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About John Means
John Means was a mayor of Ashland, Kentucky and a leader in the banking and iron industries. He helped organize the Cincinnati and Big Sandy Packet Company, laid out Ashland Cemetery, built furnaces, served as vice-president of the Ashland National Bank, and he served then led the growing iron business of the Means family. The Kentucky Encyclopedia of 2015 described the Means-owned iron empire as having "created massive enterprises out of the disorganized and weakened industry that emerged from the Civil War."
Everything about John Means →- Occupation
- politician, banker
- Position held
- Mayor of Ashland, Kentucky
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- September 21, 1829
- Died
- February 14, 1910