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Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
Chapter XIII
Chapter XIV
Chapter XV
Chapter XVI
Chapter XVII
Chapter XVIII
Chapter XIX
Chapter XX
Chapter XXI
BIOGRAPHICAL - Representative Citizens
SETTLEMENT AND ORGANIZATION OF OHIO COUNTY.
Quiet on the Borders Interrupted - Troubles Between the Mother Country and the Colonies - Convention of 1775 - Boundaries of West Augusta - Boundaries of Ohio County - Black's Cabin - Prominent Early Settlers - West Liberty - First Court Established - David Shepherd Appointed Lieutenant Commandant - Extracts From Early Records - Boundary Between Ohio and Youghiogheny Counties Defined - Bill of Sale - First Marriage License - Rates for Ordinary Keepers - Plan for Court House - Removal of County Seat to Wheeling.
INDIAN DEPREDATIONS--MURDERS AND INCIDENTS.
LIFE AMONG THE EARLY SETTLERS.
Building of the Log Cabin - One Hundred Years Ago - Sports and Amusements - Characters of the Settlers - Some Inconveniences to Which the Settlers Were Subjected.
EARLY METHODS OF OVERLAND TRANSPORTATION.
Cession of Northwestern Territory - Construction of National Road - The Stage Coach - Stage Coach Lines and Names of Old Drivers - Pack Horses - The Conestoga Wagon - "Regulars" and "Militia."
PRIMITIVE MAIL TRANSPORTATION AND THE WATER HIGHWAYS.
Letters - Letter Writing - Primitive Posts - First Postmaster in America - First Postmaster in Wheeling Commissioned - Ohio Packet Boats - Flat-Boats and Keel-Boats - Mike Fink, "The Bully of the Boatmen" - First Steamboat Built in Wheeling - Steamboats Built in Wheeling Prior to and Inclusive of the Year 1835.
CONFLICTING TERRITORIAL CLAIMS OF PENNSYLVANIA AND VIRGINIA.
Basis of Claims - Rival Land Offices - Dr. John Connolly Appointed Vice-Governor of the District of West Augusta - Proclamation of Lord Dunmore - Arbitrary Acts of the Vice-Governor - Memorials to Congress and to the House of Delegates of the General Assembly of Virginia - Efforts to Settle the Disputes - Meeting of Commissioners from Virginia and Pennsylvania - Their Settlement of the Difficulties Ratified.
MASON AND DIXON'S LINE.
SETTLEMENT OF THE CITY OF WHEELING.
The Early Pioneers of This Region - Fort Fincastle - Ebenezer, Jonathan and Silas Zane, the First White Settlers on Present Site of Wheeling - Their Tomahawk Claims Marked Out - Mrs. Ebenezer Zane - Arrival of Other Settlers - Friendships with Indians - Tranquility of the Region Interrupted - Massacre of Indians at Yellow Creek - Dunmore's War - Fortification of the Settlement at Mouth of Wheeling Creek - Description of the Fort.
FORT HENRY BESIEGED.
The Bloody Year - The First Attack on the Fort Successfully Repulsed - Devastation Wrought by the Savages - Captain Forman and His Men - Maj. Samuel McCulloch's Leap - Indian Council at Chillicothe - Second Attack on Fort Henry Unsuccessful - Col. Ebenezer Zane's Cabin - Gunpowder Exploit - Daniel Sullivan - Sullivan's Spring.
WHEELING AS A TOWN AND CITY.
Incorporated - Original Surveys - Description of Early Wheeling - Topographical, Geographical and Climatic Characteristics of Wheeling in 1803 - Diseases Incident to the New Settlement - Identified Localities in 1815 - Our Market House - Early Racing and Race Courses - The City as a U. S. Port of Entry - Custom House - City Water Works - Town Clock - Military Companies - Washington Hall - Transit Between the City and Island - Wheeling & Belmont Bridge Company - The Gas Company - Know Nothing Party - Printing Establishments - the Press - Panhandle Railroad - Old Residents.
OHIO COUNTY IN THE WAR OF 1812.
THE REBELLION.
Events Leading to the Convention of Delegates from Western Virginia in Wheeling - The Restored Government of Virginia - Progress of the War - Cost of Living - Successionists in Wheeling.
NOTABLE OCCURRENCES.
Floods in the Ohio River - The Fearful Ravages of Cholera in Wheeling - General Lafayette's Visit to Wheeling - Daniel Webster's Visit to Wheeling - Jenny Lind's Visit to Wheeling - The Earthquake volunteers - Tri-State Reunion.
EDUCATION.
Early Teachers - Some of the Early Schools - Lancasterian Academy - Noah Linsly - The Lancasterian System - The Public School System Uner the Old Regime.
BENCH AND BAR.
The Old Wheeling Court House - Some of the Early Members of the Bar - The Second Court House - Prominent Attorneys - The Bench - The Present Court House - Philip Doddridge.
OLD PHYSICIANS OF WHEELING.
CHURCHES AND BENEVOLENT ORGANIZATIONS.
Churches and Religious Societies of the County and City - First Sabbath-School in Wheeling - Children's home of the City of Wheeling.
SILENT CITIES OF THE DEAD.
MRS. LYDIA CRUGER AND MONUMENT PLACE.
DISTRICTS, COURTS, OFFICES AND STATISTICS OF OHIO COUNTY.
MANUFACTURIES, INDUSTRIES AND BANKS.
