J. F. Sarratt, Jr.
J. F. Sarratt, Jr., who is engaged in the jewelry business at No. 410 Market Street, Steubenville, O., was born in this city in 1858, and is a son of the late Joseph H. and Ruth E. Sarratt.
Joseph H. Sarratt was born at Washington, Washington County, Pennsylvania, and came to Steubenville in 1844 and engaged in the jewelry business, in which he continued until his death, January 22, 1899. He was one of the three or four early Abolitionists of this section and was one of the promoters of the underground railway which managed the escape of many fugitive slaves to Canada. His wife died in 1876. They had a family of children and the following survive: Helen B., wife of Spence Wallace, who is city treasurer of Steubenville and also grand vice chancellor of the order of Knights of Pythias of Ohio; James F.; Samuel A., a watchmaker, who is with his brother, James F.; and Julia May, a physician at Waco, Texas, who is a graduate of the Kirksville, Mo. School of Osteopathy.
J. F. Sarratt, .Jr., was reared at Steubenville and educated in the public schools. In 1871 he began learning the jewelry business and watchmaking trade with his father and for twelve years worked at different points including New Castle, Pa., Cairo, Ill., and Paducah, Ky., returning to Steubenville in 1896 before the death of his father. Here, with his brother Samuel, he entered into business under the firm style of Sarratts' Watch and Clock Repairing Company. The partnership was maintained for three years, since when James F. Sarratt has been sole proprietor, continuing in the business which has been attached to his name at Steubenville, for sixty-six years. He is a member of the Steubenville Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Sarratt was reared and confirmed in St. Paul's Episcopal Church at Steubenville.
20th Century History of Steubenville and Jefferson County, Ohio, by Joseph B. Doyle. Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, 1910