Identifier: ohioarchological06ohio_0 (find matches)
Title: Ohio archæological and historical quarterly
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society
Subjects: History Archaeology
Publisher: Columbus : Published for the Society by A.H. Smythe
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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derful military genius brought a victoriousarmy out of chaos. The town as then laid out comprised theterritory now within the lines of the river bank, alley C on thewest. North street on the north and South street on the south.The ground was divided into two hundred and thirty-six inlotssixty by one hundred and eighty feet, with twenty outlots of fiveacres each. Wells was noble in his bearing, and his energy and enter-prise were unbounded, and his efforts along industrial lines gave-Steubenville at once a prominent place on the frontier. He was■ associated with all the early manufacturing Qjiterprises, but finally> overreached himself, and, sad as it may seem, he, the most.prominent, the most enterprising and the wealthiest man in alltthis region, was in after years imprisoned for debts his largeproperty holdings could not liquidate. He died in 1846, buttwo granddaughters are still living in Steubenville. James Rosswas born at York, Pa., in 1762, was one of the first two senators
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