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Surnames: Castner Heslep Spencer
Classification: Query
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Steve,
I found the following concerning Michael Castner, son of Peter and Magdalena, in The
History of Steubenville and Jefferson CountyOhio. Joseph B. Doyle. Richmond-Arnold
Publishing Company,Chicago, Ill. 1910.
http://www.garlock-elliott.org/places/doyle_twp/02island.html
Do you have the decendents of Michael and Sarah Heslep? I would like to trace down to
Thomas P. Spencer (whom I cannot locate) and develop more information about Michael's
stores on the Monongehela and in Kentucky.
Michael is a brother of Johannes/John, my direct antecedent.
Steve Castner
Please email me direct at slcastner(a)ameritech.net.
"Michael Castner, grandfather of Thomas P. Spencer, Esq., who built a mill at the
head of Wills Creek at the beginning of the century, was on the site of Steubenville while
it was a wilderness—before the place was considered as a town-site. He owned a store on
the Monongahela River and one in Kentucky, riding on horseback from one to the other, and
going through this region, he frequently stopped on the site of Steubenville. He bought a
thousand acres of land in what is now Island Creek Township, and he was one of the pioneer
merchants of Steubenville. He built the large brick dwelling near Two Ridge Church, now
occupied by Dr. John Kilgore, and his remains are interred in the graveyard nearby."