APPENDIX.
REPORT OF THE CELEBRATION OF THE
CENTENNIAL OF
THE ERECTION OF JEFFERSON COUNTY AND
FOUNDING OF STEUBENVILLE.
THE CENTENNIAL OF JEFFERSON COUNTY.
The centennial of the formation of
Jefferson county and
founding of Steubenville was celebrated
in the city of Steubenville,
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, August
24, 25 and 26, which
was participated in by a large number of
people, mainly former
residents who returned to their old home
for the occasion.
The celebration noted a century gone
since the founders
builded better than they knew - a
hundred years of development
and achievement -a century that has
marked greater progress
in the march of civilization, in the
advancement of science, in
invention, in industry, in art, in all
things that have added to the
forces in the hands of man, than had
been made in all the cen-
turies since the birth of Christ. It was
a celebration of the achieve-
ments of the fathers who made the
wilderness blossom as the
rose - a celebration that called to mind
the achievements of all
these hundred years; the story of the
performance - the triumph
over the savage, the subduing of the
wilderness, the building of the
home of peace, the erection of a great
commonwealth and pop-
ulous communities.
Credit for the organized effort that led
up to this grand
celebration is due the Bezaleel Wells
Historical Society, which
was formed with this object in view; but
not only this, it has
gathered data of history to which those
who celebrate the second
centennial will fall heir, and rejoice
that this organization was
more thoughtful than the pioneer fathers
along this line. The
Wells Historical Society, officered by
David Filson, president;
Joseph B. Doyle, recording secretary; W.
H. Hunter, correspond-
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