Steubenville, Ohio

Jefferson County

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Steubenville is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio with 19.314 inhabitants ( 2005).

Steubenville was founded in 1797 in honor of the coming of Prussia General Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben.

Population Development

¹ 1980 - 2000: census results; 2005: Updating the U.S. Census Bureau

Press

By the authorities is determined to a rape of a 16- year-old girl since 2012. International attention given the investigation because young people observed the act and should have commented laudatory. On March 17, 2013, a 16 -year-old and a 17 year old perpetrators of rape were found guilty and sentenced under juvenile criminal law on minimum sentences of one and two years in prison.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Albert Newsam (1809-1864), lithographer
  • Edwin McMasters Stanton (1815-1869), politician, minister of war of the United States
  • John Harper Long (1856-1918), Chemist
  • Charles Ogle (1865-1940), actor
  • John Scarne (1903-1985), an expert on gambling and a well-known artist cards
  • Dean Martin (1917-1995), actor and singer
  • Rollie Fingers ( born 1946 ), baseball player
  • Daniel DiNardo ( born 1949 ), cardinal
  • Hlib Lonchyna (born 1954 ), Bishop and Exarch of Great Britain
  • Traci Lords ( born 1968 ), actress
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