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When the
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Mean's career began in 1849 when he worked for his father's company, Sinton & Means. In 1854 he was a co-incorporator of The
Kentucky Iron, Coal, & Manufacturing Company. In 1856 he helped his father and uncle begin the Cincinnati and Big Sandy Packet Company, starting with one boat, called
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Means helped organize in 1864 the
Ashland Coal Company and also the Hanging Rock Iron & Coal Company. In 1864, Princess Furnace, about ten miles from Ashland and on the L. & B. S., was put into operation. In 1869 he was instrumental in organizing the Eastern Division of the Lexington &
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Company of Alabama, and partner in Means, Kyle & Co. Means was among the Ashland citizens who witnessed the November 1, 1882 shooting of a gathered crowd on the banks of the Ohio River by Kentucky Militiamen aboard a steamboat. The boat carried the accused murderers of the
343:, daughter of Samuel Prescott Hildreth, on October 25, 1854. They had six children: Thomas, Eliza, Lilian, Rosalie, Harold, and Ellison. Harriet died March 13, 1895. Means remarried June 3, 1896, to Mary Peck Seaton of Greenup County, Kentucky, a daughter of Samuel Seaton.
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During his business career, Means was a patron of education, owning the property where the
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Big Sandy
Railroad Company, and in 1870 was elected to become its president, serving that role until 1891. The Ashland Furnace Company was owned by the railroad, the furnace being built under Means' supervision. When completed, it was the largest in the
259:, with Hugh as a stockholder, and, in 1856, the Means brothers became directors of the Kentucky Iron, Coal & Manufacturing Company. That spring, they helped organize the Bank of Ashland, and Means became cashier, serving as such from 1866 to 1869.
287:. Others involved in the organization of the company included Washington Honshell, David Gibson, and Hiram Campbell. The line was known as the White Collar Line, and built a number of steamers, starting with the Telegraph and later the Fleetwood.
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Company from 1873 to 1890 and served as a director there for some time after.
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Ashland Cemetery, and was a trustee of the graveyard for many years. In 1860, he was elected a trustee of the Town of Ashland, serving thirty years in that capacity.
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The school that Means had donated operated as the John Means School in
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of 2015 described the Means-owned iron empire as having "created massive enterprises out of the disorganized and weakened industry that emerged from the
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