Mr. Lazear was born in Brooke County in 1831 and grew into manhood on the farm once owned by HENRY WELLS. Following the footsteps of his father, he pursued the calling of a farmer for years. Sometime after the close of the Civil War, he moved to Wellsburg or rather to a suburb and engaged in a different line of business.
....he founded the town of Lazearville, now the Fourth Ward of Wellsburg. This town was on the GEORGE COX farm which he bought, laying it out in lots at different prices, according to location. Four of these lots sold for $21.00 each and the highest price lot sold for $65.00.
....he was one of the principal directors in getting the P.W. & Ky. branch railroad through Wellsburg in the 1870's, and he was one of the prime movers in the construction of the street car line from Wellsburg to Bethany.
....in 1886, he organized a company and built the LAZEARVILLE GLASS WORKS, which he directed for two years. He withdrew from this firm and moved to Kansas City, Mo. where he remained for two years. Returning to Wellsburg, he built the LAZEARVILLE CANNING WORKS, which, after one successful season, was destroyed by fire in 1892.
Mr. Lazear added much to the attractiveness of the city by many improvements.
