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 540-541.


JOHN W. LANE, a prominent business man of Martin's Ferry, was born
near Williamstown, Wood county, W.Va., January 15, 1861. He is the
grandson of Samuel Lane, who settled in Upshur county, W. Va., in
an early day, and engaged in stock-raising, dying in 1886, and the
son of Perry Lane, who was reared as a farmer at the home of his
father, in Upshur county, and is engaged in that calling, in Wood
county, where he settled about 1856. The latter was married about
1860, to Susan Mail, and seven children were born to them, of whom
one is deceased. John W. Lane was educated in the common schools at
his home, and at the commercial college at Parkers- burgh. At seven-
teen he became an apprentice of Cole Bros., plumbers, machinists and
steam fitters, of Parkersburgh, and served four years. He then worked
at his trade one year in the Baltimore & Ohio railroad shops at that
place, after which he was engaged at Wheeling and Pittsburgh until
1,867. In the latter year he established his present business at
Martin's Ferry, starting in partnership with his brother, O. B. Lane,
who remained a partner until July, 1889, since when the business has
been entirely in the hands of the subject of this sketch. His well-
known skill and talent for business has led to the building up of a
large and lucrative trade. Mr. Lane is a member of the I. O. O. F. and
Knights of Pythias, and in politics is democratic. He was married in
June, 1885, to Mary E. Murray, of Wheeling.