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the primitive tin grater. James Carr built a horse mill in 1808 on a lot since owned by H. M. Ong, which was a step in advance. Half bushel grists were received at these mills, toll being taken by the quart. The horse-mill was removed to the northeast part of town and converted into a treadmill, where a boy named Dempster met his death by being caught in the cogs. The building was afterwards converted into a jeans fac- tory, but Ralston Bros. subsequently took up the flour business, which is still carried on. James McGrew built a mill on Piney Fork about 1812, which passed into the hands of Isaac Ong, and was known as Ong's mill. John Leech built one farther np the ereek abont this time, and Abner Hutton another in 1807, the first water mill in the township. The Ong mill had friendly Indians among its customers. Other mills on Piney Fork were Tweedy's, operated to within fifteen or twenty years ago; James Voorhees' shut down about thirty years since; Sherrard and John Scott at the head of the stream,
Nathan M. Grew built the first mill in Wayne Township on Cross Creek, where is now Skelly's Station or Cresswell. Between 1856 and 1860 he bought from Henry . Eagelson, of Harrison Comty, a steam Honring mill, which he brought to Bloom- field and erected on the Alexander Bines tanyard lot, being assisted by a unmber of citizens. It was purchased about 1863 by Voorhees & Keller, who added a saw-mill attachment. It was afterwards bought at sheriff's sale by Renben Burchfield, who sold ont to Patton & Boop. It was then ar- quired by Clement Boop, who still con- duets it. There was a water-mill operated by the Tiptons at Unionport at an early date, known as Exchange mill. When Wii- liam Henry bought this property in 1850 he removed it and built a new mill with double engines. He sold it in 1866, since which it has passed through several hands and was again operated by water. It is how owned by James A. Groves.
Salem Township had its share of early mills on Town Fork of Yellow Creek. Cedar
and Clay Lick runs. Ephraim Cattrell erected a steam mill at Richmond in 1857, which passed into the hands of Fryer. Flody & Co., and then of William Hout. The John Henderson mill at East Spring- field is also in operation. Charles Por- ter built a mill on Cedar Lick Run iu the southern end of the township in 1836, which passed into the hands of Joseph Reed. Stephen Cole built the first grist mill in Ross Township in 1808, and was succeeded in 1863 by a steam mill, built by Mordecai Moore at Mooretown. Michael Myers built the first grist mill in Knox Township on Croxton's Run, about a mile from the river-not running. Tun- nel mill on Yellow Creek, near the Ross Township line, was a sort of curiosity. The ereck makes a large bend here and at one time n coal entry was cut across the circle low enough to be flooded at high water. When the coal was worked ont and the creek dammed the tunnel made an excellent mill race. The mill was formerly owned by Mrs. M. House and then by Alexander Hale. The Pittenger mill at Knoxville, and Bowers' at Toronto, at one time did a good business.
Island Creek Township had numerous mills down to 1830 and later, bnt all are gone. One of the first was Bray's mill on Island Creek, about half a mile above its month, built by Jacob Cable, but rebuilt by John Bray and William Findley in 1823. A woolen mill was attached in 1824, and in 1838 Bray purchased the plaut and ad- ded steam. Davidson's mill, five miles up, has been toru down. Hartford's on Wills ('reek still remains. H. L. Blackburn's mill was removed to Toronto in 1873 and burned down in Angst, 1879. Today a few logs and picturesqne remains of dams tell the story of other days. George Mahan is said to have had a hand-mill for grinding, in the northeast corner of Cross Creek, as early us 1800, but it could hardly be called a manufactory until 1504, when he applied horse power. In 1805 Nathan MeGrew built on Cross Creek the first mill to be run by water. Others were built on MeIntire.
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where J. W. Sutherland had one in Smith- field Township, and lower down on Cross Creek. Charles Maxwell built the first saw- mill in 1807, a short distance above the Mc- Grew grist mill, and Lanning the second in 1809 near Gould Station. There was also a grist and sawmill at Holmes Station.
One of the Lintons erected the first grist mill in Wells Township, run by horse power. The first water mill was erected ou MeIntire by John Jackson in 1808, soon fol- lowed by a number of others. Barr's mill at Portland was a leading mill in Warren Township, and four miles up Short Creek are the ruins of a large stone mill once a woolen factory, erected by MeKee & Robin- son in 1838, where farmers would bring their wool and have it manufactured into blankets and cassimeres or would exchange it for goods already made up. It was sub- sequently purchased by John McFeely, who did a good business during the first part of the Civil War, and was followed by George M. Cummins, Gibson and others, and quite a little village grew up at that place. The above does not pretend to be a complete list of all the smaller mills of the county, but all the more important ones appear to be in- cluded.
DISTILLERIES AND BREWERIES.
Our forefathers, while in the main tem- perate, were not teetotalers and a "dry" territory was unknown. The whiskey in- surrection of Western Pennsylvania is a matter of history, and, like the moonshiners of Kentucky and North Carolina, they did not see why they could not convert their corn and rye into portable liquid without interference on the part of the government. Aside from home consumption whiskey was about the only form in which corn or rye was valable for export, owing to the diffi- culty and cost of transportation. Con- sequently quite a trade grew up in this direction. In 1798 P. Snyder, who may have been one of the "insurrectors." came to Stenbenville from Uniontown, Pa., and erected a small distillery at the head of Adams street, where now stands the
Buehler brewery, which he ran for two or three years. He was killed in 1803 by the caving in of a well in Market Square, which he was digging, and his body was not recovered for several days. In fact, one account says no effort was ever made to re- cover the body, and that his remains lie buried there until this day. The second distillery was put in operation by Bezaleel Wells, at Rockville, about where the Bor- land coal shaft was afterwards located. It lasted several years, but not a vestige now exists. Andrew and Robert Thompson started a third at "Jacksonville," then a small hamlet at what is now the Market Street entrance to Union Cemetery. They had a small sawmill run by ox-tread power, and began distilling in 1826. Steam power was added, and the distillery sold to James Wilson, who in turn sold to Harrison & Myers. Robert Thompson moved to Bridge- port and died of cholera in 1833. The Jack- sonville distillery was afterwards aban- doned, and Geiselman purchased the old grist mill on Wells Run, which he converted into a distillery about 1855, continuing until he was burned out in 1857. About 1836 Robert Mears and Mr. Trotter began a rectifying business on Market street be- tween Third and High (now Edwards Hotel), which they conducted a number of years, when Thomas Mears, a brother, came from Ireland and purchased Trotter's interest. The firm erected a large grist mill and distillery at the junction of Fourth and Fifth Streets, where they did an extensive business, and in 1865 purchased a lot on the south side of Market Street, where they erected the fine business block now occupied by the Davidson wholesale grocery. The distillery was operated until 1874, when it burned down and was never rebuilt. Oliver T. Beard, who had been engaged with the Mears firm with some others operated a distillery on Cross Creek until the fire fiend disposed of that. Cross Creek Township engaged quite extensively in this business, the first distillery probably was erected by Daniel Dunlevy on Section 33 in 1803. Joseph Hanlon had one in the same neigh-
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borhood, also John McConnell, William Me- Connell, William Woods and Nathaniel Porter. By 1863 Mr. Porter's was the only one left in the township, which he ran in connection with his mill until the heavy war tax made it unprofitable. There were other small distilleries throughout the country, one on Long Run, in fact the still seems to have been a frequent adjunct to a grist mill, but their records, if they had any, were lost.
Beer was likewise an early prodnet und a Mr. Dunlap established a brewery on what is now the lower end of the Hartje paper mill property in 1815. He ran it for three years when he sold out to Charles F. Leib- lin, who carried on the trade for many years, when Thompson Hanna, who then ran the paper mill, bonght the property and converted it into tenement houses. Alexander Armstrong opened a second on Water Street just below Washington in 1819, condneting it during his life, when an Englishman named Woods rented the place and is said to have brewed the first ale for the Steubenville market. A Mr. Rolly sne- reeded him, when Joseph Basler, Sr., took charge, coming from the Leiblin brewery. He remained there until 1852, when he built a new brewery on South High Street near Adams. Julins Zimmerman purchased the Armstrong brewery and converted it into a handsome residence property, where his widow still resides. Mr. Basler was sue- ecoded by his sons, Max and Joseph Basler, in the South High Street brewery, who con- tinned until after the former's death, soon after which it was partially destroyed by fire and converted by John MeClave, its new owner, into a residence. H. E. Schaefer opened a small brewery on Third street in 1:59, which he continued until' 1877, when he dropped it. John C. Butte, Sr., came to Steubenville in 1858, and in 1860 he erected a small brewery at the head of Adams Street. Ifere he gradually built up a trade of 8,000 to 10,000 barrels a year, and excavated extensive vaults nuder the hill capable of holding 2,500 barrels. The Schaefer brewery at this thue had a vault under the hill ou West Market Street. He
afterwmids sold out to Charles Rall, and he to John Buehler, both of whom made further enlargements. The latter is still in the business, although conducting it with some difficulty since the county voted "dry" in November, 1908.
WOOLEN AND COTTON MILLS.
Incidental references have been made to the existence of local woolen mills throngh- ont the county in connection with the grist mill industry, and we here take it up ont of its chronological order on account of the mique history of its rise, zenith, decline and fall. The outbreak of the second war with Great Britain found the country with- ont any wool manufacturing whatever, save what was afforded by the laborious work of the hand loom, which did not begin to sup- ply the demand, and consequently practi- eally everything consmned in that line was imported. With the outbreak of hostilities importations ceased, and the stress gave a severe object lesson, which was not suffered to go without improvement. Especially was this the case with the finer grades of cloth. Fortunately in one respect the way had been opened. While William Jarvis was United States consul in Spain during the early part of the 19th century two Spanish nobles who had become involved in an in- surrection entrusted to him the care of some valuable blooded merinos to prevent their confiscation by the government. The nobles, it is supposed, were killed, and Mr. Jarvis brought the sheep to his farm in Windsor County, Vermont, There they were purchased by Bezaleel Wells nbont the venr 1814, and brought out to this part of the country. William R. Dickenson al- ready had a flock from the same place and some from New Jersey as early as 1812. They were bred here until 1824. by which time the Hoeks mnuhered 5,500. In that year a large portion of the flock was smn- mered on Me. Wells's land near ('anton, he- ing driven to Steubenville to winter. These were the parents of all the fine sheep of this region, and their wool was made into cloth
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at the Steubenville mills. They were after- wards crossed with Saxony sheep and still further improved until scattered in the bankruptcy proceedings of 1830. Mr. Wells' descendants still cherish with pride a sil- ver medal awarded by the Franklin Insti- tute of Philadelphia to him for the exhibit of manufactured goods in 1824. About this time the Brazilian minister to this country offered as a prize a silver cup for the ram that would shear the greatest weight of picklock wool. Believing that his sheep were as good as any in the country, Mr. Dickenson selected his ram Bolivar and took him to Baltimore. The contest took place in that city on June 1, 1826. and was won by Bolivar, although he had to com- pete with the best sheep of the Atlantic states, both native und imported. This sheep was brought buck over the mountains in a wagon and was one of the principal at- tractions, in the parade of the following 4th of July
Owing to financial difficulties these flocks were sold at publie anction in. Steubenville in 1830; one thousand two hundred ewes and wethers of the first and second qual- ity brought $3.16 per head; five ewes and five rams of the top of the flock brought an average of $22.50 per head. Buyers at- tended the sale from all parts of Ohio. Pennsylvania and western Virginia, and in this way the Wells and Dickenson sheep were scattered to improve Ohio wool; for Ohio wool is grown on the hillsides of Pennsylvania and West Virginia as well as here. Specimens of this wool, known as the Crosskey "clips," have taken medals at several world expositions.
The first sheep in the county, which came from Connectient, New Jersey and Vir- giuia, were of a rugged character. and gave great assistance to the settlers in checking undergrowth. Their wool was made into hand goods.
In order to remedy as far as possible the condition of affairs above described, Bezaleel Wells and Samnel Patterson, of Steubenville, and James Ross and Henry Baldwin, of Pittsburgh, formed a partner-
ship for the manufacture of woolen goods by steam power. They erected a factory on the north side of Market Street, west of Seventh, being part of outlot No. 15, a brick structure 110x28 feet, surmounted by a spire displaying a golden ball and fleece. John Hurt built the basement story, Har- rington and Warfield the brick work, and Nicholas Murray the carpenter work, the building being three stories high with hip roof. The building was completed in the fall of 1814, and early in the spring of 1815 the steam engine was brought from Pitts- burgh under the supervision of Mr. Latrobe and placed in position. The boiler was tea kettle shape and stood ou oud; the bottom was coneaved for fire-bed; the cylinders. two in number, stood on end with shackle bars, walking beams and rotary valve. April 10, 1815, the machinery was started. The same day Samnel Patterson, one of the owners, died. Christopher H. Orth, a Ger- man, was employed as manager with a stip- ulated salary and one-fifth of the profits. under the firm name of C. H. Orth & Co. Stibbin Johnson and Adam Wise, two skilled mechanies in iron and wood, built the machinery. The carding ma- chine was twenty-four-inch cylinder for making rolls and forty-inch spindle for drawing the rolls into shuibbing for the spinners. The spinning machines, called jennies, were three in number, one of forty spindles and two of sixty spin- dles. William Fisher and Alfred Cooper ran the billy and Enos Lucas, George and Peter Dohrman learned to spin. first, by drawing one thread at a time. so that in a short time they were able to fill all the spindles. By this time two broad- eloth looms were built. John Arthurs and Robert Semple, hand loom weavers, took charge of the looms and were the first men to weave broadeloth by steam power in this country. It was amusing to see a common laborer learning to weave. To time his feet with his hands he had two big treadles marked hayfoot and strawfoot. To raise the shade for the shuttle to pass through. he would say up comes sugar, down goes
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gad. In time different men learned to weave. At first spinning, weaving and some of the other processes were carried on by hand, and steam was applied to the carding and fulling mill. Spinning jennies and looms were increased as men were found competent to operate them, and in 1820 improved machinery was introduced, the broadcloth looms, jennies, knapping and shearing all being done by steam. The firm of Orth & Co. hnd ceased to exist and Ross and Baldwin sold ont to Benjamin Tappan and William R. Dickenson, the firm now being styled B. Wells & Co. Judge Tappan soon retired and the firm now became Wells & Dickenson. On June 20, 1822, the dwelling house, office and warerooms adjoining the factory were burnt but soon rebuilt, and the manufac- ture of cassimeres and broadcloths wus ex- tensively carried on until March, 1830, when financial difficulties arose, and the firm made an assignment, Daniel I .. Collier being the assignee. A judgment of $120,- 000 was obtained in the United States Court, and U. S. Marshal Jolm S. Patter- son levied on the property, and everything went at imblic sale, including some 4,000 head of sheep sacrificed at the prices quoted above. Mr. Dickenson went to Texas and died a few years after, while Wells re- mained a hopeless bankrupt, but with un- blemished character. It was nt this time that The Grove property passed into the hands of Gen. Samuel Stokely, who with his descendants ocenpied it until the win- ter of 1901-2, when it was sold to the Pope Tinplate Company. Mr. Wells died on An- gust 14, 1846. The factory remained idle nutil 1832 when James H. Blin purchased it with all the outbuildings and two and one-half acres of land from the trustee on behalf of Christopher II. Wolcott for $7,500. Mr. Wolcott put in new machinery with other improvements, and the Inn of industry was once more heard within the factory walls. While continuing the mann- facture of cloth he made a feature of jeans. for which there was a good demand, and heing of superior quality found a ready
sale. At his death Martin Andrews was appointed administrator, who operated the factory through Henry Wolcott, when it wns leased by George JI. Orth, who failed in 1859, involving quite a number of citi- zens who had indorsed for him. It lay idle again until the breaking out of the Civil War, when the administrator again took charge and mannfactured army goods. He sold out to a Mr. Goodale, who operated until the early morning of April 11, 1867, when it caught fire and was entirely de- stroyed, just fifty yeurs from the day that the engine first started.
The second factory in Steubenville was a wooden structure erected west of what is now Liberty Street, by James Wallace and Brice Baker. It was called the Union fue- tory but more popularly known as Bull Tail factory, from the fact that gentlemen cows furnished the first power, instead of steum, on a tramp wheel. It was first used by Wise & Johnson in manufacturing ma- chinery, and used by Orth and Wallace pre- vious to the erection of their large factory described below. It passed into the hands of Benjamin Fagg and Matthew Steele, who made carding machines, James L. Mc- Devitt using the basement as a machine shop. Samnel Hewitt afterwards pur- chased the building and used the second and third stories in the manufacture of jeans, the lower or basement story being still retuined by MeDevitt and a portion by James Little in mmmfacturing gun bar- rels. Steele & Fagg had erected a three- story brick building west of and adjoining the factory where they continued the man- nfacture of carding machines, there being a good demand for them at this time. Francis A. Priest used the lower story for wood turning, making bobbins, machines, wheels und reels, so that this was a centre nat only for the manufacture of woolen goods Imit of the machinery which made them. Mr. Hewitt was familiarly known as "King Sam" from his rather eccentric disposition, impervious to anything that could disturb or excite the ordinary indi- vidual. A story is told that one day John
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Wallace noticed that the roof of the fac- tory was on fire, and running up to the of- fice said to Mr. Hewitt, "your factory is on fire." Without any sign of emotion he replied, "Well! Well! if it burns down I'll build a brick." At another time one of his employes observed him standing in the back yard with his hands behind his back coolly smoking a cigar and looking very in- tently at the top of the building. He re- marked to the young man, "I wish you would go tell MeGuintee to go and throw a bucket of water on that blaze on the roof. I have been watching it for full fifteen min- ntes and it will neither burn nor go out." McGuintee threw the water and saved the building for the time. Whether the calm- ness on these occasions was due to faith in an overruling Providence or a large insur- ance policy we are not informed. Mr. Hewitt, after several years of successful business, met with reverses and went to California, where it was said he accumu- lated a considerable fortune and paid off his old Steubenville debts. He died many years ago. Bennett Reynolds bought the old factory, and operated it until his death. Robert Boals conducted carding and spin- ning in the upper story, while McDevitt continued his machine shop and Reynolds made gun barrels below. The building and contents were entirely destroyed by fire in 1857, and subsequently a three-story brick was built on the site and operated as a white lead factory, first by Foster & Hanna for about eighteen months and then by Mr. Foster alone. There had previously been a factory of this kind run by Means & Scott near the present Means foundry, but it had quit. M. L. Miller succeeded Foster, and carried on an extensive business for eight years, turning out 150 to 200 tons per annum. The premises were afterwards rented to Messrs. Grafton & Hanvey, who carried on the metal roofing business, and then sold to F. M. Mooney, who converted them into a flour mill, turning out 100 to 125 barrels per day. Financial reverses overtook him in the nineties, and the mill was shut down and the machinery sold.
It afterwards became an Italian tenement, and now does duty as a junk warehouse.
The year 1832 was a speculative one. President Jackson had vetoed the United States Bank bill, which gave the local banks an opportunity of flooding the country with a currency, some of which was good, more of it poor, and some of it worth nothing at all. This curse lasted until the substi- tution of Government and National Bank currency at the beginning of the Civil War. But the evil effects had not become ap- parent at the date of which we write. Money, such as it was, was plentiful, banks were accommodating and visions of wealth were as real to the holders of wildcat money as they are today to the holders of wildcat oil territory. Manufacturing was booming, and although railroads were not then a factor in the West, yet there were the rivers and canals, with easy and cheap methods of transportation. At this time C. H. Orth, James Wallace and Nathaniel Dike concluded to build a mill which should excel anything of the kind west of the mountains. It was located on the corner of Liberty and Market streets and named the Ashland, although more commonly known as Wallace's factory. The building was a four-story brick 180 feet long by 40 wide surmounted by a belfry and weather vane, the project costing $75,000. It ran with varying fortunes until the morning of February 23, 1868, when there was an alarm of fire, and it was discovered that the big factory was ablaze. It was filled with employes, men, women and children (there were no child labor laws in those days) and reports were rife of persons en- tombed in the blazing structure. Fortu- nately all the inmates got out safely, al- though there were some narrow escapes. The fire department of that day was ut- terly inadequate to cope with a fire of this character, and a new peril threatened. Di- rectly back of the blazing building was a mass of frame structures covering the shaft of the Steubenville Coal & Mining Company, and should they ignite nothing could save the lives of the hundred men
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and boys who had gone to work in the gal- tunately the shaft buildings, although scorched, were not burned. James Wal- lace rebuilt the mill two stories high ip- stead of four, the lower walls being used and installed up to date machinery. He retained an interest in the mill until his death in 1871, after which it was carried on by his sons until 1877 when this struc- ture burned, and was never rebuilt, the knell of the woolen industry in Steuben- ville was sounded. Its site is now covered by dwellings. leries. all 225 feet underground, and some of them three-fourths of a mile from the bottom of the shaft. Under the direction of Superintendent James H. Blinn firemen and other citizens fought the flames above while others entered the mine to give warn- ing of danger, for word of mouth was the only way to convey it. William Dixon and Hugh Sutherin did good service in this di- rection, while the hoisting cages were run at the utmost speed until everybody was ont of the mine. Among those working that James Dillon bad a small woolen mill in a frame building on Washington Street below Third in 1830, operated by a tramp wheel. David Kennedy had a small estah- coverlets and fine figured woolen carpets at $1.25 per yard. day were John Stewart and his son Will- iant. The father had been crippled by an arrident in a Scottish mine, and they were in one of the farthest workings when warn- "lishment where he manufactured figured ing was received. They started for the shaft but the prospect of reaching it in time was very discouraging. While the son as- Armstrong & Northrup in 1834-5 built a jeans factory on South Fifth Street on a lot previously ocenpied by Mr. Wampler as a tannery. They operated until 1837 when the stringeney of the times compelled them to close down. sisted the father's feeble steps they were passed on the way by men and boys who urged them to hasten if they would save their lives. This increased their excite. ment, hindering them rather than assist- ing them. Finally the poor old crippled The original Franklin factory was lo- rated on Seventh Street between Adams and South, and was started by Benjamin Hipsley, William B. Hawkins, Thomas Egan, Alfred Cooper and William Eaken, under the name of Hipsley, Hawkins & Co. They were sneceeded by Smith, MeEllrath & Co., and then by Viers & Beatty, who con- tinned until their failure about 1844. The machinery was sold and taken awny, and the building was afterwards purchased by George D. MeKinney and converted into a planing mill. Abont 1860 it passed into the possession of Lewis Anderson and brother William and then to sons of the former. It was finally torn down and a large wall paper mannfactory erected on its site by J. H1. Timberlake, John W. Fornly, John R. Kendall and others composing a local company. After operating a couple of years the plant was sold to a Chicago com- pany, by whom it is now operated. father sank by the way, and resigning him- self to what seemed to be his fate urged his son to leave him and seek his own safety, "I'm auld and crippled, Willie, and of nae account in the warl; nae worth ony sacri- fice; gung awa un save yoursel or we'll baith perish. You are young and strang an may have mony years tae live; gang awa, Willie, an save yoursel, I canna coom." "I wanna le yo, fayther. Coom. I'll help you alang, an we'll baith get out," was the reply. After repeated efforts the old man was indneed to try again, but snuk down in despair, and in most piteous ac- cents in his broad Scotch dialect urged his son to leave him and seek his own safety. Paying no attention to the old man's im- portunities, William would again, with en- couraging words and earnest pleadings. get the old man up and make a little more progress towards the shaft, which they reached after considerable toil and were Robert C. Peters Imilt a frame woolen mill on South Fifth Street opposite the old graveyard, from which it took the name hoisted to safety. There was no hero fund in those days, but there were heroes. For-
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