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JEFFERSON COUNTY, OHIO
History & Genealogy


Source:
History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio
and Incidentally Historical Collections
pertaining to
Border Warfare and the Early Settlement
of the
Adjacent Portion of the Ohio Valley
By J. A. Caldwell
- With Illustrations -
Assistant, G. G. Nichols - Managing Editor, J. H. Newton - Assistant, A. G. Sprankle
Wheeling, W. Va.
Published by the Historical Publishing Company
1880

Contents

CHAPTER XXII. - ORIGINAL BOUNDARY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY........  
   - Original Boundary of Jefferson County 423
   - Subsequent Changes in the Boundary of Jefferson County 423
   - Boundary of Trumbull County - Organized July 10, 1800 423
   - Boundary of Belmont County - Organized September 7, 1801 423
   - Boundary of Columbiana County - Organized Mar. 25, 1803 423
   - Part of the First Seven Ranges Attached to Jefferson County January 31, 1807 423
   - Part of Jefferson Attached to Tuscarawas County, February 11, 1809 423
   - Boundary of Harrison County - Organized January 2, 1813 - Took Effect January 1, 1814 423
   - Boundary of Carroll County - Organized December 25, 1832 424
   - Alteration of the Original Boundary Link Between Columbiana and Jefferson, December 25, 1832 424
   - First Division of the County into Townships 424
   - First - Warren Township 424
   - Second - Short Creek Township 424
   - Third - Archer Township 424
   - Fourth - Steubenville Township 424
   - Fifth - Knox Township 424
   - The First Recorded Deed 424
   - The First Wills Recorded in Jefferson County - A Sample of Ye Olden Time Documents. 424
   - Early Ministers Licenses 425
   - Taxable Property for 1799 425
  CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTIONS. 425
   - First Convention 425
   - Second Convention 425
   - Third Convention 425
   - Early Marriages 425
  NOTES FROM THE EARLY COURT RECORDS AND COMMISSIONERS' BOOKS.  
   - First Court - General Quarter Sessions of the Peace 426
   - First Business 426
   - First Jury 427
   - First Session Common Pleas 427
   - First Session Supreme Court 427
   - First Person Naturalized 427
   - Purchase of Jefferson County Court House Grounds. 427
   - Miscellaneous Items from the Commissioners' Books 427
   - Whipping Post 428
   - Premium for Scalps of Wild Animals 428
  FRONTIER REMINISCENCES  
   - The Heroic Feat of the Two Johnson Boys 429
   - Michael Myers, Sr. 430
   - Capture of the Castleman Girls 431
   - The Shocking Experience and Sad Fate of the Riley Family 431
   - First Criminal Trial in Jefferson County - Indian Whiteyes Killed by the Carpenter Boy. 431
   - Mrs. Reynolds and her Child are Tomahawked - For Which Deed Seven Indians are Summarily Disposed of. 431
   - A Race for Life 432
   - How He Lost His Horses and Also His Life 432
   - An Irishman's Adventure 432
  PIONEER ECHOES 433
   - A Couple of Interesting Old Ladies 433
/ LIST OF OFFICERS.  
   - Congressman 433
   - State Senators 434
   - Representatives 434
  COUNTY OFFICIALS 435
   - Prospecting Attorneys 435
   - Recorders 435
   - Commissioners 435
   - Probate Judges 436
   - Coroners. 436
   - Commissioners' Clerks 436
   - Infirmary Directors 436
   - County Surveyors 436
   - Official Vote Cast for Governor in Jefferson County - 1846 - 1879 437
  THE BAR OF JEFFERSON COUNTY 438
   - Establishment of the First Judicial Court - Sketches of Early and By-Gone Dispensers of Justice with Interesting Recollections of Time-Honored Local Advocates and Men of National Renown.  (includes many short bios) 438
   - Prison Bounds 438
   - Present Members of the Bar 443
  POMOLOGY OF EASTERN OHIO 444
   - Early Nurserymen 444
   - Production and Introduction of Choice Apples 445
   - The Plum 446
   - Memoir of Samuel Wood 446
  MILITARY RECORD OF JEFFERSON COUNTY.  
   - Soldiers of 1812 446
   - Mexican War 447
  WAR RECORD IN THE SECESSION OF THE SOUTHERN STATES 448
 
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Company H, 1st Regiment O. V. I.
Co. G. 2d Regiment O. V. I.
Company K, Second Regiment, O. V. I.
Company H, 11th Regiment, O. V. C.
13th Regiment, O. V. I.
Company E, 18th Regiment, O. V. I.
Company I, 20th Regiment O. V. I. (3 mos. svc)
Company F, 25th Regiment, O. V. I.
Company F, 30th Regiment, O. V. I.
Company H, 40th Regiment, O. V. I.
Company I, 40th Regiment, O. V. I.
Company C, 43d Regiment, O. V. I.
52d Regiment, O. V. I.
Company E, 52d Regiment, O. V. I.
Company G, 52d Regiment, O. V. I.
Co. I. 52 d Regiment, O.V. I.
Co. K, 71st Regiment, O. V. I.
Company F. 84th Regiment, O.V. I. (3 mos. svc) 
Company D. 98th Regiment, O.V. I.
Company D. 126th Regiment, O. V. I.
157th Regiment National Guards
Miscellaneous:
The First West Virginia Cavalry
Company H, 2d Ohio (3 mos.) & Co. H, 195th O.V.I.
 
  STEUBENVILLE'S GRAND TRI-STATE RE-UNION 459
  MORGAN'S FAMOUS RAID 460
   - Morgan's Experiences While Passing Through Jefferson 460
   - Through Smithfield 460
   - Increased Difficulties Surrounded Him 460
   - New Alexander 460
   - Wintersville 460
   - Passing Through East Springfield 461
   - At Nero 461
   - Scrogg's Meeting House 461
   - How He surrendered by Stratagem, But Found Himself Unconditionally Captured 461
   - How The Credit For The Capture West 461
   - Statistics of Morgan's Raid Through Jefferson County 461
   - Statistics of Said Raid in Belmont County 462
   - General Statistics 462
CHAPTER XXIII. - STEUBENVILLE 462
   - Historical Sketches From Its Inception To The Present - How The Beaten Tracts of the Red Man Metamorphosed Into Main Arteries For the Circulation and Conduct of Trade and Commerce - Interesting References to the Outgrowth of Nearly one Hundred Years, as Presented at the Seat of Justice for Jefferson County. 462
   - "Fort Steuben." 462
   - Steubenville 463
   - First Public Sale of Town Lots 463
   - Total Number of of Lots in the City, Including All Additions Down to 1879. 463
   - Steubenville's Original Boundaries - Old Roads - River Trad-site Secured For A Court House - First Court - Early Buildings - First Births, Marriages, Children, &c. 464
   - Original Charter 465
   - Steubenville in 1814 466
   - A Severe Storm 466
   - Thespian Club 467
   - General Occurrences 467
   - Incidents From 1830 to 1850 467
   - Steubenville Incorporated A City 467
   - Two More Wards Are Added 468
   - The City Wards of Today 468
   - A Retrospect of General Events From 1852 to the Present 468
  STEUBENVILLE'S PRESENT CITY GOVERNMENT 470
   - Its Financial Standing - Sanitary Condition - Streets and Avenues - Fire Department - Water Works - Officials for 1879 470
   - Its Financial Standing 470
   - The Sanitary Condition of the Town 470
   - Streets and Avenues 470
   - Steubenville's Efficient Fire Department 471
   - The City Water Works 471
  STEUBENVILLE'S PUBLIC BUILDINGS, HALLS AND PROMINENT BUSINESS BLOCKS, PRIVATE RESIDENCES, &C. 472
   - The Court House 472
   - Garrett's Hall 472
   - The Mayor's Offices 472
   - Jefferson National Bank Building 472
   - Odd Fellows' Hall, North Fourth Street 473
   - Philharmonic Hall 473
   - Cochran's Block and Mossgroves United States Hotel. 473
   - Other Prominent Business Blocks 473
   - Specially Attractive Residences 473
   - Steubenville Female Seminary Building - Public Grounds 473
   - Steubenville Post Office - Its Origin, Postmasters, Several Locations, &c. 473
   - Steubenville Gas Works 473
  BRIEF HISTORY OF STEUBENVILLES BANKING INTEREST 474
   - "The Bank of Steubenville" 474
   - "The Farmers and Mechanic's Bank" 474
   - "The Jefferson National Bank" 474
   - "Mechanic's Fund Association" 474
   - The Citizens' Bank 474
   - Sherrard, Mooney & Co's Private Bank 474
   - "Union Deposit Bank." 474
   - "The National Exchange Bank." 474
   - "The Miners and Mechanics' Bank 474
  STEUBENVILLE'S MILITARY 475
   - The Private Drum Corps 475
  SOCIETIES, ORDERS, &C., IN STEUBENVILLE 475
   - Free Masons 475
   - Encampment of Knights Templar 475
   - Meriidian Lodge 475
   - Free Mason's Mutual Benefit Association of Eastern Ohio. 475
  TEMPERANCE IN STEUBENVILLE 476
   - A Regular Council of Royal and Select Masters 476
   - Republican Temple of Honor 476
   - Royal Arcanum 476
  STEUBENVILLE EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES 476
   - Ye Olden Time School Houses and Pioneer School Masters - One of the Most Venerable and Excellent Female Seminaries in the West - Origin of the Free School System in Steubenville - Magnificent School Buildings and an Educational Organization Established of Unsurpassed Excellence. 476
   - The Most Venerable and Successful Female Seminaries in the Entire West. 477
   - Origin of the Public School System in Steubenville. 477
  STEUBENVILLE'S TRADESMEN. 478
   - Brief References to Some of the Past and Some of the Present 478
   - Our Earliest Business Men. 478
      - Bazaleel Wells
    - Hans Wilson
    - John England
    - John Ward
    - Martin Andrews
    - Moses Hale
    - "Squire" Jenkinson
    - Benjamin Doyle
    - Wm R. Dickinson
    - John Galbraith
    - Philip Cable
    - Samuel Hunter
    - Col. Todd
    - Eli H. McFeely
 
   - Tradesmen of the Present Day 480
      - J. W. Forney
    - Harry's Photographic, Art Gallery
    - A. Hamilton
    - Gilbert G. Gaston
    - James S. Foster
    - Evans & Turner
    - Thomas Barclay
    - M. L. Miller
 
      - Charles Specht
    - D. Filson & Son's
    - Sharp's Livery Stable
    - Kennedy Crumrine
    - August Floto & Son
    - C. E. Patterson
    - Oraphies M. Thatcher
    - Ohio Foundry
    - The "Camel" Clothing House
    - Markle's City Livery
    - Samuel Johnson
    - Foster's Drug Store
484
  STEUBENVILLE LOCAL PRESS 482
      - "The Steubenville Herald"
    - Steubenville Daily and Weekly Gazette
    - "The Ohio Press,"
    - " The Steubenville Sunday News"
    - Steubenville Germania
 
  MUSIC, ART AND MECHANICS. 482
   - A Brief Sketch of Steubenville's Eminent Artists - Past and Present 482
      - W. H. McDonald
    - Miss Lizzie Brosie
    - R. Mason Jackson
    - Henry Moody
    - Wilson McDonald
    - E. F. Andrews
    - Thomas Cole
    - W. Watkins
    - Ezekiel Hawkins
 
   - Others, Not Professionals, Yet Prominent Amateurs 483
   - Amateur Fine Arts 483
      - The Late Oliver Cromwell Gray 484
   - Mechanical Ingenuity 484
  THE OHIO RIVER 484
   - Reminiscences of Early Navigation of the Ohio 484
   - First Line of Packets Between Pittsbugh and Cincinnati 485
   - Early Trading Vessels 485
   - Next, Steamboats are Talked of. 485
   - The Dawn of Steamboats on Western Waters 485
   - The First Steamer Arrived up the River at Steubenville 485
   - The "George Washington," 485
   - Steamboat Building in Steubenville 486
   - Her First Trip to Pittsburgh. 486
   - The Second and Successful Attempt 487
   - The "Robert Thompson" Built at Steubenville, was the First Boat to Enter the Arkansas River. 488
  STEUBENVILE'S ANCIENT AND MODERN MODES OF COMMUNICATION WITH THE OUTSIDE WORLD 489
   - How the City was Once Comparatively Shut Out From All The Leading Commercial Centres - But By Steady, Persistent Enterprise She Has Established A Privileged Access of Inestimable Importance. 489
   - The First Stage Coaches 490
   - How Merchandise Was Brought to the City 490
   - The Introduction of Railroads 490
   - The Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroads 491
   - Opening of the Wheeling Division of the P., C. & St. L. R. R. 491
   - And Yet Another Railroad 491
   - The First Telegraph Lines in Steubenville 491
  STEUBENVILLE AS A SEAT FOR MANUFACTURE 492
   - An Interesting Chapter On Its Various Defunct and Existing Institutions. 492
   - A Grist and Saw Mill 492
   - The First Tannery 492
   - Brice Viers's Tannery 492
   - The Present Elliott Tannery 492
   - Distilleries in Steubenville 492
   - Pottery works in Steubenville 492
   - Pioneer Nail Manufacture 493
   - Another Flour Mill and Cotton Factory 493
   - Origin of the "Clinton" Paper Mills 493
   - The First Woolen Mill 493
   - Steubenville Foundry 493
   - The Manufacture of Copperas 493
   - The First Brewery 493
   - The Dawn of Foundries and Machine Shops 493
   - Book Binding and Blank Book Manufacture 494
   - A Caster Oil Works 494
   - Murray's (Now Staples) Boat Yard 494
   - Armstrong's Brewery 494
   - Larimore's Cotton Factory 494
   - The Arkright Cotton Factory 494
   - The History of the Chemical Works 494
   - Wallace's (or "Ashland") Cotton Factory 494
   - The Union Factory 495
   - Armstrong and Northrop's Factory 495
   - The "Golgotha" Factory 495
   - McDowell's Factory 495
   - McKee & Robinson's Factory 495
   - The "Rockville" Factory 495
   - The "Franklin" Factory 495
   - The First and Present Glass Work Enterprises 495
   - Window Glass Factory 495
   - Gill Bros. & Co.'s Flint Glass Works 495
   - Basler's Beer Brewery 496
   - The Production of Silk for Manufacture 496
   - Hineman's Soap Factory 496
   - Wyatts Steam Dyeing Works 496
   - Murphy's Carriage Works 496
   - Sword's Marble Works 496
   - Huff's Carriage Works 496
   - The Ohio Foundry 496
   - The Jefferson Machine Shops 496
   - McDevitt's Factory and Machine Shop 496
   - P. C. & St. L. Car Shops 496
   - "Anchor" Soap Works 496
   - Pearce & Son's Furniture Factory 497
   - Union Marble Works 497
   - Jefferson Iron Works 497
   - Schafer's Brewery 497
   - White Lead Manufacture 497
   - Hays' Vinegar Works 497
   - Butte's Beer Brewery 497
    - Planing Mills 497
   - The "California" Flour and Feed Mill 497
   - Raney, Sheal & Co's. Flour Mill 497
   - Clark & Curfman's Carriage Factory 497
   - Jefferson Keg Factory 497
   - Anchor Oil Works 497
   - Steubenville Furnace and Iron Company 497
   - The Bolt Works 498
  STEUBENVILLES COAL AND MINING INTERESTS 498
   - Iron Ore, Limestone, Building Stone, Fire and Brick Clay, and Chemical Matters 500
  ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY 500
      - First Presbyterian Church of Steubenville 500
      - Organization of the Church
    - The Officers of the Church
    - The Incorporation
    - The Place of Worship
501
      - Churches Springing From the First
    - Revivals of Religion
    - The Second Presbyterian Church
    - The Old Presbyterian Church
    - United Presbyterian Church
502
      - Kramer M. E. Church," Steubenville, Ohio 503 - 504
      - Thomson Chapel M. E. Church
    - The Sunday School
    - Hamline Chapel
    - Finley Chapel
    - St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church, Steubenville, Ohio
505
      - The Catholic Church 506
      - St. John's German Luteran Church
    - German Luthern Evangelical Church
    - The First Congregational Church
    - The Christian Church
    - Methodist Protestant Church
    - "Latimer Chapel"
    - African M. E. Churches
507
  EARLY BURIAL GROUNDS AND THE PRESENT CEMETERY 508
      - The Present Union Cemetery
    - The Catholic Cemetery
 
  STEUBENVILLE BIOGRAPHIES - STARTED 508
CHAPTER XXIV - HISTORY OF THE TOWNSHIPS AND VILLAGES OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, OHIO 523
  STEUBENVILLE TOWNSHIP - STARTED  
   - Its Early History Down to the Present, nicluding an Interesting Sketch of Ancient MingoTown 523
   - Steubenville Township was Erected 523
   - A Peep Into the Past 524
   - The Township at Present 524
   - Interesting Recolections of Ninety Yers Ago. 524
   - What Our Log Cabin was Like 524
   - The Lot of Ladies In Those Days 524
   - Old Time Husking Meetings 525
   - How They Indulged Spiritual Consolation 525
   - The First Public Preaching in Steubenville 525
   - A Few Old Time Recipes 525
   - Lovely Pictures That Hung Round Our Huts 525
   - How They Managed Without Doctors? 525
   - Historical and Otherwise 526
   - Farmers and Extensive Land Owners in Steubenville Township Today 526
   - The Present Township Officers 526
   - The Principal Town in the Township 526
   - The Ancient Mingo Town 526
   - Washington at the Mingo Town in the Fall of 1770 526
   - Mingo Bottom 527
   - Mingo Junction," 527
   - Mingo Island 528
   - Burial Grounds in the Township 528
   - Relics and Curiosities 528
  BUSKIRK'S FAMOUS FIGHT  
   - The Last Formidable Encounter with Indians in Jefferson County 528
   - Death of Mrs. Lawson Van Buskirk 528
  STEUBENVILLE TOWNSHIP BIOGRAPHIES - FINISHED 6/23/2018 529
  MOUNT PLEASANT TOWNSHIP - STARTED 530
   - Early Settlers 530
   - Nathan Updegraff 530
   - Daniel Updegraff 531
   - Schools of Mount Pleasant Township 531
   - MOUNT PLEASANT VILLAGE - STARTED 531
  FIRST BUSINESS HOUSES IN MOUNT PLEASANT 531
   - Stores
 - Hotels
 - Physicians
 - Banks
    - Mount Pleasant Branch of the State Bank of Ohio
 
      - First National Bank
 - Business Houses
 - The Silk Factory of Mt. Pleasant
 - Interior Structure
 - How Reeled
 - The Styles of Silks Made at the Factory
 - "Draw-Boy Loom."
 - Description of Loom and Weaving
 - Velvet Silk
 - Hat Plush
 - Ribbons
 - Conclusion.
532
   - Newspapers and Periodicals
 - The Postoffice - Postmasters
 - Leading Business Houses in Mount Pleasant
 - Mount Pleasant Union School
 - Friends Boarding School, Mt. Pleasant
533
   - History of the Temperance Cause in Mount Pleasant
 - Union Sabbath School
 - The Underground Railroad
534
  INCIDENTS 535
   - First Abolition State Convention
 - Free Labor Store
 - Anna Dickinson
 - The Society of Friends of Mt. Pleasant
 
   - Thomas Shillitoe's Diary Relating to Friends' Ohio Yearly Meeting 536
   - Presbyterian Church 537
   - The Presbyterian Sunday School
 - M. P. Church
 - African M. E. Church
 - Colored Sabbath School
538
   - M. E. Church (Colored)
 - Eminent Men
539
  FITZ-GREENE HALLECK AND ABBIE FLANNER 539
  A Brief Account of the Correspondence Held Over Forty Years Ago, Between the American Port, Fitz-Greene Halleck, and Miss Abbie Planner, of Mount Pleasant, Ohio.  
   - TRENTON 540
   - The Regular Baptist Church, (Trenton Colored)
 - Sketches of the Gill Family
 - The Sharon Family
541
   - Jonathan and Ann Taylor 542
   - Hall Family 543
   - Hussey, Asahel H. 543
   -  
     
     
     
  SMITHFIELD TOWNSHIP - STARTED 549
     
   -- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - UPDATED 11/14/2021 556
     
  WAYNE TOWNSHIP - STARTED 559
     
   -- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - FINISHED 6/23/2018 562
     
  SALEM TOWNSHIP - STARTED 565
     
   -- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - FINISHED 6/21/2018 569
     
  ROSS TOWNSHIP - STARTED 572
     
   -- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - UPDATED 11/14/2021 574
     
  SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP - FINISHED 6/23/2018 575
     
   -- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - FINISHED 6/23/2018 576
     
  BRUSH CREEK TOWNSHIP - STARTED 578
     
   -- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - FINISHED 6/23/2018 580
     
  SALINE TOWNSHIP - STARTED 581
     
   -- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - FINISHED 6/21/2018 583
     
  KNOX TOWNSHIP - STARTED 583
     
   -- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES  - UPDATED 11/14/2021 587
     
  ISLAND CREEK TOWNSHIP - UPDATED 11/14/2021 589
     
   -- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES  - UPDATED 11/14/2021 591
     
  CROSS CREEK TOWNSHIP - UPDATED 11/14/2021 596
     
   -- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES  - UPDATED 11/14/2021 599
     
  WELLS TOWNSHIP - FINISHED 6/23/2018 601
     
   -- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - FINISHED 6/23/2018 603
     
  WARREN TOWNSHIP  - UPDATED 11/14/2021 604
     
   -- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - UPDATED 11/14/2021 606
     

PORTRAITS:

Stanton, Edwin, M., Hon. - betw 440 - 441
The P. C. & St. L. Railway Iron Bridge and the Ohio River at Steubenville - betw. 464 - 465
Herald Office, P. B. Conn, Proprietor, Steubenville, Jefferson Co., Ohio - betw. 488 - 489
"River Side," Residence of W. H. Hunter, North 4th St., Steubenville, Jefferson Co., Ohio - betw. pgs. 516 - 517
Residence of W. M. Cope, Smithfield, Jefferson Co., Ohio - betw. pgs. betw. 552 - 553
"Valley Springs," Residence, Ice House and Pond of John Yocun, Jefferson County, Ohio - betw pgs. 592 - 593
Walnut Hill Farm and Residence of Smiley H. Johnston, (Phillipsburg, P. O.), Jefferson County, Ohio - betw. pgs. 602 - 603
"Vine Clift," Farm and Residence Col. E. M. Norton, (Portland Station.)  Jefferson County, Ohio - betw. pgs. 608 - 609
 

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