J.L. Mahon Biography   Hancock County, WV
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Copied from " History of the Panhandle, being Historical Collections of the 
Counties of Ohio, Brooke, Marshall and Hancock, West Virginia".  
Compiled and Written by:
J.H. Newton,  G.G. Nichols, and A.G. Sprankle
Published by:
J.A. Caldwell, 1879, Wheeling, W. VA.

                Biographical Sketches of Hancock County:
J. L. Mahon:
was born in Baltimore, Md. in 1814.  He came to West Virginia with his 
father, in about 1816, and located in Brooke County.  In 1837 he married 
Miss Barbara B. Brenneman, daughter of Christian Brenneman.  They settled on 
the farm where they are now living, in 1840.  Their union resulted in ten 
children, four sons and six daughters.  He erected a saw mill on his farm in 
1850, and in 1854, he built a grist mill adjoining the saw mill, both of 
which he has been operating successfully.  In 1878, he, in company with 
Hellings & Brother, erected on his farm, one of the largest fruit houses in 
the United States, on the Hellings' patent, of Philadelphia -- a description 
of which can be seen in the history of the county of Hancock.  He followed 
the manufacturing of lumber, cooperage and flour, in connection with farming 
and fruit growing as his vocation.  He owns one of the best fruit farms in 
the state of West Virginia, containing 575 acres.  There are 10,000 fruit 
trees growing on his farm at present.