr. and Mrs. Dean attend the Pine Street Methodist Church, are well known in social and religious circles of the city, and have their own attractive residence. Mr. Dean is active in lodge work, being a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, the Knights of the Golden Eagle and the Iron Molders' Union, and finds his chief recreation in out-door sports. His acquaintance is wide and his friends are numerous among all classes of people. HOMER M. EDWARDS. A young lawyer of Ironton who has done much to prove his ability and open a way for a large and successful career in the law, Homer M. Edwards was admitted to the bar and began practice in 1911, and had already by ten years of successful work performed an important service in the field of education, and for nine years was a member of the County Board of School Examiners of Lawrence County. Homer M. Edwards was born at Deering in Lawrence County, July 1, 1884. His father, Meredith Edwards, was born at South Point in Lawrence County, June 10, 1852, is a' substantial farmer who still lives near Deering. The mother, whose maiden name was Sarah Allen, represents through her family one of the oldest settlers in Lawrence County. She was born at Deering in 1848 and died in 1906. Qf their six children two died in infancy and the others are : Effie, now Mrs. E. M. Stanly of Kittshill, Lawrence County ; Charity, now Mrs. G. E. Harris of Coal Grove, Lawrence County ; Homer M.; and John C., a. resident of Ironton. Mr. Edwards is a product of the common schools of Lawrence County, finished, the course of the high school at Coal Grove in 1901; and for eleven years was active' in educational work. Three years after beginning his career as a teacher he was appointed to the office of examiner of county schools, and was principal for two years at South. Point and then for three years superintendent of the schools at Coal Groe, and for two years' was principal in the Ironton schools. Mr. Edwards graduated with the degree Ph.B. at Lebanon University in 1908, and took his law studies in the Northern Ohio University at Ada, finishing with the degree LL.B. in 1911. Admitted to the bar in the same year, he began practice at Ironton, January 15, 1912, .and has since enjoyed a growing and profitable general practice. Mr. Edwards is a Knight Templar Mason, and his other fraternities are the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of the Golden Eagle and the Modern Woodmen of America. He is a trustee HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 697 of the Baptist Church and a member of the County Bar Association. For seven years in connection with other educational work he served as county school examiner. Outside of his profession, which absorbs practically all his time and attention, Mr. Edwards finds his pleasure in hunting, and is the owner of a fine residence on Sixth Street in Ironton. He was married to Pansy B. Winters, of Ashland, Kentucky, on May 28, 1914. EARL W. KETTER, clerk of the water works at Ironton, Ohio, is still a young man, but has had a varied and eventful career in which he has gained success through his own efforts and abilities. Wearing the uniform of his country when a mere lad, subsequently connected with various business enterprises of his community, a victim of the floods of 1913, and eventually a successful city official and a prominent figure in the fraternal and .athletic circles of his community—surely there has been enough of action in this young man's life to satisfy the most strenuously inclined. Mr. Ketter is a native son of Ironton, born July 17, 1880, a son of Charles H. and Rosina (Duis) Ketter. His father, born in Scioto County, Ohio, in 1849, grew there to manhood and was married, not long after which he came to. Lawrence County and, locating at Ironton, engaged in the commission business, a line in which he is now widely and prominently known. The mother was also born in Scioto County, and met her death in 1893, in an accidental manner, and Mr. Ketter subsequently married her sister, Anna Duis. Nine children were 'born to the first union : Lillian, George, Earl W., Harold, Otto, Helen, Mabel, Ralph and Gladys, of whom. Ralph is deceased. By the second union there were six children. Earl W. Ketter received his education in the public and high schools of Ironton, and in the meantime assisted his father in the commission business, working industriously during vacations and spare times and mastering the details of the trade. He was less than eighteen years of age when the Spanish-American war broke out, but June 4, 1898, with other patriotic youths of his neighborhood, enlisted in Company E, Seventh Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he marched off for the front. This organization, however never left the United States, the war closing before 'it was caller upon for active service, and Mr. Ketter received his honorable discharge, November 6, 1898, and returned to his home. At that time he became a bookkeeper in his father's business, and continued as such until 1901, when he purchased an interest in the Ketter Clothing Company, acting as a clerk with this enterprise until 1909. Succeeding his, he turned his attention to the 698 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION confectionery business, and was identified therewith until the flood of March, 1913, washed out his place of business and he then concentrated his energies upon his duties as clerk of the water works, a position to which he had been appointed in 1912. He has continued to handle the affairs of his office in an entirely satisfactory manner, and through his energetic and up-to-date methods has succeeded in introducing a number of needed reforms into the department. Mr. Ketter was married June 6, 1907, to Miss Anna J. Nauert, daughter of Herman Nauert, of Ridgeway, Pennsylvania, superintendent of the Ridgeway Dynamo and Engine Company. One child has been born to this union : Earl W., Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Ketter are members of the-First Methodist Church, and in politics he is a republican. In April, 1903, he was appointed captain and regimental adjutant of the Seventh Ohio National Guards, under Col. C. A. Thompson, serving also as adjutant under Col. E. E. Corn, and was captain of commissary in 1907 at the time of his resignation. In 1906 Mr. Ketter assisted in the organization of E. C. Smith Camp No. 28, Spanish-American War Veterans, of which he was elected quartermaster, and still holds that office. For some years Mr. Ketter has been greatly interested in athletics, particularly baseball, and through his earnest and skilled efforts the Ironton Club of the Ohio State League, of which he is manager and assistant secretary, has been developed into a speedy and hard-fighting organization. Mr. Ketter is popular with those who know him in all walks of life, and few men have a wider circle of friends. WILLIAM E. GEORGE. The fire department of any large and thriving community under modern organization and conditions is one of the most important in the municipal service, and to its management the directing head is called upon to bring high executive abilities, broad judgment, diplomatic powers and absolute fearlessness. These qualities are possessed in a high degree by William E. George, chief of the fire department of Ironton, who for a continuous period of thirty-two years has directed the work of the "fire eaters" of this prosperous and important City of the Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio. Chief George was born in Bath County, Kentucky, November 12, 1847, and is a son of Robert and Drusilia (Raborn) George, natives of that county! The father was born in 1814, and was engaged in farming there until the outbreak of the Civil war, when he enlisted in the Eighty-first Regiment, Kentucky Infantry, and upon receiving his discharge, in 1862, came to Scioto County, Ohio, and continued agricultural pursuits until his death in 1883. Mrs. George, who was born in 1818, passed away in 1895, having been the mother of twelve children, four of whom HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 699 died in infancy, while the others were : Henry W. and Francis, who are deceased ; Jane ; Levina ; William E. ; Alexander ; Telitha, who is deceased ; and John, deceased. The early education of William E. George was secured in the public schools of his native county, which he attended until he was fourteen years of age. At that time, with other youths of his neighborhood, he became a member of what was known as the "Squirrel Hunters," a youthful military organization, with which he was associated two years. After the family moved to Ohio, Mr. George attended the schools of Portsmouth until he reached the age of seventeen years, and at that time learned the machinist's trade, a vocation which occupied his attention during the ensuing five years. Succeeding this, Mr. George became a buyer of stave lumber on the Ohio River, but after eighteen months went to Huntington, West Virginia, and embarked in mercantile pursuits as the proprietor of a grocery establishment, which, however, he. hed 'one year later, at that time going to Gallipolis, Ohio. After two years in the business there, Mr. George came to Ironton, and opened an establishment which he Conducted with some success for three years, then selling out and becoming a member of the City Fire Department. He showed such executive ability that in 1882 he was made chief of the department, a position the has continued to hold to the present time. Although sixty-seven years of age, Chief George is a vigorous and wide-awake man, and promises to maintain the service of which he is the head at its past standard of superiority, and to continue to incorporate into the system the methods and improvements indicated by the advancement of science and mechanics. He is entitled to take a justifiable pride in his record as a fire-fighter. His men have the utmost confidence in his ability and trust him implicitly, knowing that he will never send them where he himself will not go. While attending the fierce Ward Lumber Mill fire, in 1911, Chief George lost his left eye, the extreme heat causing inflammation which resulted in the loss of sight in that optic. Chief George was married April 21, 1871, at the home of the bride in Niles Township, Scioto County, Ohio, to Miss Almeda Stover, daughter of David Stover, a farmer of that locality, and to this union there have been born five children : Orval D., Alfred W., Nora J., William V. and Edward E. Orval D., an electrician of Ironton, married Elsie Conley, and has two children—Irene and Ralph ; Alfred M., also an electrician of Ironton, married Mattie Ferguson and has an adopted child—Emerson ; Nora married Allen Thuma, superintendent of the Ohio Electric Company, of Ironton, and has one adopted child—Alma; William V., .an electrician at Ironton, married Jennie DeLong and has