Editing Youngstown, Ohio (section)

===Founding===
[[File:Image David Tod, Abbots History of Ohio.jpg|left|upright|thumb|Governor [[David Tod]]]]

Youngstown was named for New York native [[John Young (pioneer)|John Young]], who surveyed the area in 1796 and settled there soon afterward.<ref name="vind-yo-10-15-24">{{cite news |title=Knowing Youngstown: John Young's Land Purchase |work=The Youngstown Daily Vindicator |page=7hi |date=October 15, 1924}}</ref> On February 9, 1797, Young purchased the township of {{convert|15,560|acre|abbr=on}} from the [[Connecticut Western Reserve|Western Reserve Land Company]] for $16,085.<ref>Aley (1975), pp. 28–29.</ref> The 1797 establishment of Youngstown was officially recorded on August 19, 1802.<ref>Blue ''et al.'' (1995), pp. 15–16.</ref>

The area that includes present-day Youngstown was part of the [[Connecticut Western Reserve]], a section of the [[Northwest Territory]] that [[Connecticut]] initially did not cede to the federal government.<ref name=officialoh>{{cite book|title=The Official Ohio Lands Book |last=Knepper |first=George W |year=2002 |pages=23–26 |publisher=Auditor of the State of Ohio |url=https://ohioauditor.gov/publications/OhioLandsBook.pdf}}</ref><ref name=up>{{cite book|title=History of the Western Reserve |volume=1 |pages=10–11 |first=Harriet Taylor |last=Upton |editor-first=Harry Gardner |editor-last=Cutler |publisher=Lewis Publishing Company |location=New York |year=1910 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xEsbLFoBttYC&pg=PA10}}</ref> Upon cession, Connecticut retained the [[Title (property)|title]] to the land in the Western Reserve, which it sold to the [[Connecticut Land Company]] for $1,200,000.<ref name=officialoh/><ref name=up/><ref name=ohsub>{{cite book |title=Ohio Lands and Their Subdivision |last=Peters|first=William E.|year=1918 |publisher=W.E. Peters|page=[https://archive.org/details/ohiolandstheirsu00pete/page/n164 153]|url=https://archive.org/details/ohiolandstheirsu00pete}}</ref> While many of the area's early settlers came from Connecticut, Youngstown attracted many [[Scots-Irish American|Scots-Irish]] settlers from neighboring [[Pennsylvania]].<ref>Blue ''et al.'' (1995), pp. 16–17.</ref> The first European Americans to settle permanently in the area were Pittsburgh native James Hillman and wife Catherine Dougherty.<ref>Blue ''et al.'' (1995), p. 15.</ref> By 1798, Youngstown was the home of several families who were concentrated near where Mill Creek meets the [[Mahoning River]].<ref name="Blue13">Blue ''et al.'' (1995), p. 13.</ref> [[Boardman Township, Ohio|Boardman Township]] was founded in 1798 by [[Elijah Boardman]], a member of the Connecticut Land Company. Also founded in 1798 was [[Austintown, Ohio|Austintown]] by John McCollum who was a settler from [[New Jersey]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Sanderson |first=Thomas |title=20th Century History of Youngstown and Mahoning County, Ohio |url=https://archive.org/details/20thcenturyhisto00sand_0 |year=1907 |publisher=Biographical Publishing Company |pages=[https://archive.org/details/20thcenturyhisto00sand_0/page/n174 169]–180}}</ref>

As the Western Reserve's population grew, the need for administrative districts became apparent. In 1800, territorial governor [[Arthur St. Clair]] established Trumbull County (named in honor of Connecticut Governor [[Jonathan Trumbull]]), and designated the smaller settlement of Warren as its administrative center, or [[county seat]].<ref>Blue ''et al.'' (1995), pp. 17–18.</ref> In 1813, Trumbull County was divided into townships, with Youngstown Township comprising much of what became Mahoning County.<ref>Blue ''et al.'' (1995), p. 18.</ref> The village of Youngstown was incorporated in 1848, and in 1867 Youngstown was chartered as a city. It became the county seat in 1876, when the administrative center of Mahoning County was moved from neighboring [[Canfield, Ohio|Canfield]].<ref>Aley (1975), pp. 98–99.</ref> Youngstown has been Mahoning County's county seat to this day.<ref name="GR6">{{cite web|url=http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx |access-date=June 7, 2011 |title=Find a County |publisher= National Association of Counties |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110531210815/http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx |archive-date=May 31, 2011}}</ref>