John Kelvey Richards was born at Ironton, Ohio 15 March 1856.
Ironton
Ward Lumber Company Destroyed by Fire
At three o’clock yesterday afternoon fire broke out in plant of the Ward Lumber Company at Sixth and Ashtabula streets, Ironton, Ohio, completely destroying the plant an immense quantity of dry lumber in the yards.
Marting Hotel Ironton Ohio
Timeline for the History of the Marting Hotel in Ironton, Ohio 1922-present day The Marting Hotel was in the 1922-1923 Ironton City Phone Directory, with Carl H. McClung as the manager. Located at...
Henrite’s Store Ironton Ohio
The story behind your Leader Store in the Masonic Building started in 1912, when Mr. Joseph Cohen Come to Ironton and opened the original store in the Berg building. The original sales staff of this store was:
Wm. D. Kelly
Mr. Wm. D. Kelly was born in Lawrence County, Ohio, January 15, 1815. His father, Joseph Kelly, emigrated from Shenandoah County, Virginia, to this county, at the age of twelve years, being among the early pioneers.
Editorial Convention 1868
I went to Ironton, Ohio last week to attend the editorial convention. There are hundred things I would like to relate, suggested by what I saw during the trip, but the crowded state of my columns admonishes me that I must be brief.
Sheridan House Hotel
Burdine Blake built the three story brick below the Sheridan House Hotel in Ironton, Ohio, in 1850. The frame house adjoining the Sheridan House was built in 1851 by or for John Ward.
Gold Rush of ’98 and Ironton, Ohio Men
These stories were printed in the fall of ’97 and before Christmas that year a company known as the Ironton Ohio Mining and Trading Company had been organized with the late Col. H. A. Marting
Ironton House
Ironton House was a Hotel located in Ironton, Ohio and built in 1850 for Ohio Iron and Coal Co.. Steven White did the brick work.
Former Irontonians
Former Irontonians Where did they go from Here?
Something about them, where they are now-1875
Dr. Briggs, one of the founders of Ironton, and its first Postmaster, is now living at Long Plain, Mass.
William Colvin, the secretary of the company that built the Ironton Rolling Mill, also member of the firm of Yard and Colvin, in the furniture business, where Devine & Bryne’s shoe store now is, has recently been elected Professor of Political Economy of the State Agricultural College at Columbus, Ohio.
Yellow Poplar Lumber Company
John Ferguson was struck and fatally injured by a board at the sawmill of the Yellow Poplar Lumber company, below here Tuesday.
Ancient History of Ironton, Ohio
South of the Ohio Iron & Coal Company’s land, which became the plat of Ironton, lay the land owned by the late W. D. Kelly, which extended to a point probably near Fifth and Oak streets, and back to the hills in the rear of the fair grounds,
Ironton, Ohio Depot
When Ironton, Ohio was laid out in 1849, the depot for the Iron Railroad was the first building and the passenger waiting room became the first place in the new town for public meetings
Ohio Iron and Coal Company Dissolves
IR May 26, 1859 - The Ohio Iron and Coal Company - the Company which received its charter from the Ohio Legislature early in the year 1849 -the Company which laid out and established the town of...
W.E.R. Kemp
W. E. R. Kemp carries a pocket comb that he has had 47 years. He bought it in June 1843, on the steamboat Mary Ann, on his way to Ironton, Ohio