[p. 927] who is prominently identified with the business interests of New Castle and is one of the city's progressive and successful men, was born in Wales, in 1860, and was twenty-one years of age when he came to America.
Mr. Thomas settled at Youngstown, Ohio, entering the rolling mills there, where he continued for fourteen years and then came to New Castle. For three years longer he worked in the tin mills. In 1897 he first embarked in a mercantile business, including dry goods and shoes, and in that year built a fine brick building at No. 126 East Long Street. Today he occupies a store room 29 by 50 feet at No. 124 East Long Street, which he devotes to dry goods, and a second store room, 20 by 50 feet, at No. 126 East Long Street, is devoted to the shoe department. In the handling of boots and shoes he has a partner in his cousin, Morgan Llewellyn, under the firm name of Thomas & Llewellyn. In 1907, Mr. Thomas built an addition to his building, 50 by fifty-two feet, two stories in height, with pressed brick side and front, making a very handsome structure.
In 1888 Mr. Thomas was married to Miss Elizabeth Hughes, then of Youngstown, who was born in Wales and was two years old when she was brought to America, her father, David Hughes, settling at Hubbard, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas have one child, Olive M. The family belong to the Welsh Church. He is a member of the fraternal order of Odd Fellows. In politics he is a Republican and has taken quite an active interest in local politics and has served as a member of the City Council.
20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
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