Joseph Timmonds Micklethwait was a well-known and respected attorney, and businessman born in Portsmouth, Ohio who was Prosecuting Attorney for Scioto county from 1915 - 1918. He the second son of William R. and Abigail Micklethwait who were pioneer settlers of this city and under whose sturdy parentage he was permitted to spend his boyhood days on the old Micklethwait farm, now a part of this city's residential section.
As a boy he attended the public schools and after about three years in high school, he was permitted to attend Ohio university at Athens, where he secured about three years of college preparatory work, after which he attended Western Reserve at Cleveland and graduated from the school of law in 1903, being admitted to the bar the same year.
Dec. 28 1914 he was married to Virginia B. Hildinger of McKeesport, Pa. the wedding taking place at DuBois, Pa., where Mrs. Hildinger was visiting at that time.
As a lodge member he was active in all the local Masonic bodies, having been Eminent Commander of Calvary Commandery No.13 and was also a 32nd degree Mason haven taken those degrees at Cincinnati, Ohio.
"Joe" as his intimate friends knew him had a personality that made for him friends, upon whose memory was made that imprint of his sunny disposition. To know him was a privilege, to enjoy his friendship was wholesome and to those whose lot it was to be closely associated with him, he bore a fellowship that is indeed long to be cherished.
As a lawyer, a business man, a church worker, or in lodge or politics he found his niche and having found it, he met with eagerness its every requirement, so that he has well merited that which all earnestly seek, a satisfaction of a "Deed Well Done."
As a boy he attended the public schools and after about three years in high school, he was permitted to attend Ohio university at Athens, where he secured about three years of college preparatory work, after which he attended Western Reserve at Cleveland and graduated from the school of law in 1903, being admitted to the bar the same year.
Dec. 28 1914 he was married to Virginia B. Hildinger of McKeesport, Pa. the wedding taking place at DuBois, Pa., where Mrs. Hildinger was visiting at that time.
As a lodge member he was active in all the local Masonic bodies, having been Eminent Commander of Calvary Commandery No.13 and was also a 32nd degree Mason haven taken those degrees at Cincinnati, Ohio.
"Joe" as his intimate friends knew him had a personality that made for him friends, upon whose memory was made that imprint of his sunny disposition. To know him was a privilege, to enjoy his friendship was wholesome and to those whose lot it was to be closely associated with him, he bore a fellowship that is indeed long to be cherished.
As a lawyer, a business man, a church worker, or in lodge or politics he found his niche and having found it, he met with eagerness its every requirement, so that he has well merited that which all earnestly seek, a satisfaction of a "Deed Well Done."
Joseph Timmonds Micklethwait was a well-known and respected attorney, and businessman born in Portsmouth, Ohio who was Prosecuting Attorney for Scioto county from 1915 - 1918. He the second son of William R. and Abigail Micklethwait who were pioneer settlers of this city and under whose sturdy parentage he was permitted to spend his boyhood days on the old Micklethwait farm, now a part of this city's residential section.
As a boy he attended the public schools and after about three years in high school, he was permitted to attend Ohio university at Athens, where he secured about three years of college preparatory work, after which he attended Western Reserve at Cleveland and graduated from the school of law in 1903, being admitted to the bar the same year.
Dec. 28 1914 he was married to Virginia B. Hildinger of McKeesport, Pa. the wedding taking place at DuBois, Pa., where Mrs. Hildinger was visiting at that time.
As a lodge member he was active in all the local Masonic bodies, having been Eminent Commander of Calvary Commandery No.13 and was also a 32nd degree Mason haven taken those degrees at Cincinnati, Ohio.
"Joe" as his intimate friends knew him had a personality that made for him friends, upon whose memory was made that imprint of his sunny disposition. To know him was a privilege, to enjoy his friendship was wholesome and to those whose lot it was to be closely associated with him, he bore a fellowship that is indeed long to be cherished.
As a lawyer, a business man, a church worker, or in lodge or politics he found his niche and having found it, he met with eagerness its every requirement, so that he has well merited that which all earnestly seek, a satisfaction of a "Deed Well Done."
As a boy he attended the public schools and after about three years in high school, he was permitted to attend Ohio university at Athens, where he secured about three years of college preparatory work, after which he attended Western Reserve at Cleveland and graduated from the school of law in 1903, being admitted to the bar the same year.
Dec. 28 1914 he was married to Virginia B. Hildinger of McKeesport, Pa. the wedding taking place at DuBois, Pa., where Mrs. Hildinger was visiting at that time.
As a lodge member he was active in all the local Masonic bodies, having been Eminent Commander of Calvary Commandery No.13 and was also a 32nd degree Mason haven taken those degrees at Cincinnati, Ohio.
"Joe" as his intimate friends knew him had a personality that made for him friends, upon whose memory was made that imprint of his sunny disposition. To know him was a privilege, to enjoy his friendship was wholesome and to those whose lot it was to be closely associated with him, he bore a fellowship that is indeed long to be cherished.
As a lawyer, a business man, a church worker, or in lodge or politics he found his niche and having found it, he met with eagerness its every requirement, so that he has well merited that which all earnestly seek, a satisfaction of a "Deed Well Done."
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