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WELLSVILLE

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 515 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WELLSVILLE  , a

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city of Columbiana
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county,
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Ohio, U.S.A., about 35 M . S. of
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Youngstown, on the Ohio
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river . Pop . (189o) 5247; (1900) 6,46 (475 being
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foreign-
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born and 113 negroes); (1910) 7769 . Wellsville is served by the
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Pennsylvania railway, and by an interurban electric
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line connecting with
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Rochester, Pa., and
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Steubenville, Ohio . It is in a region which has
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rich deposits of
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coal, natural
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gas, oil and
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clay; and there are various manufactures . The neighbourhood was first settled in 1795 by one
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James
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Clark of
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Washington county, Pennsylvania, who bought a
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tract of 304 acres here and who transferred it a
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year afterwards to his son-in-
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law,
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William
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Wells, in whose
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honour the
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settlement was named in 182o when it was platted . From 1832 to 1852 Wellsville was an important
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shipping point on the Ohio, with daily steamboats to
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Pittsburg; it was incorporated as a
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village in 1848, and was chartered as a city in 1890 .

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