Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-11-28
AN OLD RESIDENT.
ReCollECTl0NS OF AN EARLY CHI
ZEN OF WHEELING,
A Man Who Built Corncrib Where the Sec
ond Ward Market House Now Stands
-wheeliog's Early Ife-lts
People and Its Places.
TALK With THEOLDeST lNHABlTANI

Men are accustomed to.regnrd three score
wears and ten a. a period of compare
lively brief duration, and regret that hui
man life so rarely reaches that bound. hut
when one thinks OF the great changes that
take place in countries and in communities
within that time. he begins TO realize the
importance and magnitude OF seventy
wears in history. \ REGISTER representative
had a conversation with Mr.. William scott,
of Marietta, Ohio. who was many years ago
n resident Of this place The old gentle
man was stopping Tor the night at the st.
! James, and cOnyerSing freely, gave numer-
Gus interesting "reminiscences Uf the early
DAVIS of Wheeling aud Of his own lie. He
said:
Il was born near the present city OF
Wheeling on Wheeling creek. When
first reCol!ect of Wheeling its southern eN-
trcmity was Il stone wall at Iane'S Square
and the town consisted al two rows
Oi houses running mp 10 Beamer' :
Tavern When was a youth helped 10
build Il r0rn crib where the Second ward
market house now stands. This crib was
then in the middle ot field and corn was
hauled to il from every direction. The
crib was built for Moses Chaplinr, who was
large land owner at that time. The
Zaucs and Chaplincs. in those days, owned
almost all the land in this neighborhood
and were considered very wealthy.
RitrhietUwn was then farm. Bcnwond
Wa, unhCard Of and Caldwcl'- run had
only Il farm house here and there
\ man named Gales, VIII" lived
nH Wheeling creek, iarmCd all
the land ON which East Wheeling now
stands remember the first steamboat that
passed this point.and in lS3U took passage
on the steamer Freedom from Wheeling to
Cincinnati. steamboats, in those days were
primitive affairs, and were generally looked
upon with feelings Of suspicion or OF ridi-
Guile. There were several boats passing here
on regular trips in 1880
"a met Captain Mcdonald "l the steam
~ IrunNidcs It lew days ago.
When lived in Wheeling the
Captain WAS Il hoy. He i the sou Of Gen
rral Mcdonald. vino Wa, = hrigadicr, and
had charge Of this division during the adj
miniStratipn OF James Monroe When
President John quincy Adams was elected,
Genera! Mcdonald WAS dismissed, but when
General Jackson was elected hC wl> reap
pointed. General Mcdonald organized 4
volunteer rifle company in the Wheeling
nrjghbnrhuud about th" wear l~2u. There
were seventy mcuhrr>, III whom was one
We enlisted iur five years
Before the expiration al mat timc General
Mcdonald was r"apIrlurcd lirigadicr Gen
cral. and was elected Captain Of the COM
pauv. whirh VA, soon after di~handed.
Tie court h"u>c in my early days.
stood Opposite whcr" the u>rcn>iOu bridge
NOW j.. at the heti al the street have
not been IN Wheeling since lNl2 except To-
r;,>> thruUgh the city. occasionally meet
au uldupuuuiuta.rrc. but the old fellows are
nearly all gone. The town Wa laid out by
my rrlatiNc--thr Chapinc- amt Xaucs-
they were cousins To- nay mother.
"a rrrulicrt when Pittsburgh Was COM
Iarativrly small town, and a> late ~ l>ln
Rrllairc consisted of one old hou-r. In $50
visited Wheeling island. which was II pic.
ME ground, t, hear political speaking The
orator, were Vim. Allen. the War Horse oI
Ohio, ami Richard NJ. johnson, Vie Prc>i-
It, uj I'd the United States.
II rry"t.rci the Presidential and Congress
>i"l;l election III ISIS / cast an illegal
vote ihru. and the election was contested
lv PIRATE, the defeated candidate, upon
lhi, and other grounds. From this contest
arose jhr division between Ohio and Mar
shall counties.
II Published 4 Democratic paper in Ma
rjctta from =; to -. ami called it the Ma
rictta E.gtbir1". was mphbcd twice on
account al my politics..
Mr. Scott j now living near Ma.
ricttu. engaged i'm FARMING and i
q hale. hearty old gcutirmuu. He is
great Vol kyr and. though surrounded by It
numcruu, and happy family, hcIicvr~ that
"ludu>lry : the source al true happiness