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(Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co.,
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SAMUEL B. TAYLOR, attorney at law at Toronto, O.,
formerly mayor of that city and from 1892 until 1896, a
member of the Ohio state legislature, is one of
Jefferson County's most prominent citizens. He was
born in Ross Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, May 17,
1856, and is a son of John and Jane (Henderson)
Taylor.
Samuel B. Taylor was reared on his father's farm
and obtained his education at Hopedale and Richmond, for
some years afterward engaging in school teaching.
He taught for two years in Nebraska and for several
years in the Toronto high school and during this time
also served as mayor of the town. He then began
the study of law and pursued it under the direction of
E. E. Erskine, at Steubenville. He was
admitted to the bar while serving as a member of the
legislature, Oct. 4, 1894, in 1883 Mr. Taylor was
elected mayor of Toronto and gave the city so excellent
an administration that he was re-elected and served
until 1887. A further test of his general
popularity was shown by his election to the state
legislature, overcoming the claims of a number of other
worthy candidates, in 1892, and his service continued
until 1896. He proved loyal to his constituents
and while in office advocated every public measure
looking toward movements which would be beneficial to
Jefferson County. Mr. Taylor came to
Toronto in 1881.
Mr. Taylor married Miss Mary B. Cooper, a
daughter of Wellington Cooper of Brown's Island,
W. Va., and they have one child, Ella May. Mr.
and Mrs. Taylor are members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.
(Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph
B. Doyle - Publ Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - 633) |
W.
A. TAYLOR, Jr., a leading citizen of
Bergholz, O., where he is identified with the Bergholz
Coal and Electric Company and has financial interests,
was born at Church Hill, Trumbull County, Ohio, March
29, 1871, and is a son of W. A. and Harriet (Shannon)
Taylor.
W. A. Taylor, Sr. was a coal operator for twenty
consecutive years and was financially interested in that
line of industry all his life. His death occurred
in March, 1908 and his burial was in the cemetery at
Church Hill. His widow, Harriet (Shannon)
Taylor, and both sons, William Allen and
Clyde S., survive him, the last named residing with
his mother at the old homestead.
After a business course at Mt. Union College, W. A.
Taylor, Jr. went into the mining business with his
father, and he still has a lease on a mine and is weigh
boss for another company. Since coming to this
section, Mr. Taylor has been a very active and
interested citizen and has been the choice of the
Republican party on many occasions for township and
village offices. For nine years he served as
township clerk and for four years as village and
corporation clerk. The mine known as the Taylor
mine, situated in Springfield Township, Jefferson
County, was opened in 1897.
On June 28, 1900, Mr. Taylor was married to
Miss Mary E. Sponseller a daughter of Joseph
Sponseller of Paris, Stark County, Ohio, and they
have two daughters, Grace and Dorothy.
Mr. Taylor was reared in this church at Bergholz,
in which he is a steward, organist and treasurer and
librarian of the Sunday school. He is affiliated
with the Knights of Pythias and is the present keeper of
the record and seals.
(Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph
B. Doyle - Publ Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - 904) |
WILLIAM
TAYLOR, a representative farmer of Saline
Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, resides on the farm on
which he was born, Oct. 9, 1870, and has about 100 acres
under cultivation. His parents were Wesley and
Laura (Runyon) Taylor.
Wesley Taylor, father of William, was born
on this farm Oct. 9, 1835, a son of Edward Taylor
and died here Jan. 24, 1908. Edward Taylor
came to this property from near Brownsville, Pa., just
after he married. A heavy growth of timber covered
almost all of this land and the work of clearing was
done by Edward Taylor and sons. He
had nine children and of these Wesley Taylor was
the youngest. He remained on the home farm all his
life. He married Laura Runyon and they had
four children: Elizabeth Jane, who married
Luther Swickard and they reside on the adjoining
farm, and have six children: William; Emma,
who married John Wilcox, of Toronto, O., and has
two children; and Mary, who died when four years
old. The mother of this family still survives.
Wesley Taylor was one of the prominent and
substantial men of this section. During the larger
part of his life he was in robust health and was a very
active business man, engaging in general farming and
making a specialty of raising sheep. His home farm
contains 189 acres, nearly twenty acres having been
taken off for a camp ground. His son now owns as
his heritage, about 500 acres. At the time of his
death, Wesley Taylor was a member of the Sugar
Grove Methodist Church, prior to which he had been a
member of the Somerset Church, all his life having been
identified with this religious body. In politics
he was a Republican.
William Taylor has always resided on his present
farm. His mother occupies the old brick residence
built by the grandfather, Edward Taylor, when his
son was a boy, but William Taylor built his own
handsome modern house soon after his marriage. In
addition to extensive farming he devotes much attention
to the raising of cattle and sheep. Mr. Taylor
married Miss Lillie Watts, a native of
Knox Township and a daughter of William and Samilda
Watts, who reside near Somerset. Two children
have been born to this marriage: Thomas, who was
born December 11, 1894; and Jay B., who was born
Jan. 27, 1897. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor are
members of the Sugar Grove Methodist Episcopal Church.
Like his late father he is identified with the
Republican party but has never been willing to accept
public office. In every way, however, he is one of
the township's most solid and substantial men.
(Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co.,
Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - 764) |
GEORGE W. THOMPSON, whose beautiful
residence is situated at No. 503 Bellevue Boulevard, La
Belle View, Steubenville, Ohio, and is probably the
finest of all the handsome homes on these heights, is
engaged in the real estate business. He was born
at Benwood, Marshall County, W. Va., in 1857. His
father and mother came from Ireland in 1849.
Mr. Thompson remained in
his native section until 1869, when he went to Clifton,
W. Va. His education was obtained in the district
schools and night schools, and when he was yet young, he
went to work in the nail mills. In the fall of
1872, he engaged in a general store business at Benwood,
in association with a half brother, but in the spring of
1873, he went to Ashland, Ky., where he worked in the
newly started nail mill for two yeas. He returned
to Clifton for six months, afterward going to Bellaire,
Ohio, and continued in the nail mill there until the
strike of 1882. Mr. Thompson then worked in
Cleveland, Detroit and in Muskingum, Mich., looking
after a lumber mill at the last named place, where he
continued until the strike at Bellaire had been settled,
when he returned and in the following October, located
at Mingo Junction. There he learned the trade of a
nailer and followed the same until 1889, when, on
account of failing health, he resigned his position and
turned his attention to other pursuits. He engaged
at first in contract painting and later entered the
steel plant, where, through an accident, he was badly
burned, and for a season was unable to do anything.
When he had recovered he embarked in a general
mercantile business at Mingo Junction, which he
continued until September, 1909. In the meanwhile,
he had become interested at La Belle View, and in
September, 1908, had commenced the erection of his fine
residence. He helped to organize the first
building and loan association of the suburb and also
organized the Mingo Realty Company, of which he has ever
since been president. He was always active in
politics in Mingo, where he served two yeas and eight
months in the city council.
In 1886, Mr. Thompson was married to Miss
Sarah E. McGraw, was engaged in the lumber business
at Bridgeport for a long period, but is now living a
retired life in Bellaire, at the age of eighty-five
years. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson have four children:
John M., who is with the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company; and Anna J., Sarah E. and
George E. Mr. Thompson and family are members
of the Second Presbyterian Church, having been
identified with it since coming from Mingo, where he was
church treasurer and trustee for many years. He
was one of the organizers of Franklin Lodge of the
Junior Order of American Mechanics and served as its
head officer. He was secretary and treasurer of
the Mingo Lodge of United Nailers, Heaters and Rollers,
at Mingo Junction, during the great strike of 1885-86;
also was chairman of the relief committee during that
time, and was a delegate to the convention at Wheeling
when the organization of heaters and rollers was
organized and served on the committee that drafted their
constitution and by laws. He has always been an
active worker for good civic government in the towns in
which he has lived.
(Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co.,
Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 -
1081) |
RICHARD M. THOMPSON,
a prominent citizen of Jefferson County, Ohio, who
served seven years as county commissioner and in other
public offices with efficiency and credit, resides at
New Alexandria, O., where he owns ten acres of finely
improved land. This town was his birthplace, Sept.
25, 1842, and he is a son of Moore and Harriet
(Davis) Thompson.
Moore Thompson was a son of John W. Thompson,
an early settler. In his younger years he was a
merchant, later a cooper and still later a farmer, in
1850 purchasing 102 acres of land in Cross Creek
Township, Jefferson County. He married Harriet
Davis, a daughter of William Davis and they
both died on their farm and are buried in the New
Alexandria cemetery. They had the following
children: John W. and Mary E., both of whom died
in infancy; William D., who is deceased (married
Sarah Hammond and had three children, namely:
Jessie, deceased; Harry, deceased; and
Bertha, living in Chicago); Richard M.; Mary E.,
deceased, who was the wife of Casper M. Tarr, and
left one daughter, Flora May, who married
Marshall McCullough.
Richard M. Thompson attended the district schools
when his father could spare him, after which he assisted
on the home farm until he was twenty-two years of age.
In 1862 he enlisted for service in the Civil War,
entering Company E, 52nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
After serving six months he was taken so ill with
pneumonia that he was discharged on account of
disability. He is a member of E. M. Stanton Post,
G. A. R. In politics, Mr. Thompson is a
stanch Republican and his services to his party have
frequently been recognized by election to responsible
offices. The office of county commissioner is one
of large importance and that Mr. Thompson should
have been retained on the board for seven years
indicates his high standing in his section as a man of
affairs. He served on term as treasurer of Wells
Township, for eleven years was on the school board, and
for twenty-three years was a committeeman.
On Jan. 23, 1870, Mr. Thompson was married to
Miss Sarah McCann, a daughter of John and
Catherine (Moore) McCann. John McCann was a
shoemaker by trade. His daughter does to recall
him, as he died when she was two years old, leaving
other children, namely: William J., Samuel W., James
C., and Clarissa Jane, the last named being
the wife of William J., Samuel W., James C., and
Clarissa Jane, the last named being the wife of
William Rabe. The mother of Mrs.
Thompson was subsequently married to H. B. Davis.
Mr. and Mrs. Thompson became the parents of the
following children: Minnie and Brady Leroy,
both of whom died in infancy; Forney A., who was
married first to Frank Vance, who left one child,
Winona, and was married secondly to Daniel
Dubes; Cora, who married D. Criswell, and has
two children - Joseph R. and Helen; Wilbur,
a traveling salesman, who married Bessie Davis
and has one child, Lohman; Wylie D., who married
Allie Parsons and had two children, both now
dead; and Harriet, who married Elmer B. Curtis
and has two children - Frances and Orlo
Moore. Mr. Thompson and family are members of
the Methodist Episcopal Church at New Alexandria.
Mr. Thompson is a thirty-second degree Mason.
He joined the fraternity of 1863 and is a member of
Smithfield Lodge, F. & A. M., also fo the order of
American Mechanics, of New Alexandria.
(Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co.,
Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 -
1058) |
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