Samuel  Medary,  one  of  the  most  prominent  Ohio  editors,  es-
pecially during  the  exciting  war  period,  his  journal,  the  Co-
lumbus Crisis,  being  a  very  strong  advocate  of  peace,  married
a  daughter  of  James  Wilson.  M.  Halstead's  ancestors  came  to
Ohio  from  Pennsylvania,  and  our  blood  has  every  reason  to  be
proud  of  his  achievements  as  an  editor.  The  McLeans,  who
for  two  generations  have  held  the  throttle  of  that  great  engine,
the  Cincinnati  Enquirer;  S.  G.  McClure,  of  the  Columbus  Jour-
nal; and  Morrow,  late  of  the  Cleveland  Leader,  all  among  the
foremost  journals  in  America,  are  of  the  same  stock.
The  first  woolen  mills  west  of  the  mountains  were  estab-
lished just  after  the  second  war  for  Independence  at  Steubenville,
by  your  Senator  James  Ross,  and  it  was  in  these  mills  that  the
first  broadcloth  ever  made  in  America  was  produced.  James
Ross  and  his  partner,  Mr.  Dickinson,  whom  I  believe  to  have


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been  of  the  same  royal  stock,  introduced  into  America  the  Span-
ish sheep  that  were  the  foundation  of  the  great  wool-growing
industry  of  Eastern  Ohio  and  Western  Pennsylvania.  John
Campbell  invented  the  hot  blast  employed  in  iron  furnaces,  and
James  Means  erected  the  first  iron  furnace  north  of  the  Ohio.
