F. M. Work
F. M. Work, one of the leading merchants of Steubenville, O., a member of the firm of F. M. Work & Co., with business quarters at Nos. 168-170 South Fourth Street, has been a resident of this city for eight years. He was born at Wheeling, W. Va., December 24, 1864.
After his school days were over, Mr. Work went into the nail mill connected with the La Belle Iron Works at Wheeling and continued there for eighteen years, and was also in the grocery business at Wheeling for a number of years, and then came to Steubenville. Here he embarked in the general mercantile and grocery business, under the firm name of F. M. Work & Co., and conducts a large and increasing business. Employment is given to fourteen people and trade territory is all over the city. Mr. Work is interested in other successful enterprises. He is president and a director of the Buckeye Rolling Mill Company, of Newark, O.; a director of the Wheeling Enameling Company; a director of the People's National Bank, at Steubenville; and a stockholder in the La Belle Iron Works. In all these concerns he is connected with men of capital and energy, representatives of solid and effective citizenship. In 1887 Mr. Work was married to Miss Josephine Baron, of Wheeling, W. Va. They are members of the First Methodist Episcopal Church. He is identified with the fraternal order of Elks.
20th Century History of Steubenville and Jefferson County, Ohio, by Joseph B. Doyle. Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, 1910