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From: MRS GINA M REASONER< >
Subject: JOHN R. LLOYD - History of Ohio
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 01:16:58, -0500

HISTORY OF OHIO - The American Historical Society, Inc., 1928
Volume III, page 390-391

JOHN RUSSELL LLOYD, postmaster of Cambridge, has for twenty years
been a business man of that city, and is a veteran of the World war, having
gone overseas with the Thirty-seventh Division, largely made up of Ohio troops.
Born at Martins Ferry, Ohio, December 15, 1888, he is the son of
Thomas Reese Lloyd, for many years identified with the iron and steel
industry in Ohio. Thomas R. Lloyd was born at Merthyr, Tydfil, Wales, in
1854, and came to the United States at the age of sixteen. From the ranks
of steel and iron workers he rose to executive responsibilities, and in
1902 came to Cambridge as the first superintendent of the Cambridge Rolling
Mills Company. Later he became superintendent of the Greenville plant of
the United States Steel Corporation, and continued there until he retired
to private life. He is a republican, and while living at Martins Ferry was
a member of the School Board. He is also a Mason and Presbyterian. Thomas
R. Lloyd married Rosanna M. Thomas, who was born in Gallia County, Ohio,
her father being a Congregational minister, Rev. John P. Thomas.
Fifth in a family of ten children,John Russell Lloyd was fourteen
years of age when the family moved to Cambridge, and after completing his
education at the high school there he engaged in the retail shoe business
in 1903. The firm of Lloyd & Ruby, shoe merchants, is still in existence in
Cambridge. Subsequently Mr. Lloyd acquired other interests, and is now
president of the Bellaire Stove Company, manufacturers of an extensive line
of cast iron stoves. The plant is at Bellaire, Ohio.
In July, 1917, Mr. Lloyd became a private in the One Hundred and
Twelfth Ammunition Train of the Thirty-seventh Division, Ohio National
Guard unit, subsequently being made first sergeant of Company E, and later
regimental supply sergeant of Headquarters Company with that division. With
the Thirty-seventh he had eleven months of overseas experience in France
and Belgium. Mr. Lloyd after the war became one of the organizers and the
first adjutant of Cambridge Post No. 84 of the American Legion.
He was the first and has been the only secretary of the Kiwanis
Club. The late President Harding appointed him postmaster of Cambridge,
March 3, 1923, and his time is fully given to the administrative details of
the office. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Lloyd married
Miss Margaret Patterson of Cambridge, and their two sons are John Russell,
Jr., and Thomas Reese.

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