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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  J. D. JERVIS, the General Manager of the J. D. Jervis & Co. planing mill, was
born in Wales, in August, 1843. He is the son of Richard and Anne Jervis. Mr.
Jervis received a common-school education, and at the age of fourteen years
began to learn the carpenter trade with his father. At the age of nineteen he
moved to Liverpool, England, and followed his trade there and attended night
school at the Institute, and took four-month course in a commercial school in
Liverpool. In 1868 he emigrated to Cincinnati, Ohio, and followed his trade
there till the fall of 1870, when he moved to Ironton, Ohio; there started in
the building and contracting business, and in connection with that had a large
planing mill. After twelve years of successful business he sold out his interest
in the building and planing mill business, and, in connection with three other
gentlemen. started the Ironton Hoe and Tool Company, in manufacturing picks,
mattocks and hoes, wheelbarrows and railway trucks. In April, 1887, he moved the
wheelbarrow department to Decatur, and built, in connection with the barrow
department, a large planing mill, and is at the head of this enterprise,
manufacturing sash, doors, blinds and hardwood finishing. Mr. Jervis is a
married man. He married Miss Lizzie E. Jones, of Ironton, Ohio, in December,
1877. His family consist of himself and wife. They both are active members of
the Presbyterian Church.

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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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