CARROLL COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: COBLE, HUGH S. (published 1925) 
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HISTORY OF OHIO, The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume V, page 339-340, with photo

        HUGH S. COBLE.  A long, active and prosperous career at
Steubenville, during which he has given his aid and encouragement to the
management of the city's industries and enterprises, has made Hugh S. Coble
one of the best known citizens of the community. He is identified with a
number of Steubenville's activities, being secretary of the Jefferson
Building & Savings Company, and in the various institutions with which he
has been associated his labors have been invariably of a constructive
character.
        Mr. Coble was born at Leaviddsville, Carroll County, Ohio, May 23,
1850, but has been a resident of Steubenville since his second year, having
been brought to this place in 1852 by his parents, Jacob and Jane
(Sterling) Coble, the former of whom died in 1877 and the latter in
September, 1875. His great-grandfather was of Pennsylvania Dutch descent.
His maternal grandfather was Hugh Sterling, who came with his wife, Jane,
from Ireland and first settled at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where Mr.
Coble's mother was born. Later grandfather Sterling bought the property at
Fourth and Adams streets, Steubenville, Ohio, which is now in the
possession of his grandson, Mr. H.S. Coble.
        Jacob Coble on coming to Steubenville in 1852 began an active
career. A merchant by vocation, he built up one of the largest
establishments of the community, was likewise prominent in all affairs of
public interest, served on the school board and the City Council, and was a
leading member and supporter of the First Methodist Episcopal Church,
formerly known as Kramer Chapel. He and his wife were the parents of five
children: Margaret, who married L.V. Brandenburg and has two children,
William C. and Ottomer G.; Mary Hood, who is unmarried; Katherine, who
married H.O. Hukill, and has one child, J.L.; Hugh S.; and Martha, who
married Rev. W.D. Grace, and has one child, Frank S.
        Hugh S. Coble following his graduation from the high school at
Steubenville when sixteen years of age, entered his father's store as a
clerk, and remained with the elder man as his associate until death claimed
the founder of the business. The heirs subsequently selling the business,
Mr. Coble then secured employment in the store of Winfield Scott, with whom
he remained for eight years as cashier. For some time Mr. Coble had been
interested in politics, and at this point in his career was elected county
treasurer of Jefferson County, an office in which he served two full terms,
followed by a term as deputy county treasurer under his successor. On
leaving the county office he became secretary of the Jefferson Building &
Saving Company, of which he is also a director, and which company carries
on an extensive building and loan business. He has remained in this
capacity to the present, and is accounted one of the able business men of
his community. He is a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, and
belongs also to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of
Pythias, the Chamber of Commerce, the Steubenville Country Club and the
Century Club, in all of which he has numerous friends.
        On October 2, 1872, Mr. Coble was united in marriage at Youngstown,
Ohio, with Miss Mary Paine, daughter of O.D. Paine and Susan P. (Mostelaur)
Paine, both deceased. O.D. Paine was a prominent physician of Youngstown
who died in 1910, his wife passing away in 1920. They were the parents of
three children: Mary; Ida, who married Mr. Gulick; and Belle, who married
Kenneth Reinholt, and had one child, Helen Paine. Mr. and Mrs. Coble had
one son, the late Dwight Hukill Coble, who married Alice Bair, and had one
son, Dwight Sterling, who is also deceased, although the widow survives.


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