Ironton’s Catholic School History Rooted in City’s Religious Past The Catholic schools have existed in Ironton since their founding almost 150 years ago. Here’s “The Story of Catholic Education in...
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Henry Horn Home Ironton Ohio
Highlighting a Piece of Ironton, Ohio, History. Check out these newspaper clippings from The Ironton Tribune that give you a look into the history of Henry Horn's Home at 605 Lawrence Street in...
Map of Historical Ironton Ohio
1. Hiram Campbell House, 321 N. Fifth St. - This french empire style house is notes for its mansard roof, unsual in Ironton. Now an apartment building, it was built in the 1850s by Hiram Campbell,...
Wayne Pump Co.
The fine office building of the Wayne Pump Company, Sixth and Ashtabula streets erected in 1903 for the Ironton Engine Company brings back memories. The engine plant was organized by H. A. Marting,...
Selby Shoe Factory
The Man behind Ironton’s Selby Shoe Factory Roger Selby 1885-1973. was not only a distinguished entrepreneur in the shoe industry, but also a world-renowned breeder of Arabian horses. History...
Ancestry of John Campbell
(320) Duncan Campbell was born in Argyleshire, Scotland, and married in 1612, (321) Mary McCoy. Notes for Duncan Campbell:from: History of Adams Co., OH by Evans & Stivers. Duncan and wife moved...
Wesley Chapel Ironton Ohio
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...
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...