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Youngstown is named for John Young of New York, who surveyed the area in 1796 and settled soon after. On February 9, 1797, he bought the 15,560-acre township from the Western Reserve Land Company for $16,085, and the founding was officially recorded on August 19, 1802. The land was part of Connecticut's Western Reserve, which Connecticut sold to the Connecticut Land Company for $1.2 million. Many early settlers came from Connecticut, but many Scots-Irish came from neighboring Pennsylvania. The first permanent settlers were James Hillman of Pittsburgh and his wife, Catherine Dougherty, and by 1798 several families lived near where Mill Creek meets the Mahoning River. Boardman and Austintown townships were founded that year.

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In 1800 territorial governor Arthur St. Clair created Trumbull County, named for Connecticut Governor Jonathan Trumbull, with the smaller settlement of Warren as its seat. Youngstown Township, set up in 1813, covered much of the later Mahoning County. The village of Youngstown was incorporated in 1848, chartered as a city in 1867, and became the county seat in 1876, when the seat of Mahoning County moved from Canfield. The discovery of coal in the early 19th century brought a canal. The Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal Company was organized in 1835 and finished its canal in 1840, linking Youngstown to wider markets and setting the stage for its later growth as a center of iron and steel. Sources Wikipedia: Youngstown, Ohio