John X. Goldcamp
Associated with his brother, Frank F. J. Goldcamp, in the ownership and control of the flourishing industrial enterprise conducted under the title of the Goldcamp Mill Company, John X. Goldcamp is one of the prominent business men and popular citizens of his native city of fronton, the metropolis and judicial center of Lawrence County. In the sketch of the career of his brother, Frank F. J., appearing on other pages of this work, are given adequate data concerning the family record of long association with Lawrence County, and thus it is unnecessary to repeat the information in the present connection. The Goldcamp Mill Company, capitalized for $40,000, operates an admirably equipped flour mill of the most approved modern facilities and the enterprise proves a valuable adjunct to the industrial activities of Ironton and Lawrence counties.
John X. Goldcamp was born at Ironton on the 30th of December, 1872, and is a son of the late John S. Goldcamp, who was long a prominent figure in the business life of Ironton, where he died in 1909 and where his widow still .resides. John X. Goldcamp continued to attend the school of Ironton until he had completed a two years' course in the high school, and at the age of seventeen he became actively concerned with the operation of the flour mill conducted by his father. He served for nine years as representative of his father's mill in its trade territory in West Virginia, where he made an excellent record a a salesman. When, in 1903, the business of the original mill was sold John X. purchased its retail branch, at the corner of South Third and Vernon Streets, Ironton, and he conducted the same until 1905, when he became associated with his brother Frank F. J. in the organization of the Goldcamp Mill Company and in the erection of its excellent plant, at the corner of Second and Ellison Streets. Since that time he has assumed much of the practical and administrative management of the substantial enterprise, and both as a man of affairs and as a liberal and progressive citizen he is held in unequivocal esteem in his home city and native county. He owns a half interest in the mill property, is a director of the Ohio Millers' Association and in all that touches the welfare and advancement of Ironton he maintains a loyal and helpful interest. He is a member of the Ironton Chamber of Commerce, is a democrat in his political proclivities and both he and his wife are communicants of St. Joseph's
Catholic Church.
On the 18th of October, 1899, Mr. Goldcamp wedded Miss Isabella L. Sillman, daughter of John and Martha Sillman, her father being a representative farmer of Lawrence County. The two children of this
union are Sylvious J. and Siderina I.
From "A Standing History of the Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio" by Eugene B. Willard, Daniel W. Williams, George O. Newman and Charles B. Taylor. Published by Lewis Publishing Company, 1916