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EMMETT McDONALD ERWIN, of the firm of Erwin & Robinson, proprietors of what is the largest establishment at Steubenville in the line of merchandising, stands high in business circles all through Eastern Ohio, where the firm has a large trade. He was born at Steubenville and is a son of J. W. Erwin, a former prominent citizen of Steubenville, his father having been one of the early settlers. Emmett McD. Erwin started to work when ten years old as an errand boy in the store of Crumrine & Tomberlake and after an experience of about ten years went to Pittsburgh, where for five years he was with the firm of J. R. Weldin & Co. He returned then to Steubenville and in 1899, with G. W. Robinson, bought the Timberlake and Kendall book and stationery store, the firm name becoming Erwin & Robinson, as it continues. Both Mr. Erwin and his partner are practical business men and when they took charge they displayed the energy and enterprise that soon attracted attention and subsequently gained confidence, and from the beginning they realized that they had an excellent business field before them. They possessed the foresight and good judgement to take advantage of it and the result is, that they now possess what is called the "big store" at Steubenville, owning their fine three-story brick building with basement, equipped with their own electric light plant which has a capacity of 1,000 lights, and occupying 17,000 square feet of floor space with their stock which includes books, stationery, furniture, china, wall paper, carpets, rugs, draperies, beds and bedding while they are also wholesale jobbers in wall paper and window shades. Mr. Erwin is a member of the Second Presbyterian Church, is identified with the order of Elks and belongs to the Steubenville Country Club.  Return to Family Tales
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