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

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WELLSVILLE , a See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of Columbiana See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county, See also:

OHIO

Ohio, U.S.A., about 35 M. S. of See also:

YOUNGSTOWN

Youngstown, on the Ohio See also:

RIVER

river. Pop. (189o) 5247; (1900) 6,46 (475 being See also:

FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born and 113 negroes); (1910) 7769. Wellsville is served by the See also:

Pennsylvania railway, and by an interurban electric See also:

LINE

line connecting with See also:

Rochester, Pa., and See also:

STEUBENVILLE

Steubenville, Ohio. It is in a region which has See also:

rich deposits of See also:

COAL

coal, natural See also:

GAS

gas, oil and See also:

clay; and there are various manufactures. The neighbourhood was first settled in 1795 by one See also:

James See also:

Clark of See also:

Washington county, Pennsylvania, who bought a See also:

TRACT (from Lat. tractare, to treat of a matter, through Provencal tractat and Ital. trattato)

tract of 304 acres here and who transferred it a See also:

YEAR

year afterwards to his son-in-See also:

law, See also:

William See also:

Wells, in whose See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour the See also:

settlement was named in 182o when it was platted. From 1832 to 1852 Wellsville was an important See also:

SHIPPING

shipping point on the Ohio, with daily steamboats to See also:

Pittsburg; it was incorporated as a See also:

VILLAGE

village in 1848, and was chartered as a city in 1890.

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