Biography  Samuel McAdoo  (Hancock County, WV)

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Submitted by jwaite@weir.net

The following biography is from an old book which appears to be a history
of the Toronto, Ohio area.  Becky Peterson has sent her copy so that you
might have access to the biographies that connect to Hancock County.

Samuel McAdoo

The portrait accompanying this article is a good likeness of Samuel McAdoo,
one of Toronto's foremost and leading citizens.  Mr. McAdoo was born in
Hancock county, W.Va., Februarry (sic) 22, 1851.  James McAdoo, his father,
settled at  Porter's Landing in 1849 and began the manufacture of fire
brick, and  die of cholera i n '53.  His mother followed in 1884  He was
educated int he common schools of his native place, afterwards studying
under Rev. Hastings in this place.  He worked in the yards of Anderson &
Porter until his majority, when he came to Toronto, and entered the employ
of T.M. Daniels as a pressman.  He is connected with the Calumet and Empire
Fire Clay Companies, and is the general Superintendent of the two plants,
and is also one of the stockholders of the Brazil, Ind. Sewer Pipe Works.
He is a thorough business man, enterprising and progressive, and successful
in all his undertakings.   He is a member of the Steubenville Commandery,
K.T., and  a Republican in  politics.  Just such men as Samuel McAdoo go
toward the building up of a town and no better citizen exists than he.