HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 775 Mr. Goldcamp was married at Ironton, September 9, 1884, to Miss Lena A. Heitzman, daughter of Bernard Heitzman, who is identified with the iron mills at Ironton, and to this union there have been born four children : Henry B., a clerk with the house of Goldcamp Brothers & Company, married Kathren Boice and has had two children, Donald and one who died in infancy ; Albert L., who is engaged in the grocery business at Ironton, married Clara Young ; Frank J., who is a clerk in the grocery store of his brother ; and Clarence, who is still attending school. ISAAC MEARAN. As a mere boy Mr. Mearan came from his native Germany to the United States, and as a stranger in a strange land, with but slight command of the English language and without influential friends or financial reinforcement, he proved himself equal to the task that confronted him and has achieved through his own efforts distinctive and gratifying success. He is no* numbered among the representative merchants and popular citizens of Ironton, Lawrence County, in which city he is junior member of the firm of McNary & Mearan, which is engaged in the clothing and men's furnishing goods business, with a well appointed and essentially metropolitan establishment on South Second Street. Mr. Mearan was born in Germany, on the 19th of December, 1876, and the excellent schools of his native land afforded him his early educational advantages. He subsequently severed the home ties and, with indomitable ambition and self-reliance, set forth, alone, to seek his fortunes in the United States. For some time he found employment in the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and in 1893 he came to Ironton, Ohio, where he was an efficient and popular salesman in the clothing store of A. J. Brumberg until 1904, when he put his experience and ambition into effective play by initiating an independent enterprise in the same field of business. He formed a partnership with Erwin E. McNary, concerning whom individual mention is made ‘elsewhere in this publication, and they established their present business, under the firm name of McNary & Mearan. The business has become one of the most successful of its kind in Ironton and the finely equipped store caters to the best class of trade, with a select and comprehensive stock of clothing and the most attractive lines of furnishing goods, the two members of the firm having found that one of their best assets is the strong hold they personally have upon popular confidence and esteem. Mr. Mearan has aligned himself as a supporter of the cause of the republican party, holds membership in the Ironton Chamber of Commerce, and is affiliated with the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is not only enterprising and energetic as a 776 - RANGING ROCK IRON REGION business man, but is known also as a citizen of distinct progressiveness and public spirit—one interested in all that tends to advance the civic and material welfare of the community. On the 27th of November, 1903, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Mearan to Miss Sadie Cohen, daughter of Mose Cohen, who was at the time a resident of Ironton and extensively engaged in the lumber business iri Lawrence County. Since 1907 Mr.-and Mrs. Cohen have maintained their home at Huntington, West Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Mearan have two children—Antonia Lila and Hugh Lester. ERWIN E. McNARY. Among the younger business men of Ironton this energetic, wide-awake merchant has been, numbered for the past ten years. His career is but another proof of the statement that practical industry, wisely and vigorously applied, never fails to wain success, for with only ordinary advantages in his youth, he started out to make his own way in the world, and his diligence and judicious management have brought him a full measure of prosperity for his labors. Mr. MeNary has spent his entire life at Ironton, having been born here January 21, 1879, a son of William and Eleanor (Woods) McNary. William McNary was born in Pennsylvania in 1842, and there grew up amid agricultural surroundings, so that on reaching his majority he adopted farming as his life work. He was twenty-eight years, of age when he came to Lawrence County, and here, in the vicinity of Ironton, he rounded out a life of usefulness and industry in the pursuits of the soil, passing away in 1902, with the respect and esteem of those who had known him. Mrs. McNary, who was 'born at Steubenville, Ohio, survived her husband for some time, dying in 1910, when seventy years of age. They became the parents of six children, of whom all survive at this time :.Elmer, in the real estate business in Granite City, Illinois; George engaged in the grocery business in Ironton ; Dr. Wilber, a successful practicing physician of East St. Louis, Illinois ; Minnie, a stenographer in Ironton ; Margaret, .who is also a stenographer and makes her home at Ironton ; and Erwin E., of this review. Erwin E. McNary prosecuted his studies in the _graded and, high schools of Ironton, and after his graduation from the latter in 1896 received his introduction to commercial life in the capacity of' clerk for the clothing business conducted by A. J. Brumberg, a merchant of this city. He remained with Mr. Brumberg, thoroughly familiarizing himself with every detail of the business until 1904, when, feeling qualified to enter business on his own account, he invested his capital in a stock of clothing and gentlemen's furnishing goods, and in partnership with Mr. Isaac Mearan opened an establishment which has steadily HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 777 advanced in patronage and public favor. Mr. McNary fortunately possesses those qualifications which are essential to success in any line of business, and, having had much experience in the commercial world, is an able man of business. Thoroughly understanding the needs and wants of his customers, he spares no efforts to please them and to meet their wishes in every regard. He devotes his time strictly to his business, but when he is able to lay its cares aside, finds enjoyment in fishing and hunting trips. A member of the Chamber of Commerce, the high esteem in which he is held by his associates is evidenced by the fact that he has been elected a member of the board of directors of that body, a position which he now holds. Mr. McNary is a republican, but not an active politician. He is a consistent member of the Episcopal church, and his fraternal connections are with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Modern Woodmen of America. He has shown his faith in the future of Ironton by investing his means in real estate in this locality. Mr. McNary was married February 22, 1902, at Ironton, to Miss Mildred Peters, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Peters, who died about 1892, and whose family belonged to the oldest settlers of the mining locality of the Hanging Rock Iron Region. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. McNary : Mildred and Ethelyn, twins, the latter of whom died in 1913 ; and Helen. FRANK F. J. GOLDCAMP. Few names have been more conspicuously and worthtly identified with the civic and business activities of the city of Ironton than that of the Goldcamp family, and it is pleasing to be able to offer in this publication specific mention of various representatives of this influential and honored family of the Hanging Rock Iron District. He whose name initiates this review is one of the interested principals and the executive head of the Goldcamp Mill Company, which represents one of the important industrial enterprises of Ironton, with a flour mill that is thoroughly modern in its equipment and facilities. Mr. Goldcamp was born at Lawrence Furnace, Lawrence County, Ohio, on the 14th of November, 1861, and is a son of John S. and Mary (Friska) Goldcamp, members of sterling pioneer families of this section of the state. Both John S. Goldcamp and his wife were born at Pine Grove, Lawrence County, Ohio, the former in 1840 and the latter in 1845. The father early became a successful contractor in hauling iron ore from the mines to the mills in Ironton, before this now thriving city had railroad facilities, and after the building of the Norfolk & Western Railroad to the city he erected, in 1888, a flour mill in Ironton. Through circum- 778 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION spection and honorable policies he built up a prosperous business as a manufacturer of flour and other mill products and he continued to be one of the well known and highly esteemed citizens and influential business men of -Lawrence County until his death, which occurred in 1909, his widow still maintaining her residence in Ironton. Of the twelve children Frank F. J., of this review, is the first born, and the names of the others are here entered in respective order of birth : Annie C., Emma I., Ida L., John X., May G., Laura C., Otto F., Victoria, Lizzie, and two who died in infancy. Frank F. J. Goldcamp attended the public schools of Ironton until he had attained to the age of fourteen years, when he began to assist his father in the latter's teaming operations in the handling of iron ore. After the construction of the flour mill mentioned above he continued to assist his father in the practical and executive management of the enterprise until 1902, when he purchased an interest in the Whiting Soap Company, of Ironton. He was secretary and treasurer of this corporation for two years, at the expiration of which he became associated with his brothel John X. in the erection and equipment of their present fine flour mill, which they have successfully operated since 1904, under the title of the Goldcamp Mill Company. Frank F. J. Goldcamp is president of this progressive company, which has a capital stock of $40,000, and is known and valued as one of the enterprising and representative business men and influential citizens of the city that has been his home from his childhood and to the civic and commercial advancement of which he has made definite and worthy contribution. Mr. Gold-camp is a stockholder and director of the First National Bank of Ironton and he is the owner of valuable property in Ironton, 'including a half interest in the mill and warehouse and also his attractive residence, which is known for its generous hospitality. He is actively identified with the Ironton Chamber of Commerce, the Ohio Millers' Association and the Millers' Federation of the United States. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party and he and his wife are zealous communicants of the Catholic Church, in which they are members of the parish of St. Joseph's Church, in which Mr. Goldcamp is serving as warden. On the 24th of April, 1883, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Goldcamp to Miss Mary Ann Mauerer, daughter of Adam and Annie (Chauzle) Mauerer, of Lawrence County. Of this union have been born six children : Stephen W., M. D., who is engaged in the practice of his profession in the City of Youngstown, Ohio, married Miss Edna Renner ; Edward C. likewise is a graduate physician and surgeon and now resides in the citi, of Providence, Rhode Island; Hilda M. is the wife of Edward HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 779 Weinfurther, of Ashland, Kentucky ; Adam F., died in infancy ; Cyril F. and John S., attending the public schools of Ironton. GEORGE J. GOLDCAMP. One of the native sons of Ironton, Lawrence County, whose career has been marked by consecutive industry and definite advancement is he whose name initiates this review and who is numbered among the representative and popular merchants of Ironton, where he is associated with his brother Robert S. in the ownership and conducting of the substantial furniture and general house-furnishing establishment of the Goldcamp Furniture Company. Mr. Goldcamp was born in Ironton on the 5th of October, 1877, and is a son of Isadore X. and Julia Ann (Kruse) Goldcamp, the former of whom was born at Lawrence Furnace, Lawrence County, in 1852, and the latter of whom was born at Pine Grove, this county, in 1852, both families having been represented in the pioneer settlement of the Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio. Isadore X. Goldcamp held for a long period the position of salesman for the W. A. Murdock Wholesale Grocery Company, of Ironton, and since 1901 he has lived virtually retired in this city, both he and his wife being earnest communicants of St. Joseph's Catholic church and his political allegiance being given to the democratic party. Of the five children all are living except the youngest, Edward, the names of the other's being here given in respective order of birth : William J., George J., Robert S., and Martha M. George J. Goldcamp attended the parochial school of St. Joseph's church until he was fifteen years old, and for four months thereafter he held a position as salesman in the retail grocery of J. T. Clark. For the ensuing year he was employed in connection with a local lumber business and he then assumed a position in the hardwood finishing department of the Ironton Wood Mantel Company, with which industrial corporation he continued to be thus identified for five years. Then, to fortify himself more thoroughly along educational lines of practical order, he completed a six months' course in the commercial or business department of the Ohio Normal University, at Ada, Hardin county. A few months later he entered the employ of the United States Steel Corporation, in its mills at Mingo Junction, Jefferson County, Ohio, where he had charge of the electric motor utilized in transferring ore to the furnace. After six months' incumbency of this position Mr. Goldcamp returned to Ironton, in 1903, and became associated with the late Frank Mechling in establishing a retail furniture business in eligible quarters at the corner of Second Street and Park Avenue. Mr. Mechling retired from the business about eighteen months later and Mr. Goldcamp then admitted to partnership in the business his younger brother, Robert S., 780 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION who has since continued as his valued coadjutor in the management of the splendid business enterprise which they have built up through effective service and those honorable policies that ever beget popular confidence and support. The large and well appointed establishment of the Gold-camp Furniture Company is maintained at the original location mentioned above, and the stock includes select and complete lines of furniture and household furnishings, such as rugs, .draperies, carpets, etc. Mr. Goldcamp is essentially an enterprising business man, but has not become self-centered to the avoidance of proper and loyal interest in the general welfare of his home city, his attitude being that of a liberal and progressive citizen. He is a bachelor, is a member of the Ironton Chamber of Commerce, is a democrat in politics, is a communicant of the Catholic Church,- and is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus and the Society of St. George. JOHN X. GOLDCAMP. Associated with his brother, Frank F. J. Gold-camp, in the ownership and control of the flourishing industrial enterprise conducted under the title of the Goldcamp Mill Company, John X. Goldcamp is one of the prominent business men and popular citizens of his native city of Ironton, the metropolis and judicial center of Lawrence County. In the sketch of the career of his brother, Frank F. J., appearing on other pages of this work, are given adequate data concerning the family record of long association with Lawrence County, and thus it is unnecessary to repeat the information in the present connection. The Goldcamp Mill Company, capitalized for $40,000, operates an admirably equipped flour mill of the most approved modern facilities and the enterprise proves a valuable adjunct to the industrial activities of Ironton and Lawrence counties. John X. Goldcamp was born at Ironton on the 30th of December,. 1872, and is a son of the late John S. Goldcamp, who was long a prominent figure in the business life of Ironton, where he died in 1909 and where his widow still resides. John X. Goldcamp continued to attend the school of Ironton until he had completed a two years' course in the high school, and at the age of seventeen he became actively concerned with the operation of the flour mill conducted by his father. He served for nine years as representative of his father's mill in its trade territory in West Virginia, where he made an excellent record. a a salesman. When, in 1903, the business of the original mill was sold John X. purchased its retail branch, at the corner of South Third and Vernon Streets, Ironton, and he conducted the same until 1905, when he became associated with his brother Frank F. J. in the organization of the Goldcamp Mill Company and in the erection of its excellent plant, at the corner of HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 781 Second and Ellison Streets. Since that time he has assumed much of the practical and administrative management of the substantial enterprise, and both as a man of affairs and as a liberal and progressive citizen he is -held in unequivocal esteem in his home city and native county. He owns a half interest in the mill property, is a director of the Ohio Millers' Association and in all that touches the welfare and advancement of Ironton he maintains a loyal and helpful interest. He is a member of the Ironton Chamber of Commerce, is a democrat in his political proclivities and both he and his wife are communicants of St. Joseph's Catholic Church. On the 18th of October, 1890,. Mr. Goldcamp wedded Miss Isabella L. Sillman, daughter of John and. Martha Sillman, her father being a representative farmer of Lawrence County. The two children of this union are Sylvious J. and Siderina I. PETER L. HENRY. This honored citizen and representative business man of the City of Ironton, where he is district manager for the Commonwealth Accident Insurance Company, of Philadelphia, is a scion of a family that was founded in Lawrence County nearly a century ago and the name of which has been most worthily linked with the civic and industrial history of this section of the Buckeye state. Mr. Henry is a man whose,. life has been guided .and governed by the loftiest principles of integrity and honor and his abiding Christian faith has been shown both in words and deeds, with the result that he commands impregnable vantage-place in the confidence and high regard of all who know him. Virtually his entire life thus far has been passed within the borders of Lawrence County and here he has been called upon to serve in various offices of public trust, the while he has ever been kindly, generous and tolerant, and ready to aid those in affliction and distress, as well as zealous in the furtherance of those things which represent the higher ideals of life. Peter Lee Henry was born in Hamilton Township, Lawrence County, Ohio, on the 31st of December 4, 1856, and thus became a right welcome Christmas guest in the home of his parents, Isaiah and Ada (Langdon) Henry, both likewise natives of Lawrence County, where the respective families settled prior to the admission of the state to the Union. Isaiah Henry was born on a farm in Upper Township, this county, on the 7th of April, 1817, and here he devoted the major part of his active life to agricultural pursuits, though he was also a skilled artisan as a stone mason. He served during the Civil war as a member of the Home Guards of Lawrence County and he was one of the honored pioneer citizens of the county at the time of his death; in 1893. His widow, who was born 782 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION in the village of Getaway, Lawrence County, on the 28th of May, 1816, survived him by more than a decade and was summoned to the life eternal in 1906, at the extremely venerable age of ninety years. Both were devout members of the Baptist Church and they lived godly, righteous and useful lives. The names of their nine children are here entered in respective order of birth : Samuel C., Elizabeth J., Mahala, Cassa A., James J., Isaac N. and William J. (twins), John W. and Peter L. Mahala, who is deceased, was the wife of Rev. Patrick Henry, a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Ironton ; James J., who became a minister of the Methodist Church, died at the age of thirty years. Peter L. Henry passed the days of his boyhood and youth on the home farm, in Hamilton Township, and in the district schools he acquired his rudimentary education. Thereafter he attended the public schools in the Village of Hanging Rock until he had completed one year's study in the high school, and in pursuance of higher academic discipline he entered the National Normal University, at Lebanon, where he was a student for two terms and where he fortified himself for the work of the pedagogic profession. From 1886 to 1893 he was a successful and popular teacher in the public schools of his native county, and he then brought into requisition his excellent technical ability as a carpenter and brick and stone mason, being employed at these trades until 1896, when he engaged in independent operations as a contractor and builder. Maintaining his residence in his native township, he continued to be actively and successfully identified with this line of enterprise for more than ten years, and within this decade he erected many buildings and did other important contract work in Lawrence County. He became an expert in the construction of cisterns, and at the present time his advice is frequently sought in connection with the repairing and building of such repositories for water. In 1907 Mr. Henry opened an office in Ironton and became district manager, for four counties, for the Commonwealth Accident Insurance Company, of Philadelphia, and for this substantial and representative insurance corporation he has been successful in developing a large and prosperous business in his jurisdiction. In politics Mr. Henry is aligned as a stalwart advocate of the principles of the democratic party and he is well fortified in his opinions concerning matters of governmental and economic import. In Hamilton Township he served eighteen years as president of the school board and four years as justice of the peace, besides which he represented the township for one year as a member of the board of county commissioners. He is implacable in his opposition to the liquor traffic, and has served since HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 783 1909 as president of the Local Option League of Lawrence County, besides which his zealous activities in behalf of morality and social well-being are shown in his influential service in connection with religious affairs. He is president of the Ministerial Evangelical Association of Ironton and both he and his wife are most devout members of the Pine Street Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Henry became a member of the church when he was a lad of eleven years, and much of zeal and consecration has marked his service in the vineyard of the Divine Master. He held for a number of years the position of Sunday School superintendent and is at the present time a valued teacher in the Sunday School of the church with which he is identified. He has held virtually all offices to which a layman is eligible in the Methodist Church, and he gives earnest support to all extraneous measures and enterprises advanced for the moral betterment of the community. Mr. Henry is the owner of an attractive residence property in Ironton and still retains his old homestead place, comprising eight acres, in Hamilton Township. There he gave special attention to the raising of strawberries for a number of years, becoming an expert in this branch of horticulture, in which his daughters were his able assistants. On the 19th of September, 1878, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Henry to Miss Ruhama Berkley, who was born and reared in Lawrence County and who is a' daughter of James H. and Elizabeth A. (Davidson) Berkley, well known residents of this county, where they continued to reside until their death. The marriage ceremony of Mr. and Mrs. Henry was performed at Ironton, by Rev. James M. Kelly, a pioneer clergyman of the Baptist Church in this section of the state. Of this union have been born nine children, of whom seven are living, the following complete list designating the respective order of births : William L., Maude M., Isaac N., Bertha, Wilmot W., Grover C., Ethel M., Olie A. and Amy. William L. died in infancy, and Grover C. passed away when fourteen years of age. JOHN S. WISEMAN, M. D. Prominent among those who are upholding the dignity and prestige of the medical profession in Lawrence County is Dr. Wiseman, who is engaged in practice in the City of Ironton, judicial center of the county and the metropolis of the Hanging Rock Iron Region. The success and high reputation achieved by the Doctor are the more pleasing to note by reason of the fact that he claims as his native heath the county in which he has gained this precedence through ability and sterling worth of character. Dr. Wiseman was born in the village of Sherritts, Lawrence County, on the 3d of September, 1865, and is a representative, of a well-known pioneer family of 784 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION this section of the state. The doctor is a son of Louis F. and Mary Jane (Carter) Wiseman, the former of whom was born in Monroe County, West Virginia, in 1826, and the latter of whom was born near Gallipolis, the county seat of Gallia County, Ohio, in 1$32, her parents having been early settlers of that county. Louis F. Wiseman devoted the greater part of his active career to the basic industry of agriculture and was long numbered among the prosperous and honored representatives of this line of enterprise in Lawrence County, where his death occurred in the year 1896. His was the distinction of having represented the Buckeye state as a gallant soldier in the Civil War, in which he served two years and ten months as a member of Company D, Ninety-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which he became sergeant of his company. In later years he was an appreciative and popular member of that noble patriotic organization, the Grand Army of the Republic, the ranks of which are being rapidly thinned by the one implacable adversary, death. Mrs. Wiseman survived her honored husband and passed forward to the "land of the leal" in 1905. Of the eleven children, Henry J. is the eldest and is a resident of Lawrence County ; Sarah and Mary are deceased ; Louis A. maintains his home in Lawrence County ; Sarepta is the wife of Dr. William Griffith, of Pedro, this county ; William W. is a. resident of Sherritts; Ruth J. likewise remains at Sherritts; Dr. John S., of this review, was the next in order of birth; Susan A. lives at Sherritts ; Martha is deceased ; and Thomas F. is a representative farmer in the vicinity of Sherritts. Dr. John S. Wiseman was reared to the sturdy and invigorating discipline of the home farm and continued to be actively identified with agricultural pursuits until he had attained to the age of twenty-three years. In the meanwhile he fully availed himself of the advantages of the public schools of his native county, and his ambition led him to formulate definite plans fob a broader career of usefulness than that of the prosaic but sterling work of farming. In consonance with his ambition he entered the Miami Medical College, in the city of Cincinnati, and in this excellent institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1893 and with the well-earned degree of doctor of medicine. For the first six years of his active professional work Dr. Wiseman maintained his residence at Powellsville, Scioto County, and lie then removed to Beaver, Pike County, where he continued in successful practice until 1907. He then returned to his native county and established his home in the city of Ironton, where he has built up a large and representative general practice and has secure status as one of the leading physicians and surgeons of Lawrence County. The doctor has availed himself of the best of the standard and periodical, literature of his profession and HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 785 in addition to being a close and ambitious student through this medium he has also taken effective post-graduate course in the New York Polyclinic, in 1898-9, and in the Chicago Polyclinic, in 1907. Dr. Wiseman is actively identified with the Lawrence County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He is a member of the Ironton Chamber of Commerce, is steadfast in his allegiance to the cause of the republican party, whose basic principles he believes best adapted for the safe government of the nation, but in local affairs he is not constrained within strict partisan lines. While a resident of Beaver, Pike County; he served three years as president of its board of education. The doctor is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Knights of Pythias, and he holds membership in the First Baptist church of Ironton, of which his wife, now deceased, likewise was a devoted adherent. On the 24th of October, 1888, was solemnized the marriage of Dr. Wiseman to Miss Sadie Stuart, daughter of the late Calvin M. Stuart, a prominent farmer of Symmes Township, Lawrence County, and she was summoned to the life eternal on the 18th of August, 1912, secure in the affectionate regard of all who had come within the compass of her gracious influence. Dr. and Mrs. Wiseman became the parents of five children, of whom the first, Alma, and the third, Clayton L., are deceased. Those who survive the devoted mother are Lucille F., Avanelle P. and Marcelle E. HENRY HUNTER. The people of Ironton, Ohio, are indebted to Henry Hunter for the opportunity he has placed in their way of enjoying high-class amusement features. It has been said, and truly, that not least among the tasks allotted to men lives are those which minister to our esthetic natures, and the successful. theatrical manager is he who places before the patrons of the stage alike the humorous and the pathetic aspects of life. While Mr. Hunter is still a young man, he is experienced in the amusement business, is a veteran of the motion picture industry in Ohio, and as manager and part owner of the Empire and Scenic Theatres is giving the people clean, interesting and instructive exhibitions. Mr. Hunter was born hi. Wayne County, West Virginia, September 3, 1878, and is a son of Peter F. and Amelia (DeMaro) Hunter. His father, who was born in Staunton, Virginia, in 1849, served as a member of Company K, Fifty-third Mounted Kentucky Infantry, during the Civil war, and is now a resident of Ironton,. where he is engaged in business as a contracting carpenter. Mrs. Hunter was born in Lawrence County, Ohio, in 1858, and has been the mother of six children : Henry, 786 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION John A., Samuel V., Charles A., James B. and May F. Henry Hunter attended the public schools of West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio until he was sixteen years of age, and at that time took up the study of engineering, to which he applied himself for two years. He then entered the employ of the Lawrence Telephone Company as a lineman and remained with that firm for seven years, being advanced to the position of wire chief and later was made manager. With C. B. Clark, he became in 1905, one of the pioneers in the motion picture business in Ohio. He has continued in this business, steadily increasing his interests, and at this time is part owner of two of the most successful amusement enterprises of the city, the Scenic and Empire Theaters, which, under his management, are attracting large and appreciative audiences. During the early days of moving pictures, one of the most dangerous features of the business lay in the liability; of the .films catching fire. Mr. Hunter, a natural mechanic, devised an attachment which did away with this danger, 'and for some time it was extensively used in various parts of the country, but has since been displaced by more recent inventions along the same line. Mr. Hunter has a most creditable military record, having been a member of the Seventh Regiment, Ohio National Guard, for nine years, and serving with Company I, Seventh. Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, during the Spanish-American war: He is a great lover of motor-boating, promoting events of this character, and owning the largest motor boat on the river at Ironton. He owns his own residence at No. 69 North Sixth Street, and has a number of other interests. Fraternally he is connected with the local lodges of the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of. Elks. sir. Hunter is a republican and a consistent member of the Episcopal Church; with which the members of his family are also connected. On August 24, 1902, Mr. Hunter was married at Ironton to .Miss Anna M. Lewis, daughter of Louis Lewis, who is employed at the rolling mills at Ironton. Five children have been born to this union, namely : Helena, Ruth, Alden F., Henrietta and Beatrice. J. JOHN H. LUCAS. A native son of Ironton, Lawrence County, and a representative of one of the sterling pioneer families of this now thriving industrial city, Mr. Lucas- 'is the sole owner of the large and representative retail drug business conducted under the title of the Lucas Drug Company, with a large and admirably equipped establishment. Mr. Lucas became virtually dependent upon his own resources when he was a mere boy and through his ability and well-ordered efforts he has achieved distinctive success and gained secure vantage ground as one HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 787 or the representative business men and influential citizens of his native city and county, where his friends are in number as his acquaintances. He is one of the most progressive and liberal of the admirable coterie of men who have been potent in furthering and maintaining the civic and material prosperity of Ironton. The significant colloquial term "Booster" applies to him most effectively in all that touches the interests of his native city, to which his loyalty is unwavering and marked by deep appreciation. John H. Lucas was born at Ironton on the 25th of October, 1858, and is the youngest in a family of five children, the others being: William, Clara, Ludwig and Carrie. Mr. Lucas is a son of John H. and Luvina (Schachleiter) Lucas, the former of whom was born at Waldheim, in the Kingdom of Saxony, Germany, in 1836, and the latter of whom was born near the city of Berlin, Germany, in 1838. John Ii. Lucas came to America when a youth and in 1852 he established himself as a pioneer of Ironton, where he engaged in the work of his trade, that of baker, incidentally erecting the first bakery in the city. He died in 1861, when but twenty-five years of age, and his widow survived him by .more than two score years, she having been summoned to the life eternal in 1909. The public schools of Ironton afforded to John H. Lucas his early educational advantages, which were limited, as he began to learn the lessons of practical industry when a 'mere boy and thus depended upon self-application and experience in later years to supplement and round out his education, this training having made him a man of broad views and mature judgment. At the age of twelve years Mr. Lucas became errand boy for a local drug store, and that he availed himself fully of the technical advantages afforded him in connection with this line of enterprise is shown by the fact that he studied and worked until he had qualified himself thoroughly as 'a pharmacist. He became prescription clerk and served in this capacity until 1880, when he went to Proctor-vine, Lawrence County, in which village he established a drug store and engaged in business on his own responsibility. In 1889 he sold the stock and business and returned to Ironton, where he became clerk in the drug store conducted by Drs. Gray and Robinson. In 1893 he became associated with his employers in founding the Lucas Drug Company, and in 1897 he purchased the interests of his partners, since which time he has continued the business in an individual way and under the original title. His establishment is essentially metropolitan in its equipment and facilities and in addition to handling drugs, medicines, toilet articles, sundries, etc., he has a well-stocked department devoted to paints, oils, window glass, etc. The establishment has long Vol. II--10 788 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION controlled a substantial and representative trade, based upon fair and honorable dealings and effective service, the while the success of the business has been heightened by the personal popularity of the proprietor. In addition to his drug business Mr. Lucas has been concerned with the development and upbuilding of other important enterprises in his native city and county. He is vice-president of the Home Telephone Company and a director of the Iron City Savings Bank, besides which he has made judicious investments in local real estate and has aided in the 'physical upbuilding as well as the social and material progress of Ironton. His influence and co-operation have been given in support of measures and enterprises tending to advance the best interests of his home city, where he served for some time as president of the Business Men's Association and where he is now vice-president of the Ironton Chamber of Commerce. MT. Lucas is found arrayed as a -loyal supporter of the cause of the republican party, his allegiance to which he has found no reason to sever in the face of modern disaffection in its ranks. In the Masonic fraternity he has received the ultimate or chivalric degrees, and is affiliated with the Ironton commandery. of Knights Templar, as well as the Ancient Arabic Orders of the Nobles Of the Mystic Shrine and the local lodge or the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In 1884 Mr: Lucas wedded Miss Ola B. Carter, who passed to eternal rest in 1887, and who is survived by one son, Emer - who resides in Washington, D. C., and holds a responsible position IN. th the Southern Railway Company ; he married Miss Margurta May Jury, of Louisville, Kentucky. On the 27th of December, 1891, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Lucas to Miss Florence T. Turby, daughter of William W. and Henrietta Turby, of Ironton, and the five children of this union are : John H., Jr., William T., Gray, Richard and Paul. John H. Lucas, Jr., is manager of the business of the Texas Oil Company in the city of Birmingham, Alabama; William T. is a student of electrical engineering in the Western-Reserve University, in the city of Cleveland ; and the other children remain 'at the parental home. JOHN R. C. BROWN. Few of the public officials of the Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio have had a longer or more honorable service than the city engineer of Ironton„ John R. C. Brown. A resident of this place since 1870, he has held his present office since that year, with the exception of three years, and his conscientious devotion to duty, his ability in his chosen calling and his commendable achievements have given him the right to be numbered among the men who HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 789 have contributed to the upbuilding and development of this prosperous section of the Buckeye state. John R. C. Brown was born in Clermont County, Ohio, August 14, 1835, and is a son of Isaac H. and Katherine (Rogers) Brown. His father, born in Clermont County, Ohio, in 1809, was in early life a carpenter, but later became a farmer and so continued to be engaged until his death, in 1887. A stanch supporter of the Union, he early became an abolitionist, and was outspoken in his views upon the question of slavery. Mrs. Brown was born in Kentucky, in 1806, and died in 1889, having been the mother of eight children, namely : Elizabeth C., John R. C., Sue E., Dr. Isaac N., William T., Dr. Quincy A., Permelia and Fannie, of whom John R. C., Permelia and Fannie survive. The country schools of Clermont County and a local institution of Brown County, Ohio, furnished John R. C. Brown with his educational training, although since leaving school, in his eighteenth year, he has been a student upon various subjects and has gained a wide range of knowledge. He first adopted teaching as a profession, but in 1863 was elected county surveyor of Brown County, a position which he held for three years, during which time he had charge of the building and upkeep of fifty miles of highway out of Georgetown. Mr. Brown came to Ironton in 1870, and here his abilities so impressed the people that he was made assistant city engineer under Thomas Gore. One year later he succeeded Mr. Gore as city engineer. From 1874 until 1887 he was both county surveyor and city engineer, and in 1899 Mr. Fred G. Leete was elected to that office and held it three years. In 1902 Mr. Brown was again sent to the office, and has continued to act therein to the present time. His accomplishments have included the building of all the streets and sewers in Ironton, and the manner in which he has conducted the affairs of his office has _met with the entire approval of the people, who have expressed their appreciation of his services on numerous occasions. Mr. Brown was married September 20, 1856, at the home of the bride in Brown County, to Miss Elizabeth A. Carpenter, who was born January 16, 1836, a daughter of Simon and Mary Carpenter, farming people of Brown County. Mrs. Brown died May 26, 1911, having been the mother of four children : Christopher N., who died in 1902, as dean of the Ohio State University and professor of civil engineering; Mary C., who died in infancy ; Sarah; C., who died in the 16th year of her age ; and John Q., mechanical engineer and electrician and superintendent of the Consolidated Street Railway Company, at Oakland, California, married Helen' Gager, and has two children, Ann and John Q., Jr. Mr. Brown is a consistent member of the First Congre- 790 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION gational church. A republican in political matters, his present office has been his only public position. He has interested himself in various business ventures at different times, and is now a stockholder in the Home Building & Loan Association and the Crescent Building & Loan Association. His home on Fourth Street is a modern one, and there he also owns five acres of land. A steady, dependable official and public spirited citizen, he continues to be, as in the past, one of Ironton's most helpful men. WILLIAM J. MAHONEY. As one of the able and representative members of the bar of Lawrence County, Ohio, Mr., Mahoney is entitled to specific recognition in this history, as he is also by reason of his status as a broad-minded, loyal and public-spirited citizen of sterling character and high ideals. He is engaged in the successful practice of his profession in the City of Ironton, the judicial center of Lawrence County, and his clientage indicates in its personnel and importance the popular estimate placed upon his ability as a resourceful advocate and well fortified counselor. Mr. Mahoney claims the lair old Emerald Isle as the place of his nativity, and in both, the agnatic and maternal lines he is a scion of the stanchest of Irish stock. He was born in County Wexford, Ireland, on the. 14th of June, 1862, and is a son of Patrick and Elizabeth Mahoney, the former of whom was born in County Tipperary, Ireland, in 1834, and the latter County Wexford, Ireland, in 1839. Patrick Mahoney served as a captain in the British army during his lifetime, and was district inspector of Irish troops and police for the Province of Leinster, where his death occurred in 1894. The mother of him whose name initiates this review was summoned to the life eternal in 1868, when he was a lad of about six years. Of the children William; J. is the elder of the two now living, his brother Thomas when at home being a resident. of Dublin, Ireland, being now in the diplomatic service of the British government. Three children are deceased, two sons and one daughter. In a private school in his native land William J. Mahoney acquired his early educational discipline, and he there also attended the preparatory department of a college. At the age of ten years he came to the United States, and settlement was made at Center Station, Lawrence County, Ohio, where he spent two years, and was reared to adult age in Ironton, Ohio, being there afforded the advantages of the public schools. He made good use of his scholastic privileges, and for two and one-half years was numbered among the successful teachers of the district schools, besides which he worked in various iron furnaces in the States of Virginia and Tennessee, having charge of iron plants as manager and in HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 791 other capacities. His ambition led him to form definite plans for his future career, and after deciding to adopt the legal profession he entered the law department of Washington University at Lexington, Virginia, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1898 and from which he received his degree of Bachelor of Laws. Since the time of his graduation Mr. Mahoney has been engaged as a teacher and instructor in law and has practiced his profession for varying intervals in Virginia, Washington, Ohio and other states. He has been one of the leading representatives of his profession in Lawrence County, Ohio, since 1908. He controls a large and important law business and has appeared in connection with much notable litigation in the various courts of this section of Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia. Mr. Mahoney is independent in his political opinions. He is well fortified in his conviction concerning economic measures and government policies, as he is a close student of the questions and issues of the hour, as well as of the best in general literature, including that ,of his profession. In the year 1885 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Mahoney to Miss Ella Scherer, who was born in Ironton, Ohio, April 14, 1862, a daughter of Michael Scherer, a pioneer in Ironton business circles. Mr. and Mrs. Mahoney have two children, Elizabeth and John L. The daughter is now the wife of Henry Horschel, of Ironton, and they have one son, William E. M., their daughter, Henrietta, having died in childhood. John L. Mahoney is unmarried and resides in Oklahoma. FRED FRECKA. There is something to be found of a nature more than ordinarily interesting in the career of one who has won his own way in the world and who in spite of handicaps and difficulties has attained the goal of success which he has set before him. Such a man is Fred Frecka, well known as a plumber and also favorably known to the citizens of Ironton as the former capable superintendent of the water works. In almost every respect he is self-made and self-educated; and the services he rendered his community in his official capacity were such as to entitle him to a place among the builders of Lawrence County 's most thriving city. Mr. Frecka was born at Ironton, Ohio, April 5,. 1873, and is a son of Henry 'and Kathryn (Brinkman) Frecka. Henry Frecka was born in Germany in 1838, and like many of his ambitious fellow-countrymen decided that a more promising future awaited him across the water. Accordingly, at the age of twenty-two years, he emigrated to the United States and soon settled at Ironton. where he became the proprietor of a flourishing ice business and through industry and integrity made a place for himself among his adopted city 's substantial men. He took a keen interest in civic affairs, and 792 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION during the two terms that he served as councilman was instrumental in the making of beneficial laws. His death occurred in 1908. Mrs. Frecka, who was also born in Germany in 1838, survives her husband and makes her home at Ironton. There were ten children in the family : Kathryn, Minnie, Charles, Tillie, Henry, Fred, Louis, Mary and two who died in infancy. Fred Frecka attended the public schools of Ironton until reaching the age of fourteen years, and during this time displayed his industrious and energetic nature by working on the ice wagon for his father. He then became apprenticed to the trade of plumber, and after working at this vocation under Pete Constable for four years opened a store of his own, continuing to conduct this establishment until 1912. He gained during this time a reputation for skilled workmanship and fidelity to engagements which gained for him, in 1912, the appointment to the office of superintendent of the water works, a position in which he eminently proved his ability and his high value to the city. During his incumbency Mr.. Frecka improved the water service in various ways, relaying a great deal of old and small pipe with larger lines, and thus greatly increasing the supply. His conscientious and energetic efforts met with the approval of the people, and no city official was held in higher general esteem. A republican in politics, Mr. Frecka has been active in the ranks of his party, and has served as councilman of Ironton since 1908. He is a member of the Modern Woodmen of .America, and his religious connection is with the German Reformed Church. Mr. Frecka was married February 8, 1891, at the home of the bride, to Miss Mary C. Massie, daughter of Isaac and Philona Massie, of Greasy Ridge, Lawrence County. Four children have been born to this union, of whom two survive : Hazel G., who is a popular school teacher of Ironton ; and Chauncy M., who is still attending school. The pleasant family home is located. at 249 South Third Street. EUGENE B. WILLARD. Probably no one individual through his own career and. through the activities of his family has had more intimate relations with, the general industrial and commercial life of the Hanging Rock Iron Region than Eugene B. Willard of. Ironton. As Mr. Willard is associated with the "History of the Hanging Rock Iron Region" in the capacity of editor, the publishers desire to take this opportunity to insert in the biographical section a sketch of Mr. Willard and his interesting family. Eugene R. Willard is a native of the Hanging Rock Iron Region, and was born at Pine Creek Landing, Scioto County, Ohio, September 23, 1842. His is one of the oldest American families represented now in HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 793 Southern Ohio. 1. Simon Willard, the first American ancestor, was born in the Parish of Horsmonden, County of Kent, England, in 1605, baptized April 5, 1605, a son of Richard Willard, and came to America in April, 1634, landing at Boston. He was a member of the General Court, surveyor of arms, representative, major of militia County of Middlesex, and had many years of active service against the Indians. He died April 24, 1676. Simon Willard married, first, Mary Sharpe, daughter of Henry and Jane Sharpe in England ; second, Elizabeth Dunster, sister of Rev. Henry Dunster, a president of Harvard College; third, Mary Dunster, who died at Sudbury. in December, 1715. 2. Josiah, who died at Weathersfield, Massachusetts, in 1674, married March 20, 1656-57, Hannah Hosmer. 3. Samuel, born September 19, 1658, married Sarah Clarke June 6, 1683, died at Saybrook, Massachusetts, in 1713-14. 4. Joseph, born at Saybrook, graduated at Yale College, 1714, married Susanna Lynde, was preacher at Sunderland, then at Rutland, and was killed by Indians August 23, 1723, after a struggle in which he had killed one Indians and wounded another. 5. Joseph, second son of Rev. Joseph and Susanna, married Huldah Willard, who was daughter of Lieut. Moses Willard, who was killed by Indians June 18, 1756, near Charlestown, New Hampshire. 6. Francis Willoughby Willard, married Deborah Blood December 3, 1772. 7. James, "born in Charlestown, New Hampshire, and died in 1851, married Lydia, daughter of Jonathan and Catherine Willard of Langdon, New Hampshire. 8. James Orville, born at Charlestown, New Hampshire, July 7, 1814, removed to Painesville, Ohio, in November, 1834, married Anna M. Seeley in 1839, and died at Ironton, Ohio, May 19, 1855. 9. Eugene B. Willard, born as above stated September 23, 1842. James O. Willard, the father, was educated at Plainfield, New Hampshire, was reared on a farm until twenty, then became clerk at .a furnace, and then furnace owner and manager in the Hanging Rock Region in 1840. He was the first president of the Iron Railroad in 1850, and then cashier of the Iron Bank of Ironton. He was a Congregationalist and a whig in politics. His wife, Anna M. Seeley, was born at Easton, Connecticut, was brought by her father to Painesville, Ohio, in 1814, was educated there in the public schools and in a seminary at New Haven, Connecticut, and she died at Ironton June 17, 1873. Her father was Uri Seeley, who was a son of Ebenezer Seeley, who was son of Nathaniel Seeley, son of Nathaniel Seeley, all of Connecticut. Eugene B. Willard when nine .years of age was brought to Ironton, Ohio, in October, 1851, and acquired his early education in the public schools of that city. In September, 1859, he entered the freshman class of Marietta College, Ohio, left there in May, 1861, because his mother, 794 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION who was then a widow, was afraid he would enlist in the army. He was the only son, and for a time he yielded to his mother's wishes that he should remain at home.. During the winter of 1861-62 he taught school, and wrote in the office of the county auditor at Ironton until President Lincoln called for "600,000 more" in July, 1862. August 15, 1862, he enlisted in Company H, Ninety-first Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, served in West Virginia and in the Shenandoah Valley, was under Generals Hayes, Crook and Sheridan, was wounded in battle July. 20, 1864, near Winchester, was promoted to second lieutenant in January, 1865, and mustered out with the regiment June 30, 1865. He saw comparatively little fighting during the first two years, since the regiment was engaged in scouting and garrison duty in the mountains of West Virginia. The last year was one of heavy campaigning in Virginia. At the beginning of the engagement on the afternoon of July 20, 1864, near Winchester, Company H had .forty-seven men present for duty, and of these eleven were killed or mortally wounded, and fourteen wounded. The company during its entire term of service lost but one man by disease, and twelve .killed in battle. In October, 1865, a few months after his return from the war, Mr. Willard became clerk at the Buckhorn furnace in Lawrence County. In August, 1866, he went to the Ohio furnace in Sioto County, owned by Means, Kyle & Company, to serve as clerk. This company was owner of the Ohio and Pine Grove furnaces and the Hanging Rock coal works, and at that time was the strongest and most progressive company in the business of making charcoal iron in the Hanging Rock Region. In May, 1868, Mr. Willard entered the general offices of Means, Kyle & Company at Hanging Rock as general bookkeeper and cashier, remained with the company as cashier, general manager and president by successive promotions until October, 1902. It was this company that built the Hamilton coke furnace at Hanging Rock in 1884-85, and thereafter the manufacture of coke pig-iron was its pricipal business. After nearly forty years of active connection with the furnaces and related industries of this region Mr. Willard resigned and ceased active business in 1902. While always a republican, Mr. Willard has usually belonged to the rank and file of the party. His only offices have been township or school board positions.. However, he was chairman of the commission which built the Lawrence County courthouse. Mr. Willard has been a member of the Presbyterian Church since 1866, and an elder for more than thirty years. On July 23, 1868, at Ironton, Ohio, Eugene B. Willard and Alice Valentine were united in marriage. Alice was born at Cincinnati, .Ohio, March 8, 1844, and died at Ironton, ,October 25, 1910. She attended the HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 795 public schools of Ironton until September, 1862, and then entered Granville Female College at Granville, Ohio, from which she graduated in June, 1865. Her father, John Valentine, was a mechanical engineer and lost his life in 1852 at New Orleans, Louisiana, while engaged in erecting sugar machinery for Miles Greenwood & Company of Cincinnati. Her mother, Phebe Walton, was born and reared near Chester, Pennsylvania, of Quaker stock, but came to Ohio about 1830, and died at Hanging Rock in October, 1895. With all the work and accomplishments of a long life Mr. Willard may be pardoned for finding his highest satisfaction in the group of children who have grown up in his home, to each of whom he has been able to afford a collegiate education, and who already do honor to their parents by the worthy stations they have found in life. His children, all born at Hanging Rock, briefly mentioned, are : Mary, born January 23, 1870 ; James Orville, born December 15, 1872 ; Eugene B., born October 19, 1874 ; Alfred S., born August 29, 1879 ; Anna, born June 25, 1881; Alice, born January 30, 1883 ; and Ruth, born June 1, 1888. Mary Willard attended the public schools of Hanging Rock, afterwards spent three years at the Granville Female College, where she graduated in June, 1890, and on October 16, 1895, married Edward L. Lambert, and they now live at Ironton, parents of four children, three girls and one boy. James Orville was graduated from the Pennsylvania Military College at Chester in June, 1894, as a civil engineer, entered the employ of the Carnegie Steel Company the same year, remained in its service seven years, then entered the employ of Jones & Laughlin Steel Company of Pittsburg as engineer in charge of construction at their Eliza furnace plant, and is still with that company in charge of the six Eliza blast furnaces; he is unmarried. Eugene B., Jr., attended the Hanging Rock public schools until the age of fifteen, then entered the Pennsylvania Military College at Chester, graduating a civil engineer in June, 1894, became assistant manager at Hamilton furnace, Hanging Rock, for two years, following which he spent two years at the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, and then took charge of Hamilton furnace as manager. In 1900 he went to the Iroquois furnace at. Chicago, remained there until 1902, then took the management of the furnaces at Wellston, Ohio, remained there until 1906, and then took charge of the Eliza furnaces at Pittsburg.. On May 21, 1907, he with five other men was instantly killed by an explosion at the Eliza furnaces ; he was unmarried. Alfred S., after attending the Hanging Rock public schools until June, 1896, spent two years in the Pennsylvania Military College, nearly two years at the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, taking ,a course as mechanical engineer, served his time as machinist in the Norfolk 796 - HINGING ROCK IRON REGION & Western Railroad shops at Portsmouth, and has continued in the employ of that railroad as machinist, foreman and general foreman of shops to this time, having been general foreman of the shops at Williamson, West Virginia, for the past three years; he married Ethel Mills of Cleveland, Ohio, October 16, 1905, and has two children. The daughter Anna attended the public schools at Hanging Rock until June, 1897, followed by two years at Lake Erie College at Painesville, Ohio, then four ycars in the Western College .for Women at Oxford, Ohio, graduating in June, 1903 ; at Ironton, June 5, 1907, she married Osbert E. Irish, a lawyer, and has two sons and one daughter. The daughter Alice attended public schools at Hanging Rock until June, 1899, entered the Western College for Women: at Oxford, Ohio, in September of that year, was graduated in June, 1905, and is yet unmarried. Ruth after her graduation from the Ironton High School in June, 1907, spent four years in the study of music at Oberlin, Ohio, is unmarried, and is now organist at the Presbyterian Church of Ironton. DANIEL WEBSTER WILLIAMS. As editor of that portion of the "History of the Hanging Rock Iron Region" pertaining to Jackson County, the publishers desire herewith to present a brief sketch of the career of Daniel Webster Williams, whose many years spent. in Jackson County have been accompanied with valuable service as newspaper man, author, and a leader in public affairs. Daniel Webster Williams was born October 31, 1862, at Banner, Jackson County, Ohio. The Williams family is of Welsh origin. His great-grandfather, David Rees Williams, was a Welshman, but married Celia Lyon, who was of Irish family, and a sister of Matthew Lyon, who was for two terms a congressman from Vermont, represented a district in Kentucky in Congress four terms, and was the first delegate from the Territory of Arkansas. The Lyon family were natives of Wicklow County, Ireland. George David Williams, grandfather of the Jackson editor, was born February 11, 1785, and died December 30, 1871. He was the founder of the Williams name in Southern Ohio,. He was a freeholder at Lledrod, Wales, and in 1839 emigrated to America and settled on a farm in Greenfield Township, Gallia County; Ohio. There he assisted to organize Sardis Church; Calvinistic Methodist. He married Hannah Lewis. of Aberaeron, Wales, a descendant of a 'Huguenot who had fled from France in a coasting vessel at the time of the St. Bartholomew massacre, and settled in Wales. Hannah Lewis died March 22, 1870. Benjamin G. Williams, father of Daniel W., was born in Wales, emigrated with his parents and spent the rest of his life in Ohio. He was HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 797 a farmer, first in Gallia County, and then near Banner, in Jackson County. He was born March 2, 1821, and died January 8, 1912. By two wives he was the father of seventeen children. His second wife, the mother of Daniel W., was Margaret Evans, who was born in Jackson County, Ohio, March 18, 1839, and died February 9, 1908. Daniel W. Williams was educated in the common schools and in the Ohio University, leaving college in his junior year. After some experience in other lines he took up newspaper work July 15, 1889, and that has been 'his. vocation ever since; except during the period from April, 1905, to June, 1907, when he served as consul at Cardiff, Wales. As consul he wrote many exhaustive reports to the American Government. He resigned that post in the consular service to return home and care for his mother during her last days. Mr. Williams was given the honorary degree of A. M. by Ohio University in 1904. Besides his contributions to the current newspapers, Mr. Williams is author of a history of Scioto Salt Licks in Jackson County ; and edits the Standard Journal, a weekly regarded as a unique contribution to journalistic technic. His "Day by Day" notes on varied subjects, politics, personalities, philosophy, humor, etc., have been widely quoted. On the republican ticket Mr. Williams was elected in 1908 as senator from the Seventh Ohio District, and served one term. In that time he was chairman of the committee.. on mines, and introduced the present mining code for Ohio. He was also chairman of the Ohio food probe committee of 1910, the first to publish a report on that subject in this country. In 1914 Mr. Williams was candidate on the progressive ticket for lieutenant governor of Ohio, He has long been active in the Pres, byterian Church, having served as elder, Sunday school superintendent, trustee and in other relations -With his home church, and as president of the Jackson County Sunday School Association several terms. In college Mr. Williams was a Delta Tau Delta, and is affiliated with the Improved Order of Red Men. In his home community he has performed a number of civic services, and was a library trustee of Jackson. January 6, 1887, Mr. Williams married Sarah Marshall Ames at Macon, Mississippi. Mrs. Williams is of a notable Southern family. She received her education at Macon, Mississippi, and in the Ohio University. Her parents were Charles Bingley and Sarah Jane (Longstreet) Ames. Her ancestor, Sylvanus Ames, died while with the American army at Valley Forge. Her father was a soldier in the Confederate army, and held many positions of honor in Noxubee County, Mississippi, including those. of probate judge, superintendent of education, etc. Mrs. Williams' mother was the youngest sister of Gen. James Longstreet, one of the ablest leaders of the Confederacy. Of the children born to Mr. 798 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION and Mrs. Williams, two, Maude and Chilton, died in infancy. Ben Ames Williams, who was born at Macon, Mississippi, March 7, 1889, graduated from Dartmouth College in 1910, and since that year has been employed on the Boston American, and on September 4; 1912, at York Harbor, Maine, married Florence Talpy ; Helen Ames Williams, born at Jackson, Ohio, July 20, 1893, was graduated at Glendale College, Ohio, in 1913. MRS. HENRY WINTER. Substantial industry, honest dealing with all his fellowmen, End quiet but unostentatious success were the characteristics of the late Henry Winter, who died at Ironton in 1905, and whose widow, Mrs. Katharine Winter, now continues to reside in that city and is one of the women prominent both in business and social affairs. Henry Winter was born at Pomeroy, Ohio, in 1853, spent most of his life in the Hanging Rock Iron Region; and was for a number of years an iron puddler. After the iron industry declined he opened a grocery store, and built up a good business and eventually was rated as one of the very successful and prosperous men of Ironton. He had along with first class business ability the characteristics of charity and generosity, and did a great deal for less fortunate people that has never come to the knowledge of the world. Mrs. Katharine Winter was born at Buena Vista, now Princess, Kentucky, a daughter of Joseph and Rosa (Bahn) Falter: Her father was born in Germany in 1820, came to Kentucky in young manhood, and subsequently was one of the early settlers of Lawrence' County, Ohio, where he died in 1885. His wife was born in Germany about 1823. Mrs. Winter came to Ironton when about eight months of age, was reared and educated in the city, and has known the people of the community and been interested in its affairs for many years. On June 9, 1885, she married Mr. Winter, and since his death has shown unusual business capacity in looking after the estate. To their marriage were born three children : Bertha M., Frances R. and Henry, Jr. Bertha, who graduated .at St. Aloysius Academy in New Lexington, Perry County, Ohio, in 1906, is now living in Ironton and is organist at St. Joseph 's Church. Frances is also a graduate of the same academy in 1907. Henry, Jr., is a graduate of St. Mary 's College at Dayton, Ohio, in 1912, and is now clerk with a large coal company in the mining district of West ;Virginia. Mrs. Winter is a member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church, of the Christian Mothers Society and does much practical charity both in and out of the ',church. She is a' stockholder in the First National Bank, in HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 799 the Ironton Lumber Company, the Ironton Engine Plant and several other local companies. Besides her beautiful residence at 135 S. Third Street she is the owner of a good deal of real estate in and out of the city. JOHN PEEBLES. A man of indefatigable enterprise and marked fertility of resource, John Peebles, of Portsmouth, has long been identified with the advancement of the commercial and industrial interests of this part of County, and as the result of his ability and efficient management has not only achieved distinction in business circles, but has gained a comfortable fortune. He was born at Pine Grove Furnace, Lawrence County, Ohio, a son of John Geddes and Martha (Steele) Peebles, of whom an extended history may be found on another page of this biographical work. After leaving the public schools, John Peebles attended Sewickley Academy, in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, and the State Normal School at Lebanon, Ohio. Entering then the employ of Johnson, Peebles & Co., he was a clerk in the office of their hub. and spoke factory until 1873, when, in partnership with Joseph G. Reed, he embarked in the wholesale dry goods business, which he continued for a quarter of a century. He then disposed of his interest in the firm in order to devote his entire time and energies to his father's business affairs, which were numerous, and of much importance. In 1902 Mr. Peebles, with characteristic enterprise and foresight, organized the Peebles Paving Brick Company, of which he has since been president. The Peebles family still retain the interest of John G. Peebles in the iron business, and Mr. John Peebles is director and vice president of the Bellefontaine Iron Works Company and of the Ashland Iron and Mining Company. He also served as president of the Portsmouth National Bank from the time of his father's death until that institution was consolidated with the First National Bank of 'Portsmouth. Mr.. Peebles was first married in 1870 to Sarah Lynn. Tewksbury, who was born at Wheelersburg, Scioto County, a daughter of Moor Russell' and, Sarah (Lynn) Tewkibury and a granddaughter on the paternal side of Ezekiel Tewksbury, a native of Amherst, Massachusetts, who married Sallie Barron, of North Haverhill, New Hampshire. On the maternal side she .was a, granddaughter of Andrew and Jane Lynn, of Brown County, Ohio. Mrs. Sarah L.. Peebles died July 7, 1881, leaving one daughter, Martha Steele Peebles. Mr. Peebles married, second, in 1888, Antoinette Lloyd. She was born in Portsmouth, a daughter of Richard and Mary Ella (Bentley) Lloyd, and a grand daughter on the maternal side of Aholiab and Mary (McCauley) Bent-