| 2|| [[File:John means.jpg|150px]] ||[[John Means (politician)|John Means]] || 1881 || 1882 || [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] ||(September 21, 1829 – February 14, 1910)[1] was a mayor of Ashland, Kentucky and leader in business affairs. Before that he was a cashier of the Bank of Ashland, which had been founded by his father and uncle. He organized the Cincinnati and Big Sandy Packet Company, and laid out Ashland Cemetery.<ref name=history/>

| 4|| ||[[W. H. Eba|William Henry Harrison Eba]] || 1883 || 1883 || [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] ||(November 5, 1831 – August 31, 1911) He was born to George and Maria Eba on November 5, 1831 in [[Lebanon, Pennsylvania]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=H89DXKVm4qcC&pg=PA2084 Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Vol. 4]</ref> He moved with his parents in 1836 to [[Monongahela City, Pennsylvania]] and was educated in the common schools and Monongahela Academy. Eba began to work in a cigar factory, but after a year concluded to learn stove and [[Holloware|hollow-ware]] molding. He served four years' apprenticeship at this trade, receiving in wages five dollars a month the first year; eight dollars a month the second year, twelve the third year and twenty the fourth. A few months before his time expired the works were destroyed by fire. Eba then found employment as a second clerk on a steamboat plying between [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania|Pittsburgh]] and [[Wheeling, West Virginia]]. In July, 1852, he removed to [[Kentucky]], landing at [[Catlettsburg, Kentucky|Catlettsburg]], July 3, and becoming salesman there in the general store. During the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], Eba enlisted in Company I, Fifth West Virginia Regiment; was promoted to sergeant-major, March, 1862; first lieutenant. He declined the post of adjutant after being acting adjutant two months. He was commissioned a month later by Governor Pierpont captain of Company F, same regiment. He was in various engagements, but none of the great battles of the war. Once his shoulder-strap was shot off, but he was never wounded. Eba was mayor of Ashland one term, and then became city truant officer. He died on August 31, 1911.<ref>Kentucky, Death Records, 1852-1953</ref><ref name=history/>

| 7|| [[File:Patmoriarty.jpg|150px]] ||[[Patrick Moriarty|Patrick Moriarty, Jr.]] || 1889 || 1889 || ||(January 7, 1851 – October 25, 1928) He was born in 1851 in [[Virginia]] to Patrick Moriarty, Sr., and his wife. They moved to [[Ashland, Kentucky]], then known as [[History of Ashland, Kentucky|Poage's Landing]], in 1854. At an early age, Moriarty became active in the business, religious, and political affairs of Ashland, serving on the City Council for a number of terms and acting as the seventh mayor of Ashland in 1889. Mr. Moriarty served as Park Commissionaire and was one of the charter members of the first Chamber of Commerce, then known as the Commercial Club of Ashland. He was a lifetime member of the Holy Family Church. Moriarty was engaged in the lumber and contracting business. In 1905, Patrick Moriarty, with Mr. Will Geiger, established the Moriarty-Geiger Furniture Company, located at 215 - 16th Street in Ashland. The following year Mr. Geiger retired from the business and Mr. Moriarty continued in the business, changing the name to P. Moriarty Furniture Store. In 1910 the business was moved to 1616 Greenup Avenue. In 1925, Mr. Moriarty's son-in-law became manager, but Mr. Moriarty continued active in the business until his death in 1928.<ref name=history/>

| 8|| ||[[D. A. Fisher|David A. Fisher]] || 1889 || 1892 || ||(August 14, 1840 – January 19, 1911). He was born in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. He served in the American Civil War for the Union, and was reported as living in Rockford, Illinois on September 3, 1861, when he enlisted as a Private. During the War, Fisher was promoted to a full first sergeant. Fisher came to Ashland in 1867 and operated a sawmill and lumberyard at the foot of 17th Street. He had his men cut ice from the Ohio River that winter, when it froze over, packed it in sawdust and dispensed it to Ashland residents, who made ice-houses for storage. He was also a contractor and house-builder, operated a livery stable on Greenup Avenue, opened and operated the first dime store in the city, served as a conductor on the A. C. & I. Railroad, and was overseer of a poor house.<ref name=history/>

| 10||[[File:Tomnewmans.jpg|150px]] ||[[T. S. Newman|Thomas S. Newman]] || 1894 || 1897 || ||(October 10, 1851 – October 3, 1930) operated Tom Newman's clothing store, which operated at the north side of [[Greenup, Kentucky]], between 15th and 16th Streets. It operated a row-in business in the Flood of 1884.<ref name=history/>

| 11|| ||[[W. A. Ginn|William Arthur Ginn]] || 1897 || 1906 || ||During his terms he also worked for Central Park's first Park Convention, starting on September 3, 1900, and ran the program "Ashland As a Railroad Center" during the second annual banquet of the Commercial Club of Ashland, a precursor to the Ashland Board of Trade on January 17, 1905.<ref>''A History of Ashland, Kentucky 1786 - 1954''</ref> He died of complications of diabetes in 1932.

| 12|| ||[[J. O. Matthewson|Joseph Oscar Matthewson]] || 1906 || 1910 || ||(February 4, 1871 - February 28, 1926) He worked for the Commercial Club of Ashland, a precursor to the Ashland Board of Trade, and ran the program "Public Improvements" at the Club's second annual banquet on January 17, 1905.<ref>''A History of Ashland, Kentucky 1786–1954''</ref><ref name="google">{{cite book|title=Proceedings ... at the First- Annual Conclave ...|author=Freemasons. Georgia. Knights Templar. Grand Commandery|date=1910|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7YRPAAAAYAAJ|accessdate=2015-03-22}}</ref>

| 13|| ||[[A. H. Moore|Dr. Albert Harrison Moore]] || 1910 || 1913 || ||(1871 - September 26, 1913) was a physician. He was a graduate of [[Jefferson Medical College]] in 1896, a member of the [[American Medical Association]] and the Kentucky State and Boyd County Medical Societies. He is recorded to have "died suddenly at his home, on September 22 [1913], aged 42 years."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=T0YcAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false ''Medical record, Volume 84'']</ref><ref name=history/>

| 20|| ||[[W. B. Whitt|William B. Whitt]] || 1926 || 1926 || [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] ||Whitt was previously a [[Kentucky Senate|state senator]], organizing, in 1895, a grocery store with Charles Kitchen in Ashland, calling it Kitchen, Whitt & Co. Three years later it was incorporated with a capital of $100,000.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=aksVAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA8-PA1322&lpg=RA8-PA1322&dq=w+b+whitt+ashland+kentucky&source=bl&ots=rGa9ntKl2F&sig=NM6gD35qXxXp8_bJn-h476jXsC8&hl=en&ei=raeiS5HmLMX6lweq0ZWKCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CBAQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=w%20b%20whitt%20ashland%20kentucky&f=false ''A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians, Volume III'' by E. Polk Johnson]</ref> According to the ''Mount Sterling Advocate'', "the people of [[Beckham County, Kentucky|Beckham County]] are especially indebted to Senator W. B. Whitt, through whose untiring energy and wise management, the formation of the county was secured".<ref>[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lzrslong/b3910.htm ''Mt. Sterling Advocate'']</ref>Whitt committed suicide on December 19, 1926, by shooting himself through the heart.<ref>''The Morning Leader'', December 24, 1926</ref>

| 22|| ||[[Charles F. Weaver]] || 1927 || 1928 || [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] ||(1858-1932) In 1905 he was a guest at the Commercial Club of Ashland's second annual banquet, and was a stockholder in the Citizen's Telephone Company, which was incorporated in 1896. The Ashland Foundry & Machine Works, began by Daniel L. Weaver (presumably a relative) and [[William Wirt Culbertson]] was taken over by Weaver upon Daniel's 1894 death. Weaver operated the plant until his own death in 1932 and it continued to be under his estate. He died in 1932.<ref name=history/>