Washington Township

Washington Township

Salineville. - Dr. William Farmer was the son of John Farmer, of salt-works fame, and began the practice of his profession in Salineville in 1832. He was a leading physician in the county among those of the " old school." He died in or near the year 1857.

Dr. Shane, of the homoeopathic school of medicine, practiced in Salineville from 1863 to 1868. He was the first practitioner of that school in the place. He is at present in Steubenville, Ohio.

The following, who are now physicians at Salineville, have practiced, so far as ascertained, from the dates given, respectively : Doctors J. A. Lindsay, 1860; George H. Saltsman, 1867 ; J. A. Sapp, homceopathist, 1878.

Yellow Creek

Wellsville. - Dr. John McLean, who had served as a surgeon in the army of Gen. Harrison in 1812, at the declaration of peace settled in Wellsville in the practice of his profession, and there died in the year 1829.

Dr. Joseph Boric practiced in Wellsville, from about the year 1846, for a period of fifteen years. He then removed to Oregon, where he died in 1873.

Dr. Chapman was in practice in Wellsville for about ten years prior to 1850, when he died. He was a man of fine mental endowments and an excellent physician.

Dr. James B. Hill began the practice of medicine in Wellsville in 1851, and continued actively engaged in his profession until his death, in 1863. He was highly esteemed as physician, citizen, and friend.

Dr. James Stevenson practiced in Wellsville for about six years, when he removed to Madison, Wis. He died at Madison in or near the year 1859.

Dr Lewis Robe practiced medicine at Wellsville for about seven years, and subsequently removed to Illinois, where he has became a minister in the Presbyterian denomination.

Dr. Wright practiced his profession in Wellsville about ten years, and removed to Pittsburgh ; Dr. Donahue, nearly three years, and removed to Iowa; Dr. J. G. Buchanan, eight years, and removed to Alleghany City ; Dr. Copp, two years, and then went West.

The following are at present practicing in Wellsville: Dr. N. K. Mackenzie, who has practiced continuously since 1844, a period of thirty-four years, stands among the foremost of his profession in the county, and takes an active interest in public affairs.

Dr. David Silver opened an office for the practice of his profession at Columbiana about the year 1844, and continued there for nearly ten years. He began practice in Wellsville about the year 1858.

Dr. J. W. Hammond began practice in 1861, or near that time; Dr. J. McConnell, six or seven years later; Dr. Augustus Noble, about 1873 ; Dr. R. Johnson, in or near the same year; and Dr. J. Q. Hamilton, who practiced previously at Salineville, from 1873 until 1876.

Beaver Green

New Albany. - Dr. Joshua Webb located at New Albany in the practice of medicine in the year 1838. Not satisfied with the revenue derived from a large practice, he began, about the year 1846, to deal in and otherwise manipulate counterfeit coin. His reputation as a counterfeiter extended throughout the country, and, though often arrested, his wealth of subterfuges as often procured his release. In some respects he resembled Stephen Burroughs, famous in the annals of New England near the opening of this century. He indulged in the role of preacher, and, by his arts, secured a position as detective. In the latter capacity he would inveigle susceptible persons to a retired spot to inspect his coin and learn the art of making it, and at an opportune moment slip out, call assistance, and cause their arrest with all the evidences of guilt about them. It is said that he received fifty dollars for every such arrest, and caused the conviction of several innocent persons. He had a tunnel excavated, leading from the cellar of his house to a secluded spot not far away, and by this means for a long time baffled the officers sent to arrest him. He was finally caught in his underground trap, and in 1801 sent to the Ohio penitentiary.

The present practicing physicians in Green are Dr. Andrew Weikart, who opened an office there in 1838, and Dr. Daniel Collahan, who began practice in 1874.

Smith

Dr. J. Cock, who began practice at Beloit in 1874, and Dr. Hoover, who began at North Benton about 1872, are now engaged professionally at those places, respectively.

The following are now practicing in the township: at New Springfield, Dr. J. Stafford, since 1800 ; Dr. Wheelan, who has been there twelve or fifteen years ; and Dr. Dustin, who began practice there a few years ago; at Peteisburg, Dr. William Pettit, who began practice in or about the year 1850, and Dr. E. S. Warner, Jr., who began practice there in 1870.

Washington, numbered 12 in the list of townships, and occupying range 3, lies on the southern border of Columbiana, and is bounded north by the townships of Franklin and Wayne; south, by the Jefferson County line; east, by Yellow Creek township ; and west, by Carroll County and Franklin township.

The Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railway passes through the township diagonally from the southeast to the northwest, and has at Salineville a station, where all trains halt. A short track, of about two miles in length, owned by the Salineville Railroad Company, extends west from Salineville to the Carroll County line, and is used exclusively for the transportation of coal from the mines along its line. Big Yellow Creek, receiving at Salineville the waters of two of its forks, flows southeast through the township, along the line of the railway. Once a water-course of some power, it has dwindled, within the township limits, to an insignificant stream.

Washington occupies a hilly and healthful region, and, like the adjoining country, is noted as a place where sickness is rare, and where extreme longevity is a common thing, while those who reach a ripe old age retain in a remarkable degree a vigorous exercise of the faculties.

Early Settlement

Washington township received its first settlers as early as 1803, and not long after that date the announcement of the discovery of salt on Yellow Creek brought the saltboilers into the township in considerable force.

William McLaughlin, with his wife aud eight children, sailed from Greenock, Scotland, in 1807, in the ship George Yorke," Capt. Taylor, of Greenock, and after a speedy passage of twenty-eight days landed at New York. Thence he passed to Philadelphia, and crossing the Alleghenies to Pittsburgh, floated down the Ohio, and in due season reached his place of destination, which was the territory now occupied by Washington township. Here, upon section 6, where J. W. Anderson now lives, he settled and began a pioneer's work. Alexander, the fifth son of William McLaughlin, and the only living member of that pioneer band, resides in Wellsville, Ohio. Although in his ninetyfirst year, he is quite active and in the enjoyment of excellent health. Indeed, he says he has never known sickness, and states that his father and mother - although the first lived to be eighty-eight, and the latter eighty-five - were never ill twenty-four hours at a time. Mr. A. C. McLaughlin relates that when he settled in Washington he was then a young man of nineteen, and vividly recalls his experiences and observations of that early time. There were several settlers there, and touching them he speaks as follows :

George Clark, a settler on section 4, where Perry J. Clark now lives, came in from Pennsylvania, and located in the township in 1803. Clark was the father of seven children, a worthy, industrious citizen, and, being the first person in the township chosen as justice of the peace, became a man of mark, and filled the office many years.

One Fishel, an Italian, was a settler in 1804, and built the first grist-mill in the township, at the place now known as Clark's Mills. It was a poor apology for a mill, where flour was sifted through a hit of cloth tacked upon a small box-frame, but it served a useful purpose, nevertheless, and was probably well patronized. Fishel was a carpenter as well as miller, raised a large family, and lived upon the place until his death.

James Sharp, from Pennsylvania, located in 1803 upon section 35, where James Sharp, one of his descendants, now lives. George, Isaiah, and Silas Burson were among the earliest settlers, and after a time became extensive saltboilers on Yellow Creek. Silas occupied a farm which he afterwards sold to John McIntosh, from Scotland, whose widow now lives on the place. Isaiah, who owned a farm near Silas, had been a Quaker, but blossomed into a Disciple preacher, and went about among the people enunciating the principles of that faith with much vigor. George was likewise a Disciple preacher, and like Isaiah was popular. They attracted many people to hear their discourses, but their hearers, it is said, were drawn thither chiefly through curiosity.

William Draghorn, from Scotland, settled upon section 12, northwest quarter. His brother-in-law, Robert Mc- Auley, settled upon the place in 1810, and, being killed at a barn-raising, his place was taken up by Draghorn. Mc- Auley's brother met also with a violent death while in search of an eagle's nest upon one of Scotland's high cliffs, whence he was dashed to pieces. William Draghorn's son John sold the old farm, and removed westward some years ago.

It is related of George Clark that upon a visit to New Lisbon he was to ask at the post-office for letters for William Draghorn. He thought the name was a poor one, and, thus reflecting upon it, determined that he was ashamed to ask for Draghorn's letters. While at the post-office, however, probably discussing the matter with himself, he heard a German ask for a letter for " Mr. Ruter." " Hello 1" cried Clark ; " that's a worse name than Draghorn, and so I'll not be further ashamed to ask for Draghoru's letters."

Alexander McLaughlin located in 1812 upon section 5 where Theophilus Cox now lives. Daniel Swearingen entered the tract, and from him McLaughlin purchased it.

John Farmer, a member of the Society of Friends, and an early settler in Hanover township, moved into Washington about 1814, and took up at Salineville the salt interests previously owned by the Bursons. Mr. Farmer became one of the most prominent men in Washington township, as did after him his son James, now one of Cleveland's capitalists, and largely interested in coal-mining at Salineville as well as in railway and mining interests elsewhere. James Farmer built at Salineville, in 1838, the first gristmill of any consequence in Washington. The mill is now owned by J. G. Lacock & Co.

A few Quakers located at and near Salineville shortly after the days of early settlement, and about the time John Farmer located there. They were a few years afterwards numerous enough to organize a religious society, whose members worshiped in a church built by John and James Farmer, and now owned by the Disciple congregation. Shortly previous to 1852 the society began to lose strength by removals, and in that year very few Quakers were living in the township.

Thomas and Martin Adams, of Pennsylvania, settled about 1804 in that part of Washington afterwards set off to Jefferson County. Martin was a justice of the peace and a whisky-distiller in a small way. Moses Marshall, Martin Adams' brother-in-law, came in from Pennsylvania, and located near the latter.

Abraham Croxton was a settler in that neighborhood and laid out a village, called Monroeville (now in Jefferson County) in honor of President Monroe, of whom Croxton was a great admirer. Croxton was a farmer and storekeeper, and at Monroeville kept the first store known in those parts. After him, the store was kept by Daniel Mc- Arthur, related to Governor McArthur, of Ohio. John Moore, of Pennsylvania, was a settler on the west side of the township, and was a famous justice of the peace.

George James, from Tennessee, was one of the first saltboilers at Salineville. He was noted particularly for his hatred of Gen. Jackson, whose sister he desired to marry. Jackson did not like him, and prevented the marriage, whereupon James vowed eternal enmity to Jackson, became a salt-boiler, and died a bachelor.

James and John Ogle, from North Carolina, were blacksmiths, and settled near the centre of the township. Between them they had eight stalwart sons, all of whom were blacksmiths.

Horse-thieves made their unwelcome presence felt in those early days, and much trouble they caused. Thomas Baker, an early settler, who came in from Pennsylvania, was deprived, by thieves, of his horse, and, keeping up a fruitless search for the animal all through one summer, not only failed to find the horse, but lost his crops, not being at home to care for them.

George, Alexander, Hugh, and Samuel Clark, from Pennsylvania, were early settlers upon the east side of the township. Samuel was very fond of an occasional drink of bitters, and being told one day at a store, when well charged with fire-water, that he could not have any more drinks, excitedly exclaimed, as he danced like a wild man, 11 By Heavens, I'll have it, if it cost a dollar a bushel !" Samuel was, however, a good citizen, and a good blacksmith to boot.

George Clark undertook, for $60, to " blaze" a road from Yellow Creek to New Lisbon, - a distance of fifteen miles. This was a part of the State road from Steubenville to New Lisbon, but it was not wisely selected, and very little of the route is now used for a public highway.

Thomas Patterson located in the north, and John Hart, a " Yankee," on the east. Hart raised a family of fourteen children, of whom seven sons served in the Kebellion of 1861, and passed through the war without receiving as much as a scratch.

James Sharp intended at one time to lay out a town upon his property, and talked of starting the town with a firstclass tavern. Sharp, like many others about that time, had the " town fever" in an aggravated form, but the fever abated as fast almost as it rose, and Sharp's town, as well as his tavern, never assumed material form. In the western end of the" Scotch settlement, Angus McDonald, Angus Noble, Evan McPherson, and other Scotchmen were early settlers. Hugh Baes, of Pennsylvania, was a settler in the eastern portion of the township.

Upon the outbreak of the war of 1812, a number of the citizens of Washington went to New Lisbon and offered to enter the army if arms were provided for them. The arms were not forthcoming, and they went home again.

Kecurring to Angus McDonald, above mentioned, it may be observed that he owned the property upon which Highlandtown is now located, and himself laid out that village.

As one of the features of the days of early settlement in not only Washington, but many of the Columbiana townships, it will do to observe that the supply of rye whisky for each family household was as scrupulously looked after as the supply of bread, and, according to tradition, the early settlers would as soon have thought of doing without one as the other.

Evan McPherson, already alluded to, came over from Scotland in the ship " Frances," of New' Orleans, in 1812, with his wife and six children, and located upon the northwest quarter of section 6. Finding, after a time, that he would not be able to pay for the whole of it, he disposed of half of it to Angus McDonald. Upon that portion Malcolm Cameron now lives, and upon the portion retained by Evan McPherson his son, Bichard McPherson, resides.

In the same ship with Evan McPherson, Alex. Dallas and David Bose came over from Scotland. They stopped some time, however, at New York, but) settled eventually in Washington, - Dallas where William Garside now lives, and Bose upon the Bose place, at Highlandtown.

Organization

Washington was organized in 1816 as Saline township, and, upon the erection of Carroll County in 1832, a portion of Saline township being set off to that county and the name retained there, that portion remaining in Columbiana was renamed and called Washington in 1833, when, on the 3d of June, the county commissioners remodeled the township of Wayne and fractional townships of Franklin and Saline. To the latter, altered to Washington township, additions were made of sections 32. 33. 34, 3a. and 3(i.

S Aline Ville

Salineville, a thriving, flourishing place, is the only important village in the township, and contains a population of about two thousand five hundred. It was laid out by John and James Farmer, in 1839, and incorporated in 1848, but did not begin to show much advancement in growth until 1852, when the completion of the Cleveland and Pittsburgh railroad and the subsequent development of the coal mining interests created sources of a substantial prosperity, which has steadily improved since that time.

When the village was first laid out, its eastern limit was at the second bridge, east of Lacock's mill, nor was there much of the village east of that until the completion of the railway, in 1852.

The discovery of salt on Yellow Creek drew settlers to Salineville, and the salt-boilers soon formed a numerous as well as a sometimes boisterous community, for salt-boilers were generally a mercurial people, and considered it one of the moral obligations of existence that it should be kept in a state of proper and lively agitation.

Salineville was incorporated in 1848 ; it retained upon incorporation the name by which it was first known, and which the discovery of salt at that place gave to it. It contains but one street proper, which extends west from the railway station about two miles. The coal shipments at this point are important, and it is from the coal-mining interest that the village derives its chief business support, although there are also several manufacturing establishments in the town.

John T. Bysart

This small village, in the eastern part of the township, was laid out in 1834, by Angus McDonald, then owner of the tract it now occupies. Alexander Chisholm opened the first store there, and was also the first postmaster at that place, which, as a post-office, is and always has been known as Inverness.

The Methodist Episcopal Church Of Salineville

was organized previous to 1840, but the loss of the records containing positive intelligence upon that head leaves the matter to conjecture. In that year and afterwards the Methodists of Salineville enjoyed occasional preaching in a school-house on the hill north of the town. Rev. Hosea McCall was among the preachers who ministered to them, and about that time the church, had a membership of 30. In 1850 the church built a frame house of worship upon a site in the rear-of the present brick edifice, erected in 1870 at a cost of $10,500, including lot. In the old churchbuilding, which is now used as a tenement-house, the preachers were Revs. Archibald, Thorne, Rogers, Stevens, Petty, Grant, Hollingshead. In the new church the pastors have been Revs. Huston, Lane, Johnson, Hollister, and E. R. Jones. Mr. Jones was in charge June, 1879, when the church had a membership of 250.

The present trustees of the church are F. Rogers, Thos. Walkins, Milo Pumphrey, Abraham Hartley, John Weaver, George Paisley, Washington Morrison, Samuel S. Carnahan, Edward Pumphrey.

United Presbyterian Church

What is known as the United Presbyterian church of Salineville is the result of an amalgamation of the Free Presbyterian and United Presbyterian congregations, both of which, although worshiping together and being to all intents and purposes one congregation, have separate corporate capacities, the title to the church property being vested in tbe Free Presbyterian society.

The Associate Reformed congregation (afterwards the United Presbyterians) was organized in 1837 or 1838, at Strain's Mills (now Clark's Mills), in Washington township, when James Martin and Daniel D. McIntosh were chosen elders. Preaching was conducted in private residences until 1846, when a church was built at Strain's Mills. Among the early supplies were Revs. William Lorrimer, James Wilson, and Samuel Clark. The pastors who served the church were Revs. John Donaldson, W. II. Jamison, James Golden, Joseph Boyd.

In 1866 the congregation, having in 185S changed its designation to that of United Presbyterian, discussed tbe project of building a new church, when there was some difference of opinion as to where it should be located, and the result of the discussion was that the church organization was dissolved, one portion thereof joining a congregation at Grant's Hill, and the other effecting a union with the Free Presbyterians at Salineville, after having separate worship in the church of the latter until 1S69, to which year llcv. Joseph Boyd preached for them.

ized Jan. 28, 1850, with the following members: William D. Norris, Isabel Norris, John Thompson, Massie Thompson, J. K. Snodgrass, Susan W. Snodgrass, Alanson Clark, Benjamin Manifold, Susan Manifold, William Paul, Mary Jane Tasker, John Haldeman, Rachael C. F. Haldeman, Rebecca Ann Haldeman, Lucrctia S. Haldeman, Mary Jane Graham, Susan Graham, Elizabeth J. Graham. John Thompson was chosen ruling elder, and Rev. James Robertson moderator, at the first session. Rev. James Robertson was the first preacher, and in May, 1850, he administered the first communion. After him the preachers were

Waugh, Geo. McElhany, William Moffat, and Bingham. The elders after Mr. Thompson were John Haldeman, Benjamin Manifold, James Crumley, Ralph Thompson, John Hunter, and W. J. Dallas.

To 1851 public worship was conducted in the town school-house. In that year a frame church was built, and used until 1866, when the present house was erected. In 1869, as already noted, the Free Presbyterians and United Presbyterians joined in worship, with Rev. W. II. Jamison as their minister.

The first stated pastor was Rev. S. M. Coon, who entered upon his charge in 1871, and still continues therein. The combined membership of the church is 92.

Upon the amalgamation of the congregations, the elders chosen were James Sharp and Alex. Hart for the United Presbyterians, and Ralph Thompson, John Hunter, and Wm. J. Dallas for the Free Presbyterians. The elders at present are the above, with the addition of Arthur J. Thompson.

Methodist Episcopal Church Op Highlandtown

In 1819 a Methodist class was organized at the house of Jacob S. Desellems, near the head- waters of Little Yellow Creek, in Wayne township. In that class were 13 members, named as follows : Jacob S. Desellems and wife, Wm. Pumphrey and wife, David Scattergood and wife, John Davis and wife, Francis Bussell and wife, Eleanor McMullen, Catharine Johnson, and Mrs. Mary S. Hoey, Jacob S. Desellems being appointed class-leader. Preaching was held in the school-house and the dwellings of the members until 1841 by Revs. Nathan Callender, John Sharp, B. 0. Plimpton, J. P. Kent, Martin Ruyter, J. Crum, J. McMahan, John Crawford, Ira Edda, Geo. Mc- Caskey, Jos. Montgomery, C. H. Jackson, W. Tipton, J. Crump, R. Armstrong, John McLain, Alcinus Young, P. S. Ruyter, Wm. Henderson, Joshua Monroe. In 1841 a church-edifice was erected on Little Yellow Creek, in Washington, upon land owned by David Scattergood. The congregation was in the Hanover circuit, and in the new church the preachers were Revs. J. K. Mills, Samuel Day, M. L. Weekly, Thos. Winstanley, Simon Elliott, G. A. Lowman, W. Brown, T. C. McClure, J. H. White, W. W. Roup, C. Thorn, W. Deveny, John Houston, J. Ansley, L. Petty, John Grant, D. B. Campbell, J. H. Rogers, Henry Long. The second church-building was put up at Highlandtown, and in it the pastors have been Revs. J. Archibald, M. McGarrett, John Stephens, Z. S. Weller, John Conner, Jos. Hollingshead, R. Jordan, J. R. Roller,

W. Johnson, A. B. Castle, J. C. Russell, J. M. Bray, Jr., C. Thorn, John Houston, A. J. Lane, J. W. McAbre, G. W. Johnson, J. E. Hollister, and E. R. Jones, the latter being the pastor June 1, 1849, when the church membership was 80.

In 1865 the Highlandtown and Salineville Methodist Episcopal churches became an independent circuit. The present leaders are James Bussell, B. F. Hart, W. R. Wilson, A. Hannum.

First Presbyterian Church

At a meeting of the Presbytery of New Lisbon, April 26, 1864, a committee, consisting of Revs. Robert Hays, S. R. Dundas, D.D., James N. Swan, and Mr. James Welch, ruling elder of Bethel church, was appointed " to visit Salineville, and, if the way be clear, to organize a Presbyterian church in that village." The committee met May 19, 1864, in a building previously used as a town school-house, but then the property of a few Presbyterians, and organized a church. Twenty-six members were accepted, and Joseph F. Williams and Edward Burnside chosen ruling elders. The names of the original members are given as follows :

Rev. Robert Hays, of Bethel church, in Wayne, preached occasionally for about a year previous to the church organization, having been originally requested by the Presbyterians of Salineville to preach for them, in reply to certain itinerant preachers who had been delivering discourses there. Rev. Robert Johnson preached also previous to the organization of the church.

Mr. Hays was the church's pastor from 1864 to 1874, and was succeeded by Rev. S. B. Stevenson, who was followed by the present pastor, Rev. J. R. Dundas, D.D. The present membership is 130. The original house of worship, in which the organization was effected, is still used.

The Disciples Church

was organized Feb. 4, 1856, in the Free Presbyterian meeting-house, by thirty-six of the members formerly attached to the Berea congregation. Benjamin Johnson, Jehu B. Milner, and Nicholas Wierbaugh were the elders, Thomas Jessop and Nimrod Burson the deacons, and Wm. Burson the clerk.

Slieckler, John Simpson, Sarah Simpson, Nicholas Wierbaugh, Julia Ann Wierbaugh, Matilda McMillan, John Burson. Nov. 4, 1856, the congregation first occupied the edifice formerly known as the Friends' meeting-house, which they purchased for $1000 from James Farmer, who, with his father (both Friends), had years before built the house for the religious use of the Society of Friends. This church is the one now in use by the Disciples. The first minister was Wesley Lanphear, who was succeeded by Mr. Beaumont, S. B. Teegarden, McBride, Kemp, Abisha Way, Joseph King, Gardner, Picket, Thomas Henry, J. White, Terry, E. L. Allen, Joseph Walters, and W. W. Hayden, the latter being nowT in charge. The church began to flourish directly after organization, and in 1857 numbered 89 members. Its present membership is 140.

The Primitive Methodist Church

The Primitive Methodist church of Salineville was organized in 1869 by Rev. Geo. Parker, at which time 60 persons were received into membership. Previous to the organization, and after that, worship was held in dwellings and school-houses, but after the organization chiefly in the Presbyterian and United Presbyterian churches. A churchedifice was erected in 1873, and was to be dedicated in 1874, but the unsettled state of the country put off the proposed ceremony, which remains to this day unperformed. The preachers who have served the church have been Revs. James Herbert, Joseph Emerson, Geo. Parker, T. C.

Previous to 1872 the Catholics at Salineville held occasional public worship in the houses of members of that faith, preaching being supplied by the priest stationed at Suminitville. In the year named, under the direction of Rev. P. J. McGuire, a brick church was erected, and since that time Salineville and Sunmiitville have been a joint charge, under the successive ministrations of Revs. P. J. McGuire, B. B. Kelly, and E. J. Murphy. About sixty families are at present attached to the congregation of St. Patrick's.

The history of the early schools of Washington township offers no features of peculiar interest apart from the educational experiences of kindred townships. There was less opportunity for gaining book-learning at schools than there was for gaining religious instruction at church, since schools in those days were made available but three months in the year, and even then the distances to be traveled by pupils to reach the school-house frequently placed even the limited advantages at such a premium that they were sometimes illy enjoyed.

Joseph White, a Scotchman, was one of the earliest, and perhaps the first, to teach school in Washington township. The temple of learning wherein he taught the young and rising idea was, of course, a log cabin ; but White's teaching, it is said, was of the earnest kind and took deep root.

The township possesses at present excellent union schools. At Salineville the union-school building, a capacious and substantial brick structure, provides, with two additional school-houses, for the educational needs of the town.

Salt-Wells

The discovery of the presence of salt in the soil along the banks of Yellow Creek, where it flows through Salineville, led to the first pronounced settlement of the place, and in a brief space of time there was a considerable influx of salt-boilers at the place, and the promise of a rapid growth in population seemed at hand. Salt had been a very rare and expensive commodity, and stories are still extant telling how early settlers in southern Columbiana used to ride many a mile to obtain salt, and bow they used to prize it to a degree that seems now absurd, since salt is so plentiful and so cheap. Then it was worth almost "its weight in gold," and one still hears that at table in those days children would invariably cling to the salt-bowl, while the sugarbowl stood neglected.

Thus it may be understood that the discovery of salt where salt was a luxury was a revelation and wonderfully welcome, and the newly-discovered salt-fields quickly engaged, therefore, the energies of many an eager person, and created an especially lively and profitable industry.

As nearly as can be ascertained, George James, who came from Kentucky, sunk the first well at what is now Salineville. This was probably in 1809, or previous. He obtained strong salt water, but not much salt, although he put down two wells, the first three hundred feet deep (from which there was a strong flow of gas), and the second nine hundred.

George, Isaiah, and Silas Burson, from Pennsylvania, followed immediately afterwards, and put down several wells. They failed, however, to make the business pay, although they obtained a good yield of salt, and the property soon afterwards passed into the hands of John Farmer, who came over there from New Garden, in Hanover township, and settled at Salineville. Anthony Roof and others were among the early salt-makers, but the most successful was John Farmer, who continued to prosper in the undertaking continuously until 1853, when he disposed of his interest to Isaac Kirk, who, with more or less success, made salt until 1865, when competition elsewhere, which had long been lessening the value of the salt interest at Salineville, pushed it aside and out of existence altogether, Mr. Kirk being the last one, in 1865, to make salt at that point. During Mr. Farmer's time many others were engaged in the salt business on Yellow Creek, and at one time, within the limits of Salineville, there were upwards of twenty salt-wells in process of operation. When the yield of his well was at its best, Mr. Farmer obtained from forty to fifty barrels per week.

When the salt business was at its height, - in 1835 or thereabouts, when there were twenty or more wells on Yellow Creek, - an attempt was made to start a bank, and the project was so far pushed that a company was organized with Moses Marshall as president, a log house on the creek selected for a banking-house, handsome-looking notes printed with the name of " Yellow Creek Bank" conspicuous thereon, and matters generally trimmed to catch a favorable breeze. Somehow or other, prospective stockholders got the idea that the bank was a speculation organized by a few shrewd ones, who might leave creditors in the lurch at the first favorable opportunity, and so, stock subscriptions being withheld, the bank never started, while its fascinating bank-notes were retired to the shades of Nowhere.

The Coal Interest

Salineville finds the chief element of its support in the possession of numerous coal mines, the working of which provides employment for several hundred people, and contributes very largely to the business interests of the place.

Coal was found at this point long before 1852, but the lack of transportation facilities precluded the shipment of it, and so the only use to which it was devoted was the supplying of the needs of the citizens. When, however, the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad was completed in 1852, coal mining upon an enlarged scale set in, and, having steadily increased in extent since that time, the business now amounts to upwards of two millions of dollars annually, as to value of product.

Mr. James Penrose is said to have been the first person to ship coal from Salineville. He took coal out of a mine now operated by the Ohio and Pittsburgh Coal Company, at the upper end of Salineville. In 1853, John Thompson opened a " three-foot vein," and at the same time Jehu Milner opened a mine opposite Thompson's, where the Columbiana Coal Company are now mining. Mathew Brown and Hayes & Hussey were mining-firms about this time, and began to bring the coal interests into prominence.

The sharpest impetus to these interests was furnished, however, when the Ohio and Pennsylvania Coal Company was organized, in 1867, and began operations at Salineville in that year. They absorbed at first six coal mines in that locality, and entered briskly upon the work of developing a profitable industry to a degree far in advance of efforts previously made.

The company controlled, June 1, 1879, six coal mines at Salineville, and from them took an average of about eight hundred tons of coal daily, employing in the labor from two hundred and fifty to two hundred and seventy-five persons. Of the company's six mines, five are " drifts," or " banks," and one only a " shaft." The latter, it may be remarked, is the only " shaft" among all the mines in Salineville, the residue being what are known as " drifts," or horizontal openings into the side-hills, - a style of mining much less exj>ensive than the shaft. The company has a capital of $84,000 ; its president is James F. Clark, its superintendent Daniel McGarry, and its treasurer J. R. Conrad.

The kinds of coal taken out at Salineville are known as the " Columbiana" and the " strip" vein, the latter being but slightly impregnated with sulphur, costing more to mine than the Columbiana, and of course of more value in the market.

The Ohio and Pittsburgh Company's mines average veins of from three feet to six and a half feet in thickness, and the length of the mines from three hundred to seventeen controlled by James Farmer and the firm of Crannage & Anderson, began to mine in 1872, and are now operating a mine of Columbiana coal about one thousand yards in length and having an average thickness of vein of five and a half feet. They are also working a strip-vein mine of a similar length, and in both mines (employing seventy-six men) obtaining about one hundred and four tons of coal daily, although the ordinary yield is thrice that amount.

The Columbiana Coal Company

operated by Morris Foster, of Pittsburgh, have two "banks," which they have been working since 1877, and now take out about two hundred and seventy-five tons of coal daily, employing eighty-five men. Each bank has depth of about three thousand feet, and in the larger vein the thickness is claimed to be an average of seven and one-half feet.

This company mine also fire-clay in the " strip-vein" mine and hard clay in a clay -bank, their shipments of clay averaging about seventy tons per month.

John Hayes, one of the early miners at Salineville, has a mine from which about one hundred tons of coal daily have been taken, but work therein has for some time been suspended, although likely to be speedily renewed.

When the coal trade is brisk and the mines at Salineville are pushed to their extreme productive capacity, they give employment to as many as six hundred persons, and yield for shipment from twelve to thirteen hundred tons of coal daily.

The Salineville Woolen-Mills, owned and operated by J. A. & R. Montgomery, occupy in Salineville the buildings erected, in 1845, by James Farmer for a flaxseed-oil mill. Mr. Farmer continued to make oil there a number of years, and then, changing the manufactory to a woolenmill, thus conducted it until 1856, when he sold it to John Montgomery, who manufactured woolen goods on his individual account until 1867, when he took in his son, J. A., as a partner. John Montgomery died in 1877, when, by the accession of R. Montgomery, the firm became as at present constituted.

The mill-building, constructed of brick, is what is known as a " one-set mill," and, run by steam-power, manufactures woolen flannels, blankets, hosiery, stocking-yarn, jeans, etc., and does, besides, considerable custom-work. The employees number eight.

L. Bright has a tannery at Salineville, where Henry Nixon, the first tanner in the town, began the business in 1849; he disposed of it, in 1866, to Mr. Bright. About one thousand hides are tanned yearly. Steam is the motivepower, and seven the number of hands employed.

J. G. Lacock & Co. have a large steam grist-mill at Salineville, with five run of buhrs. The mill - the first in Salineville - was built, in 1838, by James Farmer and Isaac Kirk, and was run by water-power until 1839, when steam was added. In 1856 the firm-name was changed to

Farmer, Lacock & Co., and in 1877 to its present title. The mill has a large run of custom-work, and a capacity for producing sixteen thousand barrels of flour yearly.

McGarry, Black & Co. operate a fine steam grist-mill near the railroad station. * It was built in 1877, is three stories in height, lias two run of buhrs, and a productive capacity of twenty barrels of flour for every ten hours.

The Ohio Flouring- Mills, run by steam-power, were started by Faloon Bros, in 1877. They have two run of wheat-buhrs and one chopping-buhr, with a manufacturing capacity of thirty barrels of flour every ten hours. The mill employs two hands, and has a brisk custom trade.

William Faloon & Co. operate a steam planing-mill at Salineville, and manufacture doors, sash, blinds, and building material. In the mill-building they make also farm-bells, plow-points, and general castings. The mill was set in motion in 1869, and employs, in busy times, from ten to fifteen men.-

N. & 0. Cope opened an extensive foundry and machineshop in Salineville about 1849, and continued it until 1869, when it passed into the possession of W. W. Orr, who had had an interest in it for some time. Mr. Orr carried on the foundry until 1873, when he converted it into a planingmill, which he discontinued in 1878.

The Salineville Banking Company

THE SALINEVILLE BANKING COMPANY, a private corporation, is the first and only banking institution Salineville has had. It was organized March 1, 1873, with J. G. Lacock as president, W. T. Cope as cashier, and directors as follows: J. G. Lacock, Isaac Kirk, Robert George, H. A. Thompson, Edward Humphrey, L. Bright, W. T. Cope. The officers and directors in 1879 were the same as above given. The capital, which was originally $30,000, was in 1877 reduced to $20,000.

Secret Orders Salineville Lodge, No. 348, F. And A. M.

SALINE ENCAMPMENT, NO. 159, I. O. O. F., was organized Aug. 6, 1872, with 7 charter-members, as follows : Charles Cameron, S. M. Sexton, C. C. Kleiufelder, Edward Roberts, John Kirk, George Bowden, George Dysart. There are now 40 members and the following officers : Daniel Herbert, C. P. ; William Gold, S. W. ; :

Salineville is an important station on the main line of the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad, over which trains were first run in 1852. Shipments of coal from this station average from seventy-five to eighty cars per day, and form no small item in the freight business of the road. John K. Lloyd was the first railroad agent appointed for this point, and he served from 1852 to 1853. J. P. Farmer was the agent from 1853 to 1856, when F. Rogers was appointed, and, resigning in 1866, was followed by John Hoey, and he in turn by F. Rogers, the present agent, who was reappointed in 1872.

In 1854 the Salineville Railroad Company, of which James Farmer is the head, built a railway, about two miles in length, from Salineville, along the course of a fork of Big Yellow Creek to the Carroll County line, for the transportation of coal from the mines along the line to Salineville.

Salineville's first newspaper was the Salineville Era , which was published during 1870, in Wellsville, by J. E. Porter, and lasted less than a year.

James M. Reese, whose office of publication was likewise at Wellsville, issued, in 1871, the Salineville Miner , but it was a short-lived publication, and passed away after an existence of a few months.

May 2, 1872, J. W. and J. F. Lacock issued the first number of the Salineville Index , a twenty-eight-column paper. The Index was published at Salineville, was independent in politics, and flourished until the fall of 1878, when, passing iuto the hands of William Jackson, its name was changed to the Salineville Herald , and as such it is still continued by him. It has a circulation of about 700, and is published every Thursday.

Post-Offices

Washington has two postal stations, - Salineville and Highlandtown. The first postmaster at Salineville was James Farmer, who was appointed about 1S35. He kept a store at the time, and, in 1840, Jos. G. Lacock, entering as Mr. Farmer's clerk, took active charge of the post-office, although Mr. Farmer continued to be postmaster. Mr. Farmer's successors were G. W. Boring, Win. J. Dallas, and L. C. Dallas. The latter is the present incumbent, and has occupied the office since 1860.

The business of the money-order department of the office for March, 1879, was a profitable one, embracing the receipt of $3769 for money-orders issued, and the payment of $740 on orders received. The receipts for the sale of stamps during the quarter ending April 1, 1879, amounted to $369.22. The office receives and forwards three daily mails, - one tri-weekly and one semi-weekly mail.

The first postmaster at Highlandtown was Alex. Chisholm, after whom the appointee was Albert Welch, of Wayne township, for whom John Russell, storekeeper at the village, transacted theoflice business. Russell removed, subsequently, to Iowa, and was chosen speaker of the House of Representatives. After Welch, the postmasters were Win.

When the post-office at Highlandtown was first established, the post-office department directed the name of Inverness to be given to it, since there was already a postal station called Highlandtown. Commonly, the village is known as Highlandtown, but as a postal station it is known as Inverness.

The public burial-ground at Salineville is known as Woodland Cemetery, and occupies a handsome elevation north of the town. The tract is about ten acres in extent, and was purchased by the town in 1870 for $600. In that year it was opened for public use, and since has been so improved that it is regarded as one of the finest cemeteries in the county. The first board of cemetery trustees, chosen when the ground was purchased, was composed of Thomas B. Cope, J. G. Lacock, and Thomas Francis.

Previous to the purchase of " Woodland," the town used a burial-ground originally designed for the private graveyard of the Farmer family, but subsequently devoted to public use.

Under the call for three months' men, upon the outbreak of the Rebellion of 1861, Salineville furnished for the company raised by Capt. Henry Cope, of Wellsville, and afterwards attached as Company K to the Third Ohio, the following: Laughlin Dallas, Joliu McCullough, John S. Thompson, David Jacobs, Wilson Nixon, James Campbell, R. J. Gould, Edward McGaffick, Henry Barcus, J. J. Donahoe, B. Rigdon, J. K. Farmer, S. N. Irwin, Benjamin Gresbaugh.

Under the call for one hundred days' men, Washington township provided a full company, called Company A of the One Hundred and Forty-third Ohio Volunteers.*

Biographical Sketches Samuel C. Kerr

This gentleman's ancestors were as follows : James Kerr, his grandfather, was a native of Berkeley Co., W. Va. ; emigrated to Allegheny Co., Pa., about 1790, and to Columbiana Co., Ohio, in 1808; died in 1810.

William Kerr, his father, was born in Allegheny Co., Pa., Feb. 12, 1795 ; came to Washington township, Columbiana Co., Ohio, in 1808. He was in many respects an extraordinary man. Although enjoying but very limited opportunities for school education, he was the business man of his neighborhood, writing letters, deeds, etc. He filled various positions of trust and honor, served thirty-six years as justice of the peace, and nine years as commissioner of Jefferson County. His occupation was that of a farmer. He married, May, 1826, Miss Eleanor Clark. They had ten children, - James P., Jane, Samuel C., Hannah, Sarah

On his mother's side his grandfather, Samuel Clark, was a native of Pennsylvania; came to Columbiana Co., Ohio, about 1798, settling on the north fork of Yellow Creek, in what is now Washington township. His mother, Eleanor Clark Kerr, was born in 1805; is residing now in Brush Creek township, Jefferson Co., Ohio.

Samuel C. Kerr

Samuel C. Kerr, the subject of this sketch, was born Jan. 13, 1831, in what was then Saline township, Columbiana County, now Brush Creek township, Jefferson County. He received only a common-school education, and learned the stone-cutting trade, following that occupation and assisting on the farm in the summer and teaching school in the winter.

He married, Nov. 3, 1859, Miss Frances J. Milner, daughter of William and Lydia Milner, - all natives of Columbiana County. Mrs. Kerr died Dec. 17, 1860, aged twenty years. Mr. Kerr was again married, on the 22d of October, 1868, to Miss Mary Clark, daughter of Stephen and Rachel Clark, natives of Columbiana County, and both born in 1804. Mr. Clark died in 1873; Mrs. Clark in 1878. Mrs. Kerr was an exemplary member of the Presbyterian church for twenty-five years. She died April 22, 1875, at the age of forty-four years. Of this marriage was born one child, John Fayette Kerr, Nov. 22, 1869.

During the war Mr. Kerr was a member of Co. D, 126th Ohio Volunteers, enlisting as a private, Aug. 11, 1862. He was promoted successively to second lieutenant, to first lieutenant, and to captain ; was honorably discharged May 15, 1865. He was in the battles of Martinsburgh, Waupon Heights, Brandy Station, Bealton, Locust Grove, Mine Run, and the Wilderness. He also experienced ten months' confinement in the rebel prisons at Macon, Ga., Charleston and Columbia, S. C.

came to Columbiana County in 1869, since which time he lias followed farming. He was elected from Columbiana County in 1877 a representative in the State Legislature for two years ; was renominated for the same office. Is a Republican, as shown by his ballot for President, which was cast for Scott, Fremont, Lincoln, Grant, and Hayes. He has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church since 1856.

John T. Dysart

was born in Scotland, Sept. 2, 1839. His father (James Dysart ) came to America in 1844. He settled first in Carroll County. In 1847 he removed to Columbiana County, where he remained until bis death, which occurred Aug. 24, 1870. James Dysart's family consisted of thirteen children, - twelve sons and one daughter. Eight of that number are deceased. The subject of this sketch remained at home until he was fourteen years old ; he then went to the West, where he remained four years. When the Rebellion broke out he was one of the first to respond to the call to arms, entering the service June 6, 1861, as a private in the 3d Ohio Infantry Regiment, going immediately to the seat of war. This regiment was captured by the enemy near Rome, Ga., and was held three months as pr isoners of war, and during that time were in prison in the following places: Belle Island, Atlanta, Knoxville, and Danville. This regiment was in twelve engagements and twenty-three skirmishes. Mr. Dysart was present at all these engagements, and went through safely, with the exception of a slight wound, which he received Aug. 28, 1863, while guarding a wagon-train near Stevenson, Ala. After the discharge of the regiment Mr. Dysart selected Chattanooga, Tenn., as a place in which to engage in the mercantile business ; after about six months he returned to Salineville, where he engaged as a clerk in a store. August, 1867, he began business for himself, in the mercantile line, also buying and selling real estate and coal. Mr. Dysart has a partner, and the firm is known as Dysart & Cameron. Mr. Dysart has always taken an active part in developing the mineral resources of this and other States, having spent much time and money to accomplish his object. He has a fine geological collection gathered from this and other States. He is in politics a Republican, and, while never having sought political preferment, has always earnestly served the best interests of the party when chosen by it to fill any office. He was elected mayor of his town in 1866, and has been a member of the council for thirteen years ; has represented his party as a delegate to various conventions. Is a liberal in his religious views.

Mr. Dysart remains unmarried, and is now in the prime of life. Long may he live to enjoy the fruits of his industrious youth and busy manhood! And we feel confident that he will maintain the good character lie has won, and retain to the last the respect and the esteem of those who have the pleasure of his acquaintance.

James Farmer

enteenth century his ancestors came from England, where they have honorable mention since the days of Henry VII., and especially so during the time of Charles II. II is grandfather took an active part in the stirring times of the Revolution, participating in the various battles that were fought in Georgia and the Carolinas. His father, on account of slavery, decided to leave the South, and removed, in 1805, to the newly-admitted State of Ohio, settling upon a tract of land in Columbiana County, where he remained until the fall of 1818, when he removed to what is now known as Salineville, in the same county. Here young Farmer grew to manhood, availing himself of such opportunities as then existed for acquiring an education while devoting a large share of his time to assisting on the farm and aiding in the manufacture of salt, which his father had commenced in 1824. At the age of twentytwo he leased his father's salt-works, and having so enlarged them as to make a more profitable business, devoted himself for years to this industry. In 1828, however, he concluded to extend his business enterprises, and so crossed the mountains to Philadelphia, and purchased a stock of goods suitable to the demands of a new country, and this laid the foundation of a mercantile business which he continued for nearly thirty years. In 1834, Mr. Farmer was married to Miss Meribah Butler, a young lady of English parentage, who had, with her parents, previously removed to Ohio from Philadelphia. In 1838 he built what was for those times a large flouring-mill, thus increasing his business by purchasing wheat and manufacturing it into flour, which he shipped to the cities of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and New Orleans. In pursuance of this business, therefore, Mr. Farmer had occasion to travel very considerably, which brought him into contact with the larger commercial interests of the country, and into business relations with a large circle of wealthy and influential business-men. Before the era of railways in Ohio, when the great commercial business was transacted entirely by water, Mr. Farmer, in 1844, built a fine steamer for the profitable traffic at that time carried on upon the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and employed it for some years in the trade between Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and New Orleans. In the year 1846 he, with his usual enterprise, was foremost in securing a charter for a railroad from the Ohio River to Lake Erie, and eutered with determination upon the building of the same. The Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad thus came into existence. Mr. Farmer was made president of the company, devoting his time, energy, and money to the enterprise, and under his able management the road was completed from Cleveland to the Ohio River in about five years. This road opened up a large tract of mineral wealth, and gave a great stimulus to Cleveland, especially to the coal trade of that lake city. In 1856, Mr. Farmer removed with his family to the Forest City and engaged in the coal trade, having mines of his own which he has worked successfully for the past twenty years. Since arriving in Cleveland he has identified himself with the manufacture of iron, and the banking interests of the city. In 1858, Mr. Farmer was again called to the presidency of the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad Company, and in order to facilitate its management the superintendency was also assigned him, and it was thus mainly through his wise and economical administration of the company's affairs that the road was kept from falling into the hands of its bondholders, - a fate that befell many corporations after the disastrous financial crash of 1857. In 1859, Mr. Farmer, feeling that the company he had served was again upon a safe footing, retired to the management of his private business, yet still remained a member of the board of directors for some years longer, when he resigned entirely, having served the company in all nearly twenty years. Although devoting himself to his own business interests, Mr. Farmer ever kept those of Cleveland in view, and, as he was convinced that the city's greatness was founded upon its manufacturing interests, determined upon a new railway line to the nearest coal-fields. Thus in 1870 he began, through the press and otherwise, the agitation of the subject as one of vital importance to the future prosperity of the city. In 1871 a company was organized, known as the Valley Railway Company, whose object was to build a road, by way of Akron and Canton, into the very heart of the great coal and iron fields of Ohio. Mr. Farmer was chosen president of the company, and the work of construction began in the spring of 1873, but, owing to the great financial crash in the Call of that year, work was suspended, the company's affairs being kept in such trim, however, that in 1878 the first rails were laid and machinery put on, so that at the present time the road is nearly completed to Canton, a distance of sixty miles, and its entire success fully assured. Mr. Faimer has thus been the organizer of the two railways that give to Cleveland her commercial importance so far as great mineral and manufacturing interests, founded upon an inexhaustible and cheap coal supply, contribute to that end. Mr. Faimer is now seventy-seven years of age, but is still hale and hearty, has the companionship of his wife and five children, and, with his children's children around him, still looks forward to years of useful life. He is an honored member of the Society of Friends; has never sought political honor, but gone quietly forth in the business walks of life, devoting his time and energy towards enterprises for the public good, believing that a man has higher duties in life than the simple acquisition of wealth ; that he who lives to benefit mankind has ennobled his own soul, and may well rest when life's labor is done. He possesses a well-balanced mind, maturing all his plans by careful consideration ; has a calm judgment; is serene in disposition, and charitable to the failings of others. He is genial as a friend, kind and indulgent as a husband and father, and is generally esteemed, respected, and beloved. With a mechanical turn of mind, he is a close observer of both men and things in the world around, and may be said to be wholly the architect of his own fortunes. He possesses a strong will, that has carried him over all obstacles. In his business enterprises he has lived to see his efforts for the public good crowned with success, and is entitled to enjoy the honorable old age that is his.

Coburn, Frank P., son of Thomas and Margaret (Russell) Coburn, b. Madison Tp. 1853, s. Washington Tp. 1855, General Agent Singer Sewing Machine Co., p. o. add. Salinoville.

Fraser, Duncan, son of Hugh and Mary (McIntosh) Fraser, b. Inverness-shire, Scotland, s. Columbiana Co. 1836, Farmer, p. o. add. Salinoville.

Fraser, John, son of Hugh and Mary (McIntosh) Fraser, h. Inverness-shire, Scotland, s. Columbiana Co. 1836, Farmer and Stock-Grower, p. o. add. Salinoville.

Fraser, John, son of Daniel and Kuphoinia (Ogilvie) Fraser, b. Columbiana < <». 1825, s. Washington Tp. 1861, Bookkeeper, p. <». add. Sullnovillc.

Gluth, John, son of George and Margaret (Kramer) Gluth, b. Ebern Wertsburg, Bavaria, s. Columbiana Co. 1854, Mason and Farmer, p. o. add. Salineville.

Green, Aaron S., son of John and Sarah (Potts) Green, b. Washington Co., Pa., 1820, s. Columbiana Co. 1827, Merchant, p. o. add. Salineville.

Gilson, Richard, son of Richard and Martha (McLintick) Gilson, b. Columbiana Co., 1809, s. Washington Tp. 1821, Farmer, p. o. add. Salineville.

Jackson, William, son of Fleming W. and Matilda (Marker) Jackson, b. Hartford, Conn., 1841, s. Columbiana Co. 1878, Editor Columbiana Co. Hercdd p. o. add. Salineville.

Kerr, Samuel C., son of William and Eleanor (Clark) Kerr, b. Columbiana Co. 1831, s. Washington Tp. 1873, Farmer (State Representative), p. o. add. Salineville.

Lindsay, John A., son of John F. and Eliza (Lewers) Lindsay, b. Guernsey Co., 0., 1832, s. Columbiana Co. 1860, Physician and Surgeon, p. o. add. Salineville.

Martin, James A., son of William and Isabella (Uryueliart) Martin, b. Jefferson Co., 0., s. Washington Tp. 1875, Principal Union Schools, p. o. add. Salineville.

McGillivray, John H., son of Daniel and Margaret (Grant) McGillivray, b. Nova Scotia, 1830, s. Washington Tp. 1845, Farmer, Prop. Hotel and Livery, p. o. add. Salineville.

McGillivray, William, son of Laughlin and Jane (Shaw) McGillivray, b. Inverness, Castle St., North Scotland, s. Columbiana Co. 1832, Farmer, p. o. add. Salineville.

McPherson, Hugh, son of John and Marjery (Rose) McPherson, b. Yellow Creek Tp. 1822, s. Washington Tp. 1824, Farmer and Stock-Grower, p. o. add. Salineville.

McGaffick, Andrew, son of John and Rachel (Shivers) McGaffick, b. Columbiana Co. 1818, s. Washington Tp. 1852, Butcher and Drover, p. o. add. Salineville.

Orr, William W., son of Samuel W. and Ann R. (Woodbridge) Orr, b. St. Louis, Mo., 1832, s. Washington Tp. 1859, Lawyer, p. o. add. Salineville.

Pumphrey, Edward, son of William and Elizabeth (Shivers) Pumphrey, b. Wayne Tp., Columbiana Co., s. Washington Tp. 1845, Farmer, p. o. add. Salineville.

Saltsman, George II., son of Andrew and Catharine (Hartman) Saltsman, It. Jefferson Co., 0., 1822, s. Washington Tp. 18C7, Physician and Surgeon, p. o. add. Salineville.

Smith, John G., son of William and Ann (McGillivray) Smith, b. Invernessshire, Scotland, s. Columbiana Co. 1842, Farmer, p. o. add. Salineville.

Sharp, John, son of Robert and Nancy (McLoney) Sharp, b. Washington Co., Pa., 1803, s. Washington Tp. 1837, Farmer and Physician, p. o. add. Salineville.

Williams, Joseph Fosset, son of Edward and Jane (Moore) Williams, b. Chester Co., Pa., 1809, s. Columbiana Co. 1824, Farmer and Artisan, p. o. add. Salineville.