In 1902, Mr. Irving Drew purchased the Star Shoe Company, changed its name to The Irving Drew Company and became its president.--from History of Scioto County published in 1903 by Nelson Evans.
The Plant of the Selby Shoe Company was located at 92-102 East Seventh (7th) Street. The shoe factory closed in 1957, the building had a few other occupants. The Wil-Car (Wilber Carrington) Enterprise Company was in the building at Seventh and Findlay in about 1980. The factory was razed in 1999 for the construction of the new Portsmouth City School campus.
The Brodt Shoe Company was located at 519-527 Front Street.
The Tracy Shoe Company was located at 630-632 2nd (Second) Street.
Both manufactured wholesale shoes.
The Star Shoe Company was located at 107 and 109 West Front Street.
The Tremper Shoe Company was located at the corner of Second (2nd) and Jefferson Streets.
Excelsior Shoe Company was started in March, 1889, located at Gallia and Findlay Streets. This Excelsior plant was built in 1913 at Gallia Street and Campbell Avenue. Williams Manufacturing Company bought the factory in 1935. After the Williams Shoe Company closed, the Mitchellace Manufacturing Company acquired the building.
The Mitchell Manufacturing Company was located at Third (3rd) and Gay Streets. It started out making vending machines for shoe laces costing one nickel. They soon decided to produce the laces to fill the vending machines. And finally the focus was making bulk laces for the local shoe factories.
After the Burgess Steel mill burned at Third (3rd) and Madison Streets in Portsmouth in 1898, Levi York re-built in Yorktown (New Boston). The new plant was sold to Crucible Steel of America in 1900. Portsmouth Steel Company bought it in 1902. It became Whitaker-Glessner from 1909 until 1920.
The Burgess Steel and Iron Works was incorporated in 1872, and it was located on the river at end of Third (3rd) Street. This factory burned in 1898 and Levi York re-built in New Boston in 1898-1899.
The Standard Telephone Manufacturing Company was located at 1021-1025 Gallia Street. It was later changed to the Standard Supply Company and specialized in electrical supplies manufacturing.
After the Burgess Steel Mill in Portsmouth burned in 1898, Levi York be-built his business in New Boston.The new plant was sold to Crucible Steel of America in 1900. It was named Portsmouth Steel Company from 1902 to 1909, and Whitaker-Glessner Company from 1909 to 1920. It became Wheeling Steel Corporation until 1946, and later Detroit Steel.
The Scioto Fire Brick Company, incorporated in 1872 with John Peebles as president, was in Sciotoville a few miles up the Ohio River from Portsmouth. This mammoth 13 acre plant, between the river and the railroad, had an almost inexhaustible mine of raw material. It produced Fire Brick, Clay In-walls and Hearths for blast furnaces, tiles of all sizes, Arch, Key and Wedge, Circular and Split Brick from the very best Scioto Clay. --from the Portsmouth Blade Industrial Edition, 1898
The Portsmouth Fire Brick Company was actually located at the corner of Gallia and Campbell, the later site of Harbinson-Walker Refactories.
The Peebles Paving Brick Company's office was located at 317-320 Masonic Temple. The plant, started in 1902, was in New Boston at Gallia and Norfolk Streets.
