S. W. Criss
S. W. Criss, president of the Retail Grocers' Association and a member of the Steubenville Chamber of Commerce, is a leading grocery merchant of Steubenville, O., and one of the representative business men of the place. He was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, in 1861.
Mr. Criss was educated in his native county and spent five years in the schoolroom as a teacher, after which he embarked in a mercantile business at Dinsmore, Pa., conducting an establishment there for five years. He then opened up in the same line at Collins, W. Va., where he remained for twelve years. From there he came to Steubenville, locating in the grocery line, at No. 536 Market Street. He does a large retail business and has high class custom and not only enjoys the confidence of those who rely on him to supply them with the best the market affords, but also that of the trade, and his election as chief officer of the trade organization met with general approval. He is interested to some degree in Pennsylvania real estate and is a stockholder in some of Steubenville's financial establishments. He is essentially a business man and since residing at Steubenville has taken no very active part in politics.
Mr. Criss was married first to Miss Mary Doolan, of Steubenville, who died in 1905, leaving three children: John Elmer, who is engaged in the grocery business in tliis city; and Stewart Vincent and Mary Naomi, both of whom are yet in school. Mr. Criss married in 1908, Miss Mary Cosgrove. He belongs to the Fifth Street Methodist Protestant Church in which he is a steward.
20th Century History of Steubenville and Jefferson County, Ohio, by Joseph B. Doyle. Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, 1910