was erected in 1806 out of Steubenville township, being one of the original five townships into which Jefferson county was divided in 1803.  It contains 36 sections of township 7, range 2; also 4 full sections and 7 tractional sections of township 3, range 1, of the original "seven ranges" surveyed by the government in 1785-6.  It received its name from Island creek the principal stream which traverses the township from west to east and empties into the Ohio opposite Brown's Island.  This township is bounded on the north by Knox township, on the east by the Ohio river, on the south by Cross Creek township, and on the west by Salem township.

TOPOGRAPHY

PRODUCTS.

TIMBER.

EARLY SETTLEMENT

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MANUFACTURES.

ISLAND SIDING FIRE BRICK WORKS

King, Arthur & Morrow, lessees.  These works were established in 1873, by Fickes, Cable & Abrahams and conducted by them

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MILLS.

ELECTIONS.

SCHOOLS.

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CHURCHES

CENTER METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHAPEL.

ISLAND CREEK M. E. CHURCH.

MT. TABOR M. E. CHURCH.

TWO RIDGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF ISLAND CREEK.

     DAVID A. SLOANE, son of William B. and Ann A. Sloane, was born in Knox township, Jefferson county, Ohio, Nov. 11, 1832.  He was reared on a farm and educated at the Steubenville Academy.  He married Jane O. Hood, daughter of James and Eliza Hood, of Steubenville, Ohio, Apr. 11, 1855.  Their children are as follows: Mary E., married to C. J. McConnell; William E., James H., John O. and David C., deceased.  Mr. Sloane came to his present location - Sloan's Station - in 1855.  He has a farm of 192 acres, one-half of which is rich alluvial soil on the Ohio bottoms.  His principal business in fruit growing, having twenty-five acres in apples, three acres in pears, five acres in strawberries and a variety of small fruits of all kinds.

     JEFFERSON SALTSMAN, was born in Saline township, Jefferson county, Ohio, Nov. 19, 1817.  Received but a common school education, and learned the carpenter trade with Henry Yeagley for whom he worked three years.  Followed his trade until 1847, when he began steamboating on the Yazoo River, having worked at carpentering two years in the South.  In 1850 he bought the old home farm in Saline township and began farming.  In 1854 be sold this farm, removed to Cross Creek township where he remained nine years, when he bought a farm of 200 acres in Island Creek, bordering on the Ohio river, known as “the old Sloan homestead,” where he is now engaged in farming.  He also owns and runs a planing mill at Sloan’s Station.  Mr. Sloan married Mary Clark, Mar. 15, 1854, by whom he had six daughters, viz: Maggie J., Lizzie L., Many A., Arabella, Barria and Emma Saltsman.  His first wife dying be married Nancy J. McElhase, of Beaver county, Pennsylvania.

     THOMAS M. DANIELS, son of Abraham and Sarah Daniels, was born at Port Homer, Jefferson county, Ohio, Jan. 29, 1850.  His parents died when ho was young, and he went to live with William Myers, with whom he remained till bo was sixteen years of age.  He then worked for William S. Myers one year in a brick yard.  After this ho worked four years in Carlyle’s Sewer Pipe Works, then in company with Messrs. Connelly & Hood, he leased Carlyle’s works for five years, himself acting as foreman.  Married Susanna Peters, Sept. 1, 1870, and has three children, Charles A., John T., and Jefferson H. Daniels.  Mr. Daniels visited Baton Rouge, La., as an agent of a Pittsburgh coal firm July 1, 1878.  Having returned to Ohio he and R. M. Francy leased the Calumet Sewer Pipe and Fire Clay Works, which business they still continue.

     THOMAS J. WELLS, a native of Washington county, Ohio, was born Oct. 8, 1832.  When four years of age his parents removed to Meigs county, where he grew to manhood.  Married Samantha J. Jewett of Meigs county, Ohio, Apr. 15, 1858.  After his marriage, Mr. Wells removed to Illinois, where he remained one year, and then came to Island Creek township, Jefferson county, Ohio, May 28, 1860, where he resides on a farm of 102 acres on the Ohio river.  In April 1864, Mr. Wells enlisted in Company H, 157th, O. V. I., and served four months.  His mother was a grand-daughter of Col. Oliver, who first settled near Marietta, Ohio.

     REV. JOHN E. HOLLISTER

     MATTHEW R. HARTFORD

     J. H. ROBERTS

     GEORGE W. AULT

     ANDREW J. AULT, was born in Island Creek township, Jefferson county, O., Dec. 16, 1836; reared on a farm till the age of fourteen.  Went to California, where for eight years he followed mining exclusively, after which ho followed mining and trading.

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     DR. BENJAMIN MAIRS

     JAMES MAIRS

     JAMES PORTER, a son of Charles and Elizabeth Porter, was born in Steubenville, Feb. 22, 1809.  Charles, his father, was a native of Ireland, and was brought to America by his parents about the beginning of the Revolutionary war, and lived in York county, Pa., for a number of years.  He married Elizabeth Maholm, and reared seven children, but two of whom are living— Carolina Norman and James.  In 1804 he migrated to Steubenville, where he engaged in the hotel business for a great many years.  He died in 1853, at the age of seventy-six.  His wife, after surviving him some four years, died in her seventy-seventh year.  Our subject learned the hatter’s trade in early life, and followed that vocation for a time.  In 1834 he married Mariah C. Carroll, by whom he reared a family of twelve children— George C., James, William C. and Joseph, served in the late rebellion.  The same year of his marriage he removed to Salem township, where he resided until 1862, and from thence he went to Island Creek.  In May, 1871, he came to his present location.  He has always lived in Jefferson county, where he was born, and grew to manhood.

     GEORGE C. PORTER was born in Salem township, Oct. 11, 1838.  He was a son of James Porter.  He received a common school education, and was reared a farmer.  Began the trade of a millwright and followed that until the opening of the rebellion, when be enlisted as a private, and was promoted until he reached the rank of captain of company D, 98th O. V. I.  At the close of the war he was honorably discharged.  Upon his return home he engaged in carpentering, which occupation he still follows.  On the 26th of September, 1865, he was married to Elizabeth S. McCoy, by whom he has three children.

     EPHRAIM CABLE

     SANFORD CABLE

     WILLIAM W. CABLE

     JOHN YOCUM, son of John and Sarah Yocum, born in Island Creek township, Jefferson county, Ohio, Apr. 19, 1831.  On the 3d of May, 1853, he was united in marriage to Eliza Whitson, of Brooke county, West Virginia.  They have a family of ten children, three sons and seven daughters.  Since his marriage he resided in Steubenville township until 1875, when he came to his present location.  He was in Company D of the157th Regiment O. N. G.  His business for the past ten years has been packing ice, which he sells at wholesale or retail.  He preserves for sale during the proper season from 1.500 to 2,000
tons. 

     LEAMON W. MARTIN

     LEONIDAS H. WALTER

     GEORGE A. WATSON

     DAVID W. McCULLOUGH, son of Alexander and Bethanna McCullough, was born at East Springfield, Jefferson county, Ohio, Dec. 24, 1843, and was reared on a farm.  Attended Harlem Springs College for two years.  After leaving school he taught one year.  When the rebellion of the Southern States took place he enlisted in Company E, 52d Regiment, as a private, and served till the close of the war.  Received wounds in the charge made at Kenesaw Mountain, June 27, 1864, being struck in the breast and shoulder.  On Oct. 26, 1871, he married Sarah J. Watson, by whom he has one child, Clark W.  He and his father-in-law reside together.

     JESSE L. FLEMMING

     WESTLEY A. WARDEN

     ALEXANDER M. SHANE

     JAMES SHANE, decased, was born in Island Creek township, Jefferson county, Ohio, in 1806.  Married Catharine Morrison,

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and reared nine children  Two of his sons, John and Abraham, served in the rebellion.  The former died as a prisoner at Saulsberry, in 1863.  His widow still survives, aged seventy years.

     SAMUEL STILL

     BENJAMIN T. COE

     MATHEW STARK

     SAMUEL HUSTON

     DANIEL M. ABRAHAM, son of D. C. and Mary Abraham, was born on the farm where he yet resides, May 26, 1829.  He married Susan McClure, of Allegheny county, Pa., Mar. 2, 1854, by whom he had five children - one dead.  In about 1851 he removed to Steubenville, Ohio, where he engaged in the lumber trade for about one year.  After his marriage, he located on the farm where lie now resides, and which was settled by his father at an early day.  He owns 160 acres.  Mr. A. is a member of the M E. Church.

     JAMES LYONS

     E. B. SHEPHERD

     JAMES T. MARTIN

     DANIEL A. MORELAND

     BEATTY McFARLAND

     PAUL CASTNER

     ISAAC GRATON

     JOHN D. GRAFTON, son of Isaac Grafton, was born Mar. 10, 1834; married Jan. 21, 1858, to Sarah J. Palmer, by whom he reared a family of seven children.  His occupation is farming.

     DARIOUS DAVISON

     WILLIAM ELLIOTT

     JAMES BLACKBURN was born in Wayne township, Jefferson county, Ohio, Apr. 1, 1814.  He learned the milling business and removed to Island creek in 1834, and operated a mill for his father on wills creek.  In 1835, he was married to Nancy Hanlen.  This marriage resulted in six children.  In 1852, he removed from the county for several years, and in 1859, he pur-

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chased the mill known as the Browning mill.  He conducted this mill until 1871, and then removed to his present location.  He has been carrying the mail for three years.  Thomas Blackburn, our subject's father, was born it Westmoreland county, Pa., in 1792, and migrated to Jefferson county when a young man, and was married in 1813.

     JAMES COOPER

     EPHRAIM COOPER

     GEORGE AULT

     WILLIAM STARK

     MOSES ROSS was born in Chester county, Pa., in 1772.  In 1803, Moses, his brother Robert and their mother, removed to Jefferson county, Ohio, and located on the farm where his sons yet reside, in Island Creek township.  In 1804, he married Elizabeth Ramsey, who was born in 1782, by whom he reared nine children.  He died in 1855.  During the war of 1812, he was paymaster of a regiment.  James and David Ross own the homestead.  Our subject’s father, John Ross was a captain in the Revolutionary war, and served all through that struggle for liberty under General Washington.

     THOMAS B. NIXON

     MOSES COE was born in Island Creek township on the farm where he now resides, Oct. 30, 1822.  He owns 154 acres of land.  He was the oldest son of Moses and Esther Coe, who came from Washington county, Pa., in 1815.

     SAMUEL MORTON

     ROSS WINTERS

     WILLIAM L. RHINEHART

     J. B. RICHMOND

     DAVID GLADDEN

     ANDREW H. COE

     JOHN STARK

     ADAM BELTZ

     EDWARD McCONNELL

     JAMES McELROY

     SAMUEL S. VAUGHAN, - The subject’s father, James Vaughan, was born in Washington county, Pa., in 1795; married Eleanor Goudy in 1818, and migrated to Jefferson county, Ohio, and located in Island Creek township, where he died in 1863, and his wife in 1865.  They had but two children—Samuel S., our subject, and Elizabeth.  Samuel was the eldest and was born Feb. 24, 1823.  He was united in marriage to Rebecca A. Walker, by whom he became the parent of six sons and one daughter.  In 1859, he came to his present location, where he owns a farm of 270 acres.

     JOSEPH MILLER

     ANDREW C. AULT

     JACOB AULT, son of Andrew Ault, Sr., was born Sept. 17, 1800, on the old home farm.  He followed carpentering and cabinet-making.  He was married three times and reared a large family.  His death occurred in 1865.

     JOSEPH C. AULT

     WILLIAM TAYLOR

     BENJAMIN LEE was born in Island Creek township May, 1831, and in October, 1852, he married Elizabeth Taylor and reared a family of two children by her; removed to his present place April, 1863.

     SAMUEL LEE - The subject of this sketch was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., May 17, 1821, and when but two  years of age his parents removed to Jefferson county, Ohio.  In April, 1851, Mr. Lee married Ann Barclay and reared twelve children.  He is a farmer.

     DAVID KING

     GEORGE PAXTON

     EPHRAIM LASHLEY

     JOHN CULP

     WILLIAM C. NICHOLS

     JOHN DONNELLY

     MARK W. BELL

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VALLEY SPRINGS ICE WORKS.

     These works were established in 1869, by John Yocum, the present proprietor.  They are situated on Wills creek, about a quarter of a mile from the Ohio river.  The first year after he began the business he packed some two hundred tons.  His trade has increased rapidly every year until at present he packs away from fifteen hundred to two thousand tons per annum.  His ice is from pure spring water and he always finds ready sale for it.

McCONNELL'S FRUIT FARM

     This fruit and vegetable farm, which is situated about six miles west of Steubenville, contains eighty acres.  He has five hundred peach trees of the finest quality of budded fruit, five acres in raspberries, three acres in strawberries, the products of which are 10,000 quarts per annum.  Of tomatoes, his annual products are at least 1,000 bushels per year.  He has small fruits and vegetables of all kinds.  His business is increasing every year and he bids fair to have by far the finest fruit farm in the county.

KINGS GARDENS

Are located four miles above Steubenville, Ohio, and at the foot of Brown's Island.  Mr. King first began at this place in the spring of 1871.  The tract contains fifty-four acres, eighteen acres of which are in garden.  He grows everything in the vegetable line produced in this latitude, and does a large business in this branch.

DAVIDSON'S GRIST AND SAW MILLS

Were erected by a Mr. Porter in an early day and was next owned by John Myers.  In 1834, Robert Ramsey became proprietor, and he sold to James Scott about 1851.  In 1861, the old mill was burned down and a new mill was immediately built, 40x42 feet, and three stories high.  It has two run of buhrs and is operated by both water and steam power.

MARTIN'S COAL BANK

Is situated on the farm of James F. Martin and was opened in the year 1876, by him.  The vein is three and a half feet thick, and he employs from three to four men in the fall and winter seasons.