Submitted by Roger Malone The Wesley Church was founded by a group of Welsh immigrants who had come to Ironton to mine iron ore. The Ohio Iron and Coal Company also gave land to this group in the...
Ironton
Remembering John Campbell
I Knew John Campbell Many Local and Former Ironton People Knew the City's Founder. John Campbell Accomplished Much Before Organizing the City of Ironton in the Year 1849 John Campbell, the founder...
Henry Horn Recalls Early Ironton
IRONTON "NONAGENARIAN" HENRY C. HORN VIVIDLY RECALLS THE DAYSBY: Min Grimes Staff Writer. Submitted by Edith Fields for The Lawrence RegisterNo Source Given When Henry C. Horn observes his...
Ironton Lawyers Have a Fistfight
Ironton Lawyers Have Fist Fight Portsmouth Daily Times, 19 Jan. 1911 Attorney's Jed. B. Bibbee and Ezra Dean, landing lights of the Ironton bar, allowed their angry passions to rise while...
Rev. D. J. James
Minutes of the annual conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Churches - Memphis Conference - Held at Brownsville, Tenn., on Nov. 15 - 20, 1899, Page 127 D. J. James, the preacher in charge of the...
Goldcamp’s
George J. Goldcamp, 811 South Fourth Street, doesn't remember John Campbell, only the name, but he does remember that the schools closed for his funeral and that holiday from school is something no...
Luke Cloran
LUKE W. CLORAN Luke W. Cloran, 519 Vernon, remembers John Campbell as the elderly gentleman who used to walk along Railroad Street almost daily. At that time, Luke, a young man just out of school,...
John W. Humphreys
JOHN W. HUMPHREYS I.R. August 1, 1895 - APOPLEXY - Mr. W. S. Humphreys was seized with an apoplectic fit last Sunday morning. He was at Col. Gray's, where he makes his home, and most of the family...
John E. Bingaman
John E. Bingaman This representative businessman and popular citizen of Ironton, the judicial center of Lawrence County, has been a resident of this city for the past twenty-five years and has, by...
John S. George
John S. George, the chief representative of the interests of the Chicago & North-Western Railway company in Milwaukee, is a man whose responsible position and extensive business interests...
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.
Gas Explosion at St. Lawrence School
Gas, which had accumulated in the cellar of St. Lawrence School, Ironton, Ohio, exploded, resulting in the fatal injury of Elizabeth Haas,
Recollections of Ironton
My first acquaintance with it was in the spring of 1853 when as a boy of nine years old, I was brought over from Wales and started to grow into the spirit and stature of an American. The first school I attended was in the second story of part of the block where D. C. Davies now holds forth.
E.S. Culbertson
This section of the Ohio Valley was a far cry from its present state when John Culbertson, grandfather of Ed Culbertson, Ella, and Jennie Culbertson, moved with his family from Pennsylvania. Attracted by the growth and promise of this new-developing area of coal, iron, and timber resources the elder Culbertson joined pioneers and was associated with John Campbell and others in founding the city of Ironton.
Goldcamp Hardware
Prospering is the Central Delivery Company - Drives Out Two New Wagons - Ten Wagons Now in Use Lancaster Eagle-Gazette 26 Jun 1917, page 7 On Tuesday the Central Delivery Company drove out...