Frank Linton
Frank Linton, the able superintendent of the Mingo Junction public schools, has been a resident of Jefferson County, Ohio, almost all his life and since early manhood has been continuously engaged in educational work. He was born in the little village of New Alexandria, Jefferson County, March 11, 1868, and is the only child of John M. Linton who still lives on the old Linton homestead. He attended the New Alexandria village schools and when nineteen years of age began to teach school during the winter seasons, in the summers attending special sessions at Mt. Union College and continued to thus alternate for several years, spending one full year in college. For four years he taught district schools, then accepted the position of principal of the schools of Warrenton, O., where he remained for three years, after which he was principal of the New Alexandria schools, his home school, for one year, for one year more was a principal at Braddock, Pa. He then served two years as superintendent of schools at Powhatan Point, O., and for nine years in the same position at Salineville, O. In 1908 he came to Mingo Junction and assumed charge of the schools here, where he has remained ever since. Prof. Linton is particularly well qualified for the career he has adopted. He is college bred, is thoroughly experienced and is deeply and entirely devoted to the work. Wherever he has been he has succeeded in raising the standard of the schools and has always left more earnest students than he found. He is identilied with a number of educational bodies, and belongs to the two great fraternal organizations, the Masons and Odd Fellows. In the former he is a member of Salineville Lodge, No. 348, F. & A. M. and Steubenville Chapter, No. 15, R. A. M. and in the latter to Logan Lodge at Mingo Junction.
Prof. Linton was married July 5, 1899, to Miss Elizabeth Yost, of Warrenton, O., and they have three children: Alice M., John H. and Frank Y. They are members of the Mingo Junction Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a Republican in politics.
20th Century History of Steubenville and Jefferson County, Ohio, by Joseph B. Doyle. Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, 1910