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Dix Steubenville Sunday News may be said to have grown out of what was once known as the Sunday Local, which enjoyed a merry ex- istence of some two to three years, down to 1879, which year the Vous
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was started. It is an eight-page forty-eight column paper, owned by the Steubenville Sunday News Co., for whom Mr. G. G. Nichols is man- aging editor.
The Steubenville Stinday Life was established by George B. Huff, October 9, 1887. He is a young man of large newspaper experience, having worked his way up from the compositor's case to that of edi- tor and publisher. The Life is a eight-column quarto. It is neatly printed and newsy; independent in politics. Mr. Huff is the son of T. A. Huff, well-known among the earlier citizens of Steubenville. George B. was educated in the public schools of Steubenville, and has at different times been engaged in the capacity of city editor, or re- porter on the following well known journals: Steubenville Herald, Ga- zette and Press, Leavenworth Sun, Leavenworth, Kan., and Cleveland Leader. His paper is well supported, having a circulation of about 1,800.
Steubenville Evening Star .- The first issue of the Evening Star made its appearance October 14, 1889. It is a penny paper, started by W. W. Mackay more as an advertising sheet, but was soon giving consid- erable space to news. It is well supported by a circulation of 1,200, and large advertising patronage.
The first paper published in Toronto was issued in 1899 by T. M. Daniels, and printed for him by William B. Jewett on a small press. it being an eight-page sheet, size of page about five and one-half by eight inches. It ran this size for some months, when it was enlarged to a three-column folio, and afterward printed in Steubenville. After the lapse of four or five months more, it was again enlarged to a six- column folio. In the fall of ISSo, Frank Stokes came from Knoxville, the same county, and associated himself in partnership with Mr. Daniels in the publication of the paper (which was then known as the Sloan's Enterprise, the name of the town at that time being Sloan's Station). A printing office was established and the publication con- tinued under that name until iSS1, when the name of the place was changed to Toronto, and the paper changed to the Toronto Tribune. Mr. Daniels died in 1SS4, and his interest in the paper was purchased by the remaining partner, who has continued to the present time. In ISS2 the paper was changed to an eight-column folio, and in ISSS to a six-page eight-column sheet, since which it has been continued in the same form. It has a large circulation and influence, comparing very favorably with any of the local papers of the Ohio Valley.
The Mingo News was established in 1886 by W. C. Smith, a Steu- benville printer, and run for some months as a six-column folio. He took in a partner in the person of Otis W. Yarnell, a printer, of Steu- benville. This partnership was of but a few months' duration, and Mr. Smith continued the publication of the paper himself, doing the work of it at the office of the Steubenville Herald. In 1888 Mr. Smith took into partnership with him Mr. Frank Kelly, of Toronto, and the two continued the publication of the News about six months, when Mr. Smith retired. After the lapse of a few months Mr. Kelly also grew discouraged in the up-hill task of running a newspaper in a
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small town, and arranged with the publisher of the Tribune, at Toronto, to take the News off his hands. The latter assumed the ownership of the paper, and moved the mechanical appurtenances of the same to Toronto, enlarged the paper to an eiglit-column sheet, and has since continued the publication, making a very creditable local paper out of it. Mr. A. J. Stedman, son of the llon. Lyman Stedman, of Brown's Island, has had charge of the paper, and also looks after the interest of the Tribune at the county seat -a bureau being maintained there by the publisher to afford his papers increased advantages in the way of furnishing county news. Both papers have good circulations throughout the county and adjoining counties. The Tribune, having been established a number of years before the News, has a correspondingly wider field and larger circulation.
Mt. Pleasant .- The first paper published here was the Philanthropist, a small quarto size of eight pages, issued every Saturday at $3.00 a year. It was printed by Charles Osborne and devoted to the news of the day and the discussion of subjects of moral ethics. The first number made its appearance September 8, 1817. Mr. Osborne continued the paper until October S, 1818, when he sold the establishment to Elisha Bates, who continued it under the same title, but reduced it from a quarto to an octavo of sixteen pages. Mr. Bates issued his first num- ber, December 11, 1818, and published it till April 27, IS22, when it suspended.
In 1821, Benjamin Lundy published the Genius of Universal Eman- cipation. The paper was printed at Steubenville, and Mr. Lundy traveled on foot from Mt. Pleasant with his manuscript and returned with his printed paper. He continued it several months and removed it to Jonnsboro, Tenn. This was the first genuine abolition paper in the United States.
The Village Banner was published in 1835, one year, but none of the files remain.
In 1837-8 a paper was published by Elisha Bates, devoted to moral and religious subjects, but it has shared the fate of most of the others, its very name being forgotten. Still later, the Life Boat was pub- lished by John B. Wolf. It was a strong temperance paper. Besides these. there appears to have been several other periodicals published at various times.
On the 16th of September, 1822, Howard issued the first number of the juvenile Museum, a semi-monthly magazine of eight pages, de- voted to the entertainment and instruction of youth. With the eleventh number it was changed from a semi-monthly of eight pages to a monthly of sixteen pages. In the number for September 27, 1823. appears the editor's valedictory and the publication ceased. Then there was published from July, 1827, to perhaps 1831 or 1832, the _1/is- cellaneous Repository, by Elisha Bates, a monthly periodical devoted to moral and religious subjects.
The Friend's Expositor was first issued January ist, ISS ;. and is now in its 4th volume. "It is owned, edited and published by D. B. Upde- graff. It is not secular, nor is it political, but strictly a religious jour-
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nal. Not sectarian at all, but with the design of promoting experi- mental and practical picty, it is thoroughly Catholic or universal in its tone and spirit. It is thirty-two pages, small quarto. Circula- tion about 1,500.
CHAPTER X.
MEDICAL HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY.
ITTLE is known of the early history of the medical pro- fession of Jefferson county. There are no records of any early medical organization, if indeed such organization ever existed. The names of many of the earlier practitioners have passed into oblivion, with death of the pioneer resi- dents upon whom they practiced the healing art. A few of those who were more conspicuous are remembered by the descendants of the first settlers. The present century has wrought many wonderful changes in the practice of medecine, in both the treat- ment of disease and the quality of drugs used. The best educated and more scientific of the profession have long since discarded the theory that cure depends upon the quantity of drugs administered. The diseases prevalent in the early settlement of the upper Ohio val- ley differ but little from those most common at this time. The rough, hilly and rugged surface of the country prevented the malaria which was so common in many sections of the country and proved such a terror to all new comers. As to who was the first to offer his service and professional skill to the people of Steubenville and vicinity, there is a diversity of opinion; and as the memory is at best uncertain, it would not be safe to accord that honor without more authentic and trustworthy information on the subject. At the time of the coming of Dr. William Stanton, 1832, now probably the oldest in practice in the county, Dr. Benjamin Mairs, who had come from north Ireland, was engaged in the practice. He was, however, preceded by others. among whom was Dr. Stanton, the father of the great war secretary, Hon. Edwin M. Stanton. He is reputed to have been a man of great natural ability and very successful in the practice.
Contemporaneous with Dr. B. Stanton was Dr. Mason. Ile located in Steubenville early in the century, and practiced there for many years. Dr. Benjamin Dickson came perhaps as early as iSos, and deserves to be classed among the pioneers. Drs. Hammond and McGinty were here at an early date, the latter went to St. Louis. Dr. Thomas Johnson came in 1834, and the brother of Edwin M. Stanton began the practice early, but after a few years went to West Virginia. where he died many years ago. Perhaps, the most conspicuous of
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those who may be classed among the early physicians, was Benjamin Tappan, the son of the once famous senator by the same name, of whom mention is made elsewhere. Dr. Tappan was in both literary and professional training far in advance of the physicians of his day. After attending some of the best schools of his native country, he went to Europe, and in Paris he spent much of his time in the study of his profession, besides devoting much attention to the study of the languages, in which he became proficient.
Drs. Shane, Hamilton, Lester and Scott were also here, but later than the foregoing. As above mentioned Dr. William Stanton is per- haps longer in the practice than any one in Jefferson county. He was born, reared and received his literary training in the north of Ire- land. He finished his medical education, so far as collegiate instruc- tions go toward its accomplishment, at Edinburg, Scotland, after which he emigrated to America, and began the practice in Clark county, Ohio, in 1833. After remaining one year he became discour- aged, and started to return, but at Steubenville he met an old friend who induced him to remain. The doctor is now in his seventy-sixth year, and is practically retired from the practice. Dr. Enoch Pearce, although still active in the practice, may be classed as one of the con- necting links between the past and present history of the profession.
In the towns along the Ohio river that have in the last two decades become flourishing business centers, there were no physicians in the early days, the people then depending upon the physicians of Steu- benville or Wellsburg. At Mt. Pleasant, which was one of the early settled portions of the county, Drs. William Hamilton and Isaac Par- ker; the former moved to Steubenville. At Smithfield, Dr. William Burrell was practicing perhaps as early as 1806 or 1807. William and Anderson Judkins were also there at an early day; the former moved to Steubenville and the latter to Bloomfield. William Leslie and his son John deserved to be mentioned among the early physicians of Smithfield. Drs. Harrison, Riddle, Vorhees and Johnson were at Bloomfield, and Anderson Judkins moved from Smithfield to Rich- mond, and was perhaps the first to minister to the wants of the sick of that community.
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Medical Society .- A number of the leading medical men of the county recognizing the necessity of annual, semi-annual and quarterly meeting for the discussion of better methods and the inter-change of thoughts, whereby each might have the benefit of the experience and observation of all the others, met at Steubenville in 1858 and organ- ized the Jefferson County Medical society, by electing Dr. Benjamin Tappan president. The charter members of that society were: Drs. William Hamilton, of Mt. Pleasant; A. T. Markle, Wintersville; W. S. Bates, of Smithfield; Thomas Johnson, Benjamin Tappan, Joseph Mitchell, E. Brugh and Enoch Pearce, of Steubenville, all of whom are now dead except the last named. The present officers are: president, Dr. M. D. Hill; 11. W. Nelson, vice president; A. A. Elliott, secretary. Mention of many of the later physicians will be found elsewhere in this work.
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ST. CLAIRSVILLE FOLK WHO LONG AGO MOVED FAR AWAY BY O. D. B.
A rare old lady of Quaker type, often " Corwin Thomas cre Miss Ethel and no doubt a picased ard welcome visitor Anson, the latter a successful business man at Pomona.
ng ago in St. Clairsville, is Mrs Ter- all Thomas, now residing at the Two other of these St. Clairsville brothers were Offer and Charles. Both died heroically as union soldiers down s.uto early ib .he Civil war, and with others of the family, including a Ester lelle, who m.rita Carlos Bacon, draggist and cranberry grower, rest in the sightly Databou cemetery. Mrs. Bacon died in the carly eighties. M_igaret Thomas, still another of the St. Clairsville girls, married a Mr Chaplin, dying long ago in Mississippi. Mrs Ramage, well remembered in st. Clairsville, was a half sister of Mrs suhansa Thomas, and her husband, married Rebecea Smithi end whose son, also Joseph, is today a capable business man at MeGregor, lowa This name also figureo e editably in the history of ideful age of 95 with an only daugh- r. Mrs Hannah W. Ritchie, in Oak- id. California A portion of each .r, however, the Ritchie home is at irmel-by-the-sea, a quaint, more or ess Bohemian colony, some eighty miles south of San Francisco. Terrell Thomas was a St. Clairsville boy, bora here Jan. 10, 1923, his parents being Benjamin and Johanna (Terrell) Thomas, me a native of Baltimore, the other of Richmond, Va. Till he was twenty- me Terrell Thomas lived in St. Clairs- ville; then for three years he served in ! wholesale and retail store at Balti- a lawyer, left a son Joseph, who nore; afterward, for some years, was Jeek in Ohio, associated with his father n produce and in pork packing ; finally going to Wisconsin in 1854 and becom- ag there cashier at first of a bank at Flushing, Belmont county, fifty years or more ego.
fadisou, the capital, and locating iter as a banker at Baraboo, that tate, in 1857. He became & man of generous means, worth upwarda of $100,000, a large sum in that early day; out he was seriously affected financially 3 @ consequence of the "hop crash," hich produced extended ruin over all outh-central Wisconsin in the late ixties. His bank passed to other taods in 1872; but in that very year he lad an influential role in promoting to sttainment the extension of a railway worth from Madison to Baraboo, forty miles, now a part of the trunk hne of be great Chicago & Northweastern ystem that. with its ten thousand jiles of mam track, gridirons the ountry from Chieago far to the west- ward. Mr. Thomas died in 1888 at daraboo.
Brothers and Sisters
A brother, William B. Thomas, was .ssociated with him in the bank, but ate went to MeGregor, Iowa, then to Chippewa Falls, Wis., where he died in 899 and where he aleeps apart from all is kin. He was a handsome and de- ,onair bachelor, quite the social beau, ind soldier, tuo. Thoraas Corwin, an- ther of the brothers and bearing a jamie of highest hunor in Ohio, served honorary in the Civil war, and, along o the ninefics, accidentally fell from : passenger train near bis home at Pomona, California, and was killed. fe lett a widow who resides there still. der maiden name wa, Belle Case, and icr niece, of the same name, is the millant and helpful wie of United States Senator flobert M LaFoliette, i when she was a clessmete in the!
The daughter of Terrell Thomas, Mrs Ritchie, is the widow of Rev. Robert Kitente, who died many years ago, after an extended pastorale at Oakland, preceded by a period of service in Quincy, Ill, and a yet earlier one at Baraboo, where the fairest girl of all the parish became his bride. One of her sons, Robert Wers Ilitchie, is the distinguished short stury writer. There are two luitchie girls; and all the family is of the finest cultivation.
Old Folks Migrate
Benjmain and Johann Thomas, : Howing their children, finally lett St. Clansville and located on a pictur- que farm hear what now is the vil. luge of Ableman, where the graceful Baraboo river pierees the majestic quartzite bluff's some ten nales west of Baraboo In 1810 one of their daugh. ters, Serah Clark Thomas, while yet residing at St. Clairsville, married Charles Henry Williams, son of a Cincinnati banker, the ceremony being solemmized in a Friends meet- ing home according to Quaker eus- tom. Nine years later Mr Wil- tiums was chosen to membership in the common council at Milwau- kor, whither of necessity he went to care for valued lands left by his father, of which there were other tracts at Toledo. Ile had been edu- estei &s a civil engineer and when he abandoned that vocation in 1807 he had risen to 'he position of assistant engi- hee. on the White river cenal in Indiana. work on that enterprise being suspen.d .d at that time. MrjWilliams was receiver of the lond office in Milwaukee unier
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some time, but ultimately took h.s. young family to a beautiful farm, a.su aear Ableman, and became a breed -! of blooded cattle, sheep, swine, chich- ens. This was in 1853, some sevent: years ago. Benjamin Thomas, father ot Terrell Thomas and of Mrs Willlatra. died on his Ableman place in 1s00, ar j his wife in about 1881. Both rest :) the cemetery at Baraboo, which : - ) gives sepulchre to various other D . mont county folk, including Jo :!.- va Tarner Brandenburg (1864), and h.s wife, Catherine Frances Dorned: Brandenburg (191-1), old-time residents of Flushing.
The eldest daughter of Benjamin and Johanna, Sarah Clark Thomas, oied in 1902 and her husband, Charles II. Williams, in 1908, both at Baraboo, but they rest in Milwaukee. Mr Williams had reached the remarkable age of ninety less two months only. In his later years he penned numerous ethical pamphlets, especially in behalf of juster treatment for the colored race. In his younger days at Cincinnati he and his worthy father bad a sympa- thetic interest in the famous under- ground railroad over whose invisible lines escaping slaves werily fled across Ohio to freedom in Canada. He was the finest possible type of the quite, cultured, old-time gentiman. For from several yeara he was a regent of the University of Wisconsin by appoint. ment of Govenor J. M. Rusk, another notable Ohioan, born down on the Muskingum near MeConnellsville.
Williams in the War
Mr. Williama was universally known as "Major" and, indeed, he acquired that honorable title by active service in the Civil war, having recruited a com- pany roundabout his Wisconsin farm immediately after President Lincoln had called for "300.000 more." Three sons of Major Williams servive. The youngest, Samuel M., is an alum nus of the University of Wisconsin, and for nearly half a century has been a well known Milwaukee attorney. An older brother Mieajah Terrell, is in business at Milwaukee, end still another, Charles H., retired, resides at Baraboo, but is passing the winter in California.
About the Terrells
Mrs Johanna Thomas' maiden name was Terrell, which cegnomen reap peurs repeatedly in the nondeblatut of her descendents; and she was ) sister of Thomas Terrell who lived fc. many years at Mt. Pleasant but died at Western Springs, Ill., the home of his daughter, Lydia Jane Terrell, whos! husband was a Williams but in no wa related to Charles H , conspicuous else .weere in this genealogical potpourr
A Sterling Site
It is safe to state that few Reimen county families, either on the Thoma! or Williams side, are of finer ancestry quality of worth The Wiliams wie of Welch Quaker parentag , the father if Chadl & Henry being Micach Terrell
HISTORY OF BELMONT COUNTY.
CHAPTER I.
BY COL. C. L. POORMAN.
EARLY INDIAN HISTORY -INTRODUCTORY VIEW -INDIAN OCCUPANCY -- CHARACTERISTICS OF THE RED MEN -HABITS AND CUSTOMS -- NOTED CHIEFS-BORDER WARFARE-TREATY TITLES TO LAND ACQUIRED BY UNITED STATES.
ELMONT COUNTY was the tenth county organized out of the Northwest Territory, and was established by proclamation of Governor St. Clair, in 1801, before the adoption of the state constitution. It is a "fine mountain" county, as the name indicates. As at present constituted it is divided into parallel ridges by three prominent creeks: Wheeling, McMahan's and Captina, running from west to east through nearly the entire depth of the county. There are sev- eral smaller streams emptying into the Ohio river, and the west side of the county is traversed from south to north, over nearly three- fourths of the distance, by Stillwater creek, which, empties into the Tuscarawas river. As originally organized it was much larger than at present, embracing part of the territory now within the counties of Guernsey, Monroe and Noble. Its present boundaries contain an area of 461 square miles, with 112,269 acres of cultivated land, 136,301 acres of pasture land, 81.301 acres of wood land and 8,684 acres of waste land. The soil is fertile anti yields bountiful crops to the tops of the highest hills as the crop returns elsewhere given clearly indi- cate. Among the eighty-eight counties of the state Belmont stands thirteenth on assessed value for taxation; twelfth in value of manu- facturers' stocks; ninth in amount expended for public schools; sixth in amount of coal mined; fourth in the number of sheep raised; third in the amount of steel produced; and first in amount of glass and glassware manufactured.
Population .- Its rapid growth in population from 600 in 1800, to near 60,000 in 1890, is shown in the following tables from the census returns of the general government:
1 800
.600
1 850 35-378
ISIO
11, 185
1860 37,396
IS20
20,556
1870. 41,021
1830
29,224
ISSO 49,638
1840
. 31.623
1890 (estimated) 58,500
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By townships:
1840. ISSO.
18440.
ISSO.
Colerain
1,389
1,499
Smith
1,956
1,977
Flushing
1,683
1,705
Somerset
1,932
2,241
Goshen .
I,823
2,208
Union
2,127
1,686
Kirkwood
2,280
2,026
Warren
2,410
4,531
Mead.
1,496
1,970
Washington
1,388
1,633
Pease
2,449
S,S19
Wayne
1,734
1,719
Pultney
1,747
10,492
Wheeling
1,389
1,349
Richland
3,735
4,361
York
129
1,420
It will be observed that the population was pretty evenly distributed up to 1840, and was mostly agricultural. The growth since is due to the development of manufacturing towns along the river and rail- roads, and Pease, Pultney and Warren townships, with their manu- facturing towns of Bridgeport, Martin's Ferry, Bellaire and Barnesville have furnished 17,000 of the 18,000 increase of population in the forty years.
The evolution within ninety years of a civil community like Belmont county, with its population, crops, productive forces, wealth, social . growth, educational and religious development, upon 460 square miles of wild, mountainous, wooded lands then uninhabited but by wild animals, is one of the marvels of modern history, the details of which read like romance, but the deeds of daring bravery, heroic suffering, uncomplained of hardships, patient, earnest toil that come to us as a legacy from those who have wrought this grand transformation, were real and earnest. It is not possible in a work limited as this one is, because of the large field covered by it, to enter in detail into all the interesting and frequently thrilling events comprised within the history of the growth and development of such a county, but it will be the aim to give in concise form, enough to place the reader in possession of sufficient facts as to the early Indian occupancy, early settlement, rapid growth and present condition of the county to enable him to fairly comprehend the character of the grand transformation that has taken place.
Indian Occupancy. - There is little authentic history as to any per- manent previous occupancy of the territory included within the county, either by Indians or others. There are a number of mounds, remains of earth-works and fortifications that clearly indicate pre-ex- isting occupancy, abandoned long enough in advance of any French or English controversy as to the ownership of the territory, to have per- mitted a complete transformation, by growth of dense forests, into a dark wilderness fitted only for the abode of wild animals.
The student of curious knowledge may visit the large mound at Martin's Ferry, 500 feet in circumference and about twenty-five feet high, on the summit of which he will find a large decayed stump, the tree removed in 1836 by Joseph Templeton and others who explored the mound and found skulls, teeth and fragments of bones, covered with ashes and charcoal, arrow heads and a metal hatchet of copper. He may visit other smaller mounds and the remains of fortifications in
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the forests, that have breasted the storms of centuries and find abundant evidence of past formidable occupancy, if not of a higher intelligence and civilization than was found in the Indian occupants, preceding the white settlements. Upon this data illucidated and illuminated by the reasonings and conclusions of learned archaeologists, he may build the pre-existing nation to suit his fancy. The limits of this work will allow only a review of such facts as come within the period of occupancy by Indians preceding the white settlement.
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