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STEPHEN J. FITZPATRICK. The subject of this sketch was born of humble, but honest parents, in the county of Down, Ireland, on December 4, 1848. He came to this country in November 1863, his father and mother having immigrated several years before, when he was but a child. His early years were spent under the care and tuition of his grandfather, Lawrence Woods, a man of many excellent virtues, who discharged his duty faithfully and taught the youthful feet the ways of rectitude. His father’s name was Patrick and his mother’s Bridget (Woods) Fitzpatrick, who first landed in New York, and after a stay of a year or two, moved to Fayetteville, Brown County, Ohio, were they finally settled. They had three children, the first a son, the subject of our sketch, and two daughters — Maggie and Mary Ann. The father was killed by an accident, and the care and support of the orphans devolved upon the mother and her only son, who was then in his fifteenth year. The boy of fifteen assumed the responsibilities of the man of twenty-five, and faithfully maintained them. Through years of labor, manual and mental, he found himself a graduate at the head of his class. Since then his career has been onward and upward, and he has filled many lucrative and important positions. He was book-keeper and paymaster on the Cumberland Division of the Cincinnati Southern Railway during its construction, with headquarters at Somerset, Ky. It was here he met Lucy, daughter of Judge Fitzpatrick, and married her in May, 1878. The fruits of this marriage are two sons — John, the oldest, was born on January 20, 1880, and Laurence Emmett on October 12, 1881. In 1877, he established a fine drug store in Fayetteville, having as partner Dr. Thomas M. Reade The business has proved prosperous, and his store is one of the neatest and most complete in the county. He is still a young man and is just in the beginning of his career of usefulness and prosperity.