John W. Truby
In his native City of Ironton, the progressive and flourishing metropolis and judicial center of Lawrence County, Mr. Truby has found opportunity for the winning of success and popularity as a representative of business activities and as a loyal and appreciative citizen. He is proprietor of the Truby Bottling Works, which represents one of the prosperous business enterprises of Ironton. with the best of facilities in all departments.
Mr. Truby was born at Ironton on the 14th of September, 1870, and is a son of William W. and Henrietta (Taylor) Truby, both natives of Pennsylvania, where the former was born in 1835 and the latter in 1845, her birth having occurred in the City of Pittsburgh. William W. Truby became a resident of Ironton in 1868 and was long employed as a skilled artisan in the manufacturing of nails, in one of the leading mills of Lawrence County. He passed the psalmist's span of three score years and ten and was a well known pioneer citizen of Ironton at the time of his death, in 1907, his wife surviving him by about six years and being summoned to eternal rest in 1913. They became the parents of five children, all of whom are living, namely: William W., Jr., Florence, Carrie, Henry and John W.
John W. Truby attended the Ironton public schools until he had attained to the age of eighteen years and after completing his studies in the high school he was employed in a local nail mill for ten years, within which he became an expert workman and efficient mechanic. At the expiration of this decade, in 1900, he purchased the bottling works conducted by Charles Myers, and since that time he has greatly expanded the scope and importance of the enterprise, which is conducted under the title of the Truby Bottling Works, his energy and enterprise having brought to him unequivocal success in his independent business operations. Mr. Truby is a stockholder in the Home Telephone Company of Ironton, and further evidences of his temporal prosperity are shown in his ownership of three business blocks in Ironton—one on Center Street, between Third and Fourth streets; another on North Third Street; and the third on South Third Street. He is a democrat in his political allegiance and he is an attendant and supporter of the Christian Church, of which his wife was a devoted member.
On the 27th of November, 1899, Mr. Truby wedded Miss Lucy Heider. daughter of August and Barbara Heider, of Ironton. and she entered into eternal rest in 1907, the two surviving children being Louise and Pauline.
From "A Standing History of the Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio" by Eugene B. Willard, Daniel W. Williams, George O. Newman and Charles B. Taylor. Published by Lewis Publishing Company, 1916