Ernest Whitcomb Crichton Source: Portland, Oregon, It's History and Builders, by Joseph Gaston Among those who have been most active in keeping navigation interest in the northwest up to the high...
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William Cole Frailey
William Cole Frailey, iron master, Ironton, Ohio, was born in Fredericktown, Maryland, on October 28th, 1829. His parents were Christian Frailey and Elizabeth Hopeman, the former of Pennsylvania and the latter of Missouri. His father was a Maryland planter but never owned slaves, being a Whig in politics.
Novel Tomb in Ohio
A novel tomb at Hanging Rock, Ohio in Lawrence County, Ohio, in the middle of last century, attracted so many of the curious that it had to be removed along with the corpse. At his request, a wealthy Ironmaster was Interred In an iron coffin placed two feet above the ground on Iron pillars, and a wooden building was built around the coffin. Crowds poured in from all directions to see this strange tomb until the building was finally removed and the coffin buried in a grave near the place.
Armstrong and Hannah Rankins on Oak Ridge
This name originated, doubtless, under a mistaken view of things, as the furnace didn’t stand on a ridge. When your correspondent read on the stone in the arch of the old furnace stack, “Oak Ridge Furnace built by W. H. Allison, 1856.” I could not help saying to myself that the year of ’56 must have been a year of mistakes.
George Thornton Scott
George Thornton Scott was born in Greenup County, Kentucky, on March 14, 1849. He came to Ironton in 1869. He was educated at West Chester, Pennsylvania, and Lebron.
Isaac Peters
The Life of Isaac Peters IR 13 Nov.1890 - Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Peters observed the 45th anniversary of their wedding last Sunday. IR 13 Nov.1890 - Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Peters observed the 45th...
Samuel C. Wurts
Memories of older residents who resided here during the days when Lawrence and Greenup county (KY) furnaces were in their heyday, will be stirred by the following obituary of Samuel C. Wurts, furnace man of past years.
Superior Portland Cement Company
Superior Portland Cement Company The Superior Portland Cement Company was located in Superior, Ohio along a spur of the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad. Superior was located at Center...
Ironton Portland Cement Company
The Ironton Portland Cement Company, which has been contributing not a little to the prosperity of this section with their gas operations, in addition to the steady operation of the cement plant,
William Firmstone
William Firmstone, who had a prominent career as a blast furnace manager in this country, came here originally from England in the spring of 1835. The manufacture of pig iron by the use of coke fuel...
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.”