ASEL M. CREIGHTON

Asel M. Creighton, a well-known blacksmith of Triadelphia, West 
Virginia, was born in Marshall county, this state, in 1868, and is a 
son of John D. Creighton, and a grandson of John Creighton.

John Creighton was a carpenter by trade, and lived to be over eighty 
years old; his ancestors for many generations were born in this 
country.  John D. Creighton is still living, and is very successfully 
engaged in agricultural pursuits.

Asel M. Creighton attended the public schools during his early life, 
and left his home at the age of seventeen years to work on a farm, 
which he did for one year.  Then he went to Venice, Pennsylvania, 
where he learned the blacksmith trade, and worked at it for three 
years; he afterward started a shop of his own at Valley Grove.  
Continuing in the business one year, he then sold out and moved to 
Wheeling, West Virginia, and worked a year as a journeyman.  About 
that time he was taken with the Western fever and accordingly he 
started west.  He arrived at Benedict, Nebraska, and worked there for 
two years in a blacksmith shop.  He finally returned to West 
Virginia, rented a farm and ran a blacksmith shop also.  In 1899 he 
moved to Triadelphia, his present place of residence, and there built 
a shop and purchased the home in which he is now living.

Asel M. Creighton was united in marriage with Leonia Porter, daughter 
of Samuel Porter, who is now seventy years old.  This ceremony was 
performed in 1894, and their union has been blessed with three 
children, -- Annie, born in 1895; Gertrude, born in 1899; and Pearl, 
who died at the age of three months.

Fraternally, Mr. Creighton belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America, 
-- being a charter member of Elm Grove Lodge.  In his religious views 
he is in accord with the M. E. church.  Mr. Creighton is an honest, 
industrious man, and is highly esteemed by all who know him. 

From "History of Wheeling City and Ohio County, West Virginia and 
Representative Citizens," by Hon. Gibson Lamb Cranmer, 1902.

(Janice Davis)