Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . r;tirf¥tfi;tf;?tr>-t-£^->-^^>^fi BEZAIvEEI. WEIvIvS. Photo by FUsou & son. One of the Founders of JAMES ROSS. Photo by FiUou & Son. One of the Founders of Steubenville. The PatJiJinders of Jefferson Coimiy. 211 from Pennsylvania, and in 1799 and in 1805 was candidate forgovernor. He had taken up large tracts of land in Ohio, aportion of which was in Steubenville. Ross county was namedfor him as were streets in Steubenville named in honor of bothRoss and WePs. Wells laid out Canton and a town in Waynecounty, which he abandone
Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . r;tirf¥tfi;tf;?tr>-t-£^->-^^>^fi BEZAIvEEI. WEIvIvS. Photo by FUsou & son. One of the Founders of JAMES ROSS. Photo by FiUou & Son. One of the Founders of Steubenville. The PatJiJinders of Jefferson Coimiy. 211 from Pennsylvania, and in 1799 and in 1805 was candidate forgovernor. He had taken up large tracts of land in Ohio, aportion of which was in Steubenville. Ross county was namedfor him as were streets in Steubenville named in honor of bothRoss and WePs. Wells laid out Canton and a town in Waynecounty, which he abandoned as an enterprise, another town hav-ing been chosen as the county seat. The new^ town made as rapid progress as was possible withthe facilities at command on the frontier at that time. Therewere no graded roads and the only means of reaching the townwere by river and over Indian trails through an almost unbrokenforest. Of course the first houses were log cabins, but it isrecorded that a brick chimney was built by John Ward in 1798,and in the same year Wells began the erection of a manor housein a grove on the river front, the land being bounded by Third^nd
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