Anderson Family

We do not know the relationship of these Andersons to each other.  This is a collection of various newspaper clippings about the Anderson Family living in Lawrence County, Ohio.

I.R. – Ironton Register

Miller’s PO est. 12 Jan 1839 with Lewis Anderson Jr. PM.  On 25 Aug 1841, it was changed to STANLEY with Timothy R. Stanley PM.  Miller’s was discontinued on 6 May 1845 but reestablished as Late Haskellville on 12 Feb. 1850 with Martin L. Shepard PM.  On 3 Aug 1893, Miller’s changed its name to Miller.

David P. Anderson, per Ancestry, was born on 3 Jan. 1835 in New Jersey, the son of David Anderson (1814-1896) and Martha E. Seaver (1816-1866).  David P. Anderson died on 3 Jun 1888, in Ironton, Lawrence County, Ohio.  David P. Anderson married Maria Jane Jones (1840-1908) and had the following issues:

• Margaret Anderson (1860 – )
• Charles Wesley Anderson (1863-1941)
• Were there more children born between 1863-1875?
• David Anderson (1875 – 1955) The David Anderson that d. 1955 was the son of Charles Wesley Anderson and Mary Watson …need to verify this)
• Frank M. Anderson (1881-1932)
• Martha (Mattie) Anderson (1887 – )

1851 – D. P. Anderson’s house on 4th was built and occupied by D. Voglesong’s and G. F. Buchanan’s families in 1851.  IR Aug. 1884.

IR May 27, 1858 – New Lumber Yard in Ironton. – The subscriber informs the citizens of Ironton and vicinity that he has put up a well-selected stock of LUMBER – Plank and Boards, Shingles and Joist, Thick Stuff and Thin, procured expressly for this market, and which he will sell at as reasonable rates as can be desired – FOR CASH.  Yard near his house, on Fourth street, opposite the Market House.  April 29, 1858, D.W. VOGLESONG.

Winter’s & Burk

• IR May 25, 1871 – Dave Anderson is putting up Winters & Burke’s stone front and making a capital of it.

Ball & Winters Drug Store – Ball, Winters & Co.

• IR Aug. 29, 1872 – D. P. Anderson is placing a handsome stone pavement in front of Ball & Winters’ Drug Store.
• Ball-Warfield Drug – later known as E. J. Merrill Drug, was later sold to Chapman Drug.

IR May 14, 1874 – David Anderson just completed a beautiful tombstone for the grave of W. H. H. Irwin.  It is a fine, heavy slab with a mantel thrown over one corner and a wreath hanging on the other.

IR July 2, 1874 – The J. O. Willard monument has been removed from Kelly Cemetery to Woodland.

IR Aug. 6, 1874 – D. P. Anderson finished a very handsome monument for John Davis, son of Evan Davis of this place.  It goes to Woodland.

IR Feb. 24, 1881 – Story about Graveyard Lot, which contains 1/10 of an acre swept away by the river.  Nearly all of this addition now belongs to the NY&OI&S Co.  The graveyard can never be restored, but slag from the furnace and ashes from the mill will reclaim the space it occupied from the river before the lapse of many years.

IR May 10, 1883 – D. P. Anderson has just received a beautiful piece of sculpture work for Dr. O. Ellison, to be placed in Woodland cemetery at the grave of little Richard Ellison, the two-year-old son of Dr. and Mrs. Ellison, who died in August 1881.  The design has a rustic outline – rockery, stump, and trailing vine, while at one side, in a reclining position, rests the figure of a child with crossed feet and bowed head, holding a tiny wreath of flowers.  It is a splendid figure and a fitting monument to the tender memories of the lost baby.  The work was done in Italy.  It stands about four feet high, with the base. (photo taken by C. Bruce on Findagrave.)

IR Mar. 3, 1892 – Mr. Anderson, the marble cutter, is making two beautiful slabs for Memorial Hall, one to contain the names of the G. A. R. committee: the other, the names of the trustees.  The slabs are of Vermont marble and highly polished.

Death of David P. Anderson, tombstone man.

I. R. June 7, 1888 – David P. Anderson, the well-known tombstone man, died at his residence about town last Sunday and was buried at Woodland on Tuesday.  Mr. Anderson has been in the tombstone business in Ironton for thirty years and, during all that time, has been an industrious, honored citizen.  The death of such men as David Anderson is a loss to any community.  He was 53 years old.

MISC.

IR Sept. 18, 1873 – E. Anderson, architect, has left a well-executed design for a public school building at the office of the Board of Education.  The plan is admirable, and the appearance is elegant.  It makes provisions for thirteen schoolrooms and a large hall.  We hope someday to see Ironton own as fine a school building as the artist designs.

Standard Gas-Retort and Fire Brick Co.

IR May 22, 1884 – The New Fire Brick Works. – Description of the Enterprise and Progress of the Work. – This morning, the Register reporter visited the works of the Standard Gas-Retort and Fire Brick Co just below Etna Furnace, where some 30 or 35 men are at work getting the building and machinery ready for operation at the earliest moment.  Mr. Anderson, the President, and Manager informed us that they would begin making brick the first week in June, though the burning kilns will not be completed…[description of buildings etc.]

• IR Oct. 8, 1874 – B. Garvey is erecting a pleasant house on his lot, just this side of J. L. Anderson’s on the W. D. Kelly lots.  One feature of his building is a circular cellar, which affords as much room and, at the same time, is built at half the cost of the ordinary square cellar examined it.  [I.R. Dec. 27, 1877 – Mr. Julius Anderson is having his residence on 6th street repainted.]
• IR Nov. 21, 1889 – Levi Henry is building a one-story frame house for Charles Anderson on Mill street.
• IR Mar. 10, 1892 – Levi Henry is home from Louisiana and will remain during the summer.  
• IR May 19, 1892 – Levi Henry was down from Louisa Saturday.  He says he has Ben Thomas’ residence under the roof.
• IR Mar. 7, 1895 -The Anderson saloon building on North Third near the post office is in a state of collapse owing to ill-advised excavation too near the foundation walls.  Martin Schreiber has the contract to tear down the damaged brick walls and rebuild them.
• IR May 21, 1896 – T. S. Murray has prepared plans for a large residence for M. Anderson, which will be built on 5th street, between J. B. Strobel’s and Geo’s. Cox’s.  It will be a ten-room house with a hardwood finish throughout and all modern conveniences.  Bids are to be opened Thursday.  (see if this is the end of this column titled Improvements)

IRONTON DISC PLOW COMPANY – I.R. JUNE 18, 1903

The stockholders of the Ironton Disc Plow Company held a meeting Saturday night and elected the following named directors:

• C. M. Humes
• W. E. Reynolds (Chattanooga)
• L. G. Browne (Chattanooga)
• J. L. Anderson
• E. J. Bird, Jr.
• Fred P. Horschel
• J. M. Brammer

            The directors were organized by electing Col. E. J. Bird, Jr., President; W. E. Reynolds, vice-president and superintendent; L. G. Browne, secretary-treasurer; J. L. Anderson, attorney.  C. M. Humes will have charge of the sales department.

            A committee has been appointed to secure a site, and the company expects to be in shape to market its product within 60 days.

IRON RAILROAD BLOCK

• IR Nov. 19, 1896 – J. L. Anderson rented the third story of the Iron Railroad block for his home and office.  Three large rooms are heated by steam and provided with all conveniences.  He intends to have a front and back office combined with a sitting and bedroom.  If there is any glory in solitude, Mr. Anderson proposes to get a share of it. 
• IR Aug. 1, 1889 – the death of Mrs. Juliet Savage Anderson, wife of J. L. Anderson, at her home in Ironton…
• IR Oct. 21, 1909 – Death of Louis H. Anderson at French Lick Springs, Ind., … son of Atty. J. L. Anderson…(J. L. had remarried by this time. This was the son of his first wife)]

• IR Jan. 24, 1901 – Bridge Talk. – The Ashland & Ironton Bridge Co., which was organized in the law office of Attorneys Hager and Stewart last Saturday afternoon, and the Ironton and Kentucky Bridge Company met Tuesday…and consolidated.  The name of the new company is the Ashland & Ironton Bridge Co.  The company, organized under an Ohio charter, was incorporated by Julius L. Anderson and E. W. Bixby of Ironton, Harley B. Gibbs of Cleveland, Ohio, John S. Hager, and A. C. Campbell of Ashland.  The incorporators of the Kentucky company, having the same objects in view, were B. W. Stack, John S. Hager, and A. C. Campbell of Ashland and John C. C. Mayo of Paintsville, Ky., and J. Frank Peaser of Pittsburg… The future of Ironton, if the plans now underway materialize, is the brightest in its history.

I.R. Oct. 27, 1910 – FUNERAL SERVICES – The funeral services over the remains of David Nixon were held Friday at 1:30 at the Presbyterian church and were conducted by Rev. Lewis Earl? Lee. The friends of the deceased largely attended the services, and many beautiful flowers attested to the love and high esteem held by the deceased.

The active pallbearers were Mr. ______, A. R. Johnson, C. H. Moore, H. H. Campbell, E. W. Bixby, W. H. Nigh, and Earle Stewart. Honorary: H. B. Willard, F. E. Hayward, S. B. Steece, William Bay, Charles Hutsinpillar, and J. L. Anderson.

The burial was in Woodland Cemetery, and a very touching feature of the burial services was the presence at the grave of the inmates of the county infirmary, to whom the deceased had been a friend and spiritual body for almost half a century. These unfortunate were present to pay their last respects to the departed.