Ironton

Ironton Ohio Yesterday Years

On Tuesday morn about eight o’clock a large number of our citizens, provoked beyond further endurance, took the law into their own hands and assembled on the bank of the river at East Ironton, near Graham’s liquor boat; a short speech was made, a committee appointed, and the person in charge of the boat notified to remove his nuisance outside the corporation, and fifteen minutes were given in which to start. At the expiration of the time, the boat was peaceable manned and taken two miles down the river.

Ironton Bank and the Mob

The Ironton Bank, through an organized mob called to its aid, repulsed Gen. E. B. Tyler, of Ravenna, who presented a few thousand of its notes for payment a few weeks ago.  It has been well punished for its lawlessness.  Gen. Tyler was not a broker, but an agent of the American Fur Company, annually disbursing large sums of money in the purchase of furs in Ohio and Western Virginia.

Ironton Country Club

The membership drive of the Ironton Country Club formally opened today, following a meeting of the membership committee of Mrs. Helen Robinson, chairman, Elmer Crance, Bob Blanton, and Carl Zimmerman Monday evening.

Ironton Portland Cement Co.

The Register has several times called attention to the fact that this locality possesses the most favorable resources for the manufacture of Portland or hydraulic cement.  We have every ingredient in our hills and our furnaces increase the facilities.  The demand for cement grows yearly, and the business is sure to be good.

Union Hall Ironton, Ohio

Union Hall was built in 1853, by a joint-stock company. Dr. Egerton was the architect. The Masons had a contract to rent the third story when completed and took possession with great formalities on the 24th of June 1854. Exchange Block erected at the same time.

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.

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