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Glacial Boundary in Ohio
I was assisted in making a pretty thorough examination of the region. Upon going” back about two miles into Kentucky from the Ohio River, opposite Ironton, we find ourselves in a valley two miles wide, running parallel with the Ohio River,
Mr. Roberts and Mrs. Rand
One of the first lawyers in Ironton was a Mr. Roberts. He lived here in the first year of the town’s history. He was an intelligent and agreeable man, whom everybody liked. He was sickly, had the consumption, we believe, and died in 1851. He was buried in a lot at Old Maidville, which was the only cemetery Ironton had. Afterward he was removed to the Kelly cemetery.
Ironton Register History
As some little talk in the local newspaper world is going on now, we might give an incident relative to founding the REGISTER, over 27 years ago. In the Spring of 1850, Dr. C. Briggs was writing in the office of the O. I. & C. Co., a little frame house that stood not far from where Steece’s block now is, when John Campbell stepped within, accompanied by a young man, white headed and blazing with spectacles.
John Richards
John Richards, 925 north Second street who was 78 on his birthday last January 18, remembers John Campbell, having worked for him at the age of 10 years when he lived in the county. “Racky” Richards, as most friends know him, came to Ironton more than three score...
Phillips Carriage Works
Frank F. Phillips, 510 Adams Street, came to Ironton in November 1873, at the age of six weeks, and has been a good citizen ever since. His father Col. John Phillips, who entered the Union Army at the age of 18, from Waverly, was operating a blacksmith shop at Piketon...
Cloran Grocery
Owen P. and Matt A. Cloran conducted a big store at 137 Railroad, and Martin F. and Joe J. Cloran’s grocery was in the same block at 129 Railroad Street. It was really a case of Cloran vs Cloran. Cloran Bros. vs. M. & J. Cloran, who were also brothers, “but we all were friends and worked in close harmony,” recalls Luke W. Cloran, who worked at the corner store known as Cloran Brothers.
McMahon Family
The McMahon family consisted of five boys and their father; Peter McMahon was one of the early policemen of the town. Strange that all the boys except Johnny, loved the horses, but Johnny became a printer, and worked on several of the newspapers, and was with the Weekly Register many years.
Leo Ebert Family
Mrs. Fannie Ebert Geiger, the 90-year-old Citizen, Tells of the First Beer Delivered on Handcar. Many interesting stories have been narrated about the early days of Ironton and the city's founder since this series of "I Knew John Campbell" started. The most...
Marshall Field
Marshall Field was without question the greatest and most successful merchant of his generation, and he was one of the world’s richest men, his wealth being estimated at anywhere from $100,000,000 to $200,000,000.000. The following incident is of local interest in connection with Marshall Field: Miss Jennie Scott, the sister of Marshall Field’s first wife, was burned to death at Mt. Vernon Furnace, Lawrence County, Ohio June 17, 1862.
Robert Scott
Last Saturday evening at 5 o’clock Robert Scott died in Ironton, andon Sunday morning at 9 o’clock, Thomas W. Means expired in Ashland. What vivid reminiscences do these names call up! How much of the past of Lawrence County is mingled in their lives!
Robert Scott was born near Paris, Ky., September 22, 1809. While yet a young man, he became interested in the iron business and was connected with several furnaces across the river.
Charles Burgess
Charles Burgess was born in Pelsall, England, October 2, 1841, and in his early life he spent many years in iron and steel mills in and near Sheffield, and at the age of twenty-four he came to the United States, in March 1866. He first worked at Troy, New York, where he was engaged for a time at the Bessemer Steel Works, and also employed in making special iron.
Lamar Boudinet Seeley
There is no old age of the heart in Oregon, says Lamar Boudinet Seeley, veteran Portlander. With the enthusiasm of a boy and among his friends, Mr. Seeley celebrated today his 75th birthday. For 53 years of his active life he has been a citizen of Oregon.
Ernest Whitcomb Crichton
After an illness of 10 days, Ernest Whitcomb Crichton, a veteran steamboat man of Oregon, died last night at his home, 280 East Seventeenth street, North. The cause of death was peritonitis. Mr. Crichton was born at Buckhorn Furnace, Lawrence county, Ohio, in 1850 and came to Oregon in 1875, taking a position with the old Oregon Iron Company, with headquarters at Oswego. In 1877 he went into the steamboat business with Captain U. R. Scott, S. H. Brown, Z. J. Hatch and L. B. Seeley, having charge of the steamers “Ohio” and “City of Salem.”
Boudinot Seeley
Last December, Mr. T. R. Worthington came to this county to drum up laborers for the Oswego Iron Works, Oregon. Mr. Worthington is himself a collier,
Fifty Emigrants for Oregon
Last December, Mr. T. R. Worthington came to this county to drum up laborers for the Oswego Iron Works, Oregon. Mr. Worthington is himself a collier,