W. J. Curn
W. J. Curn, who is engaged in the marble and granite business conducting monumental works at No. 131 South Fourth Street, Steubenville, O., is a native of this city, born in 1869, and is a son of John Curn, one of the old business men of this city who was well and favorably known here for years.
John Curn was born at Steubenville in 1837, and died in 1891. He was a son of Patrick Curn, who was a native of County Clare, Ireland, and a settler at Steubenville some years before the birth of his son, John Curn. The latter grew to manhood in the old home on Logan Street and learned the trade of molder in the Means foundry. He served as a soldier in the Civil War for three years and ten months. After he returned to Steubenville he engaged in the monument business and met an accidental death while engaged in building a stone bridge on the Pennsylvania Railroad, at Steubenville, being run down by a fast train.
W. J. Curn attended the public schools and the well remembered old academy and then learned his business with his father and uncle, George Swords, and for fourteen years has been in business for himself. He is additionally interested in other city enterprises and one of these is a nickleodian located on the corner of Fourth and Market Streets. On February 1, 1898, Mr. Curn was married to Miss Ida McMasters, a daughter of Stanton McMasters, of Mt. Pleasant, and they have one child, Gertrude E. Mr. and Mrs. Curn are members of the Fifth Street Methodist Protestant Church.
20th Century History of Steubenville and Jefferson County, Ohio, by Joseph B. Doyle. Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, 1910