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STEUBENYILLE, OHIO

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CONTENTS

Chapter 1. Land claimed as early as 1766^ 2. Fort Steuben ­ busy frontier town as gateway to Ohio sn _ . UA, 3. Steubenvllle gets its name from soldier of fortune 4. Bezaleel Wells started Steubenvllle on way to industrial fame 5. Steubenvllle incorporated as town in 1805 and as city in 1851­­' 6. Public schools In major role in development of Steubenvllle 7. Parochial schools join other educational plants In progress 8. St. Paul's Church one of Oldest here; also to mark sesquicentennial 9. Presbyterians, Methodists among first to build churches htire 10. Churches play vital role in development of Steubenvllle 11. Catholicity gained foothold in Steubenvllle as early as 1792 12. Law and courts came to Steubenvllle in fall of 1797 >/ 13. Railroad plays important part in development of Steubenvllle / 14. Ohio River contributed.much in development of Steubenvllle^ 15. Fire department has established enviable service record 16. Records of Steubenvllle municipal business date back to 1825 17. Electric power in key role in development of Steubenvllle ^ 18. Steubenvllle enjoyed industrial prestige from middle '80's '

19. Steubenvllle becomes great steel center with giant mills v 20. Herald Star's 141 years reviewed 21. Steubenvllle boasts many old Industries which have contributed to its commercial life • 22. Few records available on early days of Steubenvllle Police Department ­ modem force now 23. Steubenvllle proud of its filtration plant ­ the only municipally operated public utility by the city ­ rating high 24. Natural gas helped in development of Steubenvllle's commercial and social life ­ expansion of utility reviewed 25. Dohrman J. Sinclair was the founder of modern Steubenvllle ­ created industry, business*/

The articles in this volume were extracted from the Steubenvllle Herald­Star, June 6, 1947 ­ July 5, 1947 UrtATifcK i "in 1765 the sit* of Steuben­ s vllle was a dense tqntst, end fame.t, Y\ such as deer, turkeys, hares and i r jviid hogs, wms abundant," thee 4rett­frandsM0writM. "jicob bought of MrjJ paying 16 there beinf /arm now­a^/ned Tfbey deadeMd^U Mnd'Claim? aorfhg bysMsJw* : x the; trans ferv*TJff'l 23 ;• Early­ As 1766 bl* at Richmond/VaJ SW geLa deed;\intU^17a^ »i\:S SteubcnYilK" peitfecta m A plans for itaSes£en­ Ja76 ­degrees Vf 263 poles to a creek, they found the boy's body. Miite ioak on flat, thence S 45 * « * Hr 146'poles to a Dngwood, thence 1­JHE INDIANS had Iain In am­. S 84 degrees, £ 320 poles lo a bush and caught him without i sugar tree on the bank of the shooting and had split his head] river, thence up the river the sev­ with a tomahawk. The prints of# efld jjpeanders thereof and thereon their fingers were plain on young l3jf poles to the place of beginning Busk irk *s neck, where thej had laid ^ff and containing 400 acres." choked the boy to keep him from Jfhe survey for James Walker, hollering. They scalped young: i ccotdi ng to the legend, was made Buskirk and took his horse. ' the following day. 4#The party from the fort buried •"The above survey, March ^4, the body on the hill overlooking f796, for James Walker, beginning Cross creek, on the land that was] at a sugar tree on the bank of the or is now owned by Silas McGee. Ohio river about 200 poles above "Jacob said that of all the sad the mouth of McMahanfs run on sights he had ever seen, this was the lower end of the bottoms call­ the saddest. The captain lost his ed Steuben, then N 34 degrees W son, horse and dog; the Indians *330 polos to .a dogwood, thence S killed his wife and the captain ^3^*220 poles to a white oak tree, himself later. thence S 60 degrees E 100 poles to "After Jacob had left the fort a sugar tree on the bank of the and had gone out to his farm, dur­ river Siear the mouth of Mc­ ing the summer season, the In­ Mahar^s run, thence up the river dians would still come over the wveral meanders thereof and river and kill the settlers. At such thereon 229 poles to the place of times Jacob and his wife would beginning, laid off and containing take their three children and go 400 acres. away from their cabin. , But two other men, Bezaleel "She would take the babe in her WeUs, government surveyor and arms and sit down In the field, James Ross, attorney, also saw In leaving John and Mary a short the floor of the valley sweeping distance away, covered with a up«to the hills a land of promise. quilt, Jacob would sit nearby with Ross knew his law, Wells knew his ^un. the land. When the Northwest "Jacob was at the building ot was opened for settlement, Ross Fort Steuben; he took part in the filed the claim in New York for battle between Captain Buskirk's himself and Wells. They, and not party and the Indians, and fought the Walkers, became the landed on Battle run, west of Mingo, proprietors of Steubenville. where Captain Buskirk was killed in Jefferson "county,­'OhloT'He was at a council of war between Bus­ kirk and Logan. "Jacob Walker was appointed constable in 1797 at the first court held In. Brooke county. He died about 1830, aged 94 years." * * * *pHE WRITER of Jacob Walker's . life, however, does not give the details of the tomahawking. James Walker, a brother of Jacob, fol­ lowed his example and staked off a claim to what is now the south end of the city. When James Walker toma­ hawked his section is not indi­ cated in a survey made in 1796, wfifcn Jacob'and his brother Iwerc endeavoring to have their claimf recognized by the government. B> that time, the Ohio.country hac

'been opened to settlement nine years. Above the legend on the map : 'Or the northern section of the rwtnT .ls lhe «tatcmen<­ "Jacob [Walkers settlement." Then fol­ ;,170«' 7he ,*b0ve *urvpy March 24, 1796. for Jacob Walker, who im­ proved the same about 20 years fif°'~S,U,ate on the southwest of r'Vn 'At­ benvtllc historian, referring to the to Mingo. naming of the fort in honor of t Major Beatty started downriver Gateway to Ohio Steuben wrote: The winter of 1788­87 was a again July SI, 1788 and arrived at Mingo August 2. He found the A MONG the gala festivities busy one in this locality. Soldiers, troops of Captains Hamtramck'*, ­XX^l.nn«<^<>­r­€UuUa­ '^yort Mttlen .nd vultorj, .Mercer's k and McCurdy's com­ "««•» CentennlU .Jul ^ penies encamped on_ the river j V«ler«n» Homcttmini cele­ rrr^i c, suu bank, opposite the lower end of 1 bration, July 2­6, will be the beginning of the land Mingo island. Major Beatty returned upriver presentation of the historical! y,tem of the United states . . . ^Igeant', ''Stockade to Steel/* U must be remembered that the again In September. This time he I settlement here la older than that found the soldiers encamped three i a kaleidoscopic­review of this miles up river and the construc­ city's growth since the erec­ of Marietta, and for many years was the gateway to the great tion of Fort Steuben already.un­i tion of Fort Steuben in 1786. Northwest territory . . /* der way. What he found is de­1 Fort Steuben, « teeming little During the latter part of 1787 scribed by the major in his diary. frontier aetUement 41 years before tbe garrison was moved farther September 22. the town of Steubenville was laid west to keep close to the §ur­ "Stopped at a small blockhouse out, played a major role in Amer­ veyors but Fort Steuben remained today on the Indian shore which ica's history as the gateway to a refuge for the setUers until ,1790 what was de­ Major Hamtramck had built for gWhen it caught fire. Since there the security of his provisions. Saw scribed in the fc^as no further danger jf Indian XamOus O r d I n­ liere Captain Mills, the commis­ raids In this section the fort was sary, and Mr. Hoops, a surveyor,; ianc< of 1787 at not rebuilt, but on its site arose J the Territory |who told us tfrat they, expected; the town of Steubenville. the troops and all the surveyors • /Northwest of the in. on account of an alarm they; Ohio, * *• • j Named in hon­ the caravan of the Ohio I bad received from . the Indian^ jfcwns. Arrived tonight­ within ; or of Baron Von company floated down the Steuben, Prussian nobleman and river In April 1788 they found f£hree ­mijea ­oUfallowXwlu^ 1 soldier. who rendered dis­ Fort Steubefi « busy frontier post Major Beatty again visited Tort! tinguished service to the U. S. The company had been formed Steuben February 6, 1787.^ He Army in th« Revolutionary war, March 10. 1786 at a meeting at made a drawing and description the fort wa« erected to protect Wie Bunch of Crapes tavern in of the outpost, locating it 120 government surveyor! from the 'Boston.—And tAus the­ ground yards from the river. Vidians. It was the beginning of­ work was laid for the march to • a a AN ACCOUNT of the life around the first land system in the United the great Ohio country. the fort and the activities of States with Fort Steuben as the On May 27, 1785, congress had the garrison was written by John launching point. elected a public Jand surveyor from each state. These assem­ Matthews, a nephew of Gen«f*J * • • bled In Pittsburgh In July, 17SS, Putnam. That Matthews was one JN 1783 Congress decreed to have under the direction of Thomas of the party of government sur­ the land in the great Ohio coun­ Hutch ins, United States geograph* veyors, Is another indication of j try surveyed and thrown open to Putnam's interest in the project purchasers. To protect the sur­ sr. " ''Orr July^t, the surveyors were as a means of furthering his own veyors a company of soldiers waj camped opposite Little Beaver purpose, the settlement of the J sent out under command of Cap­ river, preparing to start their Northwest territory. ^TVin Hamtramck. The contingent Arrived at the "Mingo'* "Bottoms** work. The seven ranges of land his Journal: on August 12,­178$, and was In­ ••February 3, 1787: This evening spected by Major North, the well­ northwest of the"Ohio river were bounded by a line 42 miles long I received a letter from Majot known friend of Von Steuben. Hamtramck, requesting me to oome After acoutihg the area. Major running due west froro the inter­ section of the western boundary j and take charge of the commis­ North and Captain Hamtramck de­ sary department at Fort Steuben,1 cided that a plateau located yn the Hoe ol~Yann*ylvanIa ­ .with ­ the . Ohio river, rrora the northern; which is three miles above the river three miles north was a bet­ mouth of Indian Cross creek, on ter slt« for a fort than the "Mingo point a line extended southward to jhe Ohio river at the southeast the west .side of the Ohio. Bottoms," and so the post was Sunday. 4th. 1 went tot roTt gloved to the plateau' and they be­ ftocner .of Marietta­ township In. Washington county. The line then Steuben, in company with Mr. Qan building a block house 28 feet Ludlow, one of the surveyors, and square, containing' two rooms, suf­ bedc;ctp the river to the engaged to be ready to take ficient to'accommodate 14 meru of begfamin*. charge, of the stores by Wednes­ The block house was completed The savest ranges comprised day next. in September 178C. During the £he counties of Columbiana, Jef­ ^"Fort Steuben, Thursday. «tn. fall, arad winter­three pthar blocjf This morning Mr. Peters delivered feraoo. Can­roll, Tuscarawas. Har­ . houses were added, being con­ the stores in his charge to me. I neHed, at their vut ners by a palls­ Aison, ^Ooernny, Noble, Monroe am now entering on businesa with *ade of Iocs .190 feet in length, irA: iWiahiagtoa. Ranges were which 1 am unacquainted, but . Other buildings were added. It from east to west and hope that use will make It fa­ made a substantial fortification, UnrnatUpa, six miles square, miliar to me. I have to Issue pro­ providing efficient protection to ffcorHi to aouth. Townships visions to about 700 men.** 6*oth surveyors and settlers. subdivided into section* one a wutinuaj Influx and a prospect*of completing what I outflow of at tiler* and trav­ want dm, the population of Fort Steu* "A part of the troops stationed bm la addition to U» 700 men jeftiim dur­ rtported by Matthews nuii h«v« ing my: absence, being ordered to been coniidcrabli R# continues tyuikln*um, fend the remainder h1* account on May i. immediately to fotlo«u+3lieort was in 1765, succeeding Revolutionary war—in whose jurisdiction. Some historians how­ events so changed the picture that honor this city was named. ever, after careful, investigation . de Kalb. himself, returned to into original " * * ! The city today stands as a liv­ , sources ;P^ces his.fi ht Qn the Coionjai sic|e losing bnrth on November 15. 1730 "at his ,ife for lhe cause in th'e carly ing memorial to the Prussian drill­ Madgeburg, a large Prussian fort­;d { t, master who crcated the regular | less on the Elbe." He was the 1 r < \ / a > gC p army of the United States, and son of Wilhelm and Marj, l, Americans who also is credited wiih having Dorothea Von Iagow Von SteubenCause' FranCe caUt'°USly £upp!!!i Thus while not a native of Prus­ inspired the U. S, military the Americans with guns and of­ academy at West Point, N. Y« sia proper, Von Steuben was to all ficers. In September intents and purposes a subject of 1786, the flac ot Frederick William I, whose father Steuben first heard of the need a nation born /j^'j 30 years before, had had himself in the American army for some­ but a few years A*­ declared King of Prussia, and in one to train and organize the un­ earlier, was! whose army Steuben*s fsther was disciplined soldiers from French raised above av£.\ a captain of engineers. war minister. St. Germaine ar­ block house on Vjiv ^ * * * ranged interviews for Steuben the bank of the JgEFORE his fourteenth birthday, with others in Paris who were in­ Ohio river, now Frederick had served with his terested in the American cause: thc northwest corner of High and father as vounteer in the cam­ Beaumarchis, the composed; Silas Adams streets. paign of 1744 and fought in the Deane, thc American consular While an ungrateful congress re­ bloody siege of Prague. He re­ agent and Ben Franklin. fused at the time to give Steuben turned to the army of Frederick thc Great as a cadet after three ~ * # * any reward for his distinguished JfRANKLIN told Steuben he had services to this country, a fellow years of study at the Jesuit col leges of Neisse and Breslau. no authority to enter into en­ officer who fought with the Prus­ gagements and could not advance sian nobleman, named in his honor The Seven Years war saw Steu­ ben advance from the rank'of him anything for the expense of the fort which became the gate­ the voyage. . way to thc great Northwest terri­ lieutenant to a major in tem­ porary command of a regiment . This attitude discouraged Steu­ tory. ben and he was about to dismiss Thc outpost In the great Ohio when the conflict closed. He became an adjutant of Gen­ the whole affair when St. Ger­ country was erected by a company maine and others prevailed upon of soldiers under command of eral von Mayr, under whom he gained a knowledge of the man­ him to reconsider the decision. Captain Hamtramck and Major Beaumarchis loaned Steuben North, the well­known friend of agement of light infantry and a habit of cool and prompt decision the money for his outfit and Steuben. An inspector in the U. passage and the drillmaster made S. army at the time. Major North in the tumult of battle. Taken prisoner by the Rus­ ready to depart for America, remembered Stouben*s valuable where, it was said, the army used and unselfish services to the col­ sians in 1761. Steuben gained the protection of the Grand Duke their bayonets only for roasting onists in their struggle for lib­ meat. Steuben's party consisted of erty and called the outpost Fort Peter, with whom he was able to do such favors* for his king that French officers who were to act Steuben. as his aides. These officers in­ * # •#* upon his return'to Prussia he was promoted to* commander. At the cluded the famed Major L'Enfant, YON STEUBEN was a produce who designed the plan for the na­ j of the Eighteenth century close of the war, the king reward­ ed him with a law benefice with tional capital, Washington. armies In which European officers General von Steuben sailed into were soldiers of fortune following an income of 400 Thalers. During the next 10 years, the harbor of Portsmouth, Nev* a lifetime career of active fighting Hampshire, December 1, 1777 under whatever flag offered the Steuben occupied himself with the duties of grand marshal at the after a voyage marked by a fire opportunity of winning­ distinc­ and a mutiny of the crew. 1 tion and financial fewartb^* court of Hcchingen, finally resign­ Immediately upon his arrivel he $ent word to Washington from novation In the American arxny where officers scorned drilling re­ Steuben's services during the Franklin, Deane and Deaumarchis. revolution Included*accompanying cruits as a work of a sergeant. But the commander­in­chief of Reed ih his survey of the fortifi­ the continentals, after tome delay, Steuben made rapid progress cations of Philadelphia. He . took courteously referred Steuben to with the men. They began to feel an important part in the battle of congress. Not long before Steu­ a pride In being soldiers. Wash­ Monmputh. * He served on Wash­ ben's arrival Washington had ington in general orders praised ington*s~ general staff and was written Franklin "that every new' the men, thanked Steuben. among those who tried Major arrival was only a new source of t But there was other real work Andre. At the siege of Yorktown, embarrassment to himself andi besides drilling for the German Steuben commanded a division chagrin to the gentlemen who' came over." officer. The internal administra­ and was the only American of­! tion of a regiment and a com­! ficer who had been present at a The volunteers from Europe pany was a thing completely un­ siege ^before.' were never long in making de­. known. The number of men in! * # mands for preferment and causing these units was fixed by congress., ^S THE war drew to a close, dissention within the army, j But there was a constant ebb and Steuben made a journey to # * # flow. Sometimes a regiment was Canada to ariringpafor taking pos­ JMPRESSED with the fame of the stronger than a brigade, some­ session of the militaiy posts which German, congress appointed a times it contained but 30 men and were Ao be ceded* to. the­ U­S. He spccial committee to hear his pro­ a company consisted of but a corp­ also formed plan* for'"a military posals. Steuben told them that he oral. academy and to him is.attributed asked for neither rank nor pay, Men were scattered about every­ the [ original suggestion ^fqfo the that he wished to enter the army where and each officer claimed as a volunteer and perform any i (formation of the society of the one, many two and three. Thus Cincinnati. ^ duty which the commander­in­ j many hundred soldiers were con­ chief would assign him and that verted into valets for the officers.! i With the end of the war. there .commissioners for his aides and Leaves of absence were given by 1 ; followed a period of disappoint­ the payment of his actual expenses colonels and sometimes by cap­ \ ment and humiliation for Steuben^ were the only conditions which he •Before leaving^Europe for Smer­j tains at will. ; should stipulate. He would leave Equipment disappeared as was ica, Steuben had transferred hts the question of ultimate compen­ natural with the constantly chang­ German inheritance t& his sation to be decided by the suc­ ing personnel. For every cam­ j nephew. An ungrateful congress cess or failure of the struggle. i refused to compensate.him fcor his paign from five to eight thousand il6ng and valuable services^to the The committee acted promptly muskets were required to replace after the interview. It submitted .nation, although Hamiltoii and thc&e carried off by men whose Washington both ' urged , his the following report: ^fms of enlistment had expired. Whereas, Baron Steuben, a claims. > t lieutenant general in foreign serv­ j '^Steuben asked Jor­power to cor­. Afler eight years, congress fi­ ice, has in a most disinterested ,recHlftSk_ab uwsJfftk some of his nally recognized Steuben's claims and heroic manner, offered his ! to the extent of setting an an­ services to these states as a volun­ requfe?fcj g trend upon the rights of other officers/] These nuity of $2,500 upon him. He had teer; Resolved: that the Presf­ already been given grants of land dent present the thanks of con­ complained to / Washington, by the state of New York, New gress, in behalf of these United found it expedient* to 'curtail the States, to Baron Steuben, for the powers )8f3(fife3i^jpdctor­f eneral. Jersey and­Pennsylvania, butiiad^ zeal he has shown for the cause had no money with which to make J of America and the disinterest^ these claims available. tender he has been pleased tp Steuben continued to Uve as* a | make of his ^ military talents, ahd Lafeyette farmer in a log house near Uticfc, ! inform him 'that congress ^fiee^­r saved his men in May 1778 by an New York, where he died Novem­ fully accepts j of his services as a orderly retreat in which the good ber, 1794, seven years after his volunteer in; the armyrbf* these |discipline was manifest. Washing­ iname had been given to the fort states, and wish him to repair to on the Ohio river. General Washington's qtiaHej*i­ as soon as convenient." ton/? hotter, anxious for La­ (ThW Is another la a series of With this * authorization, Steu­ fayette's detachment, ordered out articles on the history of Steu­ ben set out for camp. Washington the whole army to support it; and beaviile). met him on the way. A guard of in 15 minutes the whou army, was 25 men with an officer at their under arms and ready to march. . • head had been stationed at Steu­ Not long after at Monmoqth, at ben's quarters. the sound of.­ Steuben's yolce, ­ • • » * • Wv* ' Lee's brpken .ranks^ rallied ''^and When thev. German drillmaster wheeled Into line under a heavy would have 'declined this honor, fireVas calnUy *QdJM£cisely as if with the protest that he was but a the ­ battlefie^ha^^J^iB^jwrade volunteer, Washington said, "The ground. whole army would gladly stand Steuben • ­'formulated t53Snn sentinel for such volunteers.'* drilling /regulations and v<&n a * * # volume known in the army as ^ PLAN for inspectorship was Steuben's Regulations, he modi­ Steuben's first step. It was ap­ fied and adapted the Prussian sys­( proved by Washington and con­ tem to the needs of the American; 6* gress. The aiiv next move uiuw was ttm to draft ui mk t army. mV« The book was approved byu/ ;' 120 1 on men from / 1L. the line 1: to A­ serve as Washington and accepted ~ — A ­ J I by con­' guard for Washington ' and a gress in 1779. military school for himself. Steu­ ben personally trained the men "~A1 though he knew his tafcl/ to I He would take a musket from a be essential, Steuben preferred ac­ man's shoulder and show him how tive command and more than once to use it. These tactics were an in­ threatened to­resign unless he. was Chapter 4 —; History City, Co­Founder, Wife Of City's Growth *' Bezaletl Wells Started Steubenville on Way To Industrial Fame

HE City of Steubenville Twhich will stage xits gala ~~Sesqut cent£TmunM~Vet­~ erans* Homecoming celebra­ tion, July 2­6, was founded by TOezaleel Wells and James Ross. They laid out the town 0£X*C£CL 5 5MiVM Gfamr+i Wens In 1797 with Wells doing all The town ­­©located on the cation, making a special study~of ^ of the surveying. west bank of the Ohio river in iO | purveying. H* was graduated degrees 25 minutes nbrth latitude **rom Williams and Mary college, It was due almost wholly to ind three degrees and 40 minutes ) He was a man of commanding Wells* tireless efforts, his gen­ A^est longitude from Washington, appearance, towering over six feet erosity and his great spirit of en­ D. C., and 675 feet above sea level. in height with dark hair and mild, Icrflgse «4hat Steubenville grew The town was divided by )Vells blue eyes. His face was genial, ' from a pioneer P nto 236 inlots 60 feet by 180 feet kindly and a pteasing one of re­ settlement to a markable .freshness and beauty of r with 20 outlots of five acres each. P ° * Parous in­ The first sale of lots took place complexion. His nature was an ^­£S­irr^^^\dugtriaI cil*­ August 25. 1797. energetic one. For the first 40 * » • The do­found£r of Steubenville? /years of the his­ J*HE streets and alleys on the was married twice. His first wife tory­making life original plat were practically was Miss Rebecca Reasteau. She of this city. the same as they are today. Blocks had two children • who died in Wells was *ts were laid out 600 feet long and* childhood. Wells later married leading industrialist and realtor, 380 feet wide. Adams, South, Miss Sarah Griffith of Rockville, • rid its official host. He was the Water. Washington and North Maryland. city's chief benefactor. He do­ * «treets were 60 feet wide. Market # • « nated land for church, school,' street was 66 feet wide. An al­ JN 1796 Wells began the ejection courthouse, industry and other lowance of 80 feet was made for of a large manor house ia_ the community needs. High street since this was to be the beautiful grove then bounded by ^ There is some dispute as hew residential boulevard. South and Third streets, the Ohio Wells ond Ross acquired the land. There were 143 inlots sold, river and Wells run. The house One version is that the men pur­ bringing $4,373; and 14 outlots of was finished aotf occupied by him chased the property for $2 an acre $1,889. In 1800. There f oar more than a • t a government land sale in New. Later Wells and Ross reversed quarter of a century h« enter­ York. The other—the generally their property holdings, Weijs tak­ tained with a generous hospitality. accepted version—is that Wells, a ing the south section and Ross the Among his guesti were the1 lead­ •urveyor for the government, was north. ing men of the country, including given his choice of cash or land Ross, a Pittsburgh attorney and for his service. He accepted land. Clay, American orator anc prominent in the early political jteri&Sujv and one.time candidate • * * history of Pennsylvania, never re­ TN 1796,. Wells who was ac­ sided in Steubenville. He was a< ifbr^resldent. ® quaintod with the land and who candidate for governor of Penn­J i> italic, who also laid ^ut the had seen Fort Steuben as a teem­ sylvania in 1798 and In that year town of Canton; Ohio, in 1804. ing frontier settlement, selected a Ross county. Ohio, was formed ***** on August 14, 1846, at the tract containing 1,204 acres, lying and named in his honor. age~of 77. He .was buried in the north of a line drawn from the • • • • old "ferave y*rd on lower Fourth corner of Liberty avenue and Mar­ ^fELLS was born in Baltimore, atreet^ Later the body was re­^ ket street to the foot of North Md., in 1769, the son of Alex­ toored to the family plot in Union street. ander and Leah Qwings W«U«~­ cemetery. Ross purchased two sections p Hli'wife, Sarah Griffith Wells,; Bezaleel remained with his uncle 3fl south of the Wells* land. .The two in Baltimore unUl he was 13, ™ . th* mother j m£_n Joined their holdings and when he rejoined his parents and ,jlX,font and five daughters. plaid out the town of Steubenville accompanied them to Charlestown, in the spring of 1707, naming it now Wellsburg, W. Va., which was had some Interest in after Fort Steuben which had to be his home until he founded practically all of the *arly in­! . Ijcen erected .earlier, Steubenville. eubenville. |Mu«trUl «nterpri*> of the city i ­7 ^frlng as tha gateway to the Wells received . thorou«h edu­ l»rrtJK»l«n mill \ / great Northwest territory. iq.the United States. The mill, for 40 yean. First ­4and office treated on the north side of Mar­ was built on a lot on the east ket,­ street, darted production on side of Third street north of Mar­ April lOj 1815. The Unit cooperw kmiJ- w«tt of the ­ Alleshenle. James Hunter, a son of Samuel built In Steubenville by Hunter, yras the first white child V 'W*U» in 1800./ bora within the limits of Steu­ ••He helped finance the first benville, September 18, 1798. steamboat built in Steubenville Sarab_W*rd was the first white and it bora his name. female child in the city, bom in ( 1800. Cen€rtl Arthur St. Clair j Three common" pleas Judges met j " appointed governor of the in steubenville in 1802 and divid­ Ohio country, Washington couniy ^ ^ ©ounty Into five townships. • was the firsiH>ffo^*wwdHn~4helThes^.»u^clivis^OOS were Warren, vast new OhJo territory. It WM; short Creek, Steubenville, Archer July 27. 1788. It embraced Jef­ j iri/»/»lr fnu/n m ortViol I gTEUBENVILLE was*; lncorpor­ Thence north seventy­one de­ cd ti i city by the charter of of said town, according to the ori­ 1851. ginal plat and the several addi­ The Charter readtf:^ /' tions, to the place of beginning; • Section 1. "Be It *fiacted by shall be, and la hereby declared the General Assembly;, of the State to be a city; and the inhabitants of Ohio, that so much of Steuben­ thereof are created a body politic ville Township, In' th*;£ounty of with perpetual succession, by the Jefferson, as is'comprised and In­ name and style of the City of cluded in the foliowinf bound­ Steubenville and by that name aries, to­wit: .4 shall be capable of contracting and Beginning at the northwest cor being contracted with, suing and ner of Vier's first addition to the being sued/ pleading and being town of Steubenville; then in an impleaded, answering and being easterly direction, to a point where | answered, and in all courts nnd the north line of Washington places, and in all matters whatso­ street intersects the west line of ever, and with power to purchase, the alley, or the western boundary receive, hold, occupy and sell, «» wards whenever the same with the line said road to the may be necessary; but in no case southeast corner of the pave yard lhalI or addition £ lots; thence with said grave yard made ^thout­ giving at least ten lots, westwardly, to the Fifth ^days previous notice in the news street road, thence so as to include papers of the city of the time and the land of Thomas Horsefield, to place when', any­ proposed change the line of the Well's tract; thence or additioq \"wlll iW 'decided upon with said Well's line to the land of A. H. Dohrman; thence said Dohrman'i and Well's line, six emor De$*6ib^J 2*11150 vf' perches; thence North nineteen degrees*£ast to the line of B. Tap­ pan Jr^ out lot: ,1852, passed ­providing for * fu­ ture Aqrgajiixation of cities dis­ pensing : with •formalities and ex­ pense to* vecure a charter for or­ ganization or privilege to extend as a result two more wards were added ivitlft?!'making * total of six wards.,v jf" —Chapter 6­ Saiftud' Ackerly conducted a, retained, an adjoining lot pur­ private .school 'not" far • from the erected at Fourth and Dock Buchanan academy in 1820 and streets at a cost of $40,000. It His to ry afterwards Dr. John Scott erected was completed in 1873. (Stanton an academy on North* Seventh school was razed for the con­ •treat, /This (was known as the struction of the present million­ Of City's Grove ^academy and conducted dollar high school.) successfully uiitil 1856. " The Washington, ^or Second j Private schools by Delle Hunt ward school building was com­ Grow th in 1828. and .John Dudley on pleted in 1884 at cost of $22,000.' Third ' street,; Henry Orr, Miss It .was a two story brick structure Public Schools in Major Hush, Miss Osborne, Miss Butler, located at Seventh and Adams j Powell's school on South Fifth streets. The Garfield, or Fifth Role in Development street and others continued to ward building was built in 1884 of Steuben ville flourish for many years. at a cost of $19,000, being located at Fifth and Madison streets. JN 1838 the public schools sys­ In 1891, the Lincoln school TEUBENVILLE is justly tem was introduced and the building w^s erected at a cost of first board of education was or­ proud of its public schools, $5,000 in Extreme southwestern S ganised with Dr. C. C. Beatty^ Dr. and of the major role they part of the city. In 1901, the John Andrews and James Means have played, and are continu­ site of ,Jefferson . school was as members. They held their first moved to Prospect avenue, Jeffer­ ing" to play in the progress meeting October 1. 1838 and son school and development of this in­ clected Dr. Andrews as chairman. wft^ first located in the dustrial city which will sta£e In 1839 lot 413 in Ross addi­. extreme southeastern, part of the its Sesqui Centennial and Vet­ lion on North Fourth street and [ city. Because the location proved erans' Homecoming celebra­ lot 12 in Ross addition on South unsatisfactory it was moved to: tion, July 2­6. Fourth street were purchased and; Prospect avenue. ; ; . Education had its birth in Steu­ two school buildings were erected The opening of th^ new addi­. bcnville in 1805, eight years after by William Thompson at a cost of tion on LaBelle View necessitated the town wr.s founded in 1797 by $4,000. the building of a single room Bczaleel Wells and James Ross. These schools soon proved too structure at Maryland and Carr, However, there are records which small to accommodate all pupils negie streets in 1904. Since theqM this school, the Roosevelt, has reveal that in ;»nd on December 11, 1839. the school board fixed the limit of pu­ been enlarged and rebuilt. At ^ 1801 a log hut about the same time a school was uscd as a pils to 120 in principal schools, 60 **' in female, 70 in primary and building, the McKinley, was erect­ 1 school In the ed on Pleasant­ Heights. This, season. passed a rule that if a pupil was absent two weeks without a good building also has been enlarged Tj 'gJ The pupils and rebuilt since then^ J •>.. # worked during excuse, his place should be filled the other sea­ by waiting applicants. In |9U3 .the boaru ot cuucatuui sons. During the next ten years, purjrfiasecJ ;.*> lot at Fourth and The earliest school in Steuben­i rooms were, rented in various Norihiftreet * for the erection: of ville was conducted by a Mr.1 churches and private buildings in Wells high**school. The lot cost Black in 1805. It was located in a 1 lie city. On November 6, 1854 $15,000. In July, 1905, ground; was frame dwelling on Market street, the high school was opened in the broken and 14 months later the between Fifth street and Bank Kilgore building on Market street building was completed at a cost alley. and in 1858 the "Grove Academy" of $100,000. The \Vells building The first structure erected for was purchased for $5,000. was razed by fire in 1942. exclusive school purposes was On April 11. 1864, Thomas' 1^ 1906, old Wells auditorium built in 1807 by Bczaleel Wells on Clark* was employed to teach at^ was ready fot annual graduation. South High. street. The struc­ the colored school. This school was The present Wells building was ture was painted red and became conducted for a number of years erected io'1916 and was known as known as the "Little Red School­ in a tjuilding on Third street, be­ the Wells^annex for years. It now house." The first teacher was tween North and Dock streets. houses elementary grades. James Thompson, who was suc­ Negro schools were abolished in Harding junior high school was ceeded by Thomas Fulton. 1883. erected at a cost of $359,000 in * * * *4 * * * 1926. To equip tHe Harding build­ QTHER schools soon followed the » rpHE rapid growth of Steuben­ ing it cost $60,000. The ground "Little Red Schoolhouse." Miss ville soon compelled the en­ for Harding school was purchased Sheldon opened a school house on largement of school accommoda­ at a cost of $28,000. High street, the Misses Graham tions and 1867 the old burial Harding stadiun^ was built in , and Brugess on Fourth street and grounds at South and Fourth 1928 at an iqitia^Ctfet of $40,000. as early as 1816 an Irish school­ streets were purchased. Here Steubenville's new million dol­ master named Baker opened a Grant school was erected at a lar high school. Iwhich was dedi­ j school at the head of Washington cost of $6,233.09. The building cated in Septemhcf; 1940, is one ; street. was completed on April 1, 1870. of the finest of its kind and one j In the winter of 1816­17 it is (Grant school Wds rebuilt in of the most rr^odern. Erected on | recorded that there were two 1925). the site of the, old Stanton school, schools in Steubenville, one of One year after completing a site on which school buildings which was taught by R$v. James Grant school, steps were^taken to have always stood, it occupies an B. Finley. Rev. George Buchan­ build another school building. The entire block. It was built to house an established the first classic old schoolhouse at Jail alley and a maximum of 1,500 persons in its school in the "west" on Markel Dock street was sold, but the lot; three main divisions—the class­ street in >1814 . 4 rooms, workshops, auditorium and A step forward was taken in gymnasium. Cost of construction j 1818 when Bezaleel Wells started was estimated at $976,050. A total!; 1 a fuqdjfor the erection of an of $19,000 was spent on industrial ] academy^ on South ­High street. It arts equipment, machine shop and was put} in charge of, Prof J. B. auto mechanics shop. ill A £%» M I __ .. * I­ jvas intrpduced in Stcubcnvillc 1jN ^1844 tj^e jale teachers re­ On February 8, 1887, the board |Orily. 13 superintendents• have dIt • cefved $25 a month and the fe­ of education granted the right cf rected the pity's edMfc&Uonal sys­ male teachers from $}3 to $15, way for a street railway opposite The, hours Were from 8 .to 11:30 Item. However, it wasn't until 1853 the Fourth Ward school on North in the^roorning and from 1:30 to Fourth street. In the same year the (that an "acting manager";­,of the 6 ini^af^ernoon; five and a half board of education rented the 'school system Was appointing days «*w/eefc In that year there basement of the city building for /.Thomas McGrew was ap* were'448 ertrolledfWith an* average a board room, the library and the attendance of about 450* ­ ' pointed as the first ^'acting mana­ superintendents office. They had In 1845 a private, school belong­ ger^­ being' in fact* the first gen­ a lease for five years and paid ing to a David Powell on Fifth $150 a year. eral superintendent.' It is recorded1 street was rented. There were two /On,pctob. in churches for school rooms. Ar­ Prof.^Henry N.­,Mertz of Wheel­j; rangements were made with the ing was the next superintendent.. African church to use the base­ Prof. Mertz retired from office in ment for the colored school. When 1901 to ­his farm near Bellaire,. the schools were crowded prefer Mertz was followed by Arthur j ence was given to the children of Powell, who remained two years'! the most permanent residents. followed by Edward Van Cleve. I( • Transient children were not ad­ was during. Van Cleve's adminis­j­ mitted. tration that Wells high school was'"1 erected. '» In December, 1857, a public school library was founded for the Van Cleve resigned in 1907 and use of teachers, scholars and citi­ was succeeded by Robert L. Ervin 1 zens in general. who remained in office until 1932.| In April/1859, 14 teachers asked Ervin was superintendent for 25 for a raise of $4 a month which years, the longest period of any was refused. In January, 1863, one other superintendent, v female teacher's salary was raised In 1932 Russell H." Erwine was to $27.50 and the others received named school head. He resigned in" $21 a month. In April, 1865, a. Mr. October,: 1239, to accept s positioni Schofield was engaged to teach ni EucHd^chool district, Qtve£' music in the high school at $45 a land. The ^construction of th?milf' month. , lion­dollar* high­school was sta^te^l! On May 7, 1883, the high school during ErwineYferm in office.! graduating class requested that Russeell H. Sthafer was ap­; diplomas instead of certificates of pointed to succeed Erwine. Schafer • graduation be given. Their request assumed dutie* of his office in: October;' 1939. ^ V. ' , was granted by "the • board and there is a notation that no grades ; Schafer, now at Alliance, was were to be placed on the diplo­ succeeded in 1942 by Charles D. mas. About this* time­ the city Fox, who came here from Van jWert, Ohior ­ . •; * •• building was built: at Third and 1 > .. 4­ | Market streets;, arid the opera house was on the­second floor. /^L On June 18, 1886, the graduating exercises were held there. There were 23 graduates: 19 girls and _ui ***** r—Chapter 7 ^—­ the school remained in its first TJOLY NAME school was estab­ lished in September 1883 for house is uncertain. both grade and high school with As the school grew in sire, Dr^ History the formation of Holy Name par­ Beatty purchased more land to en­ ish. Dominican Sisters, who at large the structure until it includ­ Of City's that time were in charge of St. ed an entire square bounded by Peter's achool, made daily trips to Adams street, High street, South Holy Name to teach the children and Water streets.1 The grounds Growth of the parish. were enclosed by a High brick wall, Ground for the present Holy and planted with trees and shrub­ Name school building was broken bery, forming a beautiful grove. Parochial Schools Join March 25, 1903. Later there wits a central fountain Other Educational A new high school building was while from the windows and erected at Holy Name in 1924, and veranda were the loveliest views Plants in Progress in August 1930 Most Rev. John imaginable up and down the Ohio J. Hartley, D.D., bishop of Colum­ bus, merged the two high schools, river. IKE its public school sys­ The first graduates \£ent out m and the school since then has been 1833, the advance guard of near­ L tem, Stoubcnville is also known as Catholic Central. j ly 5,000 who spread the name and proud of its other education­ Due to rapid growth and in­ j fame of the seminary to all parts creased enrollment large quarters ; al institutions, including the of the world. • parochial school system which were soon needed at Central. A > In 1856 Rev. and Mrs. Reid also has played a vital part in four­room section was added in were associated with Dr. and Mrs. the development of this thriv­ recent years. Beatty as assistants. Dr. Reid be­ ing city, now busy in planning ^Wlth~enrollment still growing, came principal and Dr. Beatty was for its Sesqui Centennial and and the present building some­ superintendent. On May 15, 1866, what congested by students, Most the entire seminary property was Veterans' Homecoming cele­ Rev. John King Mussio, D.D., first conveyed to Dr. Reid for $25,000. bration, July 2­6. bishop of the new Diocese of Steu­ • Dr. and Mrs. R^d brought to The first educational classcs for benville, early this year decided the now venerable institution the Catholic chil­ a new high school was urgently highest degree of cultural and re­ dren were needed to serve the Catholic chil­ finement which not only enhanced conducted in dren in the district* ­ its character as an education m­j 3853 in' the stitution but made it a center for ft A large site in Becker High­ base ment of lands in the westend was pur­ social gatherings, which brought St. Peter's chased. Plans were drafted for it in touch with the best life of church. This a large and ultra­modern high the community. was the be­ school which can ^adequately en­ Dr. Reid conducted the semi­ ginning of the roll 1,500 students. The plans also nary" until 1866 when he turned parochial school"system which to­ call for a large stadium with a the active management of the in­ day includes one high school and seating capacity upwards of 20,­ stitution to Rev. J.­W. Wightman four grade schools with an enroll­ who carried on for a couple olj 00°­ , n , ^ ment of 2,827 students. Following a successful fund years, when Dr. Reid again tem­ Credit for establishing the Cath­ raising campaign for construction porarily took charge. olic school program goes to Rev. of the proposed Central high Subsequently Rev. Dr. Davis Fr. Emanuel Thienpont who ar­ school, Bishop Mussio ordered that took charge of the seminary and rived in Steubenville in 1850 to was succeeded by Miss Northrop work on the new school to pro­ assume the pastorate of St. Pius ceed at once. The campaign for and Miss Sheldon. They were suc­ Catholic church. Fourth and Lo­ $500,000 was over subscribed, ceeded by Miss Mary Stewart who jran streets. The parish was little conducted the . institution until! more than 20 years old. reaching $600,000. St. Stanislaus parish school was 1898. » Father Thienpont's first un­ established in 1905 and is con­ dertaking, accomplished in three . By this time conditionsad ducted by the Fclician Sisters. St. years, was the erection of a new changed and the. heavily endowed | Anthony's school was founded church, which was named St. schools in other localities were i 1918. Classes are conducted by Peter's. gradually taking the iplace of pri­ * * * Dominican Sisters. vate institutions. Sp it Was deemed 'THE first parochial school open­ * * * : QNE of the outstanding roles in wise to close the Seminary after a ed after Rev. Fr. W. T. Bige­ honored career of three quarters the brilliant history of educ­ low succeeded Father Thienpont of a century. as pastor of St. Peter's in 1865. ation in Steubenville was played * * * Sisters of Charity served as the by the Steubenville Female semi­| ROM 1907 until 1932, Steuben­ iirst instructors. nary. Its graduates rose to posi­ ville had a .City Normal School tions of prominence in the world. F And for more than 50 years, which trained * teachers for their Its fame was known in all parts of the first St. Peter's church served profession. Established by the late the dual purpose of church1 and the country and some of its grad­ Robert L. Erwin, superintendent uates went into every country in school for the congregation. of public schools during that per­ the world to spread its culture St. Peter's school also included iod, the normal school was main­ a high school, established in 1879. and teachings. tained to give one year of normal The famous seminary was The first graduation was in 1881. school training / to, graduates of opened on April 13, 1829 by Dr. The modern St. Peter's school Steubenville hij^ school who was erected in 1911. Meanwhile C. C. Bcatty, noted educator and j religious leader. The seminary ranked in the upper third of their the original St Peter's church edi­ graduating class.* A great many fice had been replaced by a new j was the first in the vast North­ : west Territory. It was located in a Steubenville teachers had their building and the school, for a time, professional beginnings there. was conducted in­the apartment ! frame dwelling on the west side 13 house in the^rear of the present of High street, where Dr. and Mrs. church. • v­\ • ; '• Bcatty resided. Exactly how long Following the school's founding,! \ Dr. Erwin appointed Miss Isabella, j i clo1ogy J»lst°ry. lawblology, IOO­ Tappan director/ J4iss Tappan Isj 'ent­tit^toflhe Catholic Commu­ t now a resident of .Louisville, Ken­i nity Center^. and through hard fAM. dramatics, chemistry and tucky. Second director was Miss; andr*bie­'Management ex­ jdrawl^J ^ | Hclen Holliday, Who.later, served) panded it until iiWW• 1 • covers^ihe as principal of Stanton school ^ entire'third floor Wltltt^btiUding tJRESENT"RMWinel ol Steubcn­ here. She is now retired. Director: at 185 North .Fourth street;* It has I'Vllle public' schools numbers from 1926 until',the school wast an enrollment of 20ft slUdfifti'arid 245, including teachcrs, principals, closed in 1932 was f Miss ECore its eleven V­rooms Jjictudf, class­ janitors'«nd administrative staff. Linch, who is now assistant prin­ rooms, officcs and' **Yccreation X class* tor crippled* children, cipal at Harding; School and di­ * VT vi room. (ormwCuriW". is still conducted rector of research by assignment Since 1896, more than ten thou­ trrHooKevelfSchool and Is known in city schools. sand men and women have been Normal school graduates were enrolled in Steubenville Business M­lhe­Sunshine room. given one full year of credit in a StetrtjfKviH^ high school enroll­ College, graduating into posts of ment' 11.20A; "total enrollment ol tcachers college. Students spent a importance. The college first had city­scliools^l4,505. Teachers and full day from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. three' rooms and when the first I principals r.tirober 205, The 194« and in later years, the college fol­ change in location was made, it ! graduating­, class at Steubenville lowed a new course of study es­ was to the Gill building at the tablished by Dr. Erwin with the southwest corncr of Fourth and hifcti humbered 292.' . "School .buildings in the public idea of turning the school into a Market streets, now site of the Junior College. But the depres­ school system arc Buchanan. Bu McCrory store. Present home of ena Vi'sta,­ Garfield, Grant, Haid­ sion came along and, instead fthe .Steubenville Business College at _ school was abandoned altogether lHi Jcfferson, Lincoln, McKinlcy, Vourth and Washington streets Roosevelt, Washington, Wells and in 1932. was first opened in 1923. During its existence the normal Steubenville high. A health de­ t ' r • ^ 4f. ­ partment has been In operation in school was able, for the most part, HE most reccnt addition to this Ithe schools twenty­five years and to provide all of the new elemen­ community's academic life is T •cmplovs a part­time dentist and tary teachers used in public The College of Steubenville, a co­ two nurses. A school physjothcr schools. Specific training was giv­ educational institution of arts and i on in methods of teaching used in apist is also employed. . • sciences open to all races and Grant and Harding are both local schools. creeds. The college inaugurated junior and elementary fchools its first year December 10, 1946; Steubenville high is on the ap­ N IMPORTANT educational has an enrollment of close to 500 proved list of high schools of the Ainstitution * in * Steubenville * is and a teaching staff,of, 15. Pre*i its Business College/ which celeb­; Vdent is the Very Rev.'Daniel W. first grade. '' in' . ... — A i a Present school board members rated its Tittieth anniversary in Egan* who holds B.A,' and M.A August, 1946. Its president and are J. C. Watson, chairman; J degrees from St. Francis college Peterson, Harry Ewing. Edward founder is J. T. Thompson, who in Loretto, Pa., and Doctor of Let­ came to Steubenville as a young Bennett. Fred W. Dougherty., ters from Duquesne'iunivcrsity. rlcrk­trcasnrcr of the boaid since man to fill a position at a busi­ In June, 1946;, the college ac­ ness college. He found it had an( quired for its first home the 1933 is Edith Smith. Schools busi­ enrollment of one, and when the Knights of Pythia* building at 420 1933 is r. Johnson, lone student finished his work Washington'/jtreft^ and the first ness manager is Harry J I sevc.al months later—there were )students weie^ received _ in the fall none. That was injjliifi*. |q£ 1945. The buildlpg was remod­ Professor Thompson stayed,; extensiv^ Steubenville ­ _iiI _ ' wai ' ' 1 in _ the tKft fcAlllKl* city, wita'a ttitable building _ Presbyterians, Metho­ • frove on Market street between lor the wiartf . lt slid pwned** distt Among­ First to Build Churches'Here | used. The first church building Fifth street. Many of Ha com­ ' was on South Fourth street be­ municants. entered the missionary tween Adams and South" street It field, foreign and hocne. MONG the earliest reljg­ was a small brick structure. The • • «• A ious denominations to site was donated by Bexaleel !J*HE Old Third Presbyterian hold service*' arid establish Wells. ' church. South Fourth street, churches in SteubenvITle were This structure was occupied was organized In 187S. A plan for the Presbyterians and Meth­ J from 1803 until 1818. Erection of merger of the Old Third church odists, followed by other sects. a new and larger building was with Two Rioge and Cross Creek , undertaken. Under the manage­ Presbyterian churches was ap­ They overcame many hard­ ment of Rev. Charles C. Beatty, proved at the meeting of the Pres­ ships in shaping the spiritual D. D., it was completed in 1828. i?yt*CTl.ln Uhrichjviile this spring. character of this community 3t was enlarged in 1851, and Plans are going forward for the which will hold its Sesqui renovated in 1857. erection of a church in the west Centennial and Veterans* In 1872 the site of the First end. Rev. John JC McDivitt, Jr., Homecoming celebration, Julv Presbyte^an church was' changed now serves Old Third church as 2­6. to the west side of North Fourth ­pastor,­as­well­as­Tw^ RMge­and Methodism It appears from the street, between Washington and Cross­Creek congregations. ­ North streets. A church, costing * • • • journal of General Richjrd Butler $75,000 was erected. The church TJNITED PRESB YTERIANIS M wss gaining a foothold in Steu­ was damaged by a windstorm on started in Steubenville in the benville in 1785. In that year January 18, 1885, necessitating re­ fall of 1810 when Rev. Qeorge General Butler with Gen. Samuel pairs costing $4,000. A parsonage Buchansm, a licentiate of Philadel­ H. Parsom was erected on the north side of phia Presbytery, preached in the and Colonel * the church in 1893 at a cost of city as well as Yellow Creeg) (now James Mon­ $10,000. Richmond) and Harmon's Creek roe, later And thus the First Presbyterian (now Paris, Ps.) On April 3. President o f church (now Westminster Presby­ 1811 he was assigned to the three the United terian) became the mother of settlements. States, made Presbyterian churches in this area. Public services were held in the a Journey After the merger in 1911 of the courthouse here until 1815 when down the First Presbyterian and Second the congregation moved to s Ohio river to warn squaters off Presbyterian church, Westminster school house on Fourth street the land^ on the Ohio side. church was erected oa the same above Washington street. The The general was Joined by a de­ site of the First church. Dedi­ church continued to grow, and the tachment of troops at Fort Steu­ catory services were held In 1914. congregation purchased a site in ben on October lf 1785, and pro­ Dr. Norman E. Nygaard is the the rear of the. present First ceeded down the river. A Journal present pastor. United Presbyterian church. A entry made by General Butler the The list of early pastors in­ brick church was erected. Later next day reads: # cludes: Kevs. James Snodgrass* D. the site at Fifth and "North street "The people of this country ap­ D., 1800­17; Obadlah Jennings,'D. was bought. • * pear to be much_JmpQsed_upoa.a D­ 1817­23; Charles C. Beatty. Rev. Buchanan continued ss religious'sect called Methodist* D. D., L. L D., 1823­37; Henry G. pastor until ha died October 14, and are become great fanatics." Comlngo, D. 18J7­41; Henry ^£54, serving continuously.. 1 Ha Woods. Dr D, 1882­«7; Thomas A. In 1794 Samuel Hitt and John also conducted a classical school, H. Reynolds, Methodist preachers McCurdy, DTD, 1887­7*; William $f the Ohio Circuit, are reported to M. Grimes, D. D* 1878­87; Or­ in which noted men received their have preached In Steubenville and lando V. Stewart, 1887­94; R. A. education. Including Edwin M. surrounding Ohio territory •'amid McKinley, D. D­, Ph. D, 1895. Stanton. r , " • much opposition.** « « # In 1857 Rev. J. K. Andrews was • • • *pHE Second Presbyterian church called to the pastorate. In 1883, J£EV. SMILEY HUGHES is re­ was orgyiixed January L, 1834 being appointed 'chaplain in the corded as the first Presbyterian due to the overcrowding of the army, he, in affect ceased to be minister to preach in Steubenville First ctyurch. Through the lib­ pastor, in September, 1864, Rev. early in 1798,' and two years later erality of Rev. C. C. Beatty, a site Joseph W. Clokey, a pastor of thfc First Presbyterian church was was purchased on North Fourth a Presbyterian congregation in established. street where the First Christian New Albany, Indiana, was called. church now stands. He resigned December 28, 1868. Dr. Clokey wu succeeded by the new building erected oo the same lamented Rev. Dr. T. J. Kennedy. ;5Tt*r*crvJce '*»a * hild ­ the, cite and called Kramer Chapel, in houee of'John Parmar,­ and^sJgna Mr. Kennedy's fiealth failing he recognition of a gift made to the of a revival were manifest. Next demitted the chvi^ having served building fun4 by Allen Kramer, of morning at the house of Bernard fro January,—1170,­to­April—*, Pittsburgh. . Tikes followed L C to Lucas, a •'Methodist society", or 1873. Rev. S. J. Stewart wai the Pmbtaft' W. \ Davidson, B. J, church was organized with the fol­ next pastor, taking charge Feb­, lowing twelve members: Bernard Wolt ft. Tr Winbt, T. J. Higfln* ruary, 1874, and continuing until | w Lucas, Margaret Lucas, Matthew vCpop^ and £. Hinftljr. February, 1877, when he resigned j Worsteli Rachel Worsteli, William The church was rebuilt and and Joined the Coggreg ational i Fisher, Margaret Cummlngs, Hugh! church. In June. 1877. Rev. W. S.; dedicated in 1914^ and eenred the Dunn and James Daugherty. congregation until the merger of Owens, D. D., was called and en­ j Three years later the little band tered on his duties September 21, j began to build a church at South the First and Hainline churches 1877. This pastorate continued; and Fourth streets on ground in 1*U. This ooe locatfcJ wa^ untn September 21, 1888, when Dr.! given them by Bezaleel Wells. uaed as Methodist church property Owens became Secretary of the' The building was completed in Home Mission Board. In 1884 the for 129 years. 1814. In.September, 1813 the Ohio . In 1945 the building was pur­ old church erected In 1838 was J Conference which had Just been torn dov/n, and another structure chased by memberi of the Greek organized, met in Wells* sugar Orthodox church. built at a cost of about 120,000. grove in Steubenvllle. Bishops As­ Rev. W. R. Harshsw, of New, • * « • bury *nd McKendree were pres­ TN 1845, by mutual agreement the York, was Installed June 14, 1887, j ent. The preachers who Immed­ and served until February 4, 1800. f First Methodist church divided iately succeeded Rev. Lamdon on and the Hamllne church wss or­ when he resigned to accept a calll the circuit were James B. Finley, in New York City. Rev. E. M. I ganized and a building was erect­ | Archibald McElroy, William Dix­ ed in 1846 at Fourth and North j Milligan was pastor from October j on, B. Westiake, S. Hamilton, Wil­ 5, 1891, to April 9, 1895. He was! streets. The present structure was j liam Knox and Calvin Butter. built In 1891­2. It was dedicated [i 'followed by Rev. Thomas H. j In 1818 the annual conference [Hanna. Jr., who was ordained and j by Bishop Ninde.on March 27,1j again met here, and Steubenvllle 1892. installed May 12, 1898. | was set off aa a "station," and The present church was dedi­ j Among the early pastors were | Cornelius Springer appointed to Rev. E. G. Nicholson; J, B, Dun­ ; cated in 1927. Rev. Robert K. Rus­! the charge. He was followed suc­ sell Is pastor. j lsp, H. Y. Rich, J. A. Swaney, J. j cessively by. Curtis Goodard, John ­Eh—Cramer,—Ar.—Petty,—Ghendan 1 I # • • Wattennan and James McMahan. 'pHE First United Presbyterian Baker, H. McCready. B. Mc­ ; Ln 1821 the building was enlarged, Mahan, E. Burket, T. N. Boyle, S. j church under the inspiration of according to suggestion of Bishop Dr. Walter IJggttt, saw the possi­ P. Wolf, H. L. Chapman, J. W. j McKendree, by the addition of a BakVr, J. A. Pearce, G. W. Gray, | bility of a new church on the cross building, which secured for it rapidly developing "hilltop" lead­ H. Webb. E. Y. Yingling, B. F. j the title of ­The Old Ship." In Randolph, E. P. Edmonds, Dr. S. , ing to the establishment of the this {"Urged building preached Second United Presby terian! J. Youmans, Rev. L. H. Stewart, j church. H. B. basconi, W. Stevens, Joshua W. H. Hasklll, Russell Pope. Monroe, George Brown, Robert C. For many yean there had been The chapel building was erected Hattan and Thomas M. Hudson. during 1911­12. The growth and' a. discussion (or s united Method­ ! In January. 1827, a Sunday ism in downtown Steubenville. j °* the congregation school was organized. In 1830 created . IHe need for a large This came to fruition in the j came the "Radical Secession" in merger of the First and Hamline j church. The present church on the town, when ninety­three per­ Be 11* view boulevard was com­ churches in 1943, taking the­ name j sons withdrew and organized the of Calvary Methodist and the se­ j pleted and dedicated .In 1926. Rev. Methodist Protestant Society, Alexander S. Fleming is the pres­ lection of the Hsmline building ; leaving hinety­slx in the parent as the church. Dr. Howard W. I ent pastor. church. • • • Peterson, then superintendent of In 1882 was organized a Sing­ the Mansfield district, was called 'J'HE other Presbyterian church in ing society with Rev. Hudson, Steubenville is the Church of to be minister. ReaaonPennar and William John­ Our Savior, 520 South street, Vith son at music committee. The JN 1830 a schism occurred in the Rev. Albert D'Albertl si pastor. In pastors who followed next in suc­ Methodist ranks over the ques­ 1918 Rev. D* Albert! began culti­ cession irere: Homer J. Clark, tion of lay representation and the vating work here and an organiza­ Robert Boyd, Charles Thorn, J. C. Methodist Protestant denomination tion wis effected with the pres­ Merriman, E. K. Taylor, George S. was formed. ent building completed in 1926. Holmes, 8. E. Babcock. A* M. • * # On September 17, 1830 a group *pHE earliest Methodist church in Bro^n, C. D. Bate lie *nd Frank of Steubenville Methodists organ­ the city was the First Method­ Moore. In 1845, another chufch ized into an "Associate Methodist ist, tracing its origin to 1810 when waa organized, and a building church," asking Rev. R. C. Hatton Rev. William Lamdon was ap­ erected in* the upper end of the to act ar "the pastor."In~March pointed to the Croas Cr*ek circuit. towm­end Hamllne church. 1831 they adopted the Disclpliqe The pastors who next succeeded and name of the Methodiit Pro­ had deserted . Steubenville, Rev. were: George Holmes, Thomas testant church. This is now the Lamdon replied: McCleary, E. Hayes, C H. Jackson, Fifth Street­ Methodist church, a "Give me a congregation and 2 Charles ^ Holmes and A. ft. part of united Methodism. will preach in your toynlhij eve* Thomas. In 1854 the ­Old Ship­ The first building to be used building was dismantled, and a by the congregation was erected . I" 1831 on Fifth ilrttt Jtotween vember 10, 1912. Recently an ex­ Market and Adams now the built as the first unit and the pensive remodelling program has church is being erected at the jB'Nal Israel synagogue. In IMS made this a beautiful and commo­ present time. It is located at 749 jthey rebuilt the church with the dious house of worship and Chris­ North Seventh street and the min­ dedication held la March 1884. tian education. Rev. Charles A, ister is Rev. Eddie D. Simmons. I They elected the first lay dele. Albright is the minister. f«U to the Methodist Protectant • # • (This la another la a aeries e< annual conference which met in fHI Qulnn African Methodist articles eo the hfctery ef 8te«­ • Zanervllle In the fall of 1811, Wil­ Episcopal church is the oldest benrllle. Church history will liam English being chosen. On his church of this denomination in the be continued tomorrow.) return from conference Rev. E. S. state of Ohio and was organized Woodward accompanied him as with eighteen members In 1823, pfetor, remaining for two years by Rev. William Paul QUlnn, who and the church prospering under was a/terwards elected bishop his pastorate. The organization took place in the Other early pastors were Revs. house of the first class leader, B^John^^^Uiott, —— Ar­ Jacob Moore* en Fourth street, three dooca north of 8outh street They first attempted to buy the lot Hosgland, J.*H. Ab- •t the northeast corner of rtfth bott, J. C. Ogle, G. W. Hlssey, W. and North streeta b^it' lost it. S. Ba^er. J. H. .Hamilton. John In 1846 they purchased the lot Cwv|* Or "Chandler, J. A. •t the northwest corner of South W« Rer M­ M.park. The minister la Rev. A. Robert # ­ Uwing ^Ur. 5. . ^ vThompedo'a Anderson;^ . — P«ecame The present ing' celebration, July 2­6. Charles Loos. American Lutheran church. For Among the early religious Late in 1872, the congregation two years the congregation met 1* groups to establish churches In purchased the Second Presby­ several churches In the city. Under terian church. This church was Steubenville, following the Epis­ the leadership of the second pas­ used from April 15, 1873 until tor, the Reverend Theodore Ebert, r o p a 11 a n J, Presbyterians and 1898 when the present First the present sanctuary. South Third Methodistj were the Disciples of Christian church. North Fourth and South streets, was dedicated Christ (Chris­ street, was erected. December 3, 1880. In 1927 the tian church), Rev. Percy Thomas, accepted a parish hall­parsonage was erected. f oun d e d by new call early this year with sup­ Rev. Maurice White, is the pres­ Ale x a n d e r ply ministers serving the congre­ ent pastor. Campbell, one gation at present Rev. Theodore of the fore­ Cord. Salem, has accepted a call *T • • • Schondelmayer. on Lincoln avenue and in the 'pHE first organization in Steu­ *• • » school building on Prospect ave­ benville, known as the Dis­ JN THE early 1830 s and 60*s a TraerThe piesent chUivH was built ciples of Christ, was in 1830. The „ number of families came­from in 1926. This is a church of the first church was established by the Rhine provinces and other sec­ Slovak Evangelical­ Lu theran Campbell himself. The courthouse tions of Germany and settled here. Church of America affiliated with Many of these people were of the was used as a meeting place for the Missouri Synod. Rev. Samuel Lutheran and Reformed faiths. services. Campbell made frequent Mozolak is the pastor. visits and preached In the court­ For months they met for worship, house as late as 1840. first in. the old court house, then 0ONGREGATIONALISM in the The original congregation had a in the Second Presbyterian church city has had a varied and inter­ membership of 28, including: unde^ the leadership of Dr. Alfred esting history. After several meet­ to Rachel Johnson, Ebe Heston, KretsChner, former Royal Prus­ ings for discussion In the homes of Delila Cummins, Mary Cable, sian army chaplain. the people The First Congrega­ Thomas Weir. Jean Weir, Lydia On June 23, 1881. sixty­two of tional church was organized with Wise, Jenet Kennedy, John John­ these persons met to orginlze the 42 charter members, in a meeting •on, Sr.,(f r/ Cable, —— Daugh­ German Evangelical Lutheran held In the residence of David erty, SU^anna Walker# Sdixebe'S church and called Dj\ Kxetachner Spaulding, October 21, 1875. On October 22 of the same year 'pHE Church of the Nazarene rPHE Pentecostal church was es­l the Puritan association met in the was organized in November, tabllshed In the city in 1928 fifth Street Methodist church and 1929, as the outgrowth of a re­ received the local church into the and worshipped in a hall on South vival meeting held by the district Sixth street. The present build* ftH o w s h 1 p of 'Congregati6nal superintendent. Rev. C. Warren Churches of courtly, state and na­ lng. 328 South Sixth street, was Jones, and evangelist. Rev. J. A. converted into a church In 193S. tion. Services were held succes­ Rogers. Services were first held sively in the Philharmonic hall The founder of the church is D­ In the church on South Fifth der F. M. Lacy and the present and the Odd Fellows hall. street Under the leadership of the pastor is Elder W. L. Young. ­ A building for worship was present minister. Rev. Daniel C. •" # ~<*T' ~~~ erected on Washington street in Hoffman, the first unit of a new 1862. In 1613 the congregation church was erected on Woodlawn *pHE B'Nal Israel Synagogue was voted to move to Pleasant Heights, avenue in 1945. The building will founded In SteubenvlUe on and first held services in the fire be completed in the near future. May 5, 1902 and occupies the house. On March 21, 1315, a new « * * former church' building of the church was dedicated, located at ^HE First Church of Christ Fifth Street Methodist congrega­ Lawson avenue and Orchard Park Scientist, was organized in tion on South Fifth street. Rabbi avenue. In 1924 extensive repairs 1914 and the congregation met in Joeeptv Lr­Baker 1* the minister; and improvements were com­ the homes of the people for a Temple Beth­el was organized pleted and in 1925 a fiftieth an­ time. Subsequently a hall at 100 on March 2, 1920 and worships in niversary celebration was held. South Fourth street and a re­ the structure as a temple on North Rev. Owen T.­ Williams is the modeled home at 741 North Fourth Fifth street. Rabbi Ezra Spice­ present minister. «tr»t~ W#f In"" handler is. the leader. • # • building at<,1300 Maryland avenue • • « 'pHE First Baptist church, after was remodelled and occupied as a QTHER churches include: Seventh several meetings for duscussion church. This was originally the Day Adventis't 520 South Fifth a service was conducted in the first school house on La Belle View. street, with Wilson S. Johnson as First* Congregational church on The reader is Robert Cantbell. pastor; First Community church Washington street, October 28, ..A . ­ of Buena Vista, Rev. A. A. Herz­ 1913. On November 4 of the" same berger, pastor and Psychic Re­ TJNDER the leadership of the year the new organization was search Spiritual church­ 520 South Rev. Clifford Sutton The As­ recognized as a Baptist church, street, with Cora Yocum as­pastor. sembly of God church was or­ with Dr. Hose, secretary of the • « «• ganized—in—L942 and met In the Ohio Baptist convention, present. homes of the people and in the K. JJOLY Resurrection Serbian Or­ In 191(5 a building on South of P. haUL In 1944 the,church on thodox church, C30 North Fifth street was secured as a South Fifth street was secured Fourth street, laid the cornerstone church home. In 1925 the congre­ from the Church of the Nazarene. for a new church June 8 of this gation moved to the McKinley Rev. and Mrs* C. E. Dewlen are year. Early in the spring the con­ school building and In 1920 oc­ gregation conducted a $200,000 cupied the newly constructed the pastors. ^ * « • building fund and campaign to ! church at Cedar and Plum streets. 'THE people of the Greek Or­ ­erect e ne wtralldtng:—MSTTTKIn The purchase of the ground and thodox church who reside in 500 attended the cornerstone lay­ the building of the parsonage and this city worshiped with the con­ ing ceremonies despite a heavy the church were under the leader­ gregation in WeirtOQ until 1945 rain. Very Rev. Fr. Paul 2Selich is ship of the present pastor. Rev. when the building of the First pastor. Lewis N. Kayser, who began his Methodist church. South Fourth work here in 1925. and South streets was purchased • « « from the Calvary Methodist 'pHE Sec6nd Baptist church: Rev. church. The church, was re­ John J. Christian and his modeled and named Holy Trinity daughter, Mrs, Elizabeth Lyons, Greek Orthodox. The pastor is the only living charter member of Rev. Fr. John Bents. m • • the church, were instrumental in (T* H E Holy Transfiguration establishing the Second . Baptist church, Washington and N. church in 1891. Successively the Tenth streets, was established in congregation worshipped in the 1914_and began holding services court house and in a building on in a Kail on South Fourth street. North Fifth street near Washing­ Later they worshipped in St. ton. In 1917 the church on Adams Stephens Episcopal church. The street was built, and in 1926 re­ present building was dedicated in built. Rev. C. R. Hooe is the pres­ 1919. The RL Rev. Fr. Stephen ent pastor. « « • Burdikoff is the minister. ^HE Mount Zion Baptist church *PHE Church of God In Christ; was organized in 1919 and for a was organised in 1928 by Elder time occupied a second story room Emmanuel Harris and occupied * on South Third street. The sec­ store room at Eighth and Kilgore ond lo^atioriwas sit North Seventh' streets. After an absence of sev­ i and Kilgore and several additions; eral years Elder Harris returned were made to this building, which in 1939 and in 1942 services began was remodelled in 1925. The base­ in the **Upper Room," the Polish ment of a new church has been hall, at Eighth and Washington finished and a superstructure will streets. In February 1947 the con­ be sdded in tjie future. Rev. J. M.' gregation occupied a new building­ iYooden iaJJie. pa*U^\ at 245 North Seventh street which is now being completed. M ' r-~ ' * .•* • ' ; —Chapter 11 The diocese was established Joseph i Johnson oi£v when the Holy See announced the 1945 inilloly Name catbf<^Kw''v redistribution of the portions of When appointed territory belonging to the Arch­ XII. Bishop Mussio' •tj4^ertimc His to ry diocese of Cincinnati and Diocese was the youngest Roiriin C&tholic of Columbus. Steubenville was bishop in the United States, be­ designated as ibt>?Episcopal city coming ordinary of the youngest Of City's with Holy Najn# CbUrqh, as the diocese in North America. cathedral* • * * * . During the interim ^irom No­ HMIREE years after Father Mc­ j Growth vember 1944, until May 1945, the Grady established St. Pius I diocese was governed $rst by Most church, Rev. Fr. James Conlon be­j| Catholicity Gained Hev. Edward Hettinger, D. D.t came pastor. He served for 10 j bishop of Columbus,'and later by years and his duties also included jj Foothold in Steuben­ Most Rev, Michael VJ. rReady. D. administration to a congregation; ville as Early as 1792 D.t bishop of Columbus, and ad­ at New Lisbon. ; ministrator by Apostolic designa­ In 1845 he Was succeeded by tion.'^ ^ * * .• * Rev. Fr. James Kearney, who was ATHOLICITY IN the great On March',40, 1945, Most Rev. followed, by Rev. F^XT. OTarrell. Cnorthwest territory found John King Mussio, D. D., J. C. D., He served until 18W when Rev. Fr. Emanuel Thicnpont became one of its first firm footholds then* chancellor of the ­Arch­ diocese of Cincinnati, received his pastor. in Steubenville and Jefierson appointment as Ordinary to the Rev. Thicnpont was a tireless 1 county as early as 1792—five See of Steubenville. > worker. He is reported in the ''Centennial History of Steuben­ I years before Bezaleel Wells t He was consecrated bishjpp ville" as "always in the saddle ! and James Ross founded this 1 Monicas cathedral; Cincinh3at^/n( looking after his large floating j thriving, industrial city, May 1, 1945. Most. Rev.^ Jol}n;>T/ population, and from thes^^b^ ob­ j which will hold its Sesqui McNicholas, O. P;;,S. T. tained most of the mearis/^wch ! Centennial and Veterans* bishop of Cincinnati, was th^con­ enabled him to tear dow^ the little I Homecoming celebration, July tecrator. Co­consecrators were old church and erect^V ;*tiew| ; 2­6. Bishop Ready of Columbus and t Holding the distinction of being Most Rev. George J. Rehring, D. i the first Catholic house of wor­ D., auxiliary bishop of Cincinnati. ^imrcfa.,t"v^The? C*urch ww. I ship in Steubenville is St. Peter's * * * •feje^^^}853."and^rte name wa^ I church which was founded as St. "OISHOP MUSSIO arrived In the 1 lefrtirtged'.to S|. Peter's. 1 j Pius church in 1832. From it were Episcopal city on May 22, 1945 r^Rev. Thien point's pastorale .ex­ I formed other _ amid a pretentious welcome. He 'tended to August 1865 when.Rev. ! Catholic par­ was installed; as bishop of Steu­ ,Ff\ William T. Bigelow1* "became : ishes, not only benville in Holy.Name cathedral •pastor. Father Bigelow died>£tiile 1 n Jefferson *y ^'Ar\ on May 23. <1945 by Archbishop pastor during the smallpox epi­ county, but McNicholas, who had first or­ 'demic of 1871. He established the also far be­ dained him to the priesthood on parish schools under the super­ yond its bord­ \2s; September 15, 1935, and who vision of the Sisters of Charity in ; ers. later was to consecrate him as 1868. Father Bigelow was succeeded Records re­ bishop. peal that missionary priests stop­ The Diocese of Steubenville em­ by his assistant. Rev. Fr. Thomas ped in Steubenville and surround­ braces 13 counties which lie along jTuomy. He died in December ing area as early as 1792 to admin­ the Ohio river in the state's min­ 1873. Rev. Fr. J. A. Murray then . ister to the Catholic settlers. ing and industrial belt. Having an became pastor; x serving until Among these pioneers was the area of 5,913 square miles, the August 1886 when­ the pastorate ! pious and learned priest, after­ counties are: Jefferson, Carroll, was assumed by R^v. Fr. H. B. ! wards a prelate of the Roman Harrison, Guernsey, Belmont Dues. He was succeeded in Jan­ Noble, Monroe, Morgan, Washing­ j Catholic church, Bishop Neumann uary 1877 by Rev. F^S]EL,Wisman. ton, Athens, Meigs, Gallia and * • of Philadelphia. Dominican missionaries laid the Lawrence. QN FEBRUARY 28,yas broken by Dean Hartnedy. ONvMAgfiMnr gT. ANTHONY'S—This Italian On July 5, 1905 the contract for .frpun^tior * the Catholic congregation had Its erection of Holy Name ^chool, .the pew church was awarded. The modest beginning in the basement erected ifV tost i«'$35,0 Father Paul Richter,. the as a temporary parochial school' the time was assistant pastor at present pastor, was appointed in with Dominican Sisters from .St. Holy Name. This year, Msgr. Gil­ 1935, succeeding Rev. Fr. Idone. Mary's of the Spring in charge. bert celebrated the twenty­fifth In the spring of 1885, a tempor anniversary oi his ordination. He ary church structure was erected was appointed pastor in 1927. and the church was opened July ; * * # 19, 1885. A few weeks later, Rev. f gT. STANISLAUS CHURCH— James J. Hartley, later bishop of . This PoJ^'sh Catholic cor^rega­ • Columbus, was appointed pastor. tion had Its Official beginning with At the time Father Hartley was as­ tft^appoinUnent of Rev. Fr. Cas­ sistant pastor of St. Peter's. This imfr'Smogor as pastor in July was the founding of Holy Name 1905. Before the close of that church and parish. year a frame church building was; Several years later Father Hart­ erected on property asquircd by a ley purchased additional lots on building committee on North South Fifth street adjacent to the street. The church was blessed church property. December 31, 1905. A new rectory On July ^0, 1898­Father Hartley was completed in 1910 and five informed lii$, parishioners of his years later the present brick intentions erect.a new church. church was constructed. Bishop Grouqd fqrthe church was broken Hartley dedicated the new church March 25,* 1899, and on June 11 October 8, 1910. Rev. Father John the cornerstone was laid by Very A. Turel. the present pastor, was Rev. F.*X. Specht, administrator appointed in 1937 after the death of the. Diocese of # ^Columbus— of Father Smogor. Bishop Watterson having died the previous April. On April 14, 1900, the Feast of, (the Maternity of the Blessed Vir­ gin, the church was consecrated by Bishop Moeller. later archbishop' of Cincinnati, under the special invocation of the Holy Name. On the day of its consecration the| church was free of debt. i •>W TT WAS Wells who furnished the rTHE first win probated before site lor the lirsl court house and * Wells February:27^. 1798. was —Chapter 12­ ;—~ jail and it was Wells again who that o! John Cross? \ T Cross gavte "all^tta^ court To that position he was ap­ carpenter and jpiner's toqjs on the History . pointed in 1797 and he served plantation and the' bed that is until >1803, when the territory be­ called the boys* bed to be given iah*r building for court house and Fall of 1797 ] from them to be divided amongst \ 1 * ;^£°al." | * J A year later Ward and Moody the two little girls and the rest of •QLAY1NG an interesting } were granted another $200 to have all my effects to be sold in three JL and vital role in the de­ ' the structure put in comfortable months after my decease and the velopment of Steubenville order. ' Steubenville's first trial came at which will hold its Sesqui Cen­ 1 the February 1798 terrn of court money divided—equally amongst tennial and Veterans' Home­ when John Jones, Jr., wt>n a ver­ John Polly and Betsy." , . coming celebration, July 2­6, , diet of $14.06 against James Hall. have been its attorneys and This historic jury panel included The first deed recorded in JtU * judiciary. And much might the names of Philip Cahil, Shad­ ferson county was given at Phila­ rack Newark, Joseph Ross. Jr., be chronicled in the colorful delphia in 1795 under the seal of history of the Jefferson Coun­ Kins Cahil, Ruse Prichard, John Schrimplin, William Schrichfield, George Washington. By it, Eph­ ty Bar with Steubenville as William Schrimplin, Thomas riam Kimberly received 300 acres the hub of judiciary activi­ Harper, Aaron Hoglapd, Robert of land for services In the Amer­ ties. .Newell and Thomas Bendure. ican Army. Law and the courts came to this The tract was located near In­ industrial city only a few months < j 'A MURDER, was the occasion for dian Short creek and says that it after Bezaleel Wells and James \ may include "where he resided, or Ross laid out the town and sold the first criminal trial. Cap­ tain Whiteyes. ­ an Indian chief, as convenient thereto as may be, the first lots 150 years ago provided he does not interfere The first was slain by a white man? A youth named Carpenter, son of a with any existing claim, location court was or survey." It was surveyed by held in the settler near West Point, now a part of Columbiana county, was­ Absalom Martin. j home of brought to trial for the killing. | * * * I Pioneer Jacob PEARLY marriages recorded in! w Whiteyes had stopped' at the Repsher, No­ the first county records were I Carpenter cabin. He was intoxi­l vember 2, Joseph Maker to Mary Finley, Oc­ cated, picked a quarrel with Car­1 1797. Grand­ tober 19, 1797, who were married penter, a lad of 17, and raised his ilouque n t 1 y by Zemas Kimberly. recorder. The tomahawk to strike the youth. titled the "First General Quarter marriages of William Bush to Sessions for the Peace for the Carpenter fled with the Indian Nancy Williamson and Richard County of Jefferson in the Terri­ in pursuit* Fearing he could not Hoglan to Elizabeth Miller were tory of the United States/ North­ outdistance the Indian, the youth solemnized January 25, 1798 by turned and shot Whiteyes. west of the Ohio River." it was Justice Humphrey. authorized by Winthrop Sargent, The killing had occured in a First prosecuting attorney was acting secretary of the territory. time of peace. Carpenter was Silas Paul, resident of Wills creek Three residents, Philip Cable, forced to prove his* story of self north of the city. "A quaint in­1 John Moody and George Humph­ defense. This he did successfuUy. dividual, carrying a cane and hav­ ries, served as judges and their But fear prevailed that the Indians ing his hair dressed in the queue," first act was to admit John Rolfe, might avenge their chief's death. he was appointed in 1802. His James Wallace and Solomon Sib­ To appease the anger of the red annual salary was $80 and was soj ley to the bar. men, the settlers presented them I fixed by the court. | Acting as prothonotary, or clerk, with gifts. Whiteyes' widow re­ Taxable property t returns for was the omnipresent Bezaleel . ceived $300, Bazaleel Wells con­ Jefferson county in 1799 listed 925 Wells. The original record of this tributing part of the money. heads of families, 181 single free­ and many other early sessions, in Early modes of punishment for men, 48,709 acres of woodland, 5,­ Wells' archaic handwriting, may „ law infractions included a whip­ 593 acres of cleared land, 1,159 be found in the time­browned ping post. This sentence was car­ horses, 2,080 cattle, a grist mills, 4 pages of Court Journal "A." filed ried out in Steubenville in the sawmills, 18 houses and 13 ferries. in the office of Thomas O. Mont­ •' ^»iare where the City Annex Early tax rates included a rate gomery, clerk of courts. builu..<£ now stands. . of 10 cents on each head of live­ * * * stock, 25 cents on each house, and one­half of one per cent on the appraised value of all mansion houses, lots, mills­ etc. * # * Judge Carl H. Smith became the * # ^HE first court house, a simple first Jefferson county common pORMAL organization records of log structure, was torn down in pleas judge who was assigned ex­ the Jefferson County Bar as­ 1807, and replaced In 1809 by a clusively to Jefferson county. He sociation cannot be located but it two­story brick structure. Built succeeded Judge Rees G. Richards may be said that it sprung from by Thomas Gray, its cost was $2,­ February 10, 1913. Messers Rolfe, Wallace and Sibley, 260.49 Vi. The court work in Jefferson i the three lawyers first admitted In 1804 the first log jail was county previous to 1913 had been! to practice law 15^ years fgo. torn down and a contract given to handled by two judges who worked | Its present officers are: James Samuel B. Fleming for construc­ in both Harrison and Jefferson f tion of another. It was a stone counties. Even before the days of structure with walls two and one­ the two­judge circuit, judges had S. Kimble, president; Lee Van Til­ half feet thick and heavy oak been elected to conduct court in burg, vice president; James H. doors hung on strap hinges. Its Jefferson, Harrison and Tuscara­ McHugh, secretary, and George cost was $2,337. was counties. A. King, treasurer. On its lower floor debtors were Judge Smith took the bench Members are Harry Chalfant^ confined for a number of years under provisions of the Ohio con­ until the court established an area stitution as amended by the Ohio Ted S. Cooper, Samuel Frefield. between Washington and Market constitutional convention of 1912. William S. Kerr, Fred C. Jones, streets, known as the "prison He served twelve years and was William C. Hayes, N. Hart Cohen, bounds." where persons im­ succeeded by Jay S. Paisley. Judge Bernard T. McCann, John Spon, prisoned for debt were allowed to Paisley served two terms of six John W. Porter, Lawrence M. travel, providing they gave bond years each, and was succeeded that they would not leave until the February 9, 1937, by Judge Arthur Sedgwick, WJ R^Alban; debt was paid. L. Hooper. Robert L. Quinn, S. C. Kerr, The present court house and Jail A legislative adopted in 1935 Earl B. McMaster, Stuart . More­ was completed in 1874 at a total provided a second common pleas land, John J. Griesinger, Robert L. cost of about $300,000. Now, woe­ judgeship for Jefferson county, and (Smith, Harold W. Murphy, Carl F. fully inadequate and delapidated, to this new office Judge Carl A. VUlebaugh, Clyde Chalfant Wil­ it is being remodeled to some ex­ Weinman was elected. He took of­ iliam Weinman; tent, at a cost of more than $20,­ fice the first Monday in January, ! Fred Stone, Henry Greenberger, 000. .. Robert J. An^lin, Hugo Alexander, William ; S. Becker, Randall^ L. COMMON pleas court was es­ T^HE rostexfT of the Jefferson tablished in each county under Bushanan, Joseph Freedman, Her­ county bar through the last man Pieros. Joseph R. Moscato, C. the constitution of 1802. Jefferson century and a quarter is marked B. McCann, L. M. Sedgwick, Jack county was included in a circuit |by brilliant members who have N. Berkman; with Belmont, Columbiana, and jrisen to high places in the state William M. Downer, Michael Trumbull counties. and nation. ( Button, Simon Carpino, William Most famous of all is Edwin M. Young Calvin Pease, of Trum­ Levinson, Walter ,C; Ong, Paul; Stanton, secretary of war in Lin­ bull county, was elected presiding Ward, Thomas J. Sherrard/.V vs judge by the legislature. His as­ coln's cabinet. v \ Jesse K. George, E. Stanton Admitted to the bar^^21/ii€ sociates were Philip Cable and Pearce, Edward McKinley, Nathan was elected in 1842 supreme, re­ Jacob Martin. Stern, Harry L. May, Amanada Z/ porter by the general assmbly.. In First regular term of court was Strayer, Joseph Curtain, Charles 1860 he was appointed attorney held in this city, August 2, 1803. A. Vail, W. I. Kinsey; v There followed through the nine­ general of the United States by W. C. Brown, Fred M. Coleman, teenth century a gradual evolution President Buchanan. Two years Ralph Levinson, M. N. X)uvall« < of the court system as the popula­ later he was made secretary of war John: Whdte, Hyman 6tern, yMar­ tion grew and the work of the ju­ of a nation, then in the throes of shall *' H. * 'Francis, William D. diciary mounted. the war of the rebellion. Downer, John E. Irvine, i Jefferson county was placed in The name of the "fighting" Mc­ Hawthorne. Thomas S. .Jones;mn£\ Cooks is still famous, in Jefferson» William F. Yonkee, Myron Cole­ the fifth circuit on January 24, 4 1834. It became a part of the fif­ county. ' Cdlonel Gedrge W. Mc­ man, Harold W. Murphy, Dominic teenth circuit six years later. Cook studied law with Stanton Bianco, James S. Sturgeon, Joseph The Cincinnati constitution of and afterwards became his part­ Pisarro, C. J. BorkowskL 'James 1851 divided the state into nine ner. Bruzzese, Joseph Freedman, Paul common pleas court districts. Jef­ Colonel'McCook was elected at­ F. Ward, Joseph Stern, A. G. ferson, Harrison and Tuscarawas torney general in 1853 and was a Leonard and Charles Pieros. counties comprised the third sub­ candidate for governor on the | Judges Arthur L. Hooper, Carl division of the eighth district. Democratic ticket in 1871. lA. Weinman, Emmett M. Morrow Later amendments made further Benjamin*. Tappan, an 'early and W. D. Downer are honorary shifts in the set ur>, the county be­ member of the bar, was appointed ^members. coming a part of the fourth cir­ U. S. Judge by President Jackson, cuit in 1852, and was changed to but the Senate failed to confirm the seventh circuit in 1884. the appointment. Tappan was Three years later the state was elected to the Senate of the United divided into seven districts. States in 1838 and served six years. '^­Chapter 1Z J>EOPLX had no idea whatever t>X a railroad and the experience* tha. officers of this com­ of th* eolieUors were quite em us History Inf. Some ol the farmers they in­ I^Dtiectors—Daniel Kilgore, John terviewed suppoeod the railroad James Means, William would be built In the air and thus Of Ci ty 's run above their farms wltheut in­ James Parks, Thontp­ terfering with their fields or stock. and William R. John­ It is not likely the promoters of the road took p ains to correct Dan 1*1 !Ul(or»; Growth L these Impression*. triXfri U. •**** Mr. Kilgore went to New York ~ adarlck D. Moody; chi«f «*i­ Railroad Plays Import­ on railroad business in 1631, and J. BUckaaadarlar; awlaUot while there died suddenly. He was r*. AbM U .rrwt rod ant Part in Develop­ succeeded by James Means as ^ .'addle* of Steubenvllle president. be found accoro­ Individuals and communities parofog this work, a map, that by subscribed liberally, the city and •aZamination will be found to very vita! factor in the indua­ township each taking $100,000 forcibly illustrate the vast tm­ trial development and stock, citliens probably as much pcHtxxcm of this roed," A doubt, the prospectus offered growth of Steubenville haa more. "A Short History of Steuben­ ttlrectory help to boost the been the railroad; and for the vtUe," published with a bus(pess galtf At stock* Jaat 04 years, trains have been directory for ths city in 1651 con­ r Dr^Pirks, who operated a dry tained the following extract from goo4r store on the northeast ecc­ 'pulling in and out of thia the first report of the board of Mtot rourth and Market streets, teeming, industrial city which directors of the railroed: toM A oyt to give his enUre time! will hold its Sesqui Centennial **The design of this road Is to , extend from Steubenvllle on the .sas!cr?rr and Veterans* Homecoming Ohio river to the Indiana state /aOtmD was brokan foe thej celebration. July 2­6. line, passing through Columbus ,N%6#w line in the south end of I W«yUilML Work j^ogreseed. During the period of its life the and forming part of the direct line city wan served by fuur rallroadi. betweeQ Pittsburgh, Cincinnati toWlfiittenUy until 1651. In that, three locomotives, n*me<. Today there are two branches of and St. Louis. The Pennsylvania Railroad com­ Tor this purpose a company Ifariliil Wells, James Ross and| ft^benrfUe, pulled into the city pany, and a branch of The Wheel­ was incorporated by an act passed ing and Lake by the legislature of Ohio, Feb­ gbd'troesed Market street, draw­ , Krie keeping ruary 24. 1848. conferring upon kigtw* cars. th* hfeblood said company all the privileges of 4 Irenes and cars as well as the j of trade mov­ the general, law of February 11. #*lfc­ 1 community life. from Steubenvllle to Columbus • CollUr U • spwch, The charter waa grsnted to must be constructed with low flwT^DutWrwl and th« Jamtt Wilson, grandfather of grades, and at a rood era W coat. oUWH, rtraanca wara.di*cb*rg»a President Wood row Wllaon; John boW­y jpWU Means, Nathaniel Diks, William which would necessarily be st­ McDonald, Daniel L. Collier, John treeled by thii roed, would msks Orr, John Andrews, David Mc­ it a profitable investment ct T*A'Cr»a wwur»loo followed. *TSa Oowin, Jsmes Qalisgher. Jsmes ciplUl Ml'ot tb« tr*ln n»akln« th» McKlnley, Roswell Marsh, Jsmes •Thirdly that—no other roed >ip frmt t)M road w«r« WU­ Turn bull and Alexander Doyle. can be constructed to divert from JUikW* an*l»^i C»>arU« There was plenty of enthusiasm this the travel and trade passing orth, flrasaa; 1 for the new venture. It was said from Central Ohio io the Atlantic m, jMltlmora, *oftdort* 4 but an equal lack of money ex­ cities. _ t KaUa, Wiitiwa* *' isted, as for two years the enter­ Tourthly that the natural di­ ;«M M prise languished. The yter 1650 rection of trade for the exports IhcTviA­thk trtto wjfrt. saw Abner Frailer, Jamea Parks and Imports of Central Ohio Is by , Un»Vy»*.'|^ ­.opa« to and others Including Daniel Kll­ this route. •The following gentlemen con­ gor*. a wealthy ciUien bf Cadis \ later* ­fc becoming interested In the under­ taking. Mr, Kilgore moved to Steuben­ villa and with Mr, Parka, can­ vassed the propoeed route solicit­ ing stock* rights of way, etc» A strip of land wars purcu«.sf" , A POSTER with, a picturc 01 it ^ .bu­Uie bUrubeiiviile line stoppeu locomotive and cars of the day, for the right of way and con­ >t Newark and arrangements were S1 ruction of the road was under­ quaint enough with the smoke made whereby its trains were per­ stack of the engine approximating tnken by Colonel John W Geary, mitted to run over the O. afterward* a prominent Union the size of^ the ,boiJer and making tracks to Columbus. a huge inverted cone, announced soldier and governor Ptnnsyl­ 4 • First agent of the road in Steu­ 1 the opening c& the road. benville was Francis A. Wells. He vania. * * . "First NotKe" was the caption The road was opened July j had charge of both the passenger 1854 Two hundred excursionists of the postfc#,*nd there followed: 'and freight business. He was sue­ "Office of the S. & I. R. R. Co., were transported across the river Steubenville, December 17, 1853. by a steamer to make the lirst The company intends running a ceeded M* Join t. !Nei5«ln 1 ^ trip T. K. McCann had charge ol train of passenger and freight 1856 bpMtnb the train. Stops were made *re­ cars between Steubenville and pjacc>'vttaifuk >n by.hiisw J* wji \jucnOy'­to; put the locomotive Union Port commencing on Thurs­ Thc bualhtss aoe aWaed in 1 )6& | back'­on tW'Xrick. day, December 22, 1853. in tilktl "Time of starting trains: west­ AlthoiiglT1 Very , little business ward—leaving Steubenville sta­ ,was"clone by~flie line, it enjoyed tion at 8 a. m., and 2 o'clock p. m. the ol being Eastward—returning will leave if^st train through to Pitts­ Union Port (Sec. 20) at 10 o'clock burgh made the­trip­in Octo­ ihe Ortirailroad Iri the country a. m., stopping at^ intermediate 'ber, 1865. In the meantime the constructed as a private enterprise stations, both going and returning. "without ­a charter,or a right of Steubenville and Indiana railroad 1 "Fare through from Steuben­ had extended its tracks from way. ' ville to Union Port, 60 cents. For Washington street yard through How&r*r a line to the aast was any distance within the limits of the north end of the city to the realized, when la IU1 work of three miles, not less than 10 west end of the river bridge. building the bridg» acroea the cents; and over that distance at General offices of the road were riv*r\ for th4 SteubeovJIle and ' the rate of three cents per mile, set up in the residence of Wil­ Pittsburgh railroad was begun. A stopping at the following points liam Drenncn on North street ^ charter for this road had beetv ging and returning: which had been acquired when granted by tfte Pennsylvania 1H' "Stations — Mingo, Section 3; property was purchased for the iststure oo March 14, 184t. Opposition of Virginia and the Goulds, Section 5; West End, Sec­ I eastern outlet. The freight offices outbreak of the Civil War hind­ tion 8; Smithfield Crossing, Sec­ of the Pennsylvania railroad are ered the operations. Work, we* i tion 11; Reed's Mills. Section 14; j now located in that building. *u*p«xJ«d efter the construction ; Bloomfield, Section 18; Union < Although the machine shops ol an abutment and several pier*. Port, Section 20, | *, were removed to Dcnnison, the On March >0, IMO, the Holliday* For further particulars call at: car shops were enlarged and the Cove railroad wa® incorporated, the company's office, Washington icity became quite a railroad cen­ and later oo work oo the bridge street between Sixth and Seventh ter. A new freight shed Mfith of­ was renewed. The structure was streets in Steubenville, or inquire fices had been erected on the east completed and opened for traffic . of the conductor on the train at side of the track on Washington ^arty in 1868. AD minor lines Union Port. Passengers are par­ street and this was also used as were gradually consolidated ^|th ticularly requested to purchase a temporary passenger station, the P. C. C, * St. U railway. their tickets. at the office before succeeded by a small frame struc­ The Cleveland and Pittsburgh taking seats in the cars.—Israel ture on North street; road was extended through ftteu­ i Pemberton, Chief Eng. ^nd Supt, As late as 1900, four lines benville in the fall of 1856. The S. 6c I. " served this city. The Steubenville Pittsburgh, Wheeling and Ken­ * * and Indiana railroad became the tucky. road to Wheeling was THE company pur­ Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St. i opened on February 24, 1871. The 1 ch dence of David Louis railroad, now the Penn­ Wheeling and Lake Irie was ex­ , Mood n street, for a sylvania. The Wheeling branch of toded to this city oo November depot s grounds were the Pennsylvania with a stop at 20. 1890. ' converted ards. round house « # « • East Steubenville. was the Pitts­ rr*HX Centennial souvenir of 1897 and machine shdps. Location of burgh, Wheeling and Kentucky, 1 the car shops on the Means prop­ reports that there ware aevea road. Shere was the Cleveland pasaenger stations at the, time erty between Market and Wash­ and Pittsburgh road, still known ington streets. The double parlors within the city. These Included as the C^& P. and the Wheeling a branch lloe that was buUtDwn of the dwelling w^re used for a and Lake Erie branch which still StaubeovlUa to New Cumberland ticket office ana waiting room and carries freight into Steubenville. in ;tt7 and * later extended to the general offfeff­'were'­ located x­ * * Chester, W. Va. upstairs. A car • aeived for a JgACK In 1853 wheti Vhir Steu­ freight depot untlfUi cojrered shed benville and Indiahaf&nt ttas was erected w^sUCjf fthe'dwelling. starting \yestward(I XbfXf First recorded! shipment visions of a through IW on. the line wdtff ffbmHHtill, Wood east to west. However, political & Co., December 853, to Wil­ opposition and hostile influences liam and'J. Hervey,' Union Port. would not permit the Steubenville The shipment Included one bag company to cross the West Vir­ coffee, one barrel molasses, one ginia panhandle. For this reason, barrel mackrel and two boxes in July 1863, Jesse Edgington of candles. Hollidays Cove, Nathaniel Wells Gradual progress was made on and some Pennsylvanians the extension of the line. Newark, launched a project to build a six­ 117. miles west of, this city, was mile railroad from the upper end reached on April 11, 1855. Here of this city to the Pennsylvania the company encountered the state line as a private enterprise. Central Ohio railroad which al­ ready had a tr,ack between New­ ark and Columbu^. * WltMllnfl Md t>k« trU Una, I*U­ ro*4 nHm to •UulxK'flW lor '(hit U«t >6' jritin bm b—ri~ prt» vW«d •ttludr.ly \j th»'fWm­ •jlranla raUraad. Tba pi —fit p««MfVt«r (tatlM wu atactad fa JUL "WlO> tha ptak4 ** 'thrni Itetf aa4 branch traiaa, r«pi*o*d bjr bua •anrle^ tha «UUoq at JU*f» and IteW •baat.haa baMekttiM eoljr raU» road dapot af thq cttjr, '• , Ttxl«7, tb* ' |iiMMi|*r 'Trort Staubaavflto lua at hla dW>o*l naiiotwflj known train*. ­ rut fral«fct aarvlca U 'anothar fwmi)1»wli Mm, wd, t"™" Ibal tatilltiaa At StaubairrtBa art tKtUwl roarUao can **7 •** hwM and onloadad fimul­ linwu«l| IniVU. a wwtbCUH wfaioh bM 10,7*0 aquara laat of .floor apaca ind pmrita WO laat oI truck loading platform. An­ additional 40 can may t» unloaded and loctUd from to*m tracks which arr avtlUbta to any i««lvtf or shipper ct or JoU.' Thm ar« locaUd «t various points la tb* btwlnees —ctioo oi tho City. Tracks of lh# Faonayiv*nla •*­ tend Into tb« city's sU«l mHI yards and to th« winhomii of its othor major . Induatriaa. in*v' * * * City, Diurnal tnd others. Capt. ' ,T ONG before white men settled —Chapter 14­ Batchelor commanded the Alle­ # in the great Ohio country, the gheny of the famoua daily Cincin­ ! majestic river was important as nati line composed of the Keystone History means of transportation and com­ State, Cincinnati, Brilliant, Pitts­ munication. The Iroquois used it> burgh, Messenger Number Two in their forays. The Indian canoe and Buckeye State, boats whose Of City's became the first vessel used by speed record had never been ex­ white man for traffic on its celled by their successors. In 1897 waters. the Cincinnati line was composed Grow th .The canoe was succeeded by the of three ­steamers. The newest keel boats, toWed byvthe boats­ was the Queen City. men from the shpre b^ long ropes Ferry boats here, above and be y Ohio River Contributed I or propelled by poles. The keel low Steubenville, played an im­ Much in Development boats were the forerunners of the portant part in river transporta­ steamboats. 1 tion for years. The upper ferry 'of Steubenville The first packet line between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati was es­ prtsenc';Fort tablished in 1794, with four keel •Steuben'bridge. .It was a cable HE Ohio river, one of the boats of 20 tons each, making the •ferry, ?Mr. Halltck great waterways of the | round trip in four weeks. As early over fifty year* ago; It was sold United States, has played a as 1801 steam as a motive power ;in 1907 or 1908 ttt HAtry Lowe. He T was talked of on the Ohio. In major role in the industrial : operated it .until it was sold to the development of Steubenville, October, 1811, Robert Fulton's i Butte brother#, It continued sn steamer "New Orleans," left Pitts­ : operation until the paved road be­ as welLas^contributing glow­ burgh on its initial trip and in­ ing pages ­to 'its­tale of ad­ tween East Steubenville and Weir­ i augurated the era of steam. "ton was built.' v* venture and romance which : ­ The middle ferry was the steam­ will be recalled during the :ut*eo­ boat side­wheeler, Nathaniel, op­ Sesqui Centennial and Veter­ _ , , 18^0 erating from Market street Just ans' Homecoming celebration, I Xrthur, Phillips and ElijeK.MyrraS:­ ; south of the bridge, and owned July 2­6. ' Built the Bezaleel WeM^V •by William Wells and his brptber. ­ <4La Belle" tiyer the French made its debut on the ifvelfj' •Their father owned it before tl)em. | called the broad, 'swift­flowing brick chimney. She ­When the Market street bridge, stream. The Indians, called it O­ the river and struck tne. •was opened in 1905 it was sold to hee­yah, the beautiful river, on where her chimney fell downi ,.Ii ;the bridge company and abpn­ was repaired, and started on a trip whose western bank arose a foit, a tdoned. _. . teeming fron­ to Pittsburgh.' Her owners were 5 :;The lower ferry left the Ohio t i e r s e ttls­ Samuel Chapman. Adam Moder­ •bank from a point s6uth of Wells ment, and well and Mr. Wells. Arriving at ?Run and landed at the Seeley farm then a pros­ Pittsburgh the brick chimney was ;in West Virginia, south of . Bates replaced with an iron one. She perous, indus­ 'rjin. •/ trial city. then went to^uisville and was : * * * The Ohio sold. , 'TflFTY years ago the Ohio river river is con­ . Steubenville boat yards turned bank in the vicinity of the out other boat*, with more success, sid ered the •Market street wharf was fre­ most unique In the United States. among them the Congress, Aurora, quently a site of teaming activity. It is the only.river of any sizej Steubenville and others. They The packet, Keystone State, men­ east of the Rocky mountains that were all 60 to 90 feet keel, 14 to 16 tioned earlier in this account ar­ flows from east^to west. To the feet beam, three to four feet open rived at 3 p. m. eachiTuesday, en early explorers and settlers it of­ i hold, single < engine and side fered means of traveling almost ' wheels. Prominent in river traf­ i route fr<*A Cincinnati to PitU­ y 1,000 miles inland by water with fic in those days were the Lu­ Sirgh. ' She stopped on the dWP" the aid of a current when there cases, Shouses, Wintriogers, Dohr­ rive* trip abou^ill j< were no roads or railroads. mans. DoylesM Roberts, Devennys, 51X, The^'Vlr^^J Batchelors and O'Neals. x The river was a mystery to leach*Thursday at Local packets began to run as nigh geologists for many years. At first ldown|Friday ^j8^u each they could not explain why the early as 1831. The U. S. Mail ' Ohio flowed from east to west plied regularly between Steuben­ | while all the other rivers flowed ville, Wellsville and Wheeling. In north or south, following lines of 1837 the Steubenville was put in trade between here and Pittsburgh between Parkersburg and Pitta j ranges of hills that also ran north by Captain Boggs and others. I, iburgh. She was owned ^ | and south. h It was only about 50 years ago Coming afterward were the Wa­. Pope ot the Parkersburg DocM bash, the Cabinet, the Viroqua W I that geologists solved the "mys­ company, and ^ °u'°was [ tery." They decided the Ohio was and the Convoy. trips a week. The * * * * VP river on Sunday* ! created indirectly by the gttcters QTEUBENVILLE parties con­ Sesdays, and'down on Mondays This is also why the Ohi6 so j ^ trolled the * Pittsburgh and and Thursdays. The Green packet I many curves arid bends as it flows 1 Wheeling trade in the fifties by .lines operated the Kanawa ind i westward to " the "Father of the fast jiderwheelers, Forest ; Waters"­r­the Mississippi. « • • ; later the Greenland, AH these 'TODAY the river U used ** land. In later years­the Maikle .boats were side­wheelers, with the . \i important means of transpor­ exception of the Greenland, which tation of iron ore, steel, .co^l ^nd boats. inclM^ljuL the Gpldca­Jlod. was one o( the earliest stein­ gasoline. Lock .10 was.byilt^bove ' '?Th« last show boat tovj&Jesr at wheelers. Hundreds of people Steuben villa' in 1910, •. , iv Steubenville was during the sum­ rode on these packets, not only lor The various . locks at .atrattglf mer of 1936. business trips, but for summer places up and , down >4he ..river make it possible to regulate* the * • • vacations. QNE of the greatest tragedies in One packet boat operated on the volume of water so as to permit river history occured below Ohio between Pittsburgh and| travel of boats during dry seasons. Marietta, then up the Muskingum Boats ply the river almost every Mingo Island, July 4, 1882. An ex­ to Zanesville. This was the Lo­ month of the year. Rarely is the cursion* steamer#, the Sciota, from rena. owned and operated by Capt. river in this area ice­locked. Last East Liverpool^ had slopped at Francis of Marietta, When the winter boats were off the river for Steubenville* ttkem on all the pas­ only about two weeks, , sengers she' :hf& foundry tion in their wake, crested at 52.6 dustrial wastes' were then un­ was another large sftfpdfer. feet at U. S. Lock 10. It has gone known, ' " The wharf was 46f fwt by 156 on many flood sprees with the Under'1 terms of a seven­state feet. At times, the^yolUme of first flood being recorded Novem­ pact, Ohio river cities and com­ freight was so larg«*:.that the ber 10, 1810 when the crest was munities from Pittsburgh to Cairo wharf was filled an^^iveiflowed. 48.2 feel. The flood stage for today are going to be required to Much livestock was?hlrij(lea on the Steubenville is 32 feet. provide adequate sewage disposal river and the bawling of cattle, * * * systems." When these installations the oinking of pigs ahd the clatter "pAVORITE swimming holes of chickens contributed much in are complete, dumping of indus­ forty or fifty years ago were the way of sound effect to the trial poisons, sewage and other the Mud Hole below Slack street, steady hum of river traffic. waste products will be forbidden. The first gasoline ­ powered the "breakers," below the La Belle After the anti­polution project in the old sixth ward, the motor boat Yaf ^brought to Stcu mill is completed the river again is ex­ "initial rock," across from Wash­ benville by Haffy­Lowe. She was pected to­become a paradise for a pleasure^ bflpt^ and plied the ington street and the old tipple at fishermen, a water course for nearby riv^ic history of this water would then be passed along gine wa*wrcl}ased « Wiikffit' at bustling industrial city which the line of men to the point of th< , the Reliance house. will stage its Sesqui Centen­ fire. .When emptied, the buckets j Organization of the paid fire de­ w.ere then 'returned along the sec­ j ; partment took place on March 0, nial and .yeterans' Homecom­ x>nd line composed .0$ women and ] 1885, after the destructive fires at ing celebration, July 2­6. children, . j the United States hotel and two For the first 25 years of Steu­ f* T " "~ > j other places. The iirst members of benville's existence the only VfQN'January 27, 1852. Council >" the paid department 1vere Edward means resident**bad of fighting I vpassed an ordinance to protect j:Nicholson, fire m^hall'; Phoenix fires was by %ay of the old bucket the­city:against fire. The.measure^company: Patrick jMc^ay, fore­ bridage. UnlekrHames were dis­ provided a number oi rules *andTjman; b., Martin^'hoseman; covered regulations for the government of, j Homer Permar, engineer, and Wil­ brought untief3C£5»; volunteers and citizens in general! Json Barrett/driver. control quic" at fires;•>­ Firemen were exempt, For the Reliance ' company, ly by this a from work along the highways,! Frank Weaver, was foreman; Wil­ cient methi and citizens were required to aid liam Call end ine, hoseman; Henry total damag^ in extinguishing fires.. Any person Teaff, engineer; Benjamin Win­ was the who refused was liable 41o a fine ters. driver, and Benjamin Oving­ suit. ­ ^ of $50. ton foreman of the hook and lad Sensing th4 Council then annually,appointed cr def. ' . need for ^*tJ V^re fighting a fire warden for each ward. It , 1 During the history of fire fight­ apparatus, citizens held a was his duty to inspect all build­•; ing in Steubenville four men have meeting in 18i^pend directed the ings and see that ,all rules, and ; lost their lives at fires. The first Select Council to purchase a fire regulations' were complied ;with. .was Alexander Bickerstaff who engine. The apparatus was ai Three fire­directors were, also ap­ was killed "at the U. S. hotel fire small hand affair and was housed; pointed/ It "was their duty to at­ when a wall from the Cochran in a one story frame building lo­' building fell on him. Patrick cated on the' west side of North J ^ tehd all fires and direct the course j McKay died from the results of in­ Third street next to the county; juries received at the Klienman's jail. . ! of .the fighting. The authority of the director at a fire was absolute. store fire on Market street; Mi­ A second hand operated engine chael McGraw was fatally injured was purchased and added to the • Officials of the volunteer fire department were requiredjo wear at the Ohio Foundry, fire, in 1889 growing fire department. This en­ • and Henry. Bawman ^a* ,suffo­ gine was kept in a building on. their uniforms aL all fires or* pay a $5 fine. X?\ \ cated April 12, 1918 when flames North Fourth­** street between swept Erwin's wallpaper stort .on Washington and*M*rket streets, i The fire director I rfCharge­w­ The fire department in the early * Fire s fhiefs days of the clty^depended entirely ried fe trumpet. Each. of *he Sub­ Nicholson, who upon volunteers. At the sound of 6, 1891 were: W. ^Jjprun^.ap­ 1 ordinating directors Vefe^om­ an alarm men In areas at or near • ­. * An pointed ^Feb^ary 17^.1891, , re­ the fire stations would drop what­; pelled tp wear a white scarf On signed November 1, 1918; Edwatd ever they were doing and hurry to,itheir hats with the inscription J. Green,. appointed November 1. answer the call ' designating their office. 1918, resigned March 31, 1945, and # * The linemen wore badges and the present chief Michael J. Cody, TN 1833 a third fire engine was carried * staffs painted black with appointed April 16, 1945. added indirectly to the depart­ the exception of one foot. at the *>V. * * ' \ I ment when a rotary outfit oni end which was painted white. rpHE first mojtor truck was bought wheels was purchased by C. C. They wore white scarfs on their for the firedepartjnent in 1?J3.; Wolcott for his factory. This fire hats, as did also the hook and lad­ It had a 750jgallon pump and a 40 gallon chemical* tank. The engine was not only used by the der men. Wolcott concern, but*t every fire To complete the setup Council truck carri«d»,?00 feet of hos^ A in the city. Two large­hand en­ 'second truckwas purchased a year directed that four linemen, eight later. Before the motor fleet was gines known as the­ R^lf^nce and ladder men* and eight hook men the Phoenix were obtain*^ by the be appointed. The duty of the inaugurated, the horse f city in 1846. f . linemen was to form the people in j chemical wagons required from 20 line and keep them busy swinging to 25 minutes M to answer alarms buckets oI water. >1 hilltop., 3/ A $35,000 bond issue.'«vas voted in 1021 to buy riore *tr de­ I ices other than that of onlyjex­ partment. ' t . , tingulshing jfires,\ The Reliance While fire fighting equipment was added through the years, the I station has ^the ' most modern alarm system was also strength­ resuscitation devices and is ; ened. The first telegraph system | thoroughly prepared for first aid was installed in 1888 with 28 •and rescue work. • *. boxes in service. * By 1020 there * • # ! were 62 alarm Stations on the cir­ j cuit. A $90,000 system with 133 *HE present personnel of the fire fire alarm' boxes was then in­ department consists of Chief stalled. Y.~.. »M. J. Cody; Harry A, Shouse, and Prior to l6l3,the westerly por­ (Allen E. Taylor, assistant chiefs; • tion of the city known as La belle View and Pleasant Heights were George fatterson, Harry J. Wil­ serviced by ,two volunteer fire de­ liams, Williani S. Ross, Dean H. partments, Aldridge Ernest S, Schroeder, and # Ralph A. Lonetto,­captains; Frank J)UE to the rapid growth and ex­ J. Spence, mechanic, «rtd firemen pansion of the city, it became Matthew J. Fiest, Richard Clap­ necessary to occupy the Pleasant rood, Edmund McMenamin, Walter . Heights fire station with a com­ E. Greene, Walter H. Lotzgeselle, pany of firemen in 1922. The James V. Gilette, Alfred O. Pan­ opening of the LaBelle View lire ebianco. Howard J. Kessler, Ste­ station was made inf 1028.' fr' " phen A. Konicki, Bernard J. Lip­ At the pjresent time, ^hc^Steu­ pert, Fred Hurand, George W. benvilie fire department has seven Taylor, Gorman E. Nolan, Clifford pieces of apparatus consisting of Long, John Schaefer, Martin E. two 1,000 gallon pumpers, one 750 Polen, Edward F. Lewis, Harry A. gallon pumper, one 75 foot aerial, ; Bucey. Charles G. Barton^ one service car, one chiefs car, S. Spence, John R. Lewi^ jijyfafct' and one .small emergency truck. Two 750 gallon triple combination Kuckifes, pumpers, and a 75 foot power ac­ tuated aerial truck • are now on George Monad^V^.alter J^Cybul­ order. When the new equipment skl­and 1 is received, the department will . be one of the mpst. modern in the ! state. > / £..?#; The greatest fire ti^t, the history of Steubenville' topk'fjlace at the W. T. Grant store, •February 27, 1935. Loss was fcet ^at $270,000. Other gfeat fires Vere the Lind­ say fire in Au^ust7of^893; Hartje Paper company, of September 22, 1893, and June 13f'l910; Metten­ berger livery stable, ^%nuary 25, 1903; Stanton Motor , company, April 7, 1925; Ohio ' Foundry, August 19, 1910; Reiner's store, April 1, 1925; Herald Square, Juno 1, 1923, and the Imperial Glasi company, June 14, 1908.'* The Steubenville fire depart* ^ onu/yiu 10— 'J I1C OillCli*! ICCtMUN Ol relief purpo^s.**^At^Vthe4­ Qipi cccdinga of City Council covering 3 every regular meeting and special Council alfto $$ meeting, arc alsox kept In the cus­ owed by the Hf story tody ol the Clerk of Council. The ment item fornltem^e tardiaUry proceedings are contained in 18 items of expense wattoliarnstt re­ volumes beginning with the year pairs .horse feed, and' repairs* to Of City's 1825. The early Council proceed­ gasoline street lamps. , ings arc inscribed on fine Steuben­ In early days, the balancingiW ville made stationery In flowing the city budget was Just as slridus Gro w.t h longhand. The binding of the as the same problem is today/ At volumes in which the proceedings j that time Council determined the Records of Steubenville are kept are of rough unfinished! rate of taxation to be levied to leather and have withstood hand­ cover city expenditures and Were Municipal Business ling of over 100 years. not limited by any state statutes. Date Back to 1825 The records of the proceedings In other words, if they determined of Council are valuable. They are that it would require 12 mills often consulted by attorneys­In levied on city property to produce TEUBENVILLE'S munici­ matters of litigation .involving sufficient income, then 12 mills S pal affairs for more than tome action ot Council concerning was levied. The state of Ohio now 100 years are .recorded in Installation of streets, sewers, the limits to 10 mills the smount acceptance of subdivisions, the which City Council can levy. If I some 14 volumes , now treas­ creation of alleys or the vacating governmental costs show the need ured in a fire­proof vault at of same ate. of additional millage, the council city hall. They­are in custody must ask the voters to vote the of the clerk of City Council, The records »lso are entertain* levy on themselves. Ins to the student of government Among the first minutes of the who has permitted use of the and to those of us who are fond town trustees is a notation that rare volumes for reference in of saying that history repeal it­ writing the history of this in­p*olf For instance the dispoul of authority had been given to pro­ garbage and rubbish has been a cure "a book to keep proper record dustrial city which will hold of proceedings and ordinances." its Sesqui Centennial and Vet­ problem recurrent through the years. The present Clerk of Council erans' Homecoming celebra­ Cathryn Shavinsky has a complete N Protests on the part of City tion, July 2­6. Council to administrative officials card index of every ordinance or The records date back to 1825. concerning lack of cooperation in enactment passed during the en­ Because state statutes requires the enforcement of city ordinances oc­ tire history of Steubenville. The Clerk of Council to keep two sep­ curred as often in and around the file is cross indexed. At a mo­ arate records of legislative enact­ 18A0's as they do in the Council ment's notice it can be ascertained ments, the original ordinances as meetings of today. if any Council ever passed an or­ passed by council are filled in one Example: "In August of 1881, i dinance on any given subject and cabinet. "Council moved that the police! whether it has been repealed or Copies of the committee be instructed to inter­ | Amended. This index is of im­ or(*i nances view the executive and police j measurable benefit to attorneys are then made authorities and demand a rigid] and officials. and filed in enforcement of all laws and or­ large perman­ dinances restricting the blockading ent record of streets and alleys by vehicles; congregating of vehicles for hire a i . Council meets books. The twice a* month in the city's record books At other points than those desig­ nated by ordinance*, blockading council chahabers. During the fire also kept In a lire­proof safe. day, the. chamber is used for ses­ Four times during the history of of sidewalks­ removing of awnings, throwing balls on the streets, and sions of' municipal court. Council Steubenville city ordinances were ®all other ordinances in effect and also has a modernly furnished recodified. This tremendous task that the police committee report room where committees meet. took place in 1890, 1906, 1919 and to Council any failure on the part Most of the work of Council is 1931. At the present time, the of the executive and police au­ done in cohimfTOes to which all legislative enactments are in the thorities to enforce said ordin­ matters are referred. They are process of being recodified once ances and that the authorities be then presented Ho Council. again. The latest ordinance to be required to give a plausible reason Council proceedings in the very | completed deals with the city's for non compliancy in the matter early dajra^ai revealed by the. traffic laws which bccame effec­ hereafter. ancient yohjmes, . indicate that I tive April 24, 1947. W. B. Donaldson, president of some of the selectmen and council | When the traffic ordinance was Council. James M. Reynolds, clerk members f ttt>k' their legislative , re­cnactcd, it was made to con­ of Council. 1 duties morf .lightly* .than at pres­, form with the uniform code of the The prefent Council orders the j ent. There is recorded on several; state of Ohio. Now the city boasts same sort of communication* writ­ occasions',­ that'the president of of one of the most up to date traf­ ten to the chief executive con­; council ordered the town marshall fic codes of any community in cerning the enforcement of ord­; to compel'the legislators to attend i nances. I Ohio. / the meetings to secure a quorum. » * # As a contrast in the past six yearsj ly^ANY amusing obsclele ordin­ * * * the modern city council has had a ances still remain on the city's rjURING the years of 1880 quorum appear at every council ordinance books. For example through 1890 poor reilef was meeting. Sec. 402 provides "If any common administered directly by city The old volumes of the city are street beggar, an habitual disturb­ councilmen. Council then author­ highly prized. Notations through er of the peace, any gambler or ized payment to the councilmen the book show that the paper was thief, any wa£ch staffer, any ball for any sum they had paid out for game player found wlthir^the lim­ ,*wrrmm***­ its of the city, shall be subject to arrest and a .line not exceeding *50." produced by James Turnbull. p. M, Gruber, 1890; W. R. Along with H. H. Leavitt; John goyne, 1891; D. J. Sinclair. 1892; Hells, S. Hill and David Moody, Winfield Scott, 1893 to 1895; T. B. Turnbull nerved as a trustee, lore­ Wright, 1896; T. J. Sarratt, 1897; runner of city councilman. B. J. Armstrong, 1897; W. Gal­ * * # lagher, 1899 to 1900; Winfield 'T'HE records of Council show that Scott, 1901 to 1909; J. J. Dillon. 1910 to 1911; Harry Wood6, 1912 'from 1825 to 1829 the Board of lo 1913; Lon W. Ralston. 1914; Selectmen was elected. In 1830, Raymond Teaff, 1915; Joseph M. new articles of incorporation pro­ Bueche, 1916 to 1923; I*ank B. vided for the selection of mayor. Alexander Sutherland was first McCuUough, 1924 to 1925. mayor unddr the new articles. Edward J. Sanders, 1926; Walter In 1850. provisions for a selec­ Sterling, 1927; Frank S. Fach, tion of mayor, Council, Prisedent 1928 to 1931; Simon Loftus, 1932 of Council and Clerk of Council to 1933; Charles Baker, 1934 to were made. George* Mason was 1935; Harry A.'Zink, 1936 to 1939; the first mayor under the new Wilmer D. Brashear. 1940 to 1945, . charter. The first President of and Stanley F. Slee, 1946. Slee is j Council was Thomas McGrew and president of council at the present j the first Clerk, John McCracken. lime. Other mayors following Mason • # * * were: Eli Tappan, 1852; John (^LERKS of Council: John Mc­ Shane, 1853; John Patterson, 3854­ ^ Cracken, 1850 to 1856; GeorRe 1856; F. H. S. Grainer, 1857­1859; Fickes, 1856 through 1868; S. M. John Patterson, 1860 to 1863; Junk­ McBeth, 1869 to 1876; George E. in, 1864­1866; Elliott, 1867­1868; Harper, 1877 to 1884; J. M. Reyn­ Love. 1869­1871; William Camp­ olds, 1885 to 1896; George Mc­ bell, 1872; Elliott. 1873­1875; J. F. Cracken, 1897 to 1899; W. J. Wilk­ Oliver, 1876­1877; John Irwin, ins, 1900*; W. M. Trainor, 1901 to 1879­1882; James McConville, 1910; Hugh W. Patterson. 1910 to 1883­1885. 9 1915; Charles R. Wells, 1914 to Henry Opperman, 1886­1889; 1S22; Thomas Porter, 1923 to Brock Brashear, 1890; James 1938; Joe Desha Smith, 1938 to Marion, Barclay Scott; William 1941; Donald Overmyer, 1941; > Riley, 1895­1898; John P. Means. Frank Bougher, 1942, and Catheryn 1899­1902; Robert I. Scott, 1903­ Shavinsky, 1942. Miss Shavinsky 1907; Thomas W. Porter, 1908­ is the present clerk. 1913; George McLeish, 1914; Lon * # # # H. Ralston, 1914­1915; W. C. Mc­ IJISTORY of postal service in Master, 1916­1917; Frank W. Feist, Steubenville began September 1918­1921; Frank A. Hawkins, 7, 1802 with the appointment of 1922­1925; John H. S. Patton, 1926; John Galbraith as the first post­ Edward J. C. Sander. 1926­1927; master. Others who served as the Oliver R. Conley, 1928­1931; City'i postmasters were David James McMaster, 1932­1935; Earl Larimore, January 15. 1814; Wil­ D. Applegate, 1936­1939; James T. liam Cable. July 30, 1838; William Welsh, 1940­1943; George W. Collins, May 15, 1841; Whitacre Floto, 1944­1947. O'Neal, June 24, 1845; Francis A. • # * Wells, March 30, 1849; Thomas j PRESIDENTS of Council and Brashear, April 8, 1853; George ! their terms: Thomas McGrew, B. Filson, April 1, 1861; James M. 1851 to 1855; Joseph Means, 1856 Reed, May 15, 1869; Frank O'Neal, to 1867; James Wyatt, 1868; W. R. January 14, 1878; George Moore, ElUott, 1869; W. J. Spence. 1870; March 18, 1886. ' — r James F. Sarratt, March 4. 1890; James Trotter, April 17, 1894; Spaul&ing!" 1«7 Ai" 1874 Martin L. Miller, March 16, 1898; GoWan'; lfctS* 'Jime« Munk«rf­,"1876 , Mexander Sweeney, April 6,' to 1884; W, P. Donaldson, J885 Jo vv 1906; Fannie L. D. Sweeney, June 1888; be9rg4 faenry, 188®. 19, 1912; Richard Gilson. July 16, 1912; Henry H. McFadden, March i I 29, 1916; Richard Gilson, June 5, 1924; Edna M. Gilson, November J, 1926; Frank W. Feist, March 12, , 1936; Anna B«Ue Feist June 16, 1939; George W. Conroy, April 1, 1940. .f WV, ­Chq^ter^­^ COON after the Steubenville of­ "Enough subscribers have been i fice wu opened, the line was, secured for the telephone ex­ j extended* to Wheeling,. Zaaccyllk change and work will be com­ j HsistQiriy and other western points. When mcnced as soon as possible to put , a flood carried away the line be­ up wires nnd Instruments. The ' tween this city and Wheeling In following is a list of subscribers: . Of City's 1852, an emergency station was set Jefferson Iron Work* and Office, up In HollMays Cove. Messages Jefferson stoics, G. G. Gaston, W. were dispatched to the downriver R. Peters, Steubenville Coal and G r o'W:t h city by steamboat. Mining company. McGowan '•V <• • • —" •­ V Most famous messenger boy of brothers. Herald office, J. T. the Steubenville office was An* Campbell and company, W. L. Electric'Powenin Key drew Carnegie. It was the mem­ Sharpc and Son, mayor's office, ' Role in Development ories of ' his experiences here, John Orr, W. B. Lindsey and com­ which, when he became a steel pany, Gill Brothers and company, Of Steubenvilje tycoon, caused Carnegie to donate! Cleveland Furnace company. An­ "I Ih# funds for tha erection of Steu­ derson's Planing Mill, Hyde s LECTRIC power, like thei benville public library. Planing Mill, A. J. Beatty and Tha Western Union company Son, F. W. Hare, J. J. Gill, George Ohio river and railroads; E came onto the scene within a few F.. Sharpc, George W. McCook, has played an important pari years after the first line reached: Dr. E. Pcarcc, James Means ami in developing Steubenville in­ here, merging the smaller com­1 company. Steubenville Pottery to a leading industrial and panies, and controlling all the social center. And elcctric business in this section until 11)92, company] Si^ub€^iville Gazett^, when the Postal Telegrsph, a rival power will play a leading rolej Pan Handle d C* and ?• company, established an office in when* the city holds its Sesquii depot." i Steubenville. The telephone company'* .fut­ Centennial and Veterans' Both companies expanded Iheif rent directory, still lists ntmetand Homecoming celebration, July facilities in the city through the numbers of the Jefferso^ Jron 2­G. years that followed until ,in 1943. Works, Steubenville Coal and The first telegraph message was the Western Union absorbed the Mining company, McGowah Bros., received in 1847. The telephone other concern. I The Herald­Star office and §teu­ came to Steubcnyille in 1881. Now located at 153 North! Electric lights in 1886. Fourth street, the Western Union benville Pottery company. .. came * * l * Announcement of Henry Clay's Telegraph company office is man­ departure aged by James Branagan, who has OTARTING a telephone exchange irom Pitts­ been employed by Western Union in 1881 wasn't child's play. It • , burgh aboard for 22 years. called for real pioneering in a the steamboat • « « field that was almost as virgin "M o n o rf ga­ TpRIOR to the inauguration of as America in the days when Co­ 097 hcla." was the telephones In 1881. the city's! lumbus landed. There was no. first telegraph communications depended mainly I beaten paths to follow. No experts messa ge. It upon •'leg­work­** If a merchant' to give advice or counsel. And the only way to get customers was to ticked over or manufacturer wanted informa­ tion from aomeone 'on the other convince them of the worth and the wire from Pittsburgh into an J side of the city, if a newspaper i possibilities of the telephone. This: instrument installed in a second wanted facts on a story, if Mabel called for real salesmanship since floor room on South Third street. wanted to chat with her aunt the telephone was practically an Such news calted for celebra­ a Matilda ten ^blocks away, if. Mr. tion. A crowd gathered on the unknown device. Jones at "the office wanted to let river front. A band played from After subscribers were obtained, his wife know he would be late poles hail' to be placed, wires the roof of the whnrfboat. At the for supper a messenger was dis­ height of the ovation to the great strung, instruments connected, patched and many a weary mile methods for payments arranged, man, the roof gave way beneath walked that a telephone call could the band, dropping its members to and hundreds of other details have prevented. worked out before service could the deck below. Early newspaper reports on'the Such was the sequence of events be rendered. Installation of Steubenville's first On M*y 4, 1881, the first tele­ occasioned by the^first news flash telephone offer the best record phone­.exchange in Steubenville to Steubenville years ago. available of local telephone his­ Known as the O'Reilly line, the was placed in service. This date tory. They report that on March is fixed by an article in the Daily first wire ran between, Steuben­ i 2, 1881, an ordinance was placed ville and Pittsburgh. ^ It crossed Herald which reported as follows: . before city council concerning the "The Herald office has the honor the river above tfye^, Pan Handle placing . of telephone poles in railroad bridge, suspended be­ of receiving the first transmitter streets. and receiver of the first telephone tween a mast on t^;^est Virginia , Two days later the weekly Her­ in Steubenville. The instrument side and a large tre^ on the ald and Gazette added the follow­ is a handsome one of the latest de­ Ohio bank. vV V * ing Information: M. 'MS* «• sign and Is maae in aar* wood veneered and Ret off with bright

3 The demand for electric set^ice winiat^ MltA 6tell silver belli, and i* an ornimfnt toj from the subscribers exceeded the any room. The work of placing! D l capacity of ihe.pUnt at that time, Instruments will go on rapidly •ndl . r.3?'.n»^rs: so on January 20, 1887, a charter by the CIOM of the week conneo­| building M4 citizens the three'getitletflett'sue ­ Thomas Barclay and D. J. Sinclair. style this morning." | cceded In forming­«* company on Work was started immediately for August 27, 1886 composed of the • building a new power pl^nt of following men: William Bcall, /pHE first operator employed in larger capacity on North street, president; John A. Flood, secre­ • • * the Steubenville telephone ex­ tary; Charles Gallagher, treasurer; change wu Mn. Llla K lives who ANOTHER milestone was laid in Win field Scott, Dr. J. A. McCul­ Steubenville** electric service rime here from Wheeling. Mn. lougti. Judge J. H. Miller, J. H. Klives took care of service during when the new plant was put into Hawkins, Robert McGowan and operation on Saturday night, :daylight hours and a boy, Harry Dr. O. KelU as directors. Stevens, wu hired to man the March 28, 1887. The new plant Negotiations were immediately waa under the supervision of switchboard during the night. made with the Western Electric Flood with Tred Hayzler in charge I Shortly after establishment of company for the purchase of two of the boilers. (the first exchange and Initiation dynamos, one having a 23 arc light By this time Steubenville cit­ of service within the corporation capacity and the gther a 20 arc izens . had become electrically | boundaries of Steubenville, sub­ light capacity. The two machines •minded and were interested in an jacribers began to clamor for a together had a total capacity ot (electric street railway system for (more extended servtt­e. In an^ about 70 horsepower. I the city. On November 7. 1887, swer to the demand, lines were The electric licht company not *T. William Harris, chief engineer extended to include nearby com* wishing to invest any money In of the S. T. Dunham Street Rail­ f munities and then to include the boiler and engine equipment, en­ way Syndicate and their surveyor, entire county. With the passing tered Into a contract with Wag­ Wilbur Goodrich, arrived in the !of time and expansion of tele­ oner's saw mill, which was at the city to survey for the system. The phone systems throughout the foot of North street, for supplying; .electric railway became tha cen­ country, thesa individual ex­ power from their steam engine to 1 tral interest of the people and a changes were eventually linked run the dynamo. The contract was franchise was much discussed by together by long distance. based On a schedule of operation the City Council. Today, any Steubenvilla sub­ from .dusk in the evening until one Work waa immediately started scriber can lift the telephone and o'clock at night. on the railway installation and as 'contact any one of the more thsr tt neared completion contracts 130'tniniorf telephone* In the United,I qn SEPTEMBER 29 1886 th« : were entered into between the 'State* or any instrument include! ;•^ electric lijhtpolea ' wera all , street railway company and the ­ I were an ­electric service company. The in the world. loUl of about 35!!placed and in readlnexa to atrln* electric service company installed million th 'J » * irea. By Oct. 27, 188« four : a new 500 volt direct current ' An article in the March 18, 188 l,j mile* of wire liad been strung for 'issue of the Herald predicted: street railway generator to serve the system and the dynamo in­ j this load. '"The telephone is bound to cornel stalled. The twenty­three arc 'and the good it.wtll do th* city ; The new street railway gen­ UghU were installed along Market erator was put into operation on and her people is immense." To­ and Washington streets. These Dec. 1, 1888 along with th« elec­ day's use of the telephone system j lights which gav 23 candle power # tric street railway system which in Steubenville is a tribute to the 1 each, replaced the old gas and .served six cars running on a ten |effectiveness of this prophecy. The gasoline lamps st int»rs*c r minute schedule. i telephone did arrive and was tions and along the front of busi­ Through action of the City I found to be so instrumental to ness houses. The cornerstone of Council December 7, 1887 the | business and social activities in the electric service In Steubenville 1 street lighting of the city was put 'community that at present there was laid and op Saturday nighty Ion what was called at that time a are 13.700 telephones in operation , Oct. 30, 1886 the system was en­' 1 | moonlight schedule which meant over which 10e*r type the title of electrician and was re­ mediately £y seven other rV>re*| of light sourcff . oa Teh. 18, 1689. amnong which was the Jones­1 puted as one of tha very few mm The old arc lights oil other streets Munker company, probably the in the Ohio Valley with a thorough continued to be replaced by :the more modern ­incandescent Wmp. knowledge of electricity. This man second electric service for business t houses. ­ The totat number of sub­! The Steubenville Gas and Coke was John A. Flood. company purchased the interests On August 11, 1866, Flood and • scribers at that time was forty­ representative of the Western two./ 3 £ Flcctfic company discussed with Ioi the Electric Light company in J [May 18%9 and broke frouod at itne corner of South and High streets ~( present location•©< The In 1916 the Steubenville it East Ohio Power company*® substation) Liverpool Railway and Light com­ pany gold the Steubenville and for a new plant. ccn niore lavishly bestowed Kenton, on Water street, furnishes ~jr rr . upon the site now occupied by |employment for a number of mea, $story t Steubenville, than any other lo­jand the Jobs sent from thia shop, cation on the river.*' ispeak well for the mechanical _ * • « knowledge of the proprietor, I Of City's : gTEUBEN VILLE'S prominence •« yth# historian continues with the a manufacturing an851, printing a brief state of cultivation­ but, it is more •mounts to $28.25 leaving a bal­ history of th^^ommunity recorded peculiarly adapted to the rising ance of $33.75 per day in favor that "in proportion to population, of sheep; snd the farmers for some of the prices for which coal can be Steubenville is the greatest manu­ time have been fully awake to the obtained In this vicinity. facturing town in the state of enterprise. This, together with other Ohio." "The manufacturing interest nf favorable consideration, ought * * # Steubenville, however, is far from certainly to enlist a great amount • 'pHE 1851 directory, recording being exclusively confined to wool­ of capital In this profitable enter­ ­ en goods. Extensive manufac­ prise." , . the incorporation of the town « * « and boasting of the beauty of its fctories for various purposes have surroundings, reads: been erected in different sections jLflNTlO^ED In the history as among the contemplated Im­ "The town was incorporated on of the toVn, and which are, at this provements, is the Steubenville the fourteenth of February, 1805. time. In successful operation. at which time it contained some • y^Tbs—Arkwrighl­­­Cotton—mill, and. Indiana railroad, at the time the account was written, a ven­ | 400 inhabitants. From that date owned by Warner, Brown and I ture for which a corporation had to the present lime, it has been company, situated on Water street,! organized and stock sold. continued, gradually increasing in runs 5,000 spindles, 40 looma and jj The first report of the board of population, wealth and impor­ furnishes employment for about directors of the railroad Is car­ . tance; and it may now be consid­ , 200 persons. ried in part, the author, comment­ . ered as one of the most flourishing : paper mill of T. Hanns 'and Son, situated in the upper part ing: ; the west. And not withstand­ ••Among contemplated Improve­ I ing, many of the towns on* the •of town, has over $40,000 capital j invested, and Is now doing a very ments In which this city is deep­ j banks of the r Ohio river,'Justly ly interested* Is the Steubenville j celebrated for their beauty of lo­ profitable and extensive business. cation, yet we are constrained to 3J | mod Indiana raiiroed, which when first brewery was established by I completed will most undoubtedly a Mr. Dunlap in 2815 Just below | prove to be of more importance the site of the paper mill. In 1819 [ to the dty and count/ •djacot, Alexander Armstrong opened a than 'any other improvement that second brewery on Water ftveet ever has, or In all probability between Market and Washington ever will again be presented tft streets. In 1836 Joeeph Basler* the citizen. Sr., started a breweiy on Water •That this enterprise will be] itre^rbet we«i~M»l^t"ihd"A(Ufni carried out, we cannot possibly streets. In 1860 J. C. Butte conceive any Justifiable reason for erected a brewery at the head of entertaining a doubt Persons that Adams street.* •The first pottery In Steuben­ wil take the trouble to thoroughly investigate the subject and cor­ viile was started by J/ C. Fisher rectly Inform themselves aa to the on Market street west of Sixth merits of this road, the location and richness of the country ilrtet—Hrion; Thomas ­ Fisher, through which It Is designed to with one Samuel Tarr, subse­; pass, the relative cost of construc­ quently operated a pottery onj tion, the greet chain of which Market street between High and | 'this Is to form a link, together Third street! end a man named j with various other fsvorable con­ siderations must (we think) un* Holder ran a similar institution < svoidable come to the conclusion on Fourth street for awhile/* 1 that this road Is, 1n time, destined "In 1811 Andrew and Robert­ to become the greatest national ; Thompson launched forth into the thoroughfare within the limits of manufacture of nails with Wil­ liam Kilgore and Hugh Sterling the t United States. Hence, the great profits eventually accruing as their workmen, making the to the stockholders of this road, nails by hand. A company form­ will most assuredly elicit any ed in 1812 built a large flour mill requisite amount of capital thst on Market stret, between Wster may be demanded for Its consid­ and High streets, snd a few yean eration." later a large brick cotton factory • • • was added, which was afterwards *pHE 1857 Centennial history of converted into a ware hous« for Steubenviile In a section on the *"<1. David Larimore in 1824 "Early Manufactories of Steuben­ built a large cotton factory at viile in a section on "Early Man­ the foot of Adams street. The ufactories of Steubenvjll*,** reads: Arkwright cotton factory wa« •The pioneer industrial est erected In 1826, and employed 300 tablishment of Steubenviile wss Of'400 hands for ­many year*­ A the tamilry started by Benjamin window glass factory. Jefferson Doyle in 1798 at the head of North Foundry and Machine Shops snd street, .which afterwards became the Alikanna bolt works were also the property of Joseph C. Spencer. former Steubenviile Industries." "In 1802 Beraleei Wells built s grist and saw mill on Wells' run. This mill was afterwards con­ verted into a distillery and waj destroyed by fire In 1857. *Brice Viers started a tannery; UTU02 ThTA* *IU" M the ;West Market street coke ovens and In 1810 Samuel Williams started an­ other tannery on West Market street. The latter tannery passed through several ownerships and in 1835 William Elliott became pert proprietor­en* eubeequeolly sole proprietor. ; * j "The first distillery in Steuben­ 1 vllle was started at the head of Adams street by P. Snyder about X798, the second by Bexaleel Wells st Rockville, the third in 1828 it' Jscksonville by Robert and An­ drew Thompson. "About 1835 Mears and Trotter began an extensive rectifying business on Market street, east of Third. This firm afterwards be­ came R. and T. Mears and they built a large flour mill and dis­ Itillery on South Fourth street, which was burned in 1874. The The motive for Scott's with­ —Chapter 19 : Ik FTER the La Belle Iron A^orks drawal from LaBelle lay in the A bought the Steubenville prop­ fact that his pledge to the Amer­ erty of the Jefferson Iron Works, ican Tin Plate company to stay His to ry it built a universal plate mill to roll out of the tin­plate business for sheet bars. In 1901. the LaBeUe 15 years had now expired. With started work on an open hearth a group of associates which in­ Of City's steel plant of six 50­ton furnaces. cluded J. J. Holloway, J. N. Vance, At this time the blast furnace was B. W. Peterson, William F. Stifel, completely rebuilt and enlarged Edward Hazlctt and F, W. Hen­ Growth To utilize increased steel output derson, he organized the Wheel­ a sheared pl«te; mill ° ing Steel and Tin Plate company, plate mill vfcr* al^o sta.tfd in with a paid­in capital of $1,000,­ Sleubcnville Becomes 1901. This ifehabilUation of tne 000. The new plant was built at Great Steel Center •Steubenville plant by JUlBelle Iron Yorkville and it is now the pfop­ Works was one of the most am­ With Giant Mills bitious programs of constructs undertaken up to that time by a oration. A ' < • Steubenville industry. Additional * * * rpHE history of steel is the stock was sold and bonds issued TN MAY of 1915, R. C iClrk be­ JL modern history of Steu­ came president of LaBelle Iron In~ 1903, the 5irectbrs secured benville and its industrial Works, succeeding W. D. Craw­ the services of John A. Topping neighbors of Weirton, Mingo and Isaac' M. Scott of the Amer­ ford, who retired. During this Junction and Follansbee. This ican Sheet Steel company, and W. year LaBelle installed on the West bustling industrial city which D/ Crawford of the Shoenberger Virginia side, direcUy opposite the Works in Pittsburgh to head up SteubenvUle Works, a Koppers by will hold its Sesqui Centennial the new management.' With reso­ product "coke plant and built its and Veterans* Homecoming lute policy, capable operating con­ own modern steel railroad bridge celebration, July 2­6, owes trol, and accurate cost accounting, across the Ohio river between the the institution weathered its early two departments. The LaBelle much of its growth and pros­ difficulties and was able to pay mill was by this time one of the perity to the brewing of iron the first dividend in 1905. By that nations important independent ore into steel. time, there had been some changcs steel producers. , in personnel and Topping had re­ The year 1920 was the begin­ lis steel products are noted all signed to become president of the ning of the most significant de­ over the world ana scores of en­ American Sheet and Tin Plate j velopment in the early history oX viable production records are held ; company. He was succeeded as| what is now the Wheeling Steel by the Steubenville works of the president of LaBelle by Isaac M­ corporation. There k was soon to Wheeling Steel corporation, Weir­ Scott. The other officers were^A. be brought together, three inde­ : ton Steel com­ J. Clarke, first vice president; E.: pendent companies—LaBelJ^Irou pany and Fol­ W. Mudge, second vice president; Works, Whitaker­Glessnejv com­ lansbee Steel W. D. Crawford, general manager; pany, and the Wheeling St^el ixid corporation. H. D. Westfall, secretary; Walter, Iron company. • The war had left The Steu­ B. Higgins, assistant secretary, and each with a largely increased benville R. C. Kirk, treasurer. capitalization, a healthy surplus works, largest The new management was able and certain problems as to future of Wheel i n g . to meet the labor problems of the development. ^ Steel corpora­ lime and show substantial earn­| On June 21, 1920 the thre^com­ tion's many plants, traces its origin ings even through the severe fi­ panies merged, establishing the to 1856 when Frazicr, Kilgor6 and nancial panic of 1907. By 1909 Wheeling Steel corporation.* The company erected a rail mill for the steel business was beginning to authorized capital was $100,000,­ the manufacture of bar iron and ' recover from the depression and 000. * ? ' ' • nails. The' mill was erected on the local companies were making In th« beginning the Wheeling the present site of the Steuben­ profits with increased payrolls. Steel corporation was a r holding ville works. On July 5, 1912, LaBeUe Iron company and it was not until 1923 The mill was purchased by Works rearranged its capital .that it became an operating con­ S­paulding, Woodward and com­ structure, increasing its capital Icern. At this time the charters pany in 1859, becoming known as stock to $20,000,000 by the issue of the subsidiary companies were the Jefferson Iron Works com­ of a stock dividend of $10,000,000. surrendered or their capital re­ pany in 1882. The firm was in­ The basis of this action was to • duced to nominal figures. corporated with a capital of $80,­ capitalize the company's ore hold­ In the intervening period, a sell­ 000. ings. As of January 31, 1913, I. ing organization, the Wheeling The directors of the Jefferson M. Scott resigned the presidency of Steel Products company, served to Iron Works included: William Mc­ LaBelle and was succeeded by W. dispose of the products and to ac­ Clinlon, W. R. Elliott, Harry L. D. Crawford. The other officers * count for the profits. During this Dotey, Spaulding K. Wallace, all ' were: H. D. Westfall, vice presi­ ; period the officers of the Wheeling of Steubenville; and Daniel C. dent; R. C. Kirk, secretary and i Steel corporation were Alexander List, John Rhieldeffer, James Bell, treasurer; W. B. Higgins, assistant | Glass, chairman; I. M. Scott, presi­ of Wheeling. secretary and D. A. Burt, assistant ; dent; Andrew Glass in charge of treasurer. G. B. LeVan became I operations, ( and W. H. Abbott, in general manager. N JULY I, 1946, the Wheeling STEUBENVILLE BECOMES O Steel corporation purchased Mingo Works 4>f the Carnegle­Il­ GREAT CENTER OF STEEL \ linoia Steel Corporation, changing the name of the plant to Steuben­ (OMIOMMi ON) vJUe­South. 'Wheeling Steel contemplates an expenditure upwards of $30,000,­ of th* Wheeling Steel corp­ tUoa. fpHI flrvt major dtvibpmmt to­ 000 over the next few years In « e • ward Improvinf the physical modernizing the plant and In building new coke oveni to supply MAY of 1918, R. C. Kirk »*. • of th« new corporation addtd steel making capacity. cub. president of LaB«U« Iron ^ St~b*"; _ . . ^ t villa, of a new blooming mill and General mansger of the Steu banville Works today Is William Worki, succeeding W. D, Craw­1 a contlnuoua sheet­bar mllL These ford, who retired. During this units were able to foil their first R (Dill WarTen. who came in 1911. Warren started his career yaar LaBeUe installed on the W«t steel on January 2, 1923 an production of tin plate. Weir­ 3 blast furnace and auxiliary continuous rolling mills. Ore prop­ lon WM, the first tn the industry equipment waa pushed through i/i ertlee wara purchased in the Lakeilo produce material of tin plate unusually short time and this fur­ Superior region; large tracts of by thll process. nace was blown in on December ooal land acquired in Pennsylva­ • Th< community of Weirton kept 19, 1941—Just IS day* after Pearl nla, and additional railroad equip­ i pAC«. with this industrial progress. Harbor—and Weirton's capacity to ment waa installed. 1 Homes, churches, schools, stores. , produce steel for war was greatly Now Weirton had in iU own i th«.«ters, recreational facilities and I enlarged, hands control over every essential | park« were built and other Indus­ ! phaae of steel making from nw( located here. 1 material to finished product. Next t e e • .^yElRTON was one of the early: Weirton moved io protect Itself IN 1829. .tep. wer. initiate! pioneer. In electrolytic tinniru • by manufacturing a wider variety 1 ion r which resulted th.t y.r la tb. M** "P ~ ^ ! . vt .i < «I in many 7 other developments of of products wo that if demand for formation of the National 8teel I * " J , , . XA ^ , 4J J steel production Including cold re­ one fell off, volume of production, corporation, an organiiatlon thatL . , %• 4 . 4 t . Eduction mills. Electrolytic tinning employment and wages couloat, tion and. communication develop yard on the .river /rpnt ;Arthur from canoe, horseback and smoke Mi­ Phillips, founderi pod engine Growth signals'to rocket power and radar. builder, erectcd a boat shop on It 'has watched and recorded the Herald Star's 141 Years progress of science and its harness­ North street. Bczaleel Wells, the ing of atomic energy. It has passed city founderJ and leading citizen, Reviewed in Tabloid through and withstood the panics also became interested in river in Today's Edition and depressions of 1837, 1857, 1907 transportation. * * • • and 1930­31. And thus the Herald "rendered I And one notes throughout that its first distinguished service \o HE Steubenville Herald­ jThe Herald­Star has never failed the community, demonstrating .Its T Star, founded • id 180G, to keep pace with the present and ability to point to the future. Soon finds a natural place in the to point to the future. From the after Wilson's articles, Steubeii­ history of this community. A beginning it has demonstrated its viilc's riverfront bustled with oc­ aggressiveness, its public interest review of the record of this ' end service, and its ability to grow newspaper is presented in tivity—the town­; became^* pip­ up with its cityf state and nation,] ping center. tabloid form with this issue as ­ r"*s '• a Sesqui Centennial­Home­ rnnE Herald prospered unde$;Wil­ coming souvenir, acquainting fPHE Herald­Star story begins in 1806 when William Lowry and ' »on and ;on January J5, 1817, Ke present day readers with the John Miller, brothers­in­law, came j announced that he had* expanaeaj important role The Herald has to Steubenville from Berkeley lithe title of the paperr*rtynpr Mechanics bank and trust com­ of Western Herald. William Kil­' pany. gore, a nail maker arrived, who 1833—Ashland Cotton Factory later found humble beginning of establishing. C. C. Wolcott pur­' Steubenville Works, Wheeling i chased rotary fire engine for his Stel corporation. Steamboat kEn­ ; factory, terprise docked at foot of Market 1834—Jefferson county placed) street. Elijah Murray opened river in fifth judicial circuit. j front boat yard. Arthur M. Phil­ 1835—Judge John C. Wright re­ lips opened up boat shop on North tired. Public meeting called. street. Brewery established by Council authorized to borrow Dunlop. money for water works. 1816—Herald's pages recorded 1836—Beatty Glass company es­ National highway from Washing­, ablished. Steamboat "Utah" ex­ ton to Sandusky to cross river at iloded at Steubenville. • Wheeling. Steubeville­Cadiz turn­ t; 1837—Samuel Stokeley served pike company sold stock for $1 a, |as senator.. _ ­ I share. I 1817—Wilson announced new­; • ­•* . 'V­Jv'. i­Vr. title to paper to be known as "The 1 Herald and Steubenville Gazette." |1 1855 — Weekly Republican es­ , mtH­Xappan»elected. »toueiye ! tablished by Rev. Z. Ragan. "True jsix yeari in «enate.\Public school American*' anti­slave. treated. * Western Herald Gazette 1 1856 —• William Kilgore, nail sold to Robert Wilson and John ^ maker I'anii banker, established Worstall. Jeffersonian • Democrat;; Jefferson Iron Works in southend. 'also changed hands. Acquired by j *83* [T7jQ?veland ­Pitt sburgh Col. C. C. McCauslen and re­ railroad extended to city. Senator 'named "Union." i Tappan died. 1839—Wells fire. Sarah Griffith i7ltt»*^­tfefferson county medical Wells died. Harry* Lowrey, one of Jocietyjcredted. * * • ­ .Vr*, founders of Western Herald, died. ­185*~*lronVWorks purchased by; Lots on each end of ,city purchased 0£lvttk oard; George K. McFadden, pres­ known aa the Ohio Foundry com­ ident; C. P. McFadden, vice preii­j pany. Robust, resourceful and of Sent and treasurer, and Park G. charming personality, MA3.W soon Dgden, secretary. ' blazed new trails much as had his venerable grandfather before him except that his forte was In sales, distributing the company's prod­ ucts. By this time natural gas had t*eh piped to many parts of the middle west and the Ohio Foundry company had paced development with many new gas heating ap­ pliances. In 1906 William L. Sharpe, II (second son of G. E. Sharpe), ma­ triculated from college to business; took up his place In the firm. Of mechanical and artistic turn of mind, much of the product design­ ing through ensuing years was the creation of young Three years later (1909) the company was incorporated and the firm name changed to the Ohio Foundry 11 ' Chapter 22 ' ' . " discarded In the waste basket. l"he final result was that the depart* ment h*d little or no Information History Of City'^ Growfti 00 wanted criminals. The system prevailed even into the 1920*s. The police department has made more Few Records Available on Early Days of progress in the last 25 years of its Steuben Wile Police Department—Mod- existence than it has in all the years since Steubenville was ern Force Now founded. In 1925 the department began Ar ALL THE HISTORICAL records of th« various dty departments, that of the police force seems to be the most scant Tbe probable to acquire photographs |qt Its reason for­the (set Is­lhit thcTlaw wu coforeid Vr V marshal who criminal gallery. They werekept evidently carrfed all police notes In his pocket, then threw them away. in * hit­and­miss : fasttpn^ being However, in the early days the On occasions It is known that suspended from steel frsrtvrs. Very city did have a .whipping post to the marshal was ordered by the little history was kept of the want* help straighten out its culprits. It city administrstion to round up ed criminals. The year 1928 found was located where the city hall city councilman and force them to the police taking a great stride to­ now stands and was the scene uf attend meetings. Council at. that ward bringing the department up several whippings. time often lackec^t quorum. to date. It was in that year the The last case of torpors! punish­ Marshals of the early days re­ first recorded fingerprints were n^nt recorded is that of a "man ceived a yearly fee and, in addi­ made. i Aned­Charles Johnson, who kept tion, were allowed expenses. First s small grocery store on Soutfi account of these costs on record TW 1924 the police department, Third street. is an entry in the town journal As the story goes, Johnson ran —through city council, had a new under the date of 1825 when the two­way radio Installed. The short of pork one night and visited jselect council appropriated $5 to! •.ni.­t ' abandoned the smokehouse of Bezaleel Wells wu W ^ "f0r ^ tWO with the purch^ <* two / cruisers which were equipped with Johnson "bornywed" ^y^ral of UTvdyratW characters c out Of Wells* choice bams and a tew N radio, thus permitting conversation with police headquarters at any _nthrr Items to*W* „ A few days later, a hungry fer­ One of the early berime waves ­ time during the day or night. At present, council has under consid­ r«n»n named Hsnnan, ­topped it I occurred in the 187(Ts when a band eration plans for equipping three JSknson's store and bought oil* of Lf thieves invaded the dty and motorcycles with radio jto augment the hams. On the way home, he committed a series of house break police protection throughout the passed Wells, who noticed the pri­ ings. The crimes created a sensa­ city. vate marks on the ham Hsnnan tion and precipitated a town crisis. A few years prior to 1934, the was carrying. . j James Merryman, who was police department started to keep Wells stopped Hsnnan and In­1 mayor at the time on a reform ­ permanent records of all notes and quired how he came by the. ham ticket, appealed to an opposition Complaints received. Today, the under his arm. Hannan informed council for funds to hire a Plnker­ I fllr» »rt c«aplctc to tverr Wells that he had purchased the too detective. Council reftyybut •ArntU mMit , roooth ^ ten year. choice ,of pbrk from Johnson. The theTmayof ­ proceeded of This ^own nn K* r+f*rr+A in at a mo­ volition and hired several detec­ store owner was arrested. A sesrch ment's notice. his place revealed other items tives. With the inauguration of the taken from Wells* smokehouse. The detectives never ­ found the identification bureau, an alpha­ Johnsonwas found guilty of en culprits. For their services, they betical record of all persons ar­ billed the mayor for $1,500 which rested is kept Ail ­wanted­ per­ tering Wells* property and stealing he was forced to pay out of his sons irom police and justice de­ the hams, He was sentenced to be own packet. partments throughout­the country taken to the whipping post and • are checked into the same files. given nine lashes across his naked JN THE 1850^Jt_appears ____ that a When a person unknown to the back. Aside from the corporal pun­ paid poUce for« loolT over _the\local department is plsced under job of keeping order in Steuben­ arrest fingerprints are taken, to­ ishment, Johnson *fas ordered to viile. One of the first rosters of the jether with a photograph. These reimburse Wells the sum of $4 for are immediately checked with the damages, pay court costs of $10, police consisted of J. L. Selah, marshal, and Patrolmen L. R. Mer­ Federal Bureau of Investigation to and then confined in jail for nine tee if the arrested person has s days. . cer, R. IX Edgerly, Robert I. Scott, William D. Connor, John Andregg, former police record or is wanted As the cat o* nine tails was ap­ plied to the prisoner's back, he John Dunn, George Thomas, Wil­ elsewhere. liam Lindaey and Friwin T. 7.ITII­ The identification bureau, In said: "It serves me "right; ^ ought charge of Sergeant Fred Teaff, has »rot to steal mj iimss'i Uami. HJlfl merman. Despite the establishment of the a completely equipped photograph have mussey on me.** police force, the department had laboratory operated In conjunction no set system as It knows today. with fingerprinting. Fingerprint QT THE MARSHALS, If not the Records were kept If the officer classification cards with photo­ first, was Brabson Gibbons, in charge felt the urge. Calls on graphs and records of the crimi­ who was elected by popular ^Vote nals are arranged in a visible al­ in 1826. From that time on, the scribbled on a ticker tape. The tape phabetical record file. The cards police department received scant was then att#ched"to a hook on total 15,000. attentiocij—However«—U ­ia ­known the chiefs desk. Aside from the criminal records that violations of the law were When the hook became cluttered kept, the bureau also has on file comparatively rare. up with too many notes, they w^re the photogrsphs and fingerprints of MVtril thousand persons, in­ tin Larkin and Blaine Carter. The cluding taxi drivers, civil service present chief of police is Ross H.' employes, applicants for personal Cunningham. employment and civilians who • • • have been "muffed" for personal ^HE police roster today numbers. identification. The department Is also equipped to five parafine 38 men, including the chief. Captains are Frank (Yank) Tsy­ tests. All ballistic work is done by lor, Matthew

Enacted along with the installation of parking meters. ' The police department is tied In with the* lire department by means of a ticker system giving the location of each fire alarm. When calls are received, police* cruisers are on the scene of the fire almost as soon as fire trucks. At present, a new two­way radio system considered to be one of the finest is being installed for police. Heretofore, p o 11 c e experienced much_ Interference from outside stations. With the new radio, they have a special wave length of their own which eliminates interference altogether. Realizing the need of a division to handle juvenile cases, city of­ ficials inaugurated the juvenile division of police in 1*42 with Sergeant A. H. Melott in charge. Upon his. retirement, the depart ment was taken over by Sergeant James C. McCartney. The juvenile division is operated the same as the police department with detailed records filed on all cases. The city, celebrating its 150th birthday, now hat one nf the matt modem police departments in the state. Along with its identification, juvenile, traffic and radio systems, the department is. equipped with riot guns, sub­machine guns snd gas guns. In a word, police are ready­to­ meet any emergency. ——|­ Former police chiefs were Henry • Kelly, Edward Zimmerman, Mar­ | ­Chapter 23­ work waa computed. Thomas Frith wu then appointed to 011 his vacancy. History Of City's Growth •Whan hit term of Council ex­ pired, D. J. Sinclair was then ap­ pointed to the advisory board of SteubenviUe Proud of Its Filtration Plant— the water works. A few months The Only Municipally Operated Public later, ha was elected one of tha trusters. Plans for the construct­ Utility by the City—Rating High tion wre submitted. Building of the project began under the au­ COR DRINKING and cooking In tha wly day. of Steu ben vUle. rc.l­ P^^on of Pittsburgh engineer*. dent* had to depend on cistern* and wells for their water supply. pwnp elation, walla and River water at iVt ctnta a barrel was delivered to their home* to be tunnel were constructed by rioto used for laundering and other purpoae*. Brother. Contractor!, and the re­ By 1810 ordinary well, and: ­r­rrrrr­ ««votr by A. W. McDonald, who [cisterns were Insufficient to meet Jn «»« °M PumP w" r®" also laid the pipes. Ithe (rowini demand. Under an act P«ced. Cltiiena ag.ln held a # « • I of legislature that year, a company! meeting and appointed a commlt­ ^yiTH THE completion of the pumping station at Alikanna, I wM formed known a. the Steu­ to plan for the enlargement j benvllle Water company. «nd Improvement of the water the old water works at the foot of Adams street was closed in I Incorporator, of the company i work... In 1850 the pip« ayrtem 1805. At the same lime a high • were Bezaleel Wells. John Eng­ *»«« extend^ at a oo«t of $10,000. A laod Joseph Beatty. DaVid Larl­ «««>nd reaervotr wa. built In pressure reservoir wn completed 1854 raising the capacity of the } j more, Thomas McKean Thompson, and opened tor use at the western I Jacob­ Feeches, Thomas Scott, city's water aupply to 789,000 Samuel Hunter, Thomas Hender­ gallons. terminus of Franklin avenue. It son, Zacheus Bigger and several Seventeen years later, the old is In use today. others. t building was Increased to twice its The reservoir is lined with tile The first water pipes laid were original size to house two new and concrete and hay a capacity made out of wood logs bored by large engines and pumps. Mains of 5,600,000 gallons of water. Jacob Brikard who, at the time, of 15 Inch diameter were in­ With (the former insufficient stalled. Cost of the Job was $50,­ water supply, the city was In con­ line began at*a spring between 000.. As the city continued to stant danger of deitructive firee.n Market and Washington streets grow, more reservoirs were add WKh the tmr hlgtr prfsirTlfe'lyi­ west of Seventh street, and from ed until the capacity was raised tem, it was believed that no fire Spencer's tan yard. The water was to 2,296,500 gallons of water. could gain much headway. The piped to large cistern on the • * * fact was so apparent that insur­ courthouse square. QN MARCH 1, 1893, water works ance companies, doing buiiness in Steu benvllle shares with Zanes­ trustees, David McGowan, the city dropped their rates one­ ville, the distinction of being the Robert E. Blinn, and Robert M. half. first settlements in the state of Brown, recommended that a new The first superintendent of the Ohio to have constructed water water works department was G. works. site for pumping station be ac­ V. Robinson, of Pittsburgh, who • • • quired by the city at a location elected to the position In 1836 JN 1835 the citizens of Steuben­ north of the city. The following year one of the vllle held a public meeting and At a special meeting held1 by trustees acted as 5uperintendent, authorized Council to borrow City Council oq March 4, 1893 receiving for his services the sum money to build a water works the land at the present site of the | of two dollars for each day he was The construction of the works, pump station at Alikanna was employed. ' _ after the money was acquired, was purchased for $6,000. The site James Baron was elected In | started Immediately at the foot consisted of 28 acres. 1839 and served in the position of Adams street. An attempt was Council then enacted an ordi­ superintendent for 26 years. On made to sink a well on the site nance on March 28, 1893 providing September 1, 1865, R. J. Erwln but the drillers ran Into quick­ JoV the appointment of three com­ was elected and served until his sand. (missioners to act with trustees In death in 1883. He was succeeded The reservoir was located half procuring plans and estimates for ^hn h­H office until July 1. 18H9, when F. way up the hill at the head of j a new water works system. Adams street. Its capacity was! D. J. Sinclair, whg wpg QkO B. Ford was elected. 360,000 gallons. The water was | " Of Council, appointed On July 1, 1896, the offices of supplied through an eight inch I Charles E. Moodey, Francis Spear­ city engineer and wa|ec works pipe by a 40 horse power engine. | man, and David McOowan whose superintendent were consolidated The machinery was capable of, term of trusteeship had expired, and S. B. Curfman elected. pumping 200,000 gallons of water Spearman visited water works in Water works superintendents in 10 hours. Water was flowing Chicago, Milwaukee, Boston and following Curfman were John through the pipes of the city on other cities in the country, ln­ Falters, James Simpson, Harry January 26, 1837. Cost of the japectlng their water works and Stonebreaker, and J. N. Carter., works was $34,601. {gathering data. He died before his The preeent superintendent Is J.j Ha gen Trainer. I m « « ^pHE FIRST filtration equipment was Installed la the city In 1916* Hie building to house the apparatus was constructed adjac­ ant to the Franklin avenue re* aenrolr. To give the legman an Idaa on the amount of water fil­ tered, dally consumption of the' city. Is 3,300,000 gallon.. Of that total, 60 percent 1s distributed In the downtown are*, 24 percent or. La Belle View, Pleasant Heights, and Lincoln Heights, and eight percent in the We«t End. 6team engines to operate pumps at the Alikanna pumping station were replaced In 1928 by electric motors. Chemical feeders were In­ stalled at the filtration plant Ins the 1930*s at a cost of $4,000.1 Chemicals used in a year are: Sulphate of aluminum, SO to 100 > tons; lime, SO to 100 tons; carbon, 13 to 20 tons; and chlorine, « ton*. A flash flood July 7, 1943 crip­ pled the water supply In Steuben­ vllle for 30 hours. The water of tiny Wills creek rose swiftly and washed out two large riser mains that feed. river water to the re­ •ervolr on Franklin avenue. The mains were hastily re­constructed with emergency crews and placed over th« bridge at Wills creek. Total mileage of the city's wa­ ter mains is 73 miles. The high pressure reservoir at Franklin avenue, and the low pressure re­ servoir supply the downtown area of the city. The 350,000 gallon stand pipe on Maryland supplies LaBelle View, Pleasant Heights,! and Kincoln Heights, while the j West End i* watered from a stand­ p^pe or similar capacity at the city limits. A leak survey conducted by the Pitometer company of New York in 1946 revealed that water leek* age from the mains totaled 171.00C gallons a day. The survey cost the |

paired by crews of the water de­ j partmant netting the city an an­ nual saving of about $4,000 in electric current and chemicals. The annual Bet Income has aged a boui $32,000 for the pas? ten jaars. f> Chapter 24 Pittsburgh group of the Columbia Gas system. In addition to Manu­ facturers, these companies include History Of City's Growth Cumberland it Allegheny Gas '•»V£ ^ ' • 1 company, Natural Gas Company of . . 2 ' 7 West Virginia, Gettysburg Gas Natural^ Gas Helped in Development of corporation, Keystone Gas com­ pany, Binghampton Gas Works, ­ ­­• Steubenville's Commercial and Social Home Gas company and Eastern Pipe Line company. Life—Expansion of Utility Reviewed * * * TN immediate charge of .gas com­ "KTATURAL gas came to Steuben­ 1wtr«9?urchaflad« In 1889, the Belle­ pany affairs in and around Steu­ ville J list 100 years after the Viuk and Glenfield Gas company benville is the local .manager, S. building of Fort Steuben. ;^as. absorbed. The three com­ Quay King. More thaji 75. gas com­ It was la 1886 that the city of panies were then consolidated to pany men and women perform in­ numerable duties related to pro­ •Steubenville granted franchises lor become known as the Manufactur­ viding a continuous and economi­ gas' distribution to the Tri­State ers Light and Heat company. • This company was re­incorpo­ cal natural gas service to homes, Gas company and the Chartiers rated in 1902 for the purpose of stores, mills and potteries in this Valley Gas company. further consolidation with six gas area. Under Mr. King's supervi­ The 1880*s. were years of growth companies operating in adjacent sion are gas company operations | in Weirton, Toronto, Wellsburg, for both the city and the gas in­ territories. v Mingo Junction and Follansbee. dustry. In these years, Steubenville * * * N Proof of the importance of Steu­ celebrated the 35th anniversary of I 1908, the Manufacturers Light benville in the planning of com­ its receiving the 1851 city char­ ( and Heat company acquired the [property and franchises in Steu­ pany operations*are the establish­ ter. In these years, there was a ment of two vital gas facilities in gradual awakening to the fact that ' ben ville of Tri­State Gas company this area. the production, transmission and and Chartiers Valley Gas company. distribution of natural gas was jThroughout the following 39 years To the Steubenville central re­ pair garage of the Manufacturers developing into' a trtmendoSTIH^' '^ie hom*s'­ stores and m,lls ,n.the Steubenville ^"ea have been given Light and Heat company come dustry. ' \ cars, pick­ups and trucks^for all Natural gas was found in?Cin­ an efficient and economical natu­ jral gas service by thetManufac­ manner of repairs and mainte­ cinnati in 1881. According nance. Company automotive equip­ records, the discovery "caused a turers Light and Heat company, The Ohio Fuel corporation pur­ ment from as far away as Pitts sensation in that city. Findlay was burgh, East Liverpool, New Castle booming in ­ 1885 as a result of chased this company in 1924. Two years later, Ohio Fuel was merged and Ellwood City make up the having a supply' of natural gas more ..than 150 complete paint jobs available. In 1886, the potteries of I with the Columbia Gas and Elec­ tric company. From this' merger done* annually at this shop. Con­ East Liverpool were using natural siderable fabrication of truck beds gas transported from the ga$ fields there developed the present­day extensive network of natural gas and bodies are also accomplished of ^est Virginia. j oi^ rJJV * * * * j production, transmission and dis­ tribution facilities owned and op­ lansbee and close to regulator sta­ 'pHE 10 years previous to 1886 erated by Columbia Gas and Elec­ j tion A of the Manufacturers Light were marked by steady growth tric corporation. and Heat company, is the new of the new gas industry. There Today, Steubenville is an im I peak load propane plant. Here are were disappointments, too. Gas portant natural gas distribution 111 giant tanks and other necessary men of those days did not hav* point for the Manufacturers Light equipment required for the utiliza­ the geological knowledge of gal and Heat company, which is a part tion of propane during wintertime pools and gas­bearing sands which ,of the Columbia Gas system. Last peak load periods. This plant will is available today. Neither did lyear this system directly served render ­important service during they have the "know how" of lo* ^natural gas to 1,211 communities coming winter months. It has the j eating gas wells and their drilling ^ving a population in excess of capacity to produce for short pe­ (that .only years of practical ex­j 4,400,000. The Columbia Gas sys­ riods of time—cold winter days iperience can bring. New gas com­ tem operates 30,253 miles of trans­ when more gas is demanded* than {panies were springing up con*, mission lines, of its own to supply is locally available—an output* of fstantly to augment the 29 gai natural gas to about 1,000,000 resi­ propane­air gas equivalent" to %5,­ .companies doing business in Ohio dential,^commercial and industrial 000,000 cubic feet of natural^ ^as in 1859. , ­ ' customer* !**­Kentucky, West Vir­ every 24 hours. # # It was In these 1880*s that tht ginia,4* V^guala,^ Ohio, Maryland, Manufacturers Light and Hep< Pennslyv^il*^n

This expansion will tak£ place j as rapidly as materials can be se­ cured and immediately following the receipt of required approvals from the various state and federal regulatory authorities;. v.'"< "' .With Steubenville, the Manu­ facturers Light and Heat company plans today for expansions and im­ provements which will be of great benefit to all residents of the com­ munity throughout the years ­ to I come. »­ the promoters, he took them to the •Chapter 25­ Cove Valley. And they built what was tha first unit of the new great Welrton Steel company. It was History Of City's Growth then known as the Phillips Sheet and Tin PUte company. • a a Dohrman J. Sinclair Was the Founder of JN SELLING the Cove site, Sin­ dair had to promise that there Modern. Steubenville—Created Indus­ would* be a traction line to trans­ v port the workers to their Jobs. The try» Busings '* Wellsburg Street Car company re­ fused to extend ^its .teackr to the r HP HERE could be no more fitting climax to any history of Steuben­ Cove. Sindalr finally put through vlll# than tha ftory of the creation of thU modem industrial dty the arrangements whereby the a man by tha name of Dohrman J. Stndalf Eastern capitalists, who controlled His story bafan In tha days fol­ tha Wellsburg line, wefe permit­ lowing tha Civil War when an The American Sheet and Tin ted to issue­ |lOO,MO Eopdt finenc­ unci# employed hfm in his Plata company had just been ing the Welrton improvement. the Union deposi^ therf % #mall forined.

4 Index Dillon E Elizabeth, 20 Eastern Pipe Line Company, 54 J. J., 34 Ebert, Theodore, 20 James, 20 Edgerly Diocese of Ohio, 16 Catherine V., 47 Diocese of Steubenville, 13, 22 R. D„ 50 distillery, 39, 45 Edgington, Jesse, 27 first, 39 Edison, Thomas, 36 Dixon, William, 18 Edmonds, E. P., 18 Doddridge, Joseph, Dr., 15 Egan, Daniel W., Rev., 14 Dohrman Electric Light Co., 36, 37 family, 29 electric power, 35 A. H., 10 electric service, 37 Jacob, 47 first business to obtain, 36 Dominican Missionaries, 22 first residence to obtain, 36 Dominican Sisters, 13,23 incandescent lights, 36 Donaldson street lighting, 36 W. B., 33,48, 56 Elkins, James, 16 W. D„ 34 Elliott Dotey J., 19 Calvin B., 46 Mayor, 34 Harry L., 40 photography, 46 Dougherty, Fred W., 14 W. R., 34, 40 Downer W. R. E., 48 W. D., 25 William, 39 William D., 25 Empire (OH), 56 William M., 25 Engineers Society of Western Pennsylvania, 56 Doyle England, John, 52 Alexander, 26 English, William, 19 Benjamin, 39 Errett, Isaac, 20 family, 29 Ervin, Robert L., 12 Joseph, 1, 3, 44 Ervine, John E., 25 Joseph B., 47 Erwin William, 9 Dr., 14 Drift coal mine, 45 R. J., 52 Dudley, John, 11 Robert L., 13 Dues, H. B., Rev., 22 Erwine, Russell H., 12 Dunbar, Jared, 48 Erwin's wallpaper store, 31 Duncan, John, 41 Ewing, Harry, 14 Dunlap J. B., 18 F Mr., 39 Fach, Frank S., 34 Dunlop, Mr., 45 Falters, John, 52 Dunn Farmers & Mechanics Bank, 48 Hugh, 18 farming, 38 John, 50 Feeches (?), Jacob, 52 William, 51 Feist DuPont electroplating, 42 Anna Belle, 34 Duquesne Club, 57 Frank W., 34 Durbin, Walter, 51 Felician Sisters, 13 Duvall, M ,N„ 25 Female Seminary, 13, 45 Ferguson, Stewart R., 32 Ferry Glen, 30

5 Index Few, Samuel, 45 Follansbee (WV), 40 Fickes, George, 34 Follansbee Brothers Company, 43, 56 Fiest, Matthew J., 32 Follansbee mill, 56 Filson, 46 Follansbee Steel Corporation, 40,43 George B., 34 Fonow, Frank, 51 photography, 46 Ford, F. B„ 52 filtration plant, 52, 53 Fort Decker, 1 Fink, George R., 42 Fort Henry Club, 57 Finley Fort Steuben, 1, 2, 3,4, 5, 7, 17,48, 54 James B., 11, 18 Fortune, Frand V. D., Rev., 16 Mary, 24 Foster, J. W., Rev., 16 fire department, 31,32 Fox, Charles D., 12 last horses used, 32 Francis, H., 25 paid, 31 Franklin, Ben, 5, 6 volunteer, 31 Franklin Avenue, 57 fire director, first, 31 Franklin Machine Works, 48 fire engines Frazier first, 31 Abner, 26 first motor truck engine, 31 James, 10 first steam engine, 31 Frazier, Kilgore & Co., 40 Phoenix, 31 Frederick the Great, 5 Reliance, 31 Freedman, Joseph, 25 fire station Frefield, Samuel, 25 LaBelle View, 32 Fulton Pleasant Heights, 32 Robert, 29 Reliance, 32 Thomas, 11 fires, 46 Hartje Paper Mill, 32 G Herald Square, 32 Galbraith, John; 34 Imperial Glass Co., 32 Gallagher Lindsey fire, 32 Charles, 36 Mettenberger livery stable, 32 James, 26 Ohio Foundry, 31, 32 W.,34 Reiner's store, 32 Gaston, G. G., 35 Stanton Motor Co., 32 Geary, John W., 27 W. T. Grant store, 32 General Assembly, 1852, 10 Wells fire, 46 George, Jesse K., 25 Fisher German immigrants, 20 J. C., 39, 45 Germans, 38 S. A., 19 Gettysburg Gas Corporation, 54 Thomas, 39 Gibbons, Brabson, 50 William, 18 Gilbert, Edward A., Rev., 23 Fishing Creek, 4 Gilday, John, 51 Fleming, Alexander S., 18 Gilette, James V., 32 Flood, John A., 36 Gill flooding J. J., 35 Ohio River, 30, 35, 56 Joseph J., 44 Wills Creek, 53 Gill Brothers, 35 Floto, George W., 34 Gill building, 14 Floto Brothers Contractors, 52 Gillette, Charles, Rev., 15 flour mill, 39, 45 Gilson Aetna Flour, 46 Edna M., 34 FOCO Oil Co., 56 Richard, 34 Follansbee, George, 43 6 Index Glass Harper Alexander, 40, 41 George E., 34 Andrew, 40,41 Thomas, 24 glass factories, 38 Harris Acme Glass, 30 Emmanuel, 21 Imperial Glass Co., 32 T. William, 36 Goodard, Curtis, 18 Harshaw, W. R., Rev., 18 Goodrich, Wilbur, 36 Hartje Grabau, H. L. F., Rev., 15 August, 47 Grady, Rev., 45 Richard, 47 Graham, Miss, 11 Hartje Paper Mill, 32, 48 Grainer, F. H. S., 34 Hartley Grange, Robert W., Rev., 15 James J., 23 Grant, President, 46 John J., Rev., 13 Gray Hartnedy G. W., 18 Dean, 23 Thomas, 25 M. A, Rev., 22 Great Lakes Steel Corporation, 42 Haskill, W. H„ 18 Greathouse, Mr., 1 Hattan, Robert C., 18 Green, Edward J., 31 Hatton, R. C., Rev., 18 Greenberger, Henry, 25 Hawkins Greene, Walter E., 32 Frank A., 34 Gregg, Elmer J., Rev., 20 J. H.,36 Grey, J. Welda, 23 Hawthorne, C. L., 25 Griesinger, John J., 25 Hayes Griffith, Sarah, 7 E„ 18 Grigsby, Henry, Rev., 23 William C„ 25 Grimes, William M., 17 Hayzler, Fred, 36 grist mill, 39 Hazlett Grove Academy, 11 (?), 20 Gruber, D. M., 34 Edward, 40 Gulan, Watts, 51 Helleck, Mr., 29 Guthrie, Margaret, 1 Henderson Guy, James P., 19 F. W., 40 "Gymnasium," 48 Thomas, 52 Henry, George, 34 H Herald Square (fire), 32 Hall, James, 24 Herald­Star, 30, 35, 44 Hamilton Herrick, Governor, 57 J. H., 19 Hervey S„ 18 J., 27 Hampton, Horace, 51 William, 27 Hamtramck, Captain, 3, 4, 5 Herzberger, A. A., Rev., 21 Hanna Heston, Ebe, 20 Mark, 57 Hettinger, Edward, Rev., 22 Thomas H., Jr., 18 Higgins Hanna & Son, 38 T. J., 18 Hanna Furnace Company of Buffalo & Detroit, 42 Walter B., 40 Hanna Iron Ore Company, 42 High Shaft Mine, 47 Hannan, Mr., 50 Hill, S.,34 Hare, F. W., 35 Hilltop development, 20 Harmon, Governor, 57 Hinckle, William, 26 Harmon's Creek, 2, 17 Hingely, L. (?), 18 Hinkle, George W., Rev., 16 7 Index Hissey, G. W„ 19 industries, Steubenville, 38 Hitt, Samuel, 17 infirmary, 15 Hoagland, E. S., 19 Ipswich (MA), 4 Hoffman, Daniel C., Rev., 21 Irish, Edward, 16 Hofmann, D. Carl, Rev., 20 iron founderies, 38 Hoge, David, 8, 9 Ironstone China, 48 Hoglan, Richard, 24 Iroquois, 29 Hogland, Aaron, 24 Irwin Holder, Mr., 39 James O., 48 Holdship, Hanna & Turnbull firm, 47 James R., 48 Holidays Cove, 27 John, 34 Holliday, Helen, 14 Robert C., 48 Holliday's Cove, 35 Robert J., 48 Holloway Stewart D., 48 J. J., 40 Irwin & Robinson Co., 56 W.,41 Irwin Brothers Franklin Machine Works, 48 Holmes Island Creek Township, 8 Charles A., 18 Iverson, Lorenz, 41 George, 18 Holton, Jeptha L., 10 J Holy Name parish, 23 Jackson Home Gas Company, 54 C. H., 18 Hooe, C. R., Rev., 21 Edward L., 32 Hooper, Arthur L., 25 President, 25 Hoops, Mr., 3 Jackson Sheet & Tin Plate Co., 41 Horace, Gulan, 51 Jacobs, Donald, Rev., 19 Horsefield, Thomas, 10 jail, 25 Hough, Benjamin, 9 first, 24, 25 Hudson, Thomas M., 18 James B. Scott Company, 43 Hughes, Smiley, Rev., 17 Jefferson County Bar Association, 25 Hull Jefferson County Medical Society, 46 Andrew, Rev., 15 Jefferson Foundry & Machine Shops, 39 David, 9 Jefferson Iron Works, 35, 40, 46, 56 Hull, Wood & Co., 27 Jeffersonian Democrat newspaper, 46 Humphrey, Justice, 24 Jennings, Obadiah, 17 Humphries, George, 24 Jewett, Thomas L., 47 Hunt Johnson Delle, 11 B. W., 19 William, 52 Charles, 50 Hunter Harry, 14 C. J.,41 John, Sr., 20 James, 8 Joseph, 22 S. D., 10 Rachel, 20 Samuel, 8, 52 Thomas, 36, 47 W. H„ 46 William, 18 Hurand, Fred, 32 Wilson S., 21 Hutchins, Thomas, 3 Jones C. Warren, Rev., 21 I Fred C„ 25 Idone, Rev., 23 John, Jr., 24 Immaculate Heart of Mary Chapel, 22 P. H„ 20 Imperial Glass Co. (fire), 32 Thomas S., 25 Indian Short Creek, 24 Jones­Munker Co., 36

8 Index judge of probate, first, 24 L Junkin, Mayor, 34 LaBelle, 56 LaBelle Iron Works, 30, 40, 41 K LaBelle View, 11, 53 Kane brothers, 30 Lackawana Steel Co., 56 Kayser, Lewis N., 21 Lacy, F. M., 21 Kearney, James, Fr., 22 Lafayette, 6 keel boats, 29 Laird, (?), 45 Kellogg, W. P., Rev., 19 Lake Erie Kells Lamantia, Joseph, 51 George, 26 Lamdon, William, Rev., 18 John, 34 land office, 8, 46 0., Dr., 36 Landon Kelly, Henry, 51 Harold R., Rev., 16 Kennedy William, Rev., 45 J. R„ 48 Larimore, David, 34, 39,45, 52 Jenet, 20 Larkin, Martin, 51 T. J., Rev., 18 Lashley Kenton, William, 38 Jake, 30 Kerr Watt, 30 S. C„ 25 Laughlin, H. M., 10 William S„ 25 Leavitt, H. H., 34 Kessler, Howard J., 32 Ledger, The, 45 Keys, J. R., Rev., 19 L'Enfant, Major, 5 Keystone Gas Company, 54 Leonard, A. G., 25 Kilgore LeVan, G. B„ 40 Daniel, 10, 26 Levinson William, 10, 39, 45,46 Ralph, 25 Kilgore building, 46 William, 25 Kimberly Lewis Ephriam, 8, 24 Edward F., 32 Zemas, 24 John R., 32 Kimble, James S., 25 Liberty Paper Board Co., 47, 48 King library George A., 25 public school library, 12 Henry W., 10 Steubenville public, 35 S. Quay, 54 Liggitt, Walter, Dr., 18 Kinsey, W. I., 25 Linch, ECore (?), 14 Kirk Lincoln, Abraham, 46 Henry, 16 Lincoln Heights, 53 R. C., 40,41 Lindsay fire, 32 Kirksinger, George, 30 Lindsey Klienman's store, 31 W. B.,35 Klives, Lila, 36 William, 50 Knights of Pythias, 57 Lippert, Bernard J., 32 Knights of Pythias building, 14 List, Daniel C., 40 Knox, William, 18 Little Beaver River, 3 Knox Township, 8 Lock 10, 30 Konicki, Stephen A., 32 locomotives, 26, 27 Koppers byproduct coke plant, 40, 41 Bezaleel Wells, 26 Kramer, Allen, 18 fare, 27 Kretschner, Alfred, Dr., 20 James Ross, 26 Steubenville, 26

9 Index Loftus, Simon, 34 Mr., 4 Logan, 2 Maude, John K., 16 Lonetto, Ralph A., 32 Mavromatis, George, 51 Long Maxwell, Charles, 9 Clifford, 32 May, Harry L., 25 Earl, 51 mayor, first, 34 Loos, Charles, 20 McBeth, S. M., 34 Lotzgeselle, Walter H., 32 McBride, Richard, 51 Love, Mayor, 34 McCann Lowe, Harry, 29, 30 Bernard T., 25 Lowrey, Harry, 46 C. B., 25 Lowry, William, 44 McCartney, James, 51 Lucas McCauslen, C. C., Col., 46 Bernard, 18 McCleary, Thomas, 18 Margaret, 18 McClinton, William, 40 Lucase, family, 29 McConnell, Dutch, 30 Ludlow, Mr., 3, 4 McConville, James, 34 Lutherans, 20 McCook Lyle, David, 51 Anson, Captain, 46 Lyons, Elizabeth, 21 Attorney, 46 George, 25, 35, 36, 46, 47 M McCooks, "fighting," 25 Mahan's orchard, 1 McCracken mail, by horseback, 45 George, 34 Maker, Joseph, 24 John,34 Manfull, Mr., 47 McCready, D. H., 18 Manhattan (Steub.), 45 McCrory store, 14 manufactories, early Steubenville, 38, 39 McCullough Manufacturers Light and Heat Co., 54, 55 Frank B., 34 Manufacturers Natural Gas Company (Pittsburgh), 54 J. A., 36 Marietta (OH), 3, 4, 30 J. B., 16 Marion, James, 34 McCurdy, 3 Market Street bridge, 29, 56 Thomas, 46 Marquis, Thomas, Rev., 17 Thomas A., 17 marriages, early, 24 McDevitt, James, 47, 48 Marsh, Roswell, 26 McDivitt, John K.., Jr., 17 Marshall, Fire Chief, 31 McDonald Marsh's springs, 1 A. W„ 52 Martin William, 26 Absalom, 24 McElroy, Archibald, 18 A.C.,37 McFadden Captain, 4 C. P., 49 Colonel, 4 George H., 49 Jacob, 25 H. H„ 46 W. B.,31 Henry H., 34 Maryland, 4 Mary S., 49 Mason McFarlane, Mr., 4 D. M., Rev., 19 McFeeley, Eli H., 9 George, 9, 34 McGee, Silas, 2 Joseph M., 10 McGowan Massillon Asylum, 57 D„ 34 Matthews David, 26, 52 John, 3, 4 Robert, 36 McGowan Brothers, 35 10 Index McGrady, Rev., 22 Methodist Protestant denomination, 18 McGraw, Michael, 31 Methodist Protestant Society, 18 McGrew Mettenberger livery stable (fire), 32 Mr., 9 Mieczkowski, Silvester, 51 Thomas, 34 Miller Thomas F., 9, 12 Bob, 30 McGuffey primer, 12 Elizabeth, 24 McGuire, Mary, 15 Frank, 30 McHugh, James H., 25 Isaac E., Dr., 19 Mcllvaine, C. P., Rev., 15 J. B., Prof., 11 McKay J. H. Judge, 36 Billy, 30 James, 45 Patrick, 31 John, 44, 45 McKeever, Campbell, 20 Martin L., 34 McKendree, Bishop, 18 Milligan, E. M., Rev., 18 McKinley Mills, Captain, 3 Edward, 25 Millsop, Thomas E., 42 Governor, 57 Miners & Mechanics bank, 45 James, 26 Mingo, 1,2, 15 President, 57 Mingo (OH), 3 R. A., 17 Mingo Bottoms, 3, 4 McKinney, Mr., 9 Mingo Island, 3, 30 McLaughlin, William, 10 Mingo Junction, 40 McLeish, George, 34 Mingo Mill, 48 McMahan Mingo Works, 41 B., 18 Minor, S. T., 18 James, 18 Moderwell, Adam, 29 McMahan's Run, 2 Moeller, Bishop, 23 McMahon, Esquire, 4 Monaco, George, 32 McManiman, G. E., 19 Monroe McMann, T. K„ 27 James, Colonel, 17 McMaster Joshua, 18 Earl B., 25 Montgomery, Thomas O., 24 James, 34 Moodey, Charles E., 52 W. C„ 34 Moody McMenamin, Edmund, 32 David, 27, 34 McNicholas, John T., 22 John, 24 Means N. S„ 10 James, 11, 35 Roderick D., 26 John, 26 Moore John P., 34 Frank, 18 Joseph, 34, 47 George, 34 Thomas, 46 Jacob, 19 Mears, Mr., 39 Moore Land Co., 56 Mechanics Fund Assoc., 45 Moreland Meigs, Colonel, 4 Stewart, 16 Melott, A. H., 51 Stuart, 25 Mercer, 3 Morello, Joseph, Rev., 23 L. R., 50 Morgan Merriman, J. C., 18 Ed, 30 Merryman, James, 50 General, 46 Mertz, Henry N., Prof., 12 Morgan's Raiders, 49 Mesta Machine Co., 41 Morrow, Emmett M., 25 Methodism, 17 Morse, Intrepid, Rev., 15 11 Index Moscato, Joseph R., 25 Nuckles, Charles F., 32 Mount Calvary Cemetery, 22 Nygaard, Norman E., 17 Mozolak, Samuel, Rev., 20 Mudge, E. W., 40 o Munker, James, 34 Odd Fellows Hall, 21 Murphy, Harold W„ 25 O'Farrell, T„ Rev., 22 Murray Ogden, Park G., 49 Elijah, 29, 44, 45 Ogle, J. C„ 19 J. A., Rev., 22 Ohio Company, 3, 4 Nicholas, 45 Ohio Conference, 18 Mussio, John King, Rev., 13, 22 Ohio Foundry, 30, 46, 47,48,49 Myers Clay Manufacturing, 56 fire of 1889,31 fire of 1910,32 N Ohio Foundry (fire), 32 National Highway, 45 Ohio Fuel Corporation, 54 National Rivers & Harbors Congress, 56 Ohio Power Co., 37 National Steel Corporation, 42, 43 Ohio river, 29 natural gas, 54, 55 highest stage, 30 Natural Gas Company of West Virginia, 54 lowest stage, 30 Nelson, John T., 27 Ohio River Improvement Association, 57 Neumann, Bishop, 22 Ohio River Sewer Pipe Co., 56 "New Process" mill (steel), 41 Ohio Valley Hospital, 57 Newark, Shadrack, 24 Ohio Valley Improvement Assoc., 56 Newell, Robert, 24 Oliver, J. F., 34 newspapers O'Neal American Gazette, 55 Abner, 30 Courier, 46 family, 29 Democratic Weekly, 46 Frank, 34 Farmers & Mechanics Advocate, 45 Whitacre, 34 Farmers & Mechanics Advocate newspaper, 45 O'Neil, 9 Herald and Steubenville Gazette newspaper, 44, 45 Ong, Walter C., 25 Herald­Star, 30, 35,44 Opperman, Henry, 34 Jeffersonian Democrat newspaper, 45 Orders of Morning & Evening Prayers, 15 Ledger, The, 45 Ordinance of 1787, 3 Steubenville Gazette, 35, 44, 46 O'Reilly line, 35 True American, 46 Orr Weekly Herald, 46 Henry, 11 Weekly Republican, 46 John, 26, 35, 45 Western­Herald, 44,45,46 Osborne, Miss, 11 Western­Herald Gazette newspaper, 46 Overmyer, Donald, 34 Western­Herald newspaper, 44, 45 Ovington, Benjamin, 31 Nicholson Owens, W. S„ Rev., 18 E. G., 18 Edward, 31 P Matt, 56 Paddy Mud's Road, 57 Ninde, Bishop, 18 Paisley, Jay S., 25 Nolan Pan Handle Depot, 35 Edward, 51 Panebianco, Alfred O., 32 Gorman E., 32 paper mill, 38, 47, 48 North, Major, 3, 5 Clinton Paper Mills, 45 Northrop, Miss, 13 Hartje Paper Mill, 32, 48 Northwest caravan, 4 Paramount theater, 49 Northwest Territory, 3, 13 Park, James, 43

12 Index Parkersburg Dock Co., 29 Pitts, Thomas, Rev., 15 parking meters, 51 Pittsburgh, PA, 3 Parks Pius, Pope, XII, 22 Ambrose S., 27 Pleasant Heights, 11, 21, 53 James, 26 Polen, Martin E., 32 Parsons, Samuel H., Gen., 17 police department, 50, 51 passenger railroad stations, 27 first "criminal gallery," 50 Pateman, Thomas, Rev., 16 first kept permanent records, 50 Patteron, Hugh W., 34 first paid policemen, 50 Patterson first recorded fingerprints, 50 George, 32 first rosters, 50 John,34 Polk, James, 46 OellaJ., 12 Poole, Dr., 20 Patton, John H. S., 34 Pope Paul, Silas, 24 Ben, 29 Payne, D. A., Bishop, 19 Russell, 18 Pearce Pope Tin Mill, 56 E„ Dr., 35 Pope Tin Plate Co., 41 E. Stanton, 25 population, Steubenville (1853), 12 J. A., 18 population of Steubenville (1806), 44 William, 51 Porreco, Umberto, 51 Pease, Calvin, 25 Porter Pemberton, Israel, 27 John W., 25 Pendleton, President, 20 Thomas, 34 Peoples Light and Heat Co. (PA), 54 Thomas W., 34 Permar Portsmouth (NH), 5 Homer, 31 Portsmouth Plant (steel), 41 John, 18 postal service, 34 Reason, 18 Postal Telegraph Co., 35 Perry Victory Centennial Commission, 57 postmaster, first, 34 Pershing, I. C., 18 pottery, 39 Peters first, 39 Mr., 3 Powell W. R„ 35, 47 Arthur, 12 Peterson David, 12 B. W., 40 Powell's school, 11 Howard W„ Dr., 18 Powers J. E„ 14 Father, 23 John H., 16 Thomas A., 22 Petty, A., 18 Presbyterianism, 17 Philharmonic Hall, 21 Prichard, Ruse, 24 Phillips Puritan Association, 21 Arthur, 29, 44 Purviance family, 44, 46 Arthur M., 45 Putnam, General, 3 Henry, 20 J. R.,41 Q John, 20 Quimby, Clyde, 30 Maria, 20 Quinn Matthew (Matt), 51 Robert L., 25 Phillips Sheet & Tin Plate Co., 56 William Paul, Rev., 19 Pieros Charles, 25 R Herman, 25 Radical Succession, 18 Pisarro, Joseph, 25 13 Index Ragan, Z., Rev., 46 James, 2, 7, 8, 11, 22, 24 railroads, 26 Joseph, Jr., 24 Cleveland & Pittsburgh Railroad (C & P), 27, 46, William S., 32 56 Ross Township, 8 Holidays Cove Railroad, 27 Rush, Miss, 11 Pan Handle, 35 Russell Pennsylvania Railroad, 26 John O., 47 Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railroad, 27 Robert K., Rev., 18 Pittsburgh, Wheeling & Kentucky Railroad, 27 Rutter, Calvin, 18 Steubenville & Indiana Railroad, 26, 27, 38, 39 Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad, 26, 27, 56, 57 s Ralston S. T. Dunham Street Railway Syndicate, 36 Lon H., 34 Sage, W. J., 12 Lon W„ 34 Salem, Theodore Cord, Rev., 20 Randolph, B. F., 18 Salem Township, 8 Rarich, Ben, 30 Saline Township, 8 Ready, Michael J., Rev., 22 Salmon, J. B., 48 Reasteau, Rebecca, 7 Sander, Edward J. C., 34 Reed, James M., 34 Sanders, Edward J., 34 Rehring, George J., Rev., 22 Sargent, Winthrop, 24 Reid Sarratt Mrs., 13 James F., 34 Rev., 13 T. J., 34 Reiner's store (fire), 32 Saulters, John, 30 Repsher, Jacob, 24 saw mill, 39 Reynolds Scarlett, Jim, 30 J. M., 34 Schaefer, John, 32 Jacob R., 9 Schafer, Russell H., 12 James M., 33 Schofield, Mr., 12 John H., 17 Schondelmayer, H. L., Rev., 20 Mr., 47 schools, 11, 12, 13, 14 Rhieldeffer, John, 40 Buchanan, 14 Rich, H. Y„ 18 Buena Vista, 14 Richards, Rees G., Judge, 25 business college, 14 Richmond, OH, 17 Catholic Central, 13 Richmond, VA, 1 City Normal School, 13 Richter, Paul, Rev., 23 College of Steubenville, 14 Riley, William, 34 colored, 11, 12 Roberts, Matthew, 45 Female Seminary, 13, 45 Robertson first high school, 46 Chaytor, 16 first high school graduate, 12 family, 29 first superintendent, 12 Robinson Garfield, 14 G. V., 52 Grant, 11,14 William H., 48 Harding, 11, 14, 20 Rogers Holy Name, 13, 23 Elizabeth, 20 Jefferson, 11, 14 J. A., Rev., 21 Lincoln, 11,14 John, 20 Little Red Schoolhouse, 11,45 Rolfe McKinley, 11, 14, 21 John, 24 "million­dollar high school," 12 Mr., 25 parochial, 13, 46 Roosevelt, Theodore, President, 57 Powell's, 11 Ross 14 Index private, 11,12 W. L„ II, 49 public school, 14 William L., II, 49 public school created, 46 William Linton, 48, 49 public school library, 12 Shavinsky Roosevelt, 11, 14 Catheryn, 34 salaries, 12 Cathryn, 33 single room, 11 Sheldon, Miss, 11,13 St. Anthony's, 13 Sherrard St. Peter's, 13 John J., 47 St. Stanislaus, 13 R„ 36 Stanton, 11, 14 Robert, 47,48 Steubenville high school, 14 Robert, Jr., 47 Washington, 14 T. J., 47 Wells, 14 Thomas J., 25 Wells high school, 11 Shields, Wilmer, 51 West Liberty school house, 19 Shiltz, E. E., Rev., 19 Schrichfield, William, 24 Shoenberger Works, 40 Schrimplin Short Creek, 4 John, 24 Short Creek Township, 8 William, 24 Shortess, William G., 48 Schroeder Shouse Ernest, 51 Al, 30 Ernest S., 32 family, 29 Scioto run, 2 Harry A., 32 Scott showboats Barclay, 34 Cooley, 30 I. M„ 40, 41 Cotton Blossom, 30 Isaac M., 40, 41 Eisenbrook, 30 John, Dr., 11 French's Sensation, 30 Mr., 47 Hagan, 30 Robert I., 34, 50 Henderson, 30 Thomas, 52 last to appear in Steubenville, 30 Winfield, 34, 36 Water Queen, 30 Sedgwick Wonderland, 30 L. M., 25 Sibley Lawrence M., 25 Mr., 25 Selah, J. L., 50 Solomon, 24 Sesqui­Centennial and Veterans' Homecoming, 1, 3, 5, Sidebottom, James, 20 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 20, 22, 24, 26, 29, 31, 33, 35, 38, Sidener, William Martin, Rev., 16 40, 44 Simeral, Charles D., 44 Seven ranges, 3 Simmons Shane, John, 34 Eddie D., Rev., 19 shanties, outlawed, 30 Horace, 30 Sharpe Simpson Alexander B., Jr., 49 James, 52 Alexander Beatty, 49 Mr., 4 A. B., 49 Sinbad, 30 G. E„ 49 Sinclair George, 49 D. J., 34, 36 George E., 35, 49 Dohrman, 43, 52, 56 George Elliott, 48, 49 Sisters of Charity, 13, 22 Henry, 49 Slee, Stanley F., 34 Samuel, 49 Smith W. L., 35, 48, 49 Carl H., Judge, 25 15 Index Edith, 14 Utah, 45 George, 51 steel industry, 40, 41, 42, 43 Herbert, Rev., 20 Sterling Joe Desha, 34 Hugh, 39 Mr., 4 Mr., 9 Robert L., 25 Walter, 34 Smithfield (OH), 8 Stern Smogor, Casimir, Rev., 23 Hyman, 25 Smurthwaite, William, 47 Joseph, 25 Snodgrass, James, Rev., 17 Nathan, 25 Snyder, P., 39 Steuben's Regulations, 6 Soldiers & Sailors Monument, 46 Steubenville, 1, 2, 7, 8, 10, 11, 17, 20 Spaulding charter of 1851, 10 C. H., 34 City Council, 33 David, 20 city ordinances, 33 Spaulding, Woodward & Co., 40 early records, 33 Spearmen, Francis, 52 incorporated as city, 9, 10 Specht incorporated as town, 9 Charles, 16 original charter, 9 F. X., Rev., 23 public school system, 11 Spence schools, 11 Frank J., 32 Steubenville, Wellsburg & Weirton Railroad Co., 56 Robert S., 32 Steubenville & East Liverpool Railway & Light Co., W.J., 34 37 Spencer, Joseph C., 10, 39 Steubenville Board of Trade, 56 Spicehandler, Ezra, Rabbi, 21 Steubenville Bridge Co., 56 Spon, John, 25 Steubenville Coal & Mining Co., 35, 46, 47 Springer, Cornelius, 18 Steubenville Country Club, 57 Springfield Township, 8 Steubenville Gas & Coke Co., 36 Spruce Creek Rod & Gun Club, 57 Steubenville Gas & Electric Co., 37 squatters, 17 Steubenville Gas, Light & Coke Co., 46 St. Clair, General Arthur, 8 Steubenville Gazette, 35, 44 St. Germaine, Count, 5 Steubenville high school, 11 St. John Vianney's Seminary, 22 Steubenville Plant (steel), 41 St. Paul's Parish, 15 Steubenville Pottery, 49 St. Stanislaus, 13 Steubenville Pottery Co., 35,47,48, 56 Stafford, John, 51 Steubenville Stove Works, 49 stagecoach travel, 45 Steubenville Township, 8 Stanley, Kenneth T. G., Rev., 16 Steubenville Traction & Light Co., 37 Stanton Steubenville Traction Co., 37 Edward, Dr., 45 Steubenville Water Company, 52 Edwin M., 17, 20,25,45,46 Steubenville Works, 40, 41,45,56 Stanton Motor Co. (fire), 32 Steubenville­Cadiz Turnpike Co., 45 steamboats, 29 Steubenville­South plant (steel), 41 Bezaleel Wells, 45 Stevens Enterprise, 44, 45 Harry, 36 John Loomis, 30 W., 18 Mississippi, 45 Stewart Nathaniel, 29 L. H., Rev., 18 New Orleans, 45 Mary, 13 "New Orleans," 29 OrlandV., 17 Republic, 46 S. J., Rev., 18 Thompspn, 45 Stifel, William F., 40 U.S. Mail, 45 Stockade to Steel, 3 16 Index Stoke ley Temple Beth­El, 21 General, 46 Territory Northwest of the Ohio, 3 Samuel, 10,45 Thienpont, Emanuel, Fr., 13, 22 Samuel, General, 45 Thomas Stone, Fred, 25 George, 50 Stonebreaker, Harry, 52 A. H„ 18 Stony Hollow, 10 Percy, Rev., 20 Strayer, Amanada Z., 25 Thompson Sturgeon, James S., 25 Andrew, 39,45 Sutherland, Alexander, 34 J. M., 16 Sutton, Clifford, Rev., 21 J.T., 14 Swaney, J. A., 18 James, 11 Sweeney Robert, 39, 45 Alexander, 34 S. H., Rev., 19 Fannie L. D., 34 Thomas McKean, 52 swimming holes, 30 William, 11 "initial rock," 30 Thompspn, Andrew, 45 Mud Hole, 30 Thorn, Charles, 18 Old Tipple, 30 Thornley, Pud, 30 Symmes, Daniel, 9 Thrapp, J. A., 19 Tidd power plant, 37 T Tilburg, Lee Van, 25 T (?), Andrew, 51 Timberlake, Richard, 16 tannery, 39, 45, 48 Timmons, L. A., Rev., 19 Tappan Tischer, Al, 30 B„ Jr., 10 Tomahawk claim, 1 Benjamin, 25 Topping, John A., 40 Eli, 34 Toronto (OH), 15, 43 EliT., 12 Traction & Light, 37, 56 Miss, 14 train stations, 27 Senator, 46 Bloomfield, 27 Tarr, Samuel, 39 Goulds, 27 tax Mingo, 27 property 1799, 24 Reed's Mill, 27 rates, early, 24 Smithfield Crossing, 27 Taylor Unionport, 27 Allen E., 32 West Wend, 27 Chester M., 54 Trainer, J. Hagen, 52 E. H., 18 Trainor, W. M., 34 Frank (Yank), 51 trials George W., 32 first, 24 Teaff first criminal, 24 Fred, 51 Tri­State Gas Company, 54 Fred, Sergeant, 50 Tri­State Traction Co., 56 Henry, 31 trolly line, 56 Raymond, 34 Trotter, 39 telegraph message James, 34 first, 46 True American newspaper, 46 first received, 35 Tucker, Beverly D., Rev., 15 telegraph system, first, 32 Tuomy, Thomas, 22 telephone exchange, first, 35 Turel, John A., Rev., 23 telephone operator, first, 36 Turnbull, James, 26, 34, 47 telephone service, 35

17 Index U Warren Township, 8 Union Cemetery Association, 46, 56 Washington Union Clay Manufacturing, 56 General, 6 Union Deposit Bank, 56 George, 8, 24 Union newspaper, 46 Washington Street, 11 Unionport, 27 Wass, Harold, 16 United Presbyterianism, 17 water company, Steubenville, 45 Uselton, George, 30 Water Street, 8 Utica (NY), 6 water supply, 47, 52 water works, 52, 56 V Water Works Commission, 56 Vail, Charles A., 25 Watson, J. C., 14 Van Cleve, Edward, 12 Watterman, John, 18 Vance Watterson, John A., Rev., 23 Colonel, 57 Wayne Township, 8 J.N., 40 Weaver, Frank, 31 Viers, Brice, 39 Webb, H„ 18 Viroqua, 29 Weekly Herald, 46 Von Mayr, General, 5 Weigand, Joseph, Rev., 23 Von Steuben Weinman Baron, 3, 5, 6 Carl A., 25 Mary Dorothea Vov Iagow, 5 Carl A., Judge, 25 Wilhelm, 5 William, 25 Weir w David, 41 Wabash, 29 Ernest T., 41 Waddle, John, 26 Jean, 20 Wagner, Gus, 30 Thomas, 20 Walker Weirton (WV), 29, 40, 41 Fred, 51 Weirton Steel Company, 40, 41,42, 56 Jacob, 1,2 Wells, 29 James, 2 Alexander, 7 J.J., 1 Bezaleel, 2, 7, 8, 11, 15, 17, 18, 22, 24, 29, 38, 39, John, 2 44, 45, 46, 50, 52 Mary, 2 Charles R., 34 Susanna, 20 Francis A., 27, 34 Wallace Leah Owings, 7 James, 24, 47 Nathaniel, 27 Mr., 25 Sarah Griffith, 7, 46 Spaulding K., 40 Wells Run, 8, 29 War with Mexico, 46 Wells' Run, 39 Ward Wells Township, 8 John, 8, 9, 24 Wellsburg Street Car Co., 56 Paul F„ 25 Welsh, James T., 34 West Liberty school house, 19 Sarah, 8 Western Electric Co., 36 wards of Steubenville, 46 First Ward, 10 Western Union Co., 35 Fourth Ward, 10 Westfall, H. D., 40 Second Ward, 10 Westlake, B„ 18 Sixth ward, 56 wharf, Market Street, 30 wharf, Steubenville, 30 Third Ward, 10 Wheaton, Mr., 4 Warner, Brown & Co., 38 Warren, Bill, 41 Wheeling (WV), 29, 40, 45, 56 Wheeling Creek, 4 18 Index Wheeling Steel & Iron Co., 40,41 Woods Wheeling Steel & Tin Plate Co., 40 Harry, 34 Wheeling Steel Corporation, 40, 41, 45, 56 Henry, 17 Wheeling Steel Products Co., 40, 41 Woodward, E. S., Rev., 19 Wheeling Traction Company, 43, 56 wool, 38 whipping post, 50 woolen mill, 8, 45, 47 Whitaker­Glessner Co., 40, 41 first in United States, 45 White Worstall Bishop, 15 Edward, 16 C. C. "Chal," 30 John, 46 D. J., 20 Worstell, Rachel, 18 Elizabeth, 20 Wright John,20,25 John C., Judge, 45 Maurice, 20 T. B., 34 Whitehouse, William, 51 W.T Grant store, 32 Whiteyes, Captain, 24 Wyatt, James, 34 Wightman, J. W., Rev., 13 Wilkins, W. J., 34 Y will, first probated, 8, 24 Yellow Creek, 3,17 William, Samuel, 45 Yingling, E. Y., 18 William Sharpe & Son, 49 Yocum, Cora, 21 Williams Yonkee, William F., 25 Charles D., Rev., 15 Yorktown, siege of, 6 Harry C„ 47 Yost, Glenn Y., 47 Harry J., 32 Youmans, S. J., Dr., 18 John C., 42 Young, W. L.,21 Owen T., 21 Yurjevic, Samuel, 51 Rev., 19 Samuel, 39 z Williamson, Nancy, 24 Zane Wills Creek, 24, 53 Daniel, 16 Wilson Esquire, 4 James, 26, 44, 45 Zeis, Harold C., Rev., 16 Robert, 44, 46 Zelich, Paul, Rev., 21 Woodrow, 26 Zimmerman Woodrow, President, 44 Edward, 51 Windsor plant (electric), 37 Edwin T., 50 Winters Zink, Harry A., 34 Anna, 20 Benjamin, 31 Wintersville Grange, 57 Wintringer family, 29 H. D„ 48, 56 Wise Adam, 47 Lydia, 20 Wisener, George, 48 Wisman, B., Fr., 22 Wolcott, C. C., 31 Wolf, S. P., 18 Wood, Ruben (?), 10 Wooden, J. M., Rev., 21

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