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J. McCARTY, proprietor of marble and granite
works at No. 108 Eighth Street, Steubenville and one of
the city's reliable business men, was born in Frederick
County, Virginia, in 1858, and resided there until he
was eighteen years of age. After deciding on the
trade that he wished to learn, Mr. McCarty went
to Wheeling and put himself under a skilled workman in
marble and granite and served out a full apprenticeship.
He had a natural aptitude for the business and learned
rapidly and after a training of four years was an expert
workman. He went into the monument business in
Wayne County, Ohio, where he continued until 1894, when
he came to Steubenville, where for eight years he was
manager for Mrs. W. J. Archer and then engaged in
the business for himself. He does all kinds of
monumental and vault work, plain or ornate, and many of
the resting places of the dead in and around
Steubenville are beautified with specimens of his
artistic chiseling. In 1882 Mr. McCarty was
married to Miss Belle McLaughlin of Wayne County,
Ohio, and they have three children: Lloyd J.,
Arthur J. and Delpha, the second son being
associated with the father. Mr. McCarty is
identified with the order of Maccabees.
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R.
L. McLAUGHLIN, one of the rising young members of
the Jefferson County bar, who has been a resident of
Steubenville, O., for about a year, was born in 1874 at
Adena, ., and is a son of the late William McLaughlin,
of Adena, Jefferson County, Ohio.
William McLaughlin was born in 1837 at Adena,
O., where his father, James McLaughlin, located
at an early period, and was there reared to maturity and
spent his entire life engaged in agricultural pursuits.
He was a man of public spirit and enterprise, always
taking an interest in local politics, and was for many
years justice of the peace at Adena. His death
occurred in 1905.
R. L. McLaughlin was educated in the common
schools of Adena, and at Muskingum College. Before
entering college he devoted three years to school
teaching After leaving college he engaged in
teaching for another year and during that period devoted
his leisure time to the study of law. He entered
the junior class in the law development of the Ohio
State University in September, 1903. In December,
1904, he was admitted to the bar, but continued his
residence at Adena with his father for three years, at
which place he served for two years as justice of the
peace, resigning that position to locate at
Steubenville, where he has since been successfully
engaged in the practice of law. Mr. McLaughlin
is a member of the United Presbyterian Church.
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Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - Page 754) |
GEORGE C.
McNEAL, who is successfully engaged in the
real estate business at Steubenville, O., comes of
an old and prominent family of the community.
He was born in Steubenville and is a son of
William and Jane (Baxter) McNeal, and a grandson
of Archibald McNeal, who in the early days
erected the house in which our subject now lives.
He was born in Scotland and was for a time located
at Lisbon, O., prior to coming to Jefferson County.
William McNeal was born in Lisbon, O., and was
very young when his parents moved to Steubenville.
He became a prominent citizen here, and for many
years prior to his death was engaged in the butcher
business. He married Jane Baxter and
they reared a large family of children.
George C. McNeal was born and reared where he
now lives, and received a public school education.
Early in life he engaged in butchering, but in 1904
he sold out his shop and in recent years has given
his attention to his real estate interests. He
builds, sells and rents houses and has quite an
extensive business. He resides with two
sisters in the old home place at No. 1120 Lincoln
Avenue. Religously, he is a member of the
Finley M. E. Church.
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JACOB MANSFIELD,
a well known citizen of
Bloomfield and a member of its town council, was
born in Wayne township, Jefferson County, Ohio,
Oct. 19, 1843, and is a son of Samuel and
Elizabeth (Pumphrey) Mansfield.
Samuel Mansfield
was born in Wayne Townships,
where his father, Thomas Mansfield,
had settled at a very early date, securing government land among the earliest of
the pioneer home-seekers. During his
early years of manhood, he operated a flat boat on the river route between
Steubenville and New Orleans,
but later became a farmer. He
married Elizabeth Pumphrey, who was born in Smithfield
Township, Jefferson
County, and of their family of children the following survive:
Albert O., and
Jeremiah B. both of whom reside at Hopedale, Ohio;
Elijah P., who lives at Youngstown;
William, who is a resident of
Greensburg, Ind.; Jacob; and
Keturah, who lives in California, who
is the widow of Charles Moore. The parents of the above family
were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Jacob Mansfield was reared in
Wayne Township and was educated in the district schools and a college at Harlem Springs,
in Carroll
County.
During all his mature life he has been engaged in agriculture pursuits and for
some years previous to moving to Bloomfield, in the summer of 1909, operated a dairy
business at Fair Play. Having spent
his whole life of this part of Jefferson County he is widely known and enjoys the confidence and esteem of his
fellow citizens and this was definitely shown by his election to office soon
after locating in his present home.
He is a Republican in his political attachment.
Mr. Mansfield was married Oct. 19,
1869, to Miss Sarah C. Burris, who was born in Wells Township, Jefferson County, a daughter of
Charles Burris, who was once an
extensive farmer and sheep and stock raiser and well known all over the county.
Mr. and Mrs. Mansfield have three living children:
Mary E., who is the wife of
William Cookston, of
Bloomfield;
Thomas T., who is a telegraph operator at Jewett, Ohio, for the Panhandle
Railroad; and William C., who is a mail clerk on the Dennison Accommodation line of the Panhandle, between
Dennison and Pittsburg. During the
Civil War, Mr. Mansfield was in the Union army, a member of Co. G.,
1857th O. Vol. Inf., and during his four months of service was
stationed at Fort Delaware. With his family he belongs to the
Methodist Episcopal Church.
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Doyle - Publ. Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 -
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DANIEL
L. MAPLE, who resides on his fine farm of 110
acres in Saline Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, comes
of a family which has for generations been numbered with
the prominent citizenship of the county. He was
born near the mouth of Yellow Creek in Saline Township,
Nov. 19, 1831, and is a son of Jesse R. and Margaret
(Marshall) Maple.
The first of the Maple family to come to
Jefferson County, Ohio, was William Maple, great
grandfather of the subject of this record a soldier of
the Revolutionary War, who came here while this was the
northwestern territory. He served in the battle of
Trenton, and other engagements of the war.
William Maple was of English parentage, the family
having been transplanted to American soil in the
colonial days. He moved from Trenton, N. J., to
Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and subsequently to
Jefferson County, Ohio, crossing the river between
Elliottsville and Empire, and locating in what now is
Knox Township. He was buried on the hill above
Port Homer, on the Patrick Haley place.
Capt. Benjamin Maple, grandfather of Daniel
L., gained his title through service in the War of
1812. He was thrice married, his first union being
with Mary Rich, his second with a Miss Lewis,
and his third with a Miss Fitzpatrick, and he was
father of twenty-one children, in addition to which he
reared a lad named John Grimes. Of his
children, Pizarius Maple was a soldier in the
Mexican War. Captain Maple was buried at
Pine Grove.
Jesse R. Maple was born near Somerset, Jefferson
County, Ohio, July 18, 1809, and spent his entire life
in Saline Township. In 1850, he moved upon the
place now occupied by his son, Daniel L. Maple,
and there he continued to reside until his death in
December, 1905, at the unusual age of ninety-six years.
He was married to Margaret Marshall, who was born
in Knox Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, and was a
daughter of Joseph and Mary Marshall, who had
come from Pennsylvania at an early date. Mrs.
Maple died in 1854, and was survived by the
following children: Mary, who died in 1909, at
the age of seventy-eight years, and was the widow of
Samuel McClain; Caroline, who lived but a few years
after her marriage to Benjamin Peckham; Kiziah,
widow of George Phillips, residing in Chester, W.
Va.; Frances Ann, of Cleveland, O., widow of
E. H. Gray, who was a soldier in the Union army
during the Civil War; Sarah Melinda, of
Cleveland, O., is the wife of Charles Shipley who
served in the Union army throughout the entire Civil
War; Daniel L., whose name heads this records;
and Albert G., who is in the oil supply business
at Oil City, Pa. The last named married Susan
Stevenson, of Wellsville, O.
Daniel L. Maple attended the public schools of
his native county, where he remained until the Civil
War, when he went to Allegheny, Pa., and worked on then
railroad. After the war he returned to Jefferson
County and located on his present farm, where he has
lived continuously since 1866. The farm consists
of 110 acres and in finely equipped with buildings and
well improved, bespeaking the labor and care Mr.
Maple has given to it. He has always taken a
public-spirited interest in the affairs of the community
and county, and is a Democrat of the Jefferson and
Jackson type. He is an active party man and has
been a delegate to every county convention during the
past forty years. He has served as central
committeeman and has been a member of the election board
ever since the enactment of the Australian ballot.
He has served on the United States jury at Columbus, and
many times on the jury in his county.
On May 6, 1858, Mr. Maple was united in marriage
with Miss Elizabeth Albaugh, of what then was
Bowling Green, now Osage, Jefferson County. She is
a daughter of Reuben and Sarah (Rider) Albaugh,
her maternal grandfather being George Rider.
She was one of the following children born to her
parents. Jacob of Oxford, Burton County,
Indiana; Catherine (Pierce), deceased; Isaac,
who lived at Hot Springs, Ark., at his death; Jane,
widow of David Eddy, of Toronto, O., George
who married Emma Maple, and resides at Cleveland,
O.; William, who met an accidental death near
Somerset; Levi, who married Lydia Stanley
and resides in Indiana; Margaret, who married
Cephus Eddy and resides in Toronto; Harriet,
who died young, and Elizabeth (Maple). Mr. and
Mrs. Maple reared the following children:
Jeanette, who married W. H. McCarle, of
Wellsville, and has three sons - Frederick, Charles
and Jay; Emma, who married Charles
Bradley, of Wellsville, and has three children -
Elizabeth (wife of James Harrison), Jeanette,
and George Bradley; and Francis Marion,
who married Mary McGinley, of Pittsburg, and has
two children, - Daniel and Catherine
The last named is proprietor of a restaurant at
Salineville, where he resides. The subject of this
sketch is a member of the Christian Church at
Hammondsville. He was formerly a member of the
Independent Order of Old Fellows.
(Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph
B. Doyle - Publ. Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 -
Page 791) |
J.
H. MAPLE, postmaster at Amsterdam, O., who took
charge of the office in November, 1906, succeeding S.
J. Smith, has proven himself a very efficient public
official and is popular with all classes. He was
born in Jefferson County, Ohio, and is a son of
Alexander and Margaret (Telfer) Maple, the latter of
whom survives and resides with her son at Amsterdam.
J. H. Maple was small when his parents moved
from Jefferson to Carroll County, and there he attended
school and completed his education at a college at
Harlem Springs, O. He then went into the railroad
service and came to Amsterdam as section foreman, in
1903, and then learned the plastering trade. He
has always taken an active interest in politics, votes
with the Republican party, and before receiving his
appointment to the present office, he served six years
as village clerk. Considerable business passes
through the Amsterdam office and it requires care and
discipline to transact it all satisfactorily. In
1905, Route No. 1, rural free delivery was started, and
in 1909, route No. 2, while the Star Route is operated
from this office to Wolf Run. The rural deliveries
cover a territory of about twenty-five miles each and
the village has four mails in and out daily.
Mr. Maple was married in Carroll County, Ohio,
to Miss Cora Johnson, a daughter of James
Johnson, of Jefferson County, and they have six
children: Frederick, Adda, Walter,
Nannie, Hallie and Helen. Mr. Maple
and family belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church.
He is a member of the order of K. O. P.
(Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph
B. Doyle - Publ. Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 -
Page 869) |
JAMES
BUCHANAN MAXWELL, who has been identified with
the business affairs of Mingo, Ohio, since Oct. 19,
1882, has river interests and is extensively engaged in
ferrying, and is a stockholder of the Tri-State
Investment Company. He was born Feb. 13, 1858, on
a farm in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and is a son
of Daniel and Sarah (Watters) Maxwell, and comes
of one of the early pioneer families of Washington
County. The Maxwell family is of Scotch
Irish descent.
Daniel Maxwell was born in Washington County,
Pennsylvania, and died at the age of sixty-six years at
Wheeling, W. Va., where he had located about 1867.
His wife was a native of Wheeling, and died there at the
age of fifty-five years. Daniel and Sarah
Maxwell were the parents of twelve children:
William; James Buchanan; John, deceased; Maggie,
who is the wife of William Horner; Laura; Clara M.,
and George, both deceased; Catherine;
Charles, deceased; Daniel S.; Anna, who is
the widow of Charles Frieberger, and Clarence.
James B. Maxwell was seven years of age when his
parents removed to Wheeling, and after attending the
local schools for three terms began working as a puddler,
in the La Belle Iron Works. In 1882, when the
Laughlin Junction Iron, Steel and Nail Company was
established, he came to Mingo and worked with that
concern as a puddler until that form of work was
abolished. He was then elected marshal of Mingo on
the Democratic ticket, and served five successive terms
in that capacity, being elected for the last two terms
on the Independent ticket. Since April , 1892,
Mr. Maxwell has been engaged in ferrying. He
has served as a member of the council, board of trade,
and is at present a member of the Mingo School Board.
Mr. Maxwell is the owner of several pieces of
residence property at Mingo Junction.
Mr. Maxwell was first united in marriage with
Louise Baker, who died in Wheeling, W. Va., leaving
one child, John William, a resident of Glassport,
Pa., who married Minnie Garrety and has two
children, Gladys and Anna. Mr. Maxwell
formed a second union on May 19, 1886, with Catherine
Mazingo, and to them have been born: Alma,
who married Edwin Galvin, and they have one
child, Catherine; Reah; James A. Arthur; Della V.,
and Charles, who died aged two years and two
weeks.
Mr. Maxwell is a member of the improved Order of
Red Men, degree of Pocahontas, of which he is also a
trustee; the Golden Eagles; F. O. E.; Uniform Rank of
Knights of Pythias, of which he is trustee, and is also
a member of the German Schutzen Club, of Mingo Junction.
(Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph
B. Doyle - Publ Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 -
Page 551) |
HON. JOHN L.
MEANS, the present Republican nominee for
County Auditor, who ably represented Jefferson
County in the Ohio State Legislature for two terms,
is one of Steubenville's representative citizens and
has long been identified with her business as well
as her public interests. He was born at
Steubenville in 1870 and after completing his
education, entered his father's office in the
Means foundry. He remained in the foundry
business for fourteen years, after which he engaged
in the real estate business for some time and for
the past four years has been in the employ of the
River Sand Company, in the accounting and sales
departments.
Since early manhood, Mr. Means has been
interested in public affairs and on account of his
business integrity and his recognition of the duties
of good citizenship, has held high place in the
confidence of his friends and of those who work for
good government and civic uplift. At the
time he was elected to the legislature, he was
serving efficiently as a member of the city council.
He takes a great deal of interest in the Y. M. C. A.
and is a member of St. Paul's Episcopal
Church. He is a Mason, belonging to the Blue
Lodge, Chapter and Commandery, and also to Aladden
Temple of the Shrine at Columbus. He is
identified also with Steuben Lodge No. 1, Knights of
Pythias, the Red Men, the Knights of Golden Eagle,
the Modern Woodmen of America, the Protective Home
Circle and Order of Ben Hur.
(Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph
B. Doyle - Publ Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 -
Page 961) |
JOHN A.
MEDCALF, proprietor of the Steubenville
Building & Lumber Company, with yards at No. 512
Dock Street, Steubenville, Ohio, is interested in
other prospering enterprises of the city and
section, and is a representative business man in
several different lines. He was born at
Hagerstown, Maryland, in 1866.
When John A. Medcalf was four years old his
parents moved to Irwin, Westmoreland Co.,
Pennsylvania, where he was sent to school, and later
was employed in the coal mines. When
twenty-two years of age he came to Toronto, Ohio,
where he worked at the carpenter trade for nine
years, and then came to Steubenville. Here he
went into the general contracting and lumber
business under the style of the Steubenville
Building & Lumber Company, of which he is sole
proprietor. He is a stockholder in the
Steubenville Ice Company and also of the Interstate
Lumber Company, of Pittsburgh. His business is
conducted along well regulated lines and his name
stands high commercially.
Mr. Medcalf was married at Irwin, Pa., to
Miss Anna M. Blake, and they ahve five children:
Lydia J., who married Sherman Martin
of Steubenville; and James Lewis, Laura
Belle, William Lawrence, and Annaa Mary.
Mr. Medcalf and family attend the Methodist
Protestant church. He is identified with the
order of Maccabees and the Junior Order of American
Mechanics.
(Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph
B. Doyle - Publ Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago -
1910 - Page 558) |
CHARLES
P. MERRYMAN, a leading citizen of Wayne
Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, and a turnpike
commissioner for the Bloomfield and Smithfield
turnpike, an office to which he was appointed by the
county commissioners, in 1909, was born in Wayne
Township, April 18, 1851. He is a son of
William and Nancy (Hoobler) Merryman, and a
grandson of Nicholas Merryman.
William Merryman was born in Jefferson County after
his father had established himself in Wayne
Township. Nicholas Merryman came to
Ohio from Westmoreland County, Pa. During a
few years of his life, William Merryman lived
in Harrison County, Ohio, but later returned to
Jefferson and for many years carried on farming and
stock raising on the farm which now belongs to his
son. Charles P. Merryman. He was
a man of excellent repute, for a number of years
served as a trustee of Wayne Township and was a
charter member and a deacon of the Mount Moriah
Baptist Church. He was twice married and four
of his children survive, namely: Mary,
who is the widow of K. T. Cole, of Wayne
Township; Nicholas, who is a farmer in Wells
Township; Charles P.; and Sarah E.,
who is the wife of Addision F. Wood of
Smithfield Township. The two last named being
children of the second union.
Charles P. Merryman attended the country schools
in his youth and gained practical agricultural
experience on the home farm. He has been
engaged in farming and stock raising for himself
since 1883, owning an excellent farm of 104 acres.
He makes a specialty of raising sheep, having found
this industry very profitable, and keeps about 150
head over the winter. Mr. Merryman's
farm is improved with a handsome brick residence and
substantial farm buildings and his surroundings
indicate much thrift and general prosperity.
On October 4, 1882, Mr. Merryman was married to
Miss Durah M. Whigham, who was born in Hardin
County, Ohio, a daughter of the late Andrew
Whigham. When she was three years old her
mother died and she was then brought to Jefferson
County and was reared in the family of her uncle,
Peter Hoobler, in Wayne Township. Mr.
and Mrs. Merryman are members of the Christian
Church at Smithfield, in which he is an elder.
In politics he is a Republican and he has served as
a trustee of Wayne Township for six years and during
a part of this time he was president of the board.
(Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph
B. Doyle - Publ Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 -
Page 1005) |
ROY N.
MERRYMAN, one of the rising young attorneys
and a native of Steubenville, O., where his birth
occurred in 1882, is a son of D. M. and Hannah
May (Armstrong) Merryman, the former of English
and the latter of Irish ancestry. The father,
who was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1852, is
a prominent building contractor of Bloomfield, O.,
and is one of the active workers in the interests of
the political affairs of that borough. The
mother of our subject, was also born in Jefferson
County, and is a daughter of Robert Armstrong,
who is an old settler of the county. The
paternal grandfather was Samuel Merryman,
also a native of Jefferson County.
Roy N. Merryman grew to manhood in Jefferson
County, graduated from the Bloomfield High School,
and after taking a commercial course at the Iron
City Business College, at Pittsburgh, read law some
time with Hon. J. A. Mansfield, of
Steubenville, this county. He completed his
course in law at the Cincinnati Law School and was
admitted to the bar in 1906, after which he entered
into a partnership with Judge Mansfield at
Steubenville, with whom he has since been
associated, practicing in the various courts of the
state, and in the United States courts. Mr.
Merryman is secretary and treasurer of The Tri
State Investment Company, and also The Mingo
Junction Water and The Mingo Junction Light Company.
He holds membership with the Second Presbyterian
Church of Steubenville, and is secretary of the
Brotherhood of that church. Fraternally, he is
a member of the Steubenville Lodge, B. P. O. E.
He is also a member of the Y. M. C. A. and a charter
member of the Steubenville Country Club, and is a
member of the Chamber of Commerce, in which body he
is chairman of the legislative committee.
(Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph
B. Doyle - Publ Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 -
Page 663) |
JAMES L. METCALF,
the subject of the following sketch, was born in
Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland, Aug. 26,
1857, a son of William E. and Sarah (Hammersday)
Metcalf, whose ancestors were among the early
settlers of the state of Maryland. His mother
died when he was about the age of eleven years,
shortly after which he left Maryland and came to
Irwin, Pa., where he was employed in brick and coal
works for some time; then, learning the carpenters'
trade, he came to Steubenville, O., in 1881.
He was married on Jan. 10, 1882, to Viola Martin,
a daughter of William B. and Emeline (Wallace)
Martin and located in Allegheny City, Pa.,
working at the carpenters' trade during that time.
Returning to Toronto, Jefferson County, Ohio, in
1887, he started in the lumber and building business
with John W. Cooper and J. O. Goodlin,
in 1888, with whom he was associated for four years,
after which time he and A. F. Taylor started
the lumber and building firm known as the Toronto
Building & Lumber Company. Mr. Taylor
was only connected with the company about one year
until his death, since which time Mr. Metcalf
continued in the business. Mr. Metcalf,
besides being a business man and builder of noted
ability, is also a good architect, having planned
the Toronto High School Building, the First
Presbyterian Church, which is conceded to be the
most beautiful church building in the East Ohio
Presbytery, besides the United Presbyterian and
Greek Catholic Churches. Mr. Metcalf
has planned and built most of the good residences
and business houses in Toronto, besides a number of
the best residences in Steubenville and other
places. Mr. and Mrs. Metcalf are
members of the Methodist Protestant Church and have
always taken an active part in church and temperance
work. Always interested in politics.
Mr. Metcalf was elected and served two terms as
waters works trustee; he has been a member of the
Board of Education for the last three years, two
years of which he has been president of the board.
Mr. and Mrs. Metcalf are great believers in
education, having had six children, all of whom are
being taught music, besides receiving other
schooling. Lyndale M., the oldest, a
graduate of the Toronto High School and the
Steubenville Business College, is now pipe organist
at the Kaul Clay Manufacturing Company's works:
Jay L., Jr., a graduate of the Toronto High
School, is now a student at Adrian College,
Michigan; Emeline, the only daughter living,
is a senior and John W. is a sophomore, in
the Toronto High School; Isabel, deceased,
and Paul C., the youngest, complete the
family. Mr. Metcalf is a member of the
Masonic fraternity and the Knights of Pythias lodge.
Mrs. Metcalf is also a member of the Eastern
Star.
(Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph
B. Doyle - Publ Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago -
1910 - Page 749) |
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B. W. METTENERGER,
one of the leading funeral directors and embalmers at Steubenville, O., where he also conducts a livery business, has been active
in the business circles of this city for a number of years, besides having
additional interests at other places.
He was born at Canal Dover, Tuscarawas County,
Ohio, in 1860 and came to Steubenville when seventeen years of age.
Mr. Mettenberger is truly a self-made
man and the story of his struggles and successes is interesting in that it
emphasizes the fact that early hardship is often the best school of life, and
that the scious of wealth have not always a great advantage over the less
fortunate in the battle of life.
Mr. Mettenberger’s first industrial
employment was as a messenger boy, the only compensation guaranteed him being
his board. He was thus unable to
give his needy mother in Canal Dover any assistance. Ernestly desiring to help her, he
asked his employer to pay him at least one dollar per week in order that he
might be able to do something to relieve her necessities, but this modest
request was gruffly refused and he was turned out into the street for his
presumption. He thus found himself
in a desperate situation, as he had no money and no apparent prospect of
obtaining other work. Fortunately,
however, he met with a lady – a Mrs.
Griesinger – who knew his sister and she proved a kind friend, taking him to
her home, and it was through her efforts that he secured a position as clerk in
a wholesale liquor house. He proved
industrious and reliable and continued in that position for two years. He then worked for a time in a
bottling works, after which he returned to Canal Dover. There he entered the rolling mills
and was employed continuously for four years and eight months, and there learned
the boiling trade (commonly called that of puddler); after which he returned to
Steubenville); after which he returned to Steubenville. Here he was next employed by
Mr. Schmorrenberg in his bottling
works, having charge of delivering beer to the trade. The business seemed a prosperous one
and Mr. Mettenberger, having acquired
but very little capital, later bought out his employer, although he had to
contract an indebtedness of $3,800.
It seemed a large amount of money, but through industry and close attention to
business and the exercise of good judgement he was able to clear himself from
debt in less than eight months. In the
meanwhile he had acquired a livery stable, which his brother conducted for him
and the firm of Mettenberger Bros.
was thus organized.
Mr. Mettenberger had some business difficulties about this time on account of the stand taken by
the other liverymen of the city, they combined to restrain his patronage, on
account of his being in both the livery and liquor business, and refusing to use
his teams and carriages for funerals.
Mr. Mettenberger in self-defense then
went into the undertaking business and conducted his different enterprises
together until 1902, when he closed out his liquor business for $7,500, and
since then has given the closer attention to his undertaking and livery. His quarters at No. 113-117 Court
Street are fitted up in a style becoming to the large amount of business he
annually handles. He has every
convenience for the suitable and dignified conduct of funerals, is a licensed
embalmer, and commands the respect of those who call him to their homes in a
professional capacity.
Mr. Mettenberger is also interested
in a glass manufacturing and decorating plant at Brilliant, O.
In 1883
Mr. Mettenberger was married to Miss Elizabeth Hissrich, and they have two sons – Henry B.,
who is associated with his father in a business capacity; and Jerome, who is
attending school.
Mr. Mettenberger and family belong to
St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Church.
He is a very active church worker, is a liberal contributor to the charities of
the church, and it was he who contributed close to the sum of $4,000 that wiped
out the church debt. He is a man of
kind impulses and many a little friendless lad has found a benefactor in him. He is identified with the Knights of
St. George and the Heptasophs and is a valued member of the Steubenville Chamber
of Commerce.
(Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph
B. Doyle - Publ Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 -
Page
1190)
[Portrait of Mr. Mettenberger and his residence available upon
request]
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M. L. MILLER, one of
Steubenville's most respected citizens, who occupies his
pleasant home at No. 226 North Street, came to this city
away back in 1854 and has ever since been prominently
identified with the leading interests of the place.
He was born in Washington Co., Pa., on the Beaver County
line, July 2, 1830.
Mr. Miller was reared in his native place and was
educated at Beaver and Washington College. He came
to Steubenville in 1854 to engage in the drug business
having prepared for the same at Pittsburg, Pa., and
continued in this line for forty years, during fifteen of
these being both in the wholesale and retail trade.
When he retired he was succeeded by the firm of
Beall & Steele. After a period of rest,
Mr. Miller became interested in fruit
growing and was one of the pioneers in strawberry culture
in this section. Later he purchased a retail drug
store from his brother and continued that for eighteen
years and then sold out and started a seed store which he
conducted until he was appointed postmaster by
President McKinley and was
re-appointed by President Roosevelt.
He served as postmaster of Steubenville for eight years,
and one month and was a popular and efficient public
officer.
On Dec. 17, 1857,
Mr. Miller was married to Miss
Eliza A. McDonald, who died in 1893. She
was a daughter of Judge William McDonald.
To this marriage the following children were born:
William McD., a prominent citizen of
Steubenville; L. A., residing at Los Angeles, Cal;
Frank E., a resident of
Pittsburg; Nelson D., a leading attorney
of Steubenville; Olive, wife of
William M. Ewing, of Beaver Falls, Pa.; and
Mary, now deceased, who was the wife of
John E. McClinton. Mr. Miller is a
member of the First Presbyterian Church and for thirty
years has been a member of the Session.
(Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co.,
Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 -
Page 1080) |
THOMAS
MILLER, who was born in Carroll County,
Ohio, near the Jefferson County line, Oct. 12, 1839,
owns eighty-six acres of valuable land in Jefferson
County and an adjoining eighty-five acres, situated in
Carroll County. His comfortable and commodious new
residence, which he built in September, 1909, stands in
Section 6, Springfield Township.
Thomas W. Miller, father of Thomas Miller,
was born near Bergholz, Ohio, in an old log house.
His father was John Miller, who, as also
his wife and only child, was born in Ireland. When
John Miller and wife died there and were buried in
the Bergholz Cemetery. Thomas W. Miller
married Mary Peterson, who was a daughter of
John Peterson who was a daughter of John Peterson,
of Carroll County, Ohio, and they were the parents of
eight children.
Thomas Miller was reared
and educated in Carroll County, and when he reached
manhood was married to Miss Katherine Rileybush a
daughter of Jesse Rileybush, who lived near
Salineville in Carroll County. They have had four
children: Alice, who is deceased; Charles;
Harry, who married Della Shields; and
Alert, who married Francis Wilson, a daughter
of Hugh Wilson, of Salineville, and has one son
Warren.
For some months after marriage Mr. Miller
continued to live on the home farm and then moved to the
farm on which he now resides, occupying and old
farm-house for years. This accidentally caught
fire on July 7, 1909, and the house and contents were
entirely destroyed. Fortunately the barn - a
comparatively near structure, having been erected in
1905 - was saved. Mr. Miller and family
managed to live in a small shanty until the present
residence was erected, and since then have enjoyed every
comfort. Mr. Miller has engaged in general
farming and sheep raising, keeping about 175 head.
All his land is utilized either for cropping or
pasturage with the exception of twelve acres which he
has in woodland. No coal has ever been sold nor
have any tests been made for oil or gas, Mr. Miller
having reached his present independent condition through
his excellent agricultural methods and the consequent
productiveness of his land. He is identified with
the Republican party but holds no public office.
With his wife he is a member of the United Brethren
Church at West Union, of which he is a trustee.
(Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co.,
Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 -
Page 1099) |
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