Hiram Campbell one of the founders of the city of Ironton, Ohio and one of the pioneer iron masters of this region.
Pioneers & Profiles
Finley Family
Mrs. Flossie Copney, the great-great-granddaughter of a slave owner from Va, celebrated her 89th birthday recently. It was a beautiful Thursday
Underground Railroad
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD OPERATORS AND STORIES The following links of names and stories were taken from Seibert’s list of Underground Operators for Lawrence County, Ohio, and various other sources, such...
Thomas and Elizabeth Walton
Thomas Walton died at the residence of his son, Thomas A. Walton, in Rome Township, May 26th, at 2:40 p.m., of dropsy and old age. He was born January
Judge A. B. Cole
Judge A. B. Cole, whose accident we noted on Friday, died suddenly Monday morning at his home in Maysville. He was apparently getting along as well as
Gabriel Kerr
Gabriel Kerr married Jane, daughter of William Crawford, in Washington county, Pennsylvania about 1809 and in 1812, he and his brother, Thos. Kerr
Judge Andrew Dempsey
JUDGE ANDREW DEMPSEY – Associate Judge Ironton Register, Thursday, July 29, 1852 – Death of Son. Casualty on the 27th inst., Mr. J. W. Dempsey of the firm of Dempsey, Rodgers & Ellison, Etna...
Sylvester McCown
Judge Sylvester McCown was a native of Kanawha county, Virginia. For a time he resided in Cabell county, whence he removed, in 1839, to Millersport, Ohio.
Judge Simeon Nash
Simeon Nash, of Gallipolis, died Sunday, January 18th, in his 75th year of his age. He was born in Massachusetts and went from there to Gallipolis by
John Davisson
Judge John Davisson was born in Maryland in 1777, came to Ohio and about 1801 settled on a tract of land beginning with the south bank of Storms Creek,
John P. Plyley
JUDGE JOHN P PLYLEY – Common Pleas Judge 1860 – 1862 Ironton Register, Thursday, September 6, 1860 – Death of wife. Died at McArthur, August 16th, Mrs. Eliza R Plyley, wife of Judge John P Plyley....
Judge J. C. Russell
Last Monday Probate Judge J. C. Russell closed a deal whereby he secures the Garvey property on South Fifth street above Chestnut adjoining the corner
Curtis Scovill
JUDGE CURTIS SCOVILL – Associate Judge Ironton Register, Thursday, December 6, 1860 – Death of son-in-law. Died in New Orleans on Nov. 25, 1860, Capt. George W. Kouns, of Burlington, commander of...
Judge George W. Thompson
Ironton Register, Thursday, December 9, 1875 – The bond of Geo. W. Thompson, Probate Judge elect, was approved.
Henry A. Towne
Judge Henry A. Towne, of Portsmouth, died at Santa Barbara, California, last week. The following notice of the deceased was written by R. M. Stimson