John A. Medcalf
John A. Medcalf, proprietor of the Steubenville Building & Lumber Company, with yards at No. 512 Dock Street, Steubenville, Ohio, is interested in other prospering enterprises of the city and section, and is a representative business man in several different lines. He was born at Hagerstown, Maryland, in 1866.
When John A. Medcalf was four years old his parents moved to Irwin, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where he was sent to school, and later was employed in the coal mines. When twenty-two years of age he came to Toronto, Ohio, where he worked at the carpenter trade for nine years, and then came to Steubenville. Here he went into the general contracting and lumber business under the style of the Steubenville Building & Lumber Company, of which he is sole proprietor. He is a stockholder in the Steubenville Ice Company and also of the Interstate Lumber Company, of Pittsburgh. His business is conducted along well regulated lines and his name stands high commercially.
Mr. Medcalf was married at Irwin, Pa., to Miss Anna M. Blake, and they have five children: Lydia J., who married Sherman Martin, of Steubenville; and James Lewis, Laura Belle, William Lawrence, and Anna Mary. Mr. Medcalf and family attend the Methodist Protestant church. He is identified with the order of Maccabees and the Junior Order of American Mechanics.
From 20th Century History of Steubenville and Jefferson County, Ohio, by Joseph B. Doyle. Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, 1910