DAVID CAMPBELL HERRON. By a life consistent in motive and action and because of his many commendable personal qualities, David Campbell Herron, the efficient and popular 'secretary and treasurer of the Diamond Machine Company of Monongahela, has earned the sincere regard of all who know him. A member of one of Washington county's most prominent and influential families and possessing to a marked degree the essential qualities of success, he has attained a fine place in business circles and enjoys the confidence and respect of his associates. Mr. Herron is a native of Monongahela, where he was born on the 28th of October, 1879, and is the son of Hon. Joseph A. and Mary (Campbell) Herron, a complete sketch of whom appears on other pages of this work.
David C. Herron attended the public schools of this city, graduating from the high school, and then attended the Lawrenceville School, at Lawrenceville, New Jersey, from which he was graduated with the class of 1898. He subsequently entered Princeton University, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1902. He then studied for one year in the law school of the University of Pittsburgh, following which he became associated with the banking house of Alexander & Company, in Monongahela, with whom he remained for three years. He then went to Whitney, North Carolina, where he was in the employ of the Whitney Company as rodman for a short time. In 1906 Mr. Herron went to New York city as a member of the engineering department of the American Pneumatic Service Company and was engaged in the installing of pneumatic mailing tubes until 1909, when he returned to his native city and became connected with the Diamond Machine Company, of which he is now secretary and treasurer. This is one of the successful and important industrial concerns of this city, being manufacturers of mine and mill machinery. Mr. Herron is a well educated and cultured man, possesses marked business ability and stands high in the esteem and respect of his business associates.
Politically Mr. Herron has always given his support to the Republican party and has been an ardent supporter of every measure calculated to advance the general interests of the community along material, civic or moral lines. He is a member of the First Presbyterian church. Fraternally he is a member of Henry M. Phillips Lodge No.337, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Monongahela Chapter, No. 249, Royal Arch Masons; Monongahela Lodge No. 455, Benevolent Protective Order of Elks; the Royal Arcanum, the Monongahela Rotary Club and the Monongahela Valley Country Club.
Mr. Herron was married October 25, 1906, to Miss Julia How Abrams, who was born in this city, the daughter of Captain Robert Rogers and Anna M. (Elliott) Abrams. Captain Abrams was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1831 and died in Monongahela in 1920. He was a machinery manufacturer and an extensive steamboat owner, having served as captain on all the western rivers. He was a member of the Presbyterian church and a republican in his political views. His wife was born in Fayette county in 1840 and is now living in Monongahela at the advanced age of eighty-five years. Mrs. Herron is a graduate of the Monongahela high school and of Wilson College. She is a member of the First Presbyterian church and of its various societies and also belongs to the Monongahela Valley chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, of which she is vice regent. Mr. and Mrs. Herron are the parents of one child, Marjorie Ann, who was born January 15, 1912, and is now a student in the Monongahela high school. Mr. Herron has led an active and useful life and possesses to a marked degree not only those powers that render men efficient in the material affairs of the community but also the gentler traits that mark genial and helpful intercourse.
DONALD J. HERRON. With the prestige of a fine old family name back of him, supplemented by pronounced business ability, a high type of public spirit and genuine worth, the subject of this sketch has long enjoyed the confidence and esteem of his fellow citizens of Monongahela, in which locality he has spent practically his entire lifetime. An officer of one of its most prominent and influential financial institutions, he has been prominently before the public, with whom his relations have ever been pleasant and agreeable, and he is deservedly popular among all classes.
Donald J. Herron was born in Monongahela, Pennsylvania, on the 25th of August, 1886, and is the son of Hon. Joseph A. and Mary (Campbell) Herron, to whom complete reference is made on other pages of this work. The subject secured his early educational training in the public and high schools of his home city and then attended and was graduated from the Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, New Jersey. He also was graduated from St. John's school, Manlius, New York. In August, 1906, he returned to Monongahela and entered the banking house of Alexander & Company, with which institution he has been identified continuously since and is now occupying the responsible position of teller. He also is treasurer of the Monongahela Clay Manufacturing Company and is a director of the Farmers and Miners National Bank of Bentleyville. In the various business relations which he has sustained he has proven himself a man of sound judgment and wise discrimination, and he is held in high repute among his business associates and those having dealings with him; Personally Mr. Herron is a man of fine address, genial and friendly in his relations with those with whom he comes into contact, and though quiet and unassuming in manner he possesses a force of character that has impressed itself on all who know him. Politically Mr. Herron is a stanch supporter of the republican party and has always been deeply interested in public affairs, particularly such issues as affect the welfare and prosperity of his own community. He is eminently public-spirited and gives earnest support to all local measures calculated to advance the public interests along material, civic or moral lines. Fraternally he is a member of Monongahela Lodge No.455, Benevolent Protective Order of Elks; Star of the Valley Council, Junior Order of United Mechanics, and the Monongahela Valley Country Club. His religious connection is with the First Presbyterian church.
On October 28, 1913, Mr. Herron was married to Miss Catherine Downer, who was born in Monongahela, March 4, 1889, the daughter of Samuel M. and Ella (Kern) Downer, the former of whom is a leading real estate and insurance man of Monongahela. Mr. Downer was born in Fayette City, Pennsylvania, June 12, 1860, and is the son of Eliphalet and Catherine (Procia) Downer, and his wife, who was born in Monongahela, August 23, 1864, is the daughter of Godfrey G. and Mary (Armstrong) Kern. Mrs. Herron was graduated from the Monongahela high school and then attended the Mary Baldwin Seminary at Staunton, Virginia, after which she entered Miss Marshall's School at Oak Lane, from which she was graduated with the class of 1909. She is a member of the First Presbyterian church, of the Friday Conversation Club, the Monongahela Valley chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Ladies Auxiliary of the American Legion. Mr. and Mrs. Herron are the parents of two children: Mary, born July 22, 1915; and Joseph Alexander, born November 4, 1922.