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
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,
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.
Sarah Cecilia Cotter King
Sarah Cecilia Cotter King Artists in Ohio, 1787-1900: A Biographical Dictionary Sarah Cecilia Cotter was a Sculptor, born in Tipperary, Ireland 31 Oct. 1874. She came to America in 1887, and by 1900...
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”...
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...
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...
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.
Church Clocks
THE MULBERRY BUSH By David Wright No Source Given Congregational Church and Presbyterian Church Clocks - The first recorded labor dispute between the city fathers and a city employee took place 91...