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GEORGE BARTHOLD JR., a contracting plasterer and president of the board of city appraisers of Steubenville, O., has been a lifelong resident of Steubenville, where he was born in 1842. He is a son of George Barthold Sr., a native of Germany, who, in 1833 located in Jefferson County, Ohio, where he followed his trade as a plasterer throughout his active career. George Barthold, Jr. was reared and educated in Steubenville and early in life learned the plasterer's trade with his father. With the exception of four or five years passed on a farm, he has spent his entire business life working at his trade as a contract plasterer. On September 10, 1864, he enlisted for one hundred days' service in Company C, 157th Ohio Volunteer Infantry and was located at Ft. Delaware during the entire period. Mr. Barthold has always taken an active interest in politics, and was for four years a member of the city council and is at present filling a very important office. He is affiliated with the I. O. O. F. and the E. M. Stanton Post, G. A. R., No. 166. His religious connection is with St. Paul's Episcopal Church, and he has served on the board of vestrymen. Mr. Barthold was first married in 1865 to Sally E. Wood, who died leaving two children: Lilly A., who is the wife of William McNully, of Denver, Colo; and George Wood Barthold, of Steubenville. His second marriage was with Alice Jane Wilson, and they have two daughters: Rose Olive and May L., the latter of whom is the wife of Herman Passavant, of Steubenville.  Return to Family Tales
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