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.


Page 669.

JOHN POLLOCK

John Pollock, a prominent attorney of St. Clairsville, is of a family which
were early settlers of Ohio. His father, Robert Pollock, came with the
family of his parents from Maryland. His grandfather removed to this state
from Pennsylvania, early in the third decade of the present century, and
settled in Harrison county. There Robert Pollock, the father of the subject
of this mention, was born in 1824. The latter, about 1834, removed with his
parents to Belmont county, and was there raised on a farm with the advantages
of a common school education. He became a machinist and was so engaged about
ten years, then going on a farm and following agriculture until the present.
John Pollock, son of the above, by his wife, Mary Jane, was reared in this
county, and after going through the common schools continued his education
during two years at Franklin college, and three at the Washington and Jeffer-
son college, Pennsylvania, at which latter institution he was graduated in
1878. On his return to St. Clairsville he entered the law office of Hon.
Lorenzo Danford, and 1880 he was admitted to the bar. In 1881 Mr. Pollock
opened an office in St. Clairsville, and has since been actively engaged in
the practice with considerable success. He also gives much attention to
politics, being one of the republican leaders of the county, and at the
present time chairman of the central and executive committees of Belmont
county. In April, 1887, Mr. Pollock was married to Ella Finney, a native of
this county, and by this union they have one child, Harry.