Taken from “The Headlight” no date given.
Submitted by: Robert Kingrey
Mr. C. A. Alderman, the senior member of the firm of C. Alderman & Son, has had a practical experience in the dry goods business covering a period of nearly half a century. He was born in Morgan County, Ohio, in 1826. In 1851 he removed to Letart Falls, Meigs County, and began his first experience in the dry goods business. Since that time, he has been continually in the same line.
He came to Ironton in 1865 and is one reliable city merchant. In 1892 his son, C. B. Alderman, became a partner in the business and has since assumed many of the responsibilities. On the 6th day of May 1897, Mr. And Mrs. Alderman celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. Mr. Alderman is a Prohibitionist in politics and has been a local preacher in the Methodist denomination for many years.
CARMI B. ALDERMAN
Carmi B. Alderman, retired dry goods merchant, is among those citizens who remember John Campbell very well, and has cause to, since Mr. Campbell walked by the Alderman store at Third and Center daily going to and from his office, the Hecla Iron Co., which was located on the second floor of the three-story building on Second and Center streets.
No citizen of Ironton, anywhere near his age, is a better “kidder” than Mr. Alderman, known to his friends as “Capt.” He loves to exchange greetings with his friends in a joking manner, yet at the same time appears to be very serious about what he says.
Mr. Alderman has lived on the corner of Third and Center in the Alderman apartments for more than half a century, where he has a reserved seat to look out the window down upon the town at any parade, fire, or happening in his neighborhood.
Mr. Alderman also boasts of the fact that more honeymooners have started housekeeping in the “flats” than in any other building in Ironton. He is looking forward to the Centennial and says all parades will pass the Alderman building, where he can sit in his easy chair and watch them.
Source: The Great Flood of 1884 in the Ohio Valley, edited by John L. Vance in 1884
Great Flood of 1884 – The boats were plying along Third Street everywhere. The Hayward, Bickmore, Lewis, Henry, Peters & Ehrich stores had water from one to two feet on the floors. The approach to the post office was cut off, and the water was half a foot deep by dark. Otten & Norton’s drug store showed a foot of water on the floor, and Alderman’s, opposite, was equally unfortunate.
And still, the waters kept advancing at an inch an hour, and Saturday night, the people went to bed discouraged and dismayed. The scene was desolate indeed. All the previous night, the flood kept gaining and sent the waters up at least a foot. This covered the floor of every business house in town except the First National Bank.
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