Jefferson County, West Virginia Biography of John W. LLOYD ************************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: Material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor. Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Nancy Taylor, March 2000 ************************************************************************** The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume II, pg. 433 BIO: JOHN W. LLOYD, Jefferson County JOHN W. LLOYD was paid only $1.00 a week for the first service he could render the business community of Martinsburg, and now, in the prime of his life, he has given many years to a work that has taken on interesting and progressive variety and has constituted him in an important sense a man of affairs. Mr. Lloyd was born at Leetown in Jefferson County, West Virginia, son of John T. Lloyd, who was born in Loudoun County, Virginia , in 1851, a grandson of Harrison Lloyd, a native of the same county, and great-grandson of Harrison Lloyd Sr., who was born in Pennsylvania and, according to family tradition, was a lineal descendent of one of two brothers, natives of Wales, who came to Pennsylvania with William Penn. Harrison Lloyd, Sr., left Pennsylvania and located in Loudoun County and lived out his life there. Harrison Lloyd, Jr., grew up on a farm, and continued farming until late in life, when he retired to Martinsburg, where he died at the age of eighty-four. He married Eliza Bell, a native of Jefferson County, who died in Martinsburg. The both were active in the membership of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. John T. Lloyd spent some of his earlier years as a farmer, and after removing to Martinsburg engaged in the grocery business and is now living retired. He married Elizabeth Nicholson, who was born in Jefferson County and died at the age of sixty-three. Her four children were: Annie M., who married John C. Keller; Elizabeth Alvira, who married Claude Dunham; Nora Ornett, who married Frank Watson and lives in Warren, Ohio; and John W. John W. Lloyd was reared and educated in Martinsburg, and after completing his course in the public schools earned his $1 a week wages as an office boy. He was given twice that amount as clerk in a grocery store, and subsequently worked in a mill at $3 a week. Mr. Lloyd in 1901 began his business career as partner with his father in a grocery business. They were together about three years, and he then opened a stock of general merchandise, and continued a merchant of the little city until 1912. In that year he established a bakery, of which he is sole proprietor. His business today represents the interesting contrast of baking and freezing, and the ice cream manufactured by J. W. Lloyd is as famous as his bread and other products of the oven. He started this business on a very small scale, and now has one of the most extensive and best equipped bakeries and ice cream plants in the state. At the age of twenty-two Mr. Lloyd married Ella Cora Johnson, a native of Martinsburg, and daughter of the late William and Mary Ella Johnson. Six children have been born to their marriage, named Robert Linwood, Nora Ornett, Cora Elizabeth, Mary Virginia, John W., Jr., and J. Harold Lee. Mr. Lloyd is a director in the Shenandoah Valley Bank and is a member of its real estate committee. Like many other successful business men in this section, he is financially interested in the great apple industry and is secretary and treasurer of the Rosemont Orchard Company of Washington County. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, is on the executive board of the Potomac States Bakers Association, is president of the Progressive Bakers Association, and member of National Bakers Association. He is affiliated with Robert White Lodge No. 67, A. F. and A. M., Wheeling Consistory, thirty- second degree Scottish Rite Mason, Osiris Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Wheeling Lodge No. 24 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Tuscarora Tent of the Improved Order of Red Men and is a member of the Junior Order United American Mechanics. Mr. Lloyd also gives his time and influence generously to the promotion of community affairs and is now a member of the city council, serving on the committees on finance, real estate, ordinances, light, health and water.