BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, BELMONT COUNTY, OHIO

"History of the Upper Ohio Valley" Vol. II, 1890.

Presented by Linda Fluharty from hard copies provided
by Mary Staley & Phyllis Slater.


Pages 522-523.


W. F. BAYHA, of the firm of Bayha Brothers, was born in Fulton, W. Va.,
in 1860. He learned the blacksmith, carriage ironer and horse-shoer's
trades in the city of Wheeling, where he worked for ten years prior to
the estsblishment of the factory at Bridgeport, Ohio. His brother,
Andrew A. Bayha, also a skilled carriage maker and wood worker, was
born in Fulton in 1863. He acquired his knowledge of the business in
Wheeling, becoming an expert workman. After working in Wheeling for
eight years he, on November 1, 1887, formed a partnership with his
brother. Since this date they have operated the wagon and carriage
shops on Main street in the city of Bridgeport. This firm manufactures
on quite an extensive scale for so young a concern, and bids fair to
become a very large house. They manufacture all sorts and kinds of
wagons, buggies and carriages to order, and also carry a large assort-
ment of manufactured vehicles. They at present employ ten skilled
workmen in their shops. Besides the manufacture of carriages, Bayha
Brothers have a large trade in horse-shoeing. They make a specialty
of the latter industry, shoeing horses on scientific principles.
They also carry on a funeral repairing and jobbing business in all
departments. Enterprising and progressive as they are, it is only a
question of time until they will be obliged to enlarge their works, to
employ more men and to extend their business generally, providing the
same energy and wisdom is employed in the future as has been in the past.