History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, and incidentially historical collection pertaining to border warfare and the early settlement of the adjacent portion of the Ohio Valley, Part 97

Author: Caldwell, J. A. (John Alexander) 1n; Newton, J. H., ed; Ohio Genealogical Society. 1n
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Wheeling, W. Va. : Historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 728

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" JAMES S. SELLERS .- The subject of this sketch was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, in 1840. Was educated in his native town. Engaged for a number of years in the Crescent Iron Mill, steamboating, &c. He learned the art of photography and engaged in that business in Wheeling. In 1862, he removed to Bellaire, where he is carrying on the wholesale and retail photo- graphic trade.

LEVI CASSELL, born December 18, 1834, in New Jersey. In 1838, he removed with his parents to Wheeling, where he re- ecived a common school education. He learned the trade of glass blowing and making in that city, which business be pur- sued for ten years. He was manager of the Belmont Glass Works four years. In 1866, he was united in marriage to Elizabeth Fisher of Philadelphia. In 1872 he drew out of the Belmont Glass Works and was one of the stockholders and president and manager of the Ohio Glass Works till 1876. Managed the National Glass Works one year. In April, 1878, he was elected mayor of the city and also justice of the peace at the same time He is a good officer.

C. E. KURZ, M. D., physician and surgeon, born in Germany, October 22, 1841. Read surgery under a surgeon three years. In 1859 he entered the regular army as surgeon's mate, and was promoted to assistant surgeon in 1862. He served till 1865, the ex - piration of his term. In 1864, he passed the examination before the State Medical College as surgeon. Migrated to America in September, 1865, and settled in Newark, New Jersey, in 1868. He then entered the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, and graduated with honor in 1869. For two years and a half he practiced in Bloomfield, Jefferson county, Ohio. In April, 1870, he came to Bellaire, where he has remained ever since. en- gaged successfully in his profession. In 1869, he was united in marriage to M. E. Eaton, of Hopedale, Harrison county, Ohio. Office 311 Belmont street.

PHILIP BRAILLY was born in Paris, France, in 1830. Migrated to America in 1849. Ile learned cabinet making and stair build- ing in his native country. He worked at his trade in Richmond, Virginia, and came to Bellaire in 1868, starting in business on his own account. Ho is the inventor and patantee of metalic covered caskets, in which he is now engaged largely in the man- ufacture. The advantage of the casket is its being securely fastened at the corners and does not burst by swelling. Works situated on North Belmont street.

DANIEL L. FUSNER, born in Hocking county, Ohio, 1839. Removed with parents to Maryland in 1843, where he was edu- ented. Served an apprenticeship as machinist in Piedmont, West Virginia. He worked at that place until 1857. He then removed to Bellaire and engaged in the C. O. R. R. shops. After working awhile, he went to Pittsburgh, worked there two years and then came back to Bellaire and hired again (as fore- man ) in the C. O. R. R. shops, (now B. & O. shops, ) where he still remains. Married Elizabeth Westlake, of Bellaire, in 1858.

THOMAS H. MORRIS was born in Staffordshire, England, in 1817. He migrated with his parents to America in 1832, and settled at Nowark, Licking county, O. Studied medicine, but

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never completed his course. Followed farming a number of years, and then engaged in the foundry business in Newark. He closed out that business and commenced work with the Cen- tral Ohio R. R, being one of the pioneer conductors of the road, until injured ; then on recovery was transferred to the agency at Newark, which position he held until after the completion of the road to Bellaire. He was then placed in charge of the com- pany's business at this place. In this he remained until the road was leased to the B. & O. Co., and then engaged with the Pennsylvania Co. as general agent ever since. In 1848 he was married to Mary A. Taylor, of Licking county, Ohio, who died, and in March, 1864, he married his second wife, Elizabeth Thompson, of Columbus, O

ROBERT W. NELSON, born in Belmont county, Ohio, 1845. He attended the common schools of the county, and fol- lowed farming a number of years. In July, 1868, he engaged in the hardward business in Bellaire. In 1869 he married Re- becca Kylo, of Wheeling, W. Va.

GEORGE R. GRAFTON, born in Annapolis, Jefferson county, O., January, 1856, Educated in the common schools. Business- scientific artist and sign writer, &c. He is one of the proprie- tors and manufacturers of the "Clealon Advertising Boards."

JAMES C. TALLMAN,-The subject of this sketch was born on Stillwater, Belmont county, Ohio. April 8, 1850. Educated at Mt. Union College; read law with his brother in Bellaire, and was admitted to practice in September, 1873. Now practicing in company with his brother, under the firm name of Tallman Brothers.

DAVID W. COOPER, born December 16. 1848, in Monroe coun- ty, Ohio. Educated at Washington and Jefferson College, Pa. He graduated in 1874; he then attended the Aun Arbor law school for a time. In 1875 he was admitted to the bar at Steub- enville. He is now practicing at Bellaire.

FREDERICK HOFFMAN, furniture dealer, was born in Monroe county, Ohio, January, 1848. Received a common school edu- cation. Loarned the cabinet business and engaged in the trade in Bellaire in 1868. He keeps a general stock of furniture con- stantly on hand, or makes it to order. In 1873 he married Car- oline Boesher, of this city.

P. T. KING, born June 5, 1842, in Scotland. Received an academical education. Migrated to New York in April, 1866. Was engaged in the mercantile business in several cities prior to his removal here, which was in November, 1872. He was married to Isabella King, of New York state. He is now driv- ing a good trade in the dry goods business, on the corner of Belmont and Thirty-third streets. Mr. K. is the pioneer in the one price cash system of Bellaire.

R. A. MCGREGOR was born in Belmont county, Ohio, in 1836. Was reared on a farm and educated in the county. He followed farming until thirty years of age. He came to Bellaire in 1866 and engaged in the general hardware trade, in connection with his brother James, with whom he was associated in business until 1877. Store situated on Thirty-fifth street.

THOMAS S. TAPPAN, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1838. Was educated in the public schools of his nativity. Served an ap- prenticeship of four years at carriage making with J. W. Gos- ling, of that city. In 1861 he engaged in the photographic bu- siness in Cincinnati. Was appointed as photographer in the "Transit of Venus" expedition in 1874. In 1877 he came to Bel- lairo. Was married to Mary E. Stewart in 1859. Studio 314 Union : residence, Washington street, Rose Hill.

WILLIAM SHARP was born in Westmoreland county, Pa., in 1832. Migrated to Wheeling in 1835, where he learned the trade of manufacturing nails. Went to Steubenville and work- ed twelve years. In 1867 he came to Bellaire, since which time he has been engaged in the Bellaire Nail Works. He was one of the first men hired in that manufactory, and helped to fit and put up machinery, &c. Mr. S. has been twice married. In 1860 he married Mary N. Stuart, of Steubenville, who after- wards died. His second wife was Elizabeth Nicoll, of Wheeling, to whom he was married in 1878.

THOMAS M. GODFREY was born November, 1845, in Ireland. Migrated to the United States with parents in 1846. Served four years as machinist in Hobbs & Taylor's shop, Wheeling. Worked in the railroad shops at Dennison, Ohio, for a number of years. He is at present engaged at the Blast Furnace in Bell- aire. In 1873 he married Mary E. Thomas, of this city.

E. R. BROOKS, born in Lawrence county, Pa., in 1846. Was reared on a farm. Engaged with the Howe Sewing Machine Co. as sub-agent, and continued with that company four years. In 1873 he removed to Bellaire, and is now selling the Singer Sewing Machine, No. 804 south Belmont street.

DUDLEY WOODBRIDGE, M. D., was born in Marietta, Ohio, in 1853. He received a classical education at Marietta College, where he graduated with honor in the class of 1873. He read medicine with Prof. James R. Wood, of New York city. In 1874, he entered Belleview Hospital College, in which he graduated in 1877. In the meantime he spent a year in Europe. In the spring of 1877, he commenced practicing in Bellaire. He is building up quite a practice from the fact of having been suc- cessful in the past in his cases.

J. R. NAYLOR, born near Smithfield, Jefferson county, Ohio, December 25, 1817. He obtained his education in the common schools and Friends school, at Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, and taught for over twenty years, most of that time being in Wellsburg, Brooke county, W. Va. He was elected clerk of the county and circuit court of Brooke, serving for eleven years. In 1873, he came to Bellaire. In 1874 he purchased John Beam's stock of station- ery, notions, toys, &c., known as a news depot, at which time there was another news depot, owned by Mr. Quimby, of Wheel- ing. He afterward sold to Mr. Snively, who in turn sold to Mr. Kelley. Mr. N. then bought out Mr. Kelley. During the last few years several short-lived places have started in Bellaire. Mr. Naylor has now and has had for the last year and a half the only general news and stationery establishment in the city, He was married to Hester C. Kimberland, of Brooke county, W. Va.

A. O. MELLOTT was born in Belmont county, Ohio, in 1830. Educated in the common schools and Barnesville Academy. Taught school in Belmont county fifteen years. Was engaged in farming four years. In 1861 he married P. J. Mayers, of Belmont county. He engaged in merchandizing in this city for three years. Served as Mayor two years, and Justice of the Peace six years. Connected himself with "Baron Manufactur- ing Company." In 1875 he purchased the Marietta Chair Com- pany, and is now engaged in the furniture and undertaking busi- hess. In 1877 he was appointed agent for Adams' Express com- pany. Business, corner Belmont and Thirty-third streets.

REV. WM. GASTON was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, in 1835. He spent most of his carly life in East Liverpool. At- tended Washington College, where he graduated in 1858, He then went to the Western Theological Seminary, Allegheny city, Pa., and graduated there, also, in 1861. His first charge was Smith's Ferry, Pa., and Clarkson, Ohio, which he took in 1861. He resigned that charge and accepted a call from Bellaire in 1866, continuing until the present. In the year prior to this, however, he was united in marriage to Julia M. Cunningham, daughter of Samuel Cunningham, of this city.

THOMAS G. DAVIS, born in South Wales in 1838. Attended the schools of his nativity until ten years of age, when he com- menced learning the iron business, at which he worked five years in Wales, then traveled through England, and located at Yorkshire. At that place he had charge of the furnaces in the iron works for a number of years. He came to America in 1873. He first located in Hazelton, Ohio; had charge of furnaces there until 1878. In February of that year he came to Bellaire, and is now engaged as manager of the Bellaire blast furnaces, He was married in Wales to Ann Evans.

ANDREW. WILEY, of the firm of Wiley & Meek, was born in Belmont connty in 1836. Educated in the common schools and the Barnesville academy, and engaged for fourteen years in school teaching. Went into the general merchandising with J. A. Driggs, in Monroe county, Ohio; he followed this business in different parts of the county for a number of years. In 1877 he removed to Bellaire and started in the grocery and provision trade alone. In 1878 he took in a partner with him-II. H. Meek. Store on Belmont street, No. 32. Mr. Wiley was

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united in marriage to Susan J. Driggs, of Woodsfield, Monroe county, Ohio, in 1869. miele

H. H. MEEK, of the firm of Wiley & Meek, was born in Mon- roe county, Ohio, in 1851. He received an education in select schools of Woodsfield, and was reared on a farm. Commenced the grocery and produce trade in Bellaire in 1874, and 1878 he associated himself with Mr. Wiley, now one of the firm of Wiley & Meek. In 1876 he married Mary M. Borham, of Bel- laire.

JOSEPH MCCLAIN .-- Born in Ireland in 1842. Received a common school education. Served five years as an indentured apprentice in general grocery, provision and bakery business. He worked several years as journeyman in the trade at home ; three years on his own account. In 1856 he married E. J. Tel- ford. Migrated to the United States in the spring of 1870, com- ing to Bellaire the same year, aud starting in the general grocery and provision trade. In 1876 he connected himself with his brother under the firm name of A. & J. McClain, gen- eral grocery, provision and produce merchants, North Belmont street, Bellaire, O.

A. H. MARSH was born in Ohio county, W. Va., in 1824. Mi- grated to Belmont county, Ohio, in 1844. He served an ap- prenticeship at wagon-making in Bellaire. In 1847 he engaged in business on his own account. For four years he was engaged in Cincinnati and Indianapolis in car building. Married Eliza- beth A. Jacobs in 1850. Worked in Portsmouth, Ohio ; then in Bridgeport; and in 1865 he came back to Bellaire and started in the carriage and wagon manufacturing business, continuing until 1872. He then purchased a farm in Taylor county, W. Va., and lived one year there, but sold out and returned to Bellaire and resumed his old occupation. Shop situated at 136 Guern- sey street. Mr. M. has a family of eight children - Newton L., Emma C., Ella, Camilla, Mary (dead), Cassins M., Jessie, and Minnie.

ROBERT W. MUHLEMAN, M. D., homæpathist, was born in Mon- roe county, Ohio, in 1853. Took a literary course at Baldwin University, Berea, Ohio. Entered the Medical College at Cin- cinnati, and graduated in June, 1877. Commenced the practice of his profession in August, 1877, in Bellaire.

I. N. GRAFTON .- Born in Jefferson county, Ohio, in 1827. Ed- ucated in the schools of Jefferson and Columbiana counties. Served an apprenticeship at cabinet-making in Fairview, Han- cock county, Va. In 1847 he married Rebecca J. Henry, daugh- ter of Samuel Henry, Jefferson county, Ohio, by whom he had three children, John H., Nannie A., Willie (all dead). He worked awhile at his trade in Knoxville, Jefferson county; thence went to Beaver county, Pa. (Smith's Ferry); thence to Wells- ville, and connected himself with C. & P. R. R. five years ; thence to Bellaire in 1857, still in railroad business. In 1860 he en- gaged in the carpenter trade and continued two years, since which time he has been carrying on the furniture trade. He is the pioneer undertaker in the city. He keeps constantly on hand fine caskets, coffins, linings, robes, &c. He is also a dealer in picture frames, mouldings, window shades, oil cloth, &c. Mr. Grafton spent some time in Philadelphia city learning the art of embalming. The process is simple and entirely satisfactory. By this process a body can be kept any length of time. He is the only one in this section that understands the process. Rooms, South Belmont street.

A. J. SANDERS, M. D., born in Washington county, Pa., in 1837. He was educated in the Richmond schools, of Jefferson county. Read medicine under Dr. R. Hill, of Columbus, Ohio. Attended two courses of lectures at Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio. Graduated at Long Island College Hospital, New York, in 1863. Began practice the same year in Bellaire. In 1866 he was united in marriage to Mary C. Hayman. Office, 119 South Guernsey.

J. G. SCARFF, M. D., was born in Carroll county, Maryland, in 1854. Studied at Oakland Seminary, Hartford county. He graduated at a commercial college in Baltimore in 1874. Read medicine with Dr. J. B. Crane, Bellair, that state. Graduated at Pulte Homopathic Medical College, Cincinnati, May, 1877. Came to Bellaire, November 6, 1878.

S. Q. HAMILTON, born October 19, 1852, in Georgetown, Bea- ver county, Pa. Educated in the common schools of his county. At the age of 17, he began in the drug business in Wellsville,

with W. M. Hamilton. Remained with him until April, 1876. He then removed to Bellaire, and is now of the firm of S. Q. Hamilton & Co., located at corner Belmont and Thirty-third street.

REV. R. J. WALLACE was born in York county, Pa., in 1832. Removed to Logan county, Ohio, with parents, same year. En- tered Franklin College and graduated there in 1854. Licensed to preach in 1858, and ordained in 1861. Married Charlotte Gorham in 1862, His first charge was Burlington, N. Y. Came to Bellaire in the fall of 1873, where he has remained ever since in charge of the U. P. Church of Bellaire.

FRANK BELL was born in Lockport, N. Y., in 1834. His fath- er died when our subject was four years of age. He went to Niagara Falls, where he remained until fourteen years of age. From there to St. Johnsburg, Vermont. He learned the trade of saddle and harness making. He worked at his trade a num- ber of years in different castern cities. In 1867, he removed to Wheeling, where he remained six years. In 1873, he came to Bellaire and engaged at his trade. In the same year he was married to Mrs. Odessa Miller, of Wheeling, W. Va. Business, corner of Union and Twenty-seventh streets.

JAMES F. MORRISON, born in Scotland in 1838 ; educated in the schools of his nativity. He was apprenticed to the woolen man- nfactory-learned the trade and carried on the business on the banks of the River Dee, in the north of Scotland, for twenty years. In 1857, he married Catharine King, of Sterlingshire, Scotland. In September, 1873, he landed in America and lo- cated at Bellaire, where he engaged in the tea business princi- pally. He also deals in groceries. Store, South Belmont street.

F. B. WESTGATE was born in Marietta, Ohio, in 1845. Edu- cated in the schools of his nativity. He learned brick making and laying, at which he worked some twenty years, after that he engaged in the grocery business in that town four years. In 1874, he removed to Bellaire and started in the general grocery and provision trade on Guernsey street, opposite public square. In 1865, he was united in marriage to Anna Linangher.

G. W. PARKER, born in Bucks county, Pa., in 1817. Received a common school education. Worked on a farm till sixteen years of age. Engaged in the pump-making business for eleven years in Westerfield & Co.'s ship yard. Followed the same business in other cities until 1863. In 1867, he came to Bellaire and en- gaged in pattern making for ten years. Keeps a general gro- cery, produce and provision store on Belmont street. Married Annie Edward4.

ANDREW RICHARDSON .- Our subject was born in the state of Massachusetts, and edneated in the village of Draeut in the High School. In early life he engaged as clerk in the grocery busi- ness in the city of Lowell. Removed to Athens, Ohio, in 1853. Had charge of a gang of men on the M. & C. R. R. for one year in 1854, Moved to Powhattan, Belmont county, where he was engaged in cutting stone for a railroad bridge across Captina creek. In 1856, he married Martha J. Martin. In 1856, he re- moved to Bellaire. He was engaged as builder and contractor until 1858. In 1859, he commenced clerking for Mr. Gorby. Soon afterward he started in the grocery business and was one among the carly pioneers in that trade. Store, 221 Thirty-see- ond street.

JAMES FITTON .- The subject of this notice was born in Eng- land, December 29, 1836. He migrated to America with his parents in 1848, who first settled at Harper's Ferry, where they resided two years, then they removed to Wheeling. James was educated for the most part in night schools. In April, 1852, he commenced learning the plumber's and gas fitter's trade. He was married to Anna M. Trisler in May, 1858. He came to Bellaire in 1872 and engaged at his trade, which occu- pation he still continues to follow. Residence. 137 Jefferson street.

HISTORY OF PULTNEY TOWNSHIP.

Pultney is one of the original townships of Belmont county. It was erected on the 25th of February, 1801, with the follow- ing boundary, beginning :

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"On the Ohio river at the southeast corner of Kirkwood township, thence west with the southern boundary of said town- ship to the western boundary of the county; thence south with said western boundary six miles to the northwest corner of the eighth township in the seventh range: thence east with said township line to the Ohio river ; thence up the river to the place of beginning to be called and known by the name of the town- ship of Pultney."

In 1801 Philip Dover and Joseph Lashly were appointed by the Court of Belmont county as constables for Pultney town- ship. The first elections were ordered, for this, York and Salem townships, to be held at the house of Jacob Repshire. In 1802, the elections were ordered to be held at the house occupied by the court, for Pultney.

The present boundary is as follows: On the north by Pease, cast by the Ohio river, south by Mead and west by Richland township.

It is "admirably located with reference to railroad and river accommodations, being in close proximity to the city of Wheel- ing, W. Va., and is rich in agricultural and mineral resources. The land is of excellent quality-watered by numerous streams-and underlying nearly the entire township, are veins of sandstone, limestone and coal. Many of these veins are being successfully worked at the present time. Among those mines and quarries that deserve especial mention are the coal mines of J. Heatherington and Rockenshousen & Steritt-located about three-fourths of a mile south of Bellaire-the Sullivan, Kelley, Morgan and Barnard mines, in Bellaire, and the Kidd mines, on MeMahon's Creek, four miles west of Bellaire, Among the many limestone quarries, those of A. McLain, located on Indian Run, one mile west of Bellaire, are the largest. Mr. Mclain is working these quarries on the same plan as that of operating a coal mine.

The vein of this quarry averages about six feet of first qual- ity of limestone, and underlies the entire hill.

Mr. Mclain has had for the last six years the contract for supplying the furnace connected with the Bellaire Nail Works with limestone, they using from fourteen to fifteen thousand tons per year.

This quarry gives employment to an average of twenty-five men. Its monthly pay-roll amounts to nearly one thousand dollars.

EARLY SETTLERS.

One of the first settlers of Pultney township was Andrew Dickson, who came from West Liberty, Va., in 1796, and settled on the forks of Big and Little McMahon's creek.

Mr. Dickson purchased his land some five years before mov- ing on it, on account of the hostile character of Indians in the neighborhood.

Among the other early settlers in the township were Charles Eckles (who came in 1800), Abraham Workman, George Neff, Andrew Neff, Samuel Morley (the celebrated deer hunter), Mat- thew Howell, James Hutchinson, John King, Jacob Worley, Jacob Davis, William Merritt, James McKirk and Robert Alex- ander, who settled near where Mr. Samuel Alexander ( his son) now lives in 1796. At this time he had no neighbors nearer than where Bridgeport now is.

The first place for public worship was built on McMahon's creek, a short distance south of where the tunnel now is on the "Central Ohio Division" of the B. & O. R. R. Rev. John Scott was the first preacher that officiated in this church.

MILLS.

On McMahon's creek, near Quincy, is Neff's flour and saw mills, and on the same stream, two miles west of Bellaire, is Wallace's flour mill, All of these mills are located in a fine section of the township, and are doing a good business. Bell's woolen mill and carpet manufactory are also on this creek.

CURIOSITIES.

On John R. Robinson's farm, situated two miles west of Bel- laire, is a sandstone quarry. Whilst getting out the stone Mr. R. found three petrified fish, one of which is in the collection of minerals at Washington. In quarrying, the fish fell out perfect in form, just as though chiseled out of solid rock. Other curi- osities have been discovered in this quarry, such as leaves, snakes, &c., in a perfect state of petrifaction.

CEMETERY.

In a little cemetery on the hillside, on the farm owned by S. Alexander, lays the remains of Samuel Worley and wife, An- drew Diekson and wife, James M. Kirk, Elizabeth, wife of James Dixon. George Neff, Sr., and wife, and others,

THE PITTSBURGH COAL WORKS, OWNED BY ROCKENSHOUSEN & STERRITT.

These works are among the substantial enterprises of Belmont county. They are situated on the west bank of the Ohio river, about three-fourths of a mile south of the B. & O. R. R. bridge at Bellaire. They were opened by Mr. Robert Hutchinson in the spring of 1866. Mr. Rockenshousen purchased ofhim a half interest. Since 1870 the works have been controlled and work- ed by the present owners, Messrs. Rockenshonsen and Sterritt. The works have two chutes for loading barges on the river-one for pea and nut coal and the other for lump. The latter is what is ealled a " slide," which is adjustable to any stage of water in the river. The firm own about thirty-five barges, with a wharf boat below the lump chute for the loaded barges, and a well con- structed ire abntment stands in the river above for the protee- tion of empty barges. A chute is also erected over the tracks of the Bellaire and Southwestern railway for loading cars, which can be shipped to all points along the line of that road. The mine is entered by a " slope" 175 feet long, with a grade of for- ty-eight feet. The vein is six feet in thickness, is known as seam No. 4, and the quality of the coal is excellent for manufac- turing, steam and domestic purposes. An analysis has shown it to be richer in gas than Pittsburgh coal ; only a very small per cent. of sulphur is found in it after being prepared for inarket, and it makes coke of a fine quality. The traet of land which the . firm owns has a front on the river of about 700 yards and ex- tends back a distance of nearly a mile. The property embraces about 400 acres of coal in a solid body. The length of the main entry is fully one mile, with a good track of T rail. In the mine is one of the best furnaces in the state. An average of 5,000 bushels is mined per day and employment is given to about seventy-five men. On the property are veins of hydraulic ce- ment, limestone and fire elay. The former of these is a vein six feet in thickness, and is evidently destined to be of great value.

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History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, and incidentially historical collection pertaining to border warfare and the early settlement of the adjacent portion of the Ohio Valley, Part 97

Author: Caldwell, J. A. (John Alexander) 1n; Newton, J. H., ed; Ohio Genealogical Society. 1n Publication date: 1880 Publisher: Wheeling, W. Va. : Historical Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 728

Author: Caldwell, J. A. (John Alexander) 1n; Newton, J. H., ed; Ohio Genealogical Society. 1n
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Wheeling, W. Va. : Historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 728