John Dougherty (4 June 1856 - 12 March 1943) was an ancestor of the Doughertys of Hocking County. He was a bookkeeper, farmer, and telegrapher who knew history of the Hocking Valley Industry intimately.
The son of Edward Dougherty III (1821-1902) of Owego, NY; and Rachel L. Buell (1826-1905) of Essex ,VT; he was born in Owego, New York on June 4th 1856 and the Irish heritage from a great-grandfather Edward Dougherty (1749-1814) who came from Londonderry, Ireland in 1754, and a Yankee mother whose ancestors were members of the Plymouth Colony, found expression in the viral philosophy of John Dougherty.
His father, Edward, studied law at Harvard and was a member of the Class of 1844, returning after his marriage in Essex, VT to Owego, NY where he was the postmaster. Moving later to Battle Creek, Michigan, he edited the Michigan Tribune and set up the first steam printing press west of the Allegheny Mountains. Then the family moved to Columbus where Edward continued his newspaper work and served as an adjutant (military officer) to Col. Todd during the Civil War.
It was in Columbus that the son, John, became acquainted with Peter Hayden interests, going into the rolling mill at a very early age and learning telegraphy, and when Hayden found he needed a trained operator at his Valley coal mines and clay industry, he sent John Dougherty, a lad of 17 years old, to Haydenville. When Hayden came back from Philadelphia, he brought a telephone and the first long distance message in Ohio was carried between Peter Hayden in Columbus and John Dougherty in Haydenville.
For 67 years, he served the community in the capacity of bookkeeper, and telegrapher for 50 years carried the payroll from office to mine. He established the first telephone in the Hocking Valley and the first message that came from one of the mining settlements was a birth of a girl named Telephone.
John Dougherty married Fannie Wolfe on September 19, 1883. The Wolfe family had a name in Haydenville. They bore James Wolfe Dougherty (1885-1959) and John Wolfe Dougherty (1887-1958). James studied Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and John was director of industrial arts at Oakwood High School of Dayton, OH; and an accomplished world traveller of Europe, Mexico, and Central & South America.
Retired from his official connection with the NATCO Plant in Haydenville for a number of years, he busied himself with his farm, loving the leisurely life of a semi-professional agriculturalist, and was in good health until about a week ago.
John Dougherty passed away on Friday evening (3/12/43) at 9:25pm at his home on US Route 33, the Hocking Valley has lost one of its most interesting characters, one in whose memories the industrial life of the community remained fresh and vital for more than half a century.
*Source: Logan Daily News column dated March 13 1943
The son of Edward Dougherty III (1821-1902) of Owego, NY; and Rachel L. Buell (1826-1905) of Essex ,VT; he was born in Owego, New York on June 4th 1856 and the Irish heritage from a great-grandfather Edward Dougherty (1749-1814) who came from Londonderry, Ireland in 1754, and a Yankee mother whose ancestors were members of the Plymouth Colony, found expression in the viral philosophy of John Dougherty.
His father, Edward, studied law at Harvard and was a member of the Class of 1844, returning after his marriage in Essex, VT to Owego, NY where he was the postmaster. Moving later to Battle Creek, Michigan, he edited the Michigan Tribune and set up the first steam printing press west of the Allegheny Mountains. Then the family moved to Columbus where Edward continued his newspaper work and served as an adjutant (military officer) to Col. Todd during the Civil War.
It was in Columbus that the son, John, became acquainted with Peter Hayden interests, going into the rolling mill at a very early age and learning telegraphy, and when Hayden found he needed a trained operator at his Valley coal mines and clay industry, he sent John Dougherty, a lad of 17 years old, to Haydenville. When Hayden came back from Philadelphia, he brought a telephone and the first long distance message in Ohio was carried between Peter Hayden in Columbus and John Dougherty in Haydenville.
For 67 years, he served the community in the capacity of bookkeeper, and telegrapher for 50 years carried the payroll from office to mine. He established the first telephone in the Hocking Valley and the first message that came from one of the mining settlements was a birth of a girl named Telephone.
John Dougherty married Fannie Wolfe on September 19, 1883. The Wolfe family had a name in Haydenville. They bore James Wolfe Dougherty (1885-1959) and John Wolfe Dougherty (1887-1958). James studied Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and John was director of industrial arts at Oakwood High School of Dayton, OH; and an accomplished world traveller of Europe, Mexico, and Central & South America.
Retired from his official connection with the NATCO Plant in Haydenville for a number of years, he busied himself with his farm, loving the leisurely life of a semi-professional agriculturalist, and was in good health until about a week ago.
John Dougherty passed away on Friday evening (3/12/43) at 9:25pm at his home on US Route 33, the Hocking Valley has lost one of its most interesting characters, one in whose memories the industrial life of the community remained fresh and vital for more than half a century.
*Source: Logan Daily News column dated March 13 1943
John Dougherty (4 June 1856 - 12 March 1943) was an ancestor of the Doughertys of Hocking County. He was a bookkeeper, farmer, and telegrapher who knew history of the Hocking Valley Industry intimately.
The son of Edward Dougherty III (1821-1902) of Owego, NY; and Rachel L. Buell (1826-1905) of Essex ,VT; he was born in Owego, New York on June 4th 1856 and the Irish heritage from a great-grandfather Edward Dougherty (1749-1814) who came from Londonderry, Ireland in 1754, and a Yankee mother whose ancestors were members of the Plymouth Colony, found expression in the viral philosophy of John Dougherty.
His father, Edward, studied law at Harvard and was a member of the Class of 1844, returning after his marriage in Essex, VT to Owego, NY where he was the postmaster. Moving later to Battle Creek, Michigan, he edited the Michigan Tribune and set up the first steam printing press west of the Allegheny Mountains. Then the family moved to Columbus where Edward continued his newspaper work and served as an adjutant (military officer) to Col. Todd during the Civil War.
It was in Columbus that the son, John, became acquainted with Peter Hayden interests, going into the rolling mill at a very early age and learning telegraphy, and when Hayden found he needed a trained operator at his Valley coal mines and clay industry, he sent John Dougherty, a lad of 17 years old, to Haydenville. When Hayden came back from Philadelphia, he brought a telephone and the first long distance message in Ohio was carried between Peter Hayden in Columbus and John Dougherty in Haydenville.
For 67 years, he served the community in the capacity of bookkeeper, and telegrapher for 50 years carried the payroll from office to mine. He established the first telephone in the Hocking Valley and the first message that came from one of the mining settlements was a birth of a girl named Telephone.
John Dougherty married Fannie Wolfe on September 19, 1883. The Wolfe family had a name in Haydenville. They bore James Wolfe Dougherty (1885-1959) and John Wolfe Dougherty (1887-1958). James studied Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and John was director of industrial arts at Oakwood High School of Dayton, OH; and an accomplished world traveller of Europe, Mexico, and Central & South America.
Retired from his official connection with the NATCO Plant in Haydenville for a number of years, he busied himself with his farm, loving the leisurely life of a semi-professional agriculturalist, and was in good health until about a week ago.
John Dougherty passed away on Friday evening (3/12/43) at 9:25pm at his home on US Route 33, the Hocking Valley has lost one of its most interesting characters, one in whose memories the industrial life of the community remained fresh and vital for more than half a century.
*Source: Logan Daily News column dated March 13 1943
The son of Edward Dougherty III (1821-1902) of Owego, NY; and Rachel L. Buell (1826-1905) of Essex ,VT; he was born in Owego, New York on June 4th 1856 and the Irish heritage from a great-grandfather Edward Dougherty (1749-1814) who came from Londonderry, Ireland in 1754, and a Yankee mother whose ancestors were members of the Plymouth Colony, found expression in the viral philosophy of John Dougherty.
His father, Edward, studied law at Harvard and was a member of the Class of 1844, returning after his marriage in Essex, VT to Owego, NY where he was the postmaster. Moving later to Battle Creek, Michigan, he edited the Michigan Tribune and set up the first steam printing press west of the Allegheny Mountains. Then the family moved to Columbus where Edward continued his newspaper work and served as an adjutant (military officer) to Col. Todd during the Civil War.
It was in Columbus that the son, John, became acquainted with Peter Hayden interests, going into the rolling mill at a very early age and learning telegraphy, and when Hayden found he needed a trained operator at his Valley coal mines and clay industry, he sent John Dougherty, a lad of 17 years old, to Haydenville. When Hayden came back from Philadelphia, he brought a telephone and the first long distance message in Ohio was carried between Peter Hayden in Columbus and John Dougherty in Haydenville.
For 67 years, he served the community in the capacity of bookkeeper, and telegrapher for 50 years carried the payroll from office to mine. He established the first telephone in the Hocking Valley and the first message that came from one of the mining settlements was a birth of a girl named Telephone.
John Dougherty married Fannie Wolfe on September 19, 1883. The Wolfe family had a name in Haydenville. They bore James Wolfe Dougherty (1885-1959) and John Wolfe Dougherty (1887-1958). James studied Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and John was director of industrial arts at Oakwood High School of Dayton, OH; and an accomplished world traveller of Europe, Mexico, and Central & South America.
Retired from his official connection with the NATCO Plant in Haydenville for a number of years, he busied himself with his farm, loving the leisurely life of a semi-professional agriculturalist, and was in good health until about a week ago.
John Dougherty passed away on Friday evening (3/12/43) at 9:25pm at his home on US Route 33, the Hocking Valley has lost one of its most interesting characters, one in whose memories the industrial life of the community remained fresh and vital for more than half a century.
*Source: Logan Daily News column dated March 13 1943
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