COLUMBIANA COUNTY OHIO - HISTORY PART 3 (published 1898)
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HISTORICAL COLLECTION OF OHIO, By Henry Howe, LL.D., 1898

        NEW LISBON IN 1846. -New Lisbon, the county-seat, is in the
township of Centre, 155 miles northeast of Columbus, 35 from Steubenville
and 56 from Pittsburg. It is on the line of the Sand and Beaver canal, on
the middle fork of Little Beaver, and is surrounded by a populous and
well-cultivated country. The town is remarkably compact and substantially
built; many of its streets are paved, and it has the appearance of a small
city. The view was taken from the southeastern part of the public square,
and shows, on the left, the county buildings, and on the right, the market.
New Lisbon was laid out in 1802 by the Rev. Lewis Kinney, of the Baptist
denomination, and proprietor of the soil; a year or two after, it was made
the county-seat. It contains 1 Friends' meeting house, 1 Presbyterian, 1
Episcopal and 1 Reformed Methodist, 1 Disciples, 1 Dutch Reformed and 1
Seceder church, 3 newspaper printing offices, 2 woolen manufactories, 2
foundries, 2 flouring mills, 14 mercantile stores, and about 1,800
inhabitants. Carriage making and tanning are extensively carried on in this
village. -Old Edition.
        New Lisbon is on the north bank of Middle Beaver creek and Niles,
and New Lisbon railroad. County officers in 1888: Auditor, Norman B.
Garrigues; Clerk, Richardson Arter; Commissioners, Elwood Miller, Hugh
McFall, George D. Flugan; Coroner, Samuel Badger; Prosecuting Attorney,
P.M. Smith; Probate Judge, James G. Moore; Recorder, Abram Moore; Sheriff,
John W. Wyman; Surveyors, Isaac P. Farmer, Treasurer, Jess Kepner.
Newspapers: Ohio Patriot, Democratic, Wilson Shannon Potts, editor; Buckeye
State, Republican, Ed. F. Moore, editor; The Journal, Republican, George B.
Corbett, editor. Churches are Friends, Presbyterian, United Presbyterian,
Episcopal, Baptist, German Reformed, Lutheran, Disciples, and Methodists.
Banks: First National, J.F. Benner, president, R.B. Pritchard, cashier;
Firestone Bros., Daniel W. Firestone, cashier; Lodge & Small. Principal
industries are carriage-making, quarrying of building-stone, sewer-pipe,
fire-brick, and iron-ore mining. Population in 1880, 2,028. School census
1886, 684; Superintendent, William H. Van Fossan.
        The Ohio Patriot, now published in New Lisbon, is one of the oldest
newspapers in Ohio, and, with the exception of the Scioto (Chillicothe)
Gazette, is the oldest Lepper, who brought the materials from Pittsburg. It
was printed in a log-house on Beaver street. There were at that time only
four newspapers published in the State, viz., one each at Chillicothe,
Steubenville, Cincinnati, and at Marietta. The paper was only about the
size of an 8 x 10 pane of window-glass, and the first year was printed in
German, under the title of Der Patriot am Ohio. Until 1818 there was no
newspaper printed in Cleveland, and the legal advertisements as well as the
job-printing for Cuyahoga county were done in the office of the Ohio Patriot.
        About half a mile west of the fine large court-house in New Lisbon,
which has succeeded the structure shown in the old view, is the
Vallandigham homestead. Here Clement Laird Vallandigham first appeared July
29, 1820, then an infant, who was destined to act a prominent part in the
history of the Nation's terrible struggle for existence; to become "the
bold leader of the Ohio Democracy in the turbulent times of 1863." It was
with singular emotions in remembrance of his history that we stood in front
of the place with the photographer, Mr. Moore, and selected the spot from
whence we wished him to take the view which appears on these pages.
        The mansion is on the Canton road, on the margin of the town, on a
knoll well elevated from the street. We felt as we looked that it was one
of the most quaint old-style home-like appearing spots we had seen for many
a day. The grounds, ample with the surroundings that seem vital to the
culmination of the happiest sort of life, garden orchard, shrubbery, forest
trees and grassy lawn, with a grand outlook upon not far distant
bold-wooden hills. Personally we should prefer living in such a spot than
in a regal city mansion, with its adjuncts of house and stone-walled,
prison-like streets, and rattling, deafening vehicles, and tides of
surging, worrying, care-laden, conflicting and never-to-be-satisfied,
ever-complaining humanity. In these rural homes it is that nature woos the
spirit with her gentle influence of trembling, dancing leaves and opening
flowers and care-free animal life; where, too, morning comes on in smiling
beauty and evening gently closes the scene for calm repose.


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