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Frederick D. Norton
Frederick D. Norton, ironmaster, Ironton, Lawrence county, Ohio, was born in Richmond, Virginia May 13, 1821. His parents were Thomas Norton and Mary
Ironton Gas Company Built in 1867
Ironton, Ohio, Gas Works was built in 1867 and was finished on Sept. 1, 1867. IJ Sept. 4, 1867 - The introduction of Gas into the City of Ironton will be celebrated in the upper hall of the Baptist Church, which will be lighted up with gas for the occasion. ......
Obituary of Mrs. Nancy Norton
A painting of Mrs. Norton, believed to be painted by famous artist Joseph Henry Sharp, hangs in the dining room of the Lawrence County Museum. Mrs. Nancy Norton Dead Ironton Register, July 28, 1904 Mrs. Nancy Norton, whose name is familiar in every Ironton household...
Obituary of Miss Libbie McClure
Miss McClure Died Late Saturday Night. Ironton Daily Register Nov. 5, 1923 The death Saturday night of Miss Libbie McClure shocked her many friends throughout the city. She passed away at the home of Mrs. H. E. Norton on South Fourth street from an illness that...
Obituary of Captain John Norton
IR Sept. 10, 1908 - Capt. John Norton Answers Final Summons. Death closed the career of Capt. John M. Norton, one of this city’s best-known and most esteemed businesses men Sunday night at 11:30 o’clock. Mr. Norton was predominantly concerned with the other members of...
Mrs. Minnie Campbell Caldwell
Mrs. Minnie Campbell Caldwell died at her home in Bridgeport, last Friday. She had been sick for some weeks, but none supposed that death would be the
Charles S. Gray
Charles Sedgwick Gray was born at Vesuvius Furnace, this county, February 20, 1869. The family moved to Huntington in 1875, and to Ironton in 1877, and
Courthouse and Jail in Ironton, Ohio
Ironton, Ohio, March 23. – At about 1 o’clock this morning the Court House took fire and burned. The Treasurer’s, Recorder’s, Sheriff’s, and Probate
Ironton Ohio Business Blocks
Ironton Ohio Business Block includes Center Block was built in the summer of 1855. S. Ward built Cohen & Brumberg’s and Lampman’s rooms. Barber &
Removals to Woodland Cemetery
Removals to Woodland Cemetery. Last week we gave a long list of interments of well known persons at Woodland, when they were buried and their ages.
Patents and Inventors
Lawrence County, Ohio – Patents and Inventors 1868-
Lambert Cemetery bodies removed for new Solvay Plant
Workmen, who are exhuming the bodies buried in the Lambert cemetery, in the south end of the city on the site of the new Solvay plant, Tuesday afternoon
Kelly Cemetery
Lawrence County, Ohio Kelly Cemetery – stories about
City of Ironton, Ohio
By a proclamation of Gov. John Brough, this village, town, county seat or whatever you may call it, has been advanced to a City of the second class. We have therefore, the rights and titles of a city. What we have not: 1st. We have no city wharf, merely the right of way of the width of a street.
Places T – Z
-T- Table Rock Tar Kiln Hollow Teter Run - A branch of Friend’s Creek was named after Teter Null, who lived on this branch. *Texas Hollow - Elizabeth Tp. *Tick Ridge - located in Symmes Township off County Road 4. *Timber Ridge - Mason Tp. Tipton Knob Toad Hollow...