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 717.

The senior proprietor of the Barnesville Republtcan is T. T. HANLON, who is a
native of Bloomfield, Jefferson county, Ohio, having been born there December
17, 1828. He is the son of William and Elizabeth (Duvall) Hanlon. The father
was born in Orange county, N. Y., and the mother in Wellsburg, Va., now West
Virginia. The former was a shoemaker by trade, but was engaged in farming most
of his life. He gave his son all the education that his limited resources would
permit of, sending him to the township schools during his boyhood. Mr. Hanlon
learned the merchant tailoring business, and afterward engaged in the mercantile
business. He came to Belmont county, Ohio, in 1849, first locating at the mouth
of Pipe creek, where he remained for two years, he then removed to Bellesville,
Ohio, continuing in the same business there for two and a half years. From there
he went to Malaga, where the business was carried on for seven years and a half.
After living and keeping store in New Castle, Ohio, for one and a half years, Mr.
Hanlon sold out and returned to Malaga. He came to Barnesville in the fall of 1862,
first engaging in the mercantile business, which was continued up to 1874, when
he went into the paper-jobbing trade, later adding a printing house, under the
firm name of T. T. Hanlon & Sons. In 1883, they founded the Barnesville Republican,
and in 1885 the firm name was changed to Hanlon Brothers & Company. Mr. Hanlon is
a stockholder in the Warren Gas and Oil company, also a charter member of the
Barnesville Glass company. In 1852 he married Miss Agnes Waters, daughter of George
Waters, of Loudon county, Va. She died in 1858. Two sons, W. W. and O. O., survive
her. Elizabeth Hyde was united to him in the bonds of matrimony in 1860, and by
her he has had one child, Agnes Amelia. Mr. Hanlon is an active republican, and a
consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church. William Hanlon, his father,
was a well educated man, and was for some time a professor in the Steubenville
schools. He was a prominent democrat, and a member of the free soil party, and
afterward a republican. He was loyal to his country, having sent four sons into
the Union army, viz.: William H., E. Tappan, Samuel Marene and Oliver Smith Hanlon.
Samuel was killed at Peach Tree Creek, Georgia, and Oliver S. died at Fayetteville,
W. Va. Senator Benjamin Tappan was an own cousin of his. His wife's father was Col.
Duvall, who emigrated from Frederickstown, Md., and he became a loyal citizen of the
state of Oaio. He was a colonel under Gen. William H. Harrison.