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saddle had been stuffed with gunpowder."
The school building referred to was oc- casionally used for preaching, and about 1845 the first temperance meeting held in the township was conducted here, starting the reformation which put the local dis- tilleries out of business. The old building stood for forty-four years, being torn down in 1874 and replaced by a new frame build- ing, after an interesting reunion of teach- ers, friends and pupils on the old grounds. Some relies have been made from the logs and preserved as mementoes. The town- ship is well supplied with schools at pres- ent, there being five in operation, there be- ing two extra lots, with locations in Sec- tions 1 (Downard), 8 (Beard), 21 (Thomp- son, "Old Log"), 27 (Monroeville), 32 (Brush Creek), 24 (Workman), 15 (Salt Run).
Chestnut Grove M. E. Church traces its origin to points outside the limits of the township. The meetings at the Hickman house near the mouth of Yellow Creek early in the Nineteenth century, where Rev. Wil- liam Tipton preached in 1822, were the beginning not only of Chestnut Grove, but also of the societies at Irondale and High- land Town in Columbiana County. Meet- ings were also held at the house of Theo- philus Kirk, near where Hammondsville now is. The first class was composed of Susan Kirk, Susan Cox, Mary Cox, Amy Drey, David Walter, Mary Walter, Jannes Ewing, Sarah Ewing. The early ministers were William Tipton, John E. McGraw, John R. Shearer. About 1838 Rev. J. M. Bray began preaching at the Clark "old log school honse," now Thompson's. In the meantime Martin Adams, whose house- keeper was Mrs. Agnes Hartley, of the Lutheran faith, in accordance with her wishes, gave a tract of land to that denom- ination, to be the property of the First Lutheran Church, of Brush Creek Town- ship, stipulating in the deed that when not nsed by the Lutherans it was to be free to thre Presbyterians, and when they did not need it, to the Methodists. A stone build- ing was started in 1838, just about the time
that Rev. Bray began preaching at the log school house, the erection of a stone building was begun, the neighbors without regard to creed contributing to the work. When the walls were half up John Calder, the mason, died, and nothing more was done until next year when the walls were completed and the building roofed. At this time Mrs. Hartley died, and nothing fur- ther was done until 1847, when the house was completed and occupied by the Meth- odists. There never was but one Lutheran sermon preached in it. This building was used until 1898, when, becoming too small and unsafe, a new frame structure was erected close by at a cost of $2,500. Rev. Sheridan Baker preached the first sermon on the occupation of the stone church in the fall of 1847, and the next year Rev. Samnel Longdon and A. H. Thomas were appointed by conference, the charge then being in Somerset circuit. John E. Mc- Graw, John R. Shearer, Harry McAbee, John Crawford and William Tipton were among the early preachers, and the first class leaders were Samuel Robinson and Joshua Ewing. The members of the first class were Hannah Robinson, Sally Ewing, Jane Ewing, Myron and Ann VanDusen, Mary Gillingham, Elizabeth and Leah Beard. Since 1870 the church has been served from Irondale.
Grant Hill United Presbyterian Church was organized in 1866 and a comfortable frame house built about a mile west of the Thompson school house. The original mem- bers were William M. Martin, Robert B. Sharp and John R. MeCullough, elders; Laughlin Dallas, Sr., and Jr., Barbara, Margaret and Maggie Dallas, John and .Mrs. Sharp, William Rose, Sr. and JJr., Margaret, Lizzie, Alexander and Martha Rose, Robert V., Belle and Isabel Martin, Hugh M. and Maria MeIntosh, William, Mary M., Joseph, Eliza and John S. Russell, Josiah and Jane Adams, Jane Johnson, John and Nancy McCoy, Lizzie Randolph, Albert G. and Susan Maple, An- nie Cameron. Rev. S. W. Clark preached the first sermon and held communion in
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October, 1866, in the uncompleted building. There was preaching by supplies until Feb- ruary 9, 1870, when Rev. H. Y. Leeper took charge. The installation sermon was by Dr. T. R. Simpson, address to pastor by Rev. J. H. Leeper, and to the people by Rev. Erskine. Mr. Leeper continued in charge until 1902, since which the congre- gation has been served from Yellow Creek and Irondale.
The Presbyterian Church of Monroe- ville was organized in 1835. In June of that year the Presbytery of Beaver met at New Lisbon, Ohio, and Rev. Thomas E. Hughes was commissioned to hold a meet- ing in Monroeville for this purpose. This meeting was held on July 4, and Rev. Mr. Hughes in company with Richard Gilson, elder from Bethel Church, were present.
After appropriate religious exercises Mr. Hughes gave a narrative of the action of the Presbytery, and being chosen moder- ator, it was resolved to elect two elders, Joseph Holsack and Samuel Clark. The following day being Sunday the sacrament of the Lord's Supper was administered, and Alexander, infant son of Samuel and Christina Clark, was the first baptized in this congregation. The first elders were ordained on September 24. A small church was soon erected, which was replaced by the present structure which was dedicated free of debt on April 23, 1882, Rev. S. M. Davis preaching the sermon.
There is also a Disciple Church in the same neighborhood, known as Berea, which is without a pastor. There are three ceme- teries in the township.
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CHAPTER XXIV
GENERAL ADDENDA
County, Township and Village Population-At one Time First in the State-Tax Valuation and Levy-Schools, School Houses and Teachers-Postoffices.
When the census of 1800 was taken Jef- ferson County showed a larger population than any of the other seven counties into which the territory of Ohio was then di- vided except Hamilton, and contained nearly one-fifth of the entire population of the state, which was then 45,365. Trum- bull County had just been detached from Jefferson, which, if it had still retained its original boundaries from the Muskingum and Cuyahoga Rivers to the Pennsylvania line and Ohio River, with the lake on the north would have held about one-fourth the people. Washington County, with its inuch vannted Marietta settlement, had lit- tle more than half as many. The popula- tion of the seven counties at that time was as follows:
Adams, 3,432; Hamilton, 14.692; Jeffer- son, 8,766; Ross, 8,540; Trumbull, 1,302; Washington, 5,427; Wayne, 3,206.
Although the lopping off process con- tinned in the creation of Belmont, Cohnbi- ana and Tuscarawas ,Connties, yet JJeffer- son took the first place in 1810, with a pop- ulation of 17,260, donbling her figures, while Hamilton only had 15.258. The suc- ceeding figures are as follows: 1820, 18,- 531; 1830, 22,489 ; 1840, 25,030; 1850, 29,133; 1860. 26,115; 1870, 29,188; 1880, 33,018; 1890, 39.415: 1900, 44,357. Present esti- mated population, 55,000, of which 25,000 are in Steubenville Township. The follow-
ing table gives the population of civil divis- ions in the county since 1850, the township figures in each instance including the municipalities in such township :
11850, 1860 1-701
1×00| 1900
Brush Creek Tp .. 1,121 705
697
1850 | 623
539
501
Monroeville
Cross Creek Tp. . 1.912 1,563
198
167
175
Wintersville
121
113
Island freek Tp.
1,981 1.632
1.626.
2,029
1.909
Knox Tp
1,902 1,4%;
1,301
2.011
2,193
4,389
Knoxville
164
131
16.5
Toronto
Mt. Pleasant Tp.
1,547
1,684
1,564
1,582
2,397
3,686
Rony Tp ..
1.144
461
741
617
Salem Tp. ...
1 .- 13 1.704
1.907
1.621
1,459
Anmpolis
1.5%
135
139
Fast Springfield ..
216
170
Richmond
511
692
491
444
1.773
Hammondsville
504
Irondale
751
399
1.136
Smithfield Tp
1,599
1,849
1.761
1.887
1,937
Nmithfell
515
559
639.
503
York
1,90%
750
$17
922
1,05%
Steubenville Tp ..
Mingo June
Steubenville
6.140 6,254
8.107
12.093 13,394;14.349
Warren Tp.
1.91% 1,797
1,637
1,923
1,921 2,361
Grover
Warrenton
240
"41
Wayne Tp.
1,801 1,7~1
1.564 1.761
1.670; 1.585
Bloomfield
141
146|
175
Wells Tp.
1,82: 1,473
1.414
1.400
1,929
1,441
Brilliant
343 151
361
94-4
646
540
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76
441
509
Somerset
77
476
3.526
Alt. Pleasant.
563
693
626
Saline Tp.
1,090 1,197
89
Springfield Tp.
Amsterdam
16%
7.355 10,207
13,150 15.852 17,303
1,456 2,954
308
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1.711
1,652
1,6:27
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TAX VALU'ATIONS AND LEVY.
The number of acres of land assessed for taxes in Jefferson County is 256,069, valued at the last decennial appraisement (1900) at $10,146,620; value of real estate in cities and villages, $6,225,110; personal property, $10,134,940; total, $26,506,670. Total taxes assessed (except dogs), $933,- 510.74. The valuation and rate of taxation in the different civil divisions of the county are as follows :
Smithfield Township.
1,186,920
19.00
Adena Vil. Dist ..
104,070
28.40
Dillonvale Vil. Dist.
80,960
30.40
Smithfield Vil. Dist.
144,250
28.40
Smithfield Borough
260,960
32.20
Adena Borough
134,100
37.00
Wayne Township
1,222,450
19.00
Cross Creek Tp. School.
36,140
17.10
Bloomfield Vil. Disl.
36,120
22.60
Bloomfield Borough.
81,340
24.20
Warren Township.
865,400
20.40
Wells Tp. School Dist ..
14,150
22.40
Warrenton No. 1 School Dist.
116,530
26.40
Ind. Dist, No. 9.
188,760
23.60
Grover Vil. Dist
121,990
26.40
Grover Borough
66.440
24.10
Wells Township.
1,148,770
22.40
District
tion
$1,000
Brush Creek Tp ..
$ 193,970
$23.60
Monroeville Special
32,110
23.60
Hors School Dist.
5,650
21.20
Cross Creek Tp.
1,118,250
19,60
Now Alexandria Bor.
+3,220
23.80
New Alexandria Vil. Dist.
49,940
20.30
Steubenville Tp. School Dist.
21,960
21.60
Wayne Tp. School Dist.
12,510
21,70
Wells Tp. School Dist.
8,550
23,30
Island Creek Tp.
693,500
20.60
Toronto Vil. Dint
100,650
25.60
Ind. Dist. No. 2.
448,720
20.10
Knox Tp. School Dist.
40,400
22.00
Toronto Borough
404,560
:14.20
Knox Township.
553,580
20.20
Toronto Vil. Dist
135,370
23.80
Toronto Borough.
791,620
33.40
Empire Vil. Dist.
169,040
25.80
Island Creek, Tp. School.
3,940
18.80
Ross Tp. School Dist
4,950
18.40
Empire Borough.
125,500
27.40
Mt. Pleasant Tp.
872,370
16.60
Dillonvale Borough.
240,620
39.60
Dillonvale Vil. Dist ..
50,970
30.60
Mt. Pleasant Vil. Dist.
Mt. Pleasant Borough
265,3.50
33.60
Ross Township.
351,340
20.60
Knox Tp. School Dist.
23.490
49.40 25.80 20.70
Fourth Ward-Land and lots, $2,193 .- 390; buildings, $2,136,740; stables, $520 .- 250; factories, $126,120; other buildings, $18,770; total, $4,495,270.
The grand total for the city not includ- ing untaxable property, is: Land and lots, $8.235,800; buildings, $7,397,840; stables, $53,270; factories, $3,872,500; other build- ings, $80,080; total, $19,639,490.
Mannfactories are assessed as follows:
First Ward --
Land.
Buildings.
Total.
La Belle
.$139,890
$3,346,950
$3,486,850
Pope Mill
40,460
220,420
260,880
Sharpe's Foundry . ...
13,880
18,780
32,660
Salem Township ..
537.820
37.80 25.20 20,40
Steubenville Pottery ..
29,920
77,300
107,220
Island Crerk Tp. School.
25,010
20.00
Second Ward-
S. & E. L. Ry. & I .. Co. 12,550
131.840
144,390
Richmond Village Dint.
×1,880
23.40
Steubenville Brewery.
17,765
14,630
62.390
Richmond Borough.
95,650
25.00
Chicago Wall Paper Co.
12,830
9,170
22,000
Ind. Dist. No. 2.
38,150
15.90
City Dist. No. 5.
174,390
26.40
Mingo Vil. Dist.
396,830
25.80 18.90
Mingo June. Borough.
1.794,540
37.20 36.80
Steubenville City
8,607.520
Saline Tp ..
893,360 19.00
Knox Tp. School Dint.
2,650
20,20 18.44
Springfield Township
47,330
30.20
Bergholz Vil. Dist .
31,120
30.40
Amsterdam Vil, Dist.
92,13#
30,60 28.30
Salem Tp. School Dist
1.290
Bergholz Borough.
156.900
38.60
Amsterdam Borough.
157,050
Ross Tp. School Dist.
20,050
Wayne Tp. Schol Dist. .
26,340
21.80
Brilliant Borough.
189,000
32.00
The decennial appraisement of real es- tate for the year 1910 brings the valuation in the city of Steubenville up to $19,639,490 as against about $8,500,000, and the same ratio will probably carry throughout the county. Divided into wards, the property is appraised as follows:
First Ward-Lots and lands, $1,085,580; buildings, $1,502,860; stables, $6,180; fac- tories. $3,576,010; other buildings, $8,370; total, $6,179,000.
Second Ward-Lands and lots, $2,347,- 260; houses, $1,985,870; stables, $16,970; factories, $61,800; other buildings, $29,750; total, $4,441,650.
Third Ward-Land and lots, $2,609,570; houses, $1,772,370; stables $9,870; fac- tories, $108,570; other buildings, $23,190; total, $4,523,570.
185.460
24.64
Salem Tp. School Dist
6,760
Stenbenville Township
$2,850
Cross Creek Tp. School.
23,840
Ross Tp. School Dist.
7,610
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Third Ward-
Menns Foundry
16,620
6,500
23,120
Ohio Valley Clay Co ..
25,200
63,000
88,200
Standard Oil Co. ....
7,200
4,240
11,440
Central Sewer Pipe ...
30,000
6,000
36,000
O. V. Ice & 8. Co .....
2,100
6,340
8.440
Oil Well Supply Co ....
6,600
6,000
12,600
Fourth Ward-
8. & E. L. Barns
3,850
5,200
9,050
Obio Plaster & Sand Co.
6,350
4,520
11,270
Steubenville Iee Co ...
Leased
15,300
15,300
Hartje Bros.
37,200
100,000
137,200
Gill Bros. Factory ..
23,500
50,000
73,500
Gill's Warehouses
12,990
7,240
20,230
Carnegie Steel Co.
42,710
50,000
92,710
SCHOOLS AND SCHOLARS.
Two new schoolhouses were built in Jef- ferson County during the year ending Aug- ust 31, 1909, one in Salem Township at a cost of $4,000, and one in Warren, costing $1,066. The 147 school buildings in the county have 324 rooms, and last year ac- commodated 11,401 pupils in charge of 192 teachers. The value of the school buildings is put at $766,300, and last year's expendi- tures footed up $278,159.83. The follow, ing table gives the matter in detail:
Townships
No. Houses
No. Pupils
tig 4 Teachers
Annual
Brush Creek
418
4.000
418 1.003.17
Cross Creek
10
25,000
315
12
10.007.16
Island Creek
12,200
136
4.131.41
Knox
7.000
245
4.526.59
Mt. Pleasant
10.000
279
7
4.272.07
Ross ..
8
8.500
132
8
3,222.24
1
2.000
40
647.13
Saline
10.000
898
11
5.302.19
Springdeld
4.600
268
8
3,504.39
Salem
12,000
267
4.701.21
Smithfeld
19
16,000
602
15
10,080.84
Wayne
1ª
30.000
362
14
9.636.26
Warren
8
16,000
421
12
7,889.71
Wells
10
8.000
452
12
9,378.97
Total
108 $164,300
4.004 130
$ 78.993.34
Speelal Districts
Adena
1
2.500
214
5
0.163.12
Amsterdam
1
8,000
253
4.019.09
Bergholt
1
4.000
195
4
2.096.38
Bloomfield
1
3.800
1,535.85
Brilliant .
1
8.000
141
A
2.750.17
Dillonvale
1
22.000
468
10
9.270.82
Empire
2
10.000
338
6
4.161.91
Grover
1
3.600
145
2.221.95
Ind. No. 2 (1. C.)
4
8.000
155
3.032.48
Ind. No. 9 (Warren)
1
2.500
148
1.098.36
Monroeville
1
900
49
1
564.16
Mt. Pleasant
10,000
242
5.895.49
New Alexandria.
1
1.200
38
1
541.42
Richmond
1
3.000
1.351.17
Smithfield
1
20.500
249
5.346.85
Xirubenville
202,000
3,0621 7781
20 17.533.67
Warrenton
1
1.000
73
1 1.$59.52
Grand Totals
$768,300 11.401 192 $278,159.83
The number of youths in the county be- tween the ages of 16 and 21 reported by the enumerators in 1910 is 17,046.
POSTOFFICES.
There are forty-five postoffices in Jeffer- son County, located as follows :
NAME
TOWNSHIPS.
Adena
Smithfield
Amsterdam
Springfield
Annapolis
Salem
Bergholz
Springfield
Bloomingdale
Wayne
Smithfield
Brilliant
Wells
Connorville
Warren
Costonia
Island Creek
Cresswell
Wayne
Dillonvale
Mt. Pleasant
Dunglen (Upstill)
Mt. Pleasant
East Springfield
Salem
Emerson
Mt. Pleasant
Empire
Knox
Fair Play
Wayne
Fernwood
Cross Creek
Florencedale
Smithfield
Hammondsville
Saline
Harperville
Smithfield
Herrick
Mt. Pleasant Saline
Irondale
Island Creek
Inland Creek
Markle
Taland Creek
Mingo Junction
Steubenville
Mit. Pleasant
Mt. Pleasant
New Alexandria
Cross Creek
Parlett
Wayne
Piney Fork
Smithfield Saline
Ramsey
Mt. Pleasant
Rayland (Portland)
Warren
Reed 's Milla
Cross Creek
Rhodesdale
Wells
Richmond
Salem
Rush Run
Warren
Smithfield
Smithfield
Steubenville
Steubenville
Tiltonsville
Warren
Torono
Knox
U'nionport
Wayne
Warrenton
Warren
Weems
Smithfield
Wolf Run
Springfield
Yorkville
Warren
The original land patents contained a reservation to the general government of one-third of all gold, silver and lead, but as it soon became apparent that these met- als did not exist in this section the clause was omitted from later patents.
Although one of the oldest counties in the state, Jefferson County never had a
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4
80,000
29.112.00
110,000
19
Expenditure
Port Homer
8
Steubenville
Value
97.4941.81
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capital execution for crime within its bor- ders, and no sentence of death resulting from the conviction for a capital crime was ever carried out until quite recently. On Sunday night, March 21, 1909, a negro bur- glar named John Kilpatrick assaulted Charles H. Steele, a prominent business man of Steubenville, in the latter's cellar as he was adjusting the furnace, striking him with a club and inflicting injuries from which he died the next day. For this crime Kilpatrick was electrocuted at the Ohio penitentiary in Columbus on Saturday morning, February 5, 1910.
Since the above pages were written a dispatch sent out from Cleveland states that Abion M. Dyer, librarian and curator of the Western Reserve Historical Society, after four months of painstaking search through the records at Washington, an- nounces positively that the settlers of Marietta were not the original settlers of
Ohio, even from a legal point of view, and he pronounces the Marietta claim a myth. He finds from the records that in 1787, on September 21, Capt. Absolem Martin bought, in the city of New York, two tracts of land from the government, situated in Belmont county, Ohio. Other tracts were sold at the same time, but Captain Martin was the first of the purchasers to settle on his new possession. Of course this was subsequent to the settlement at Fort Steuben, Mingo, Short Creek, etc. Captain Martin's place opposite Wheeling was within the original territory of Jefferson County.
The Western Reserve Historical So- ciety proposes placing a boulder monu- ment to Captain Hutchins at the point where he started the survey for the Seven Ranges at the intersection of the western boundary of Pennsylvania and the Ohio River.
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HON. REES G. RICHARDS
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HON REES GRIFFITH RICHARDS, judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Jefferson County and formerly a promi- nent member of both the upper and lower honses of the state legislature, as well as lieutenant governor, has still further claim to the respect and consideration of his fel- low citizens, being one of the honored sur- vivors of the great Civil War, in which he served gallantly from 1861 until 1865. Judge Richards was born July 22, 1842, in Wales, a country that has contributed largely to the best citizenship of the United States.
In 1852 the parents of Judge Richards, William G. and Sarah (Griffith) Richards, brought the children to America and the father established himself in the black- smith business in Tioga County, Pemsyl- vania. Subsequently he acquired land and engaged in farming in that section until his death in 1863, while his son was absent assisting in maintaining the integrity of his adopted country.
Judge Richards as a boy was given the best schooling that his father could secure for him; he was also encouraged to learn a self-supporting trade, and thus he be- came a skilled wagomaker. While no ex- igency of life has ever compelled him to put this knowledge to practical use, he will- ingly concedes the value of the discipline. He was only sixteen years of age when he tanght his first term of school, and as he continned to teach, he alternated this occu- pation with school attendance. The ont- break of the Civil War gave a new current In December, 1865, Mr. Richards re- moved to Youngstown, O. The bent of his to his life, for in September, 1861, he en- listed for service in the Federal Army, mind was in the direction of the law, but
becoming a member of Company G, 45th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, in which he served with noted valor until he was honorably mustered out at Harrisburg, Pa., in Angust, 1865. During the long in- terim he participated in many stirring scenes and memorable battles and his pro- motion from the ranks was rapid. On September 14, 1862, his commission as captain of his company reached him, the direct ontcome of partienlarly meritorions service on the field at South Mountain. He took part in a number of the early skirm- ishes and fought at South Mountain, Antie- tam, Fredericksburg, Blue Springs, Camp- bell's Station, Knoxville, Vicksburg, Jack- son, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House and Petersburg, being taken pris- oner at the latter place on July 30, 1864. His escape from prison on February 16, 1865, and his subsequent four weeks of wandering and concealment in the mias- matic swamps and forests of several sonth- ern states before he reached the Union lines, furnishes material for a thrilling story of endurance and sustained courage. He reached Knoxville, Tenn., on March 16, and joined his regiment at Alexandria, be- ing welcomed as one snatched from the jaws of a prison death. From that time on until the close of the war he was a member of the staff of General Curtin. His only wound during the whole period of service was one received at the battle of Jackson, which only temporarily affected him.
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HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY
at that time he did not clearly see his way to devoting his attention to its exclusive study, and in his new surroundings em- barked in a mercantile business, continu- ing there for two years and then removing to Irondale, Jefferson County, where he engaged in mercantile pursuits for the fol- lowing six years. In the meanwhile he had become a prominent factor in Republican politics and in 1873 he was elected a mem- ber of the state legislature, in which he served two terms. In 1876 he was admitted to the bar, but had scarcely entered into practice before he was again called into the political arena and in the full of 1877 he was elected to the state senate. In this honorable body he served for two full terms, and during his last term, on account of the absence of the lieutenant governor, it was necessary to make a choice of one fitted to fill that office temporarily and Sen- ator Richards was selected for that im- portant position. In the fall of 1881 he was elected lieutenant governor and when he retired to private life after the expira- tion of his term he had served the state of Ohio four years in one of its highest exec- utive offices. Years of successful law prae- tice followed, he having established his home, in the meantime, at Steubenville, and subsequently he was again called into pub- lic life, being elected common pleas judge of Jefferson County. Few men are better qualified for judicial position than Judge Richards, and on the bench as in legislative halls his efficiency has been universally recognized.
On November 22, 1865, Judge Richards was married to Miss Catherine C. Rees, daughter of David and Mary (Morgan) Rees, of Tioga County, Pa., and of Welsh extraction. lle was married secondly to Miss Elizabeth Johnson, who is a daughter of Dr. Thomas Johnson and a member of a well known family of Jefferson County. Three children have been born to this sec- ond marriage, of whom Catherine and Sarah are deceased and Margaret resides at home. The beautiful family home in Steubenville is at No. 609 North Fourth
Street. Judge Richards is identified with the Masons and the Grand Army of the Republic,
JOSEPH B. DOYLE, born September 10, 1849, is a native of Steubenville, as were his immediate ancestors, and is a de- scendant on the paternal side of Edward McGuire, son of Constantine McGuire and grandson of James McGuire and Cecilia MeNamaru Reigh, who resided in County Kerry, Ireland, in the 17th century. Ed- ward McGuire, who was an officer in the British army, resigned and came to Phila- delphia, thence to Alexandria and Win- chester, Va., in 1753. His first wife was Miss Wheeler, of Prince George County, Marylund, to whom were born three sons and two daughters. John, the eldest son, married Miss Mary Tipton, and a few years after (1778) joined the George Rogers Clark expedition which reduced the British posts in the Northwest, and secured the Mississippi Valley to the American Union. He died afterwards in Kentucky, and his widow with her family, including her daughter Patience, who had become the wife of Benjamin Doyle, of Loudon Coun- ty, Virginia, removed from Cumberland, Md., to West Middletown, Pa. Here, on April 25, 1794, was born John B., son of Benjamin and Patience Doyle.
The family moved to Jefferson County in 1798, Mr. Doyle settling just west of the present limits of the city of Steubenville, and Mrs. McGuire purchasing what after- wards became the County Infirmary farm in Cross Creek township. Both Mrs. Mc- Guire and her son-in-law were earnest members of the Anglo-American Church, und shortly after their arrival arrange- ments were made with Rev. Joseph Dodd- ridge, located at Charlestown, now Wells- burg, to hold regular services at Mrs. Me- Gnire's residence every third Sunday, he having previously held occasional services at Steubenville and elsewhere. This ar- rangement took effect on December 1, 1800, and ultimately developed into the founding of St. Paul's Church, Steubenville, and St.
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