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From: "Janis L Spencer" <>
Subject: Re: Shane
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 22:27:47 -0400

Dear Betsy, Thanks for the info. I've never heard of B. Frank Shane, I'll
have to do some checking - very interesting story! Those are the tidbits
that are fun to find!! jan
-----Original Message-----
From: Dick and Betsy French <>
To: <>
Date: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 11:30 PM
Subject: RE: Shane


>Hi Jan,
>There's a town called Shane in Jefferson County, northwest of
>Steubenville and just north of Jefferson Lake State Park.
>Also, a man named B. Frank Shane was involved in a counter-
>feiting scheme with one of my relatives, Samuel S. Conn, and
>a number of others including a Carroll County Justice of the
>Peace. I've recently received transcriptions from the Daily
>Steubenville Herald of articles about the arrests.
>B. Frank Shane is described only as being from Shanghai (I
>haven't learned yet where that is/was), and from a respectable
>family in Jefferson County. Eighteen men were sent to the
>Ohio Penitentiary in 1859, but Shane is not listed in the June
>1860 prison census, so perhaps he wasn't convicted.
>
>Betsy Conn French
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Janis L Spencer [mailto:]
>Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 10:57 PM
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>Subject: Research
>
>I am searching for any information on the SHANE or McINTIRE families, of
>Jefferson County.
>Jan Spencer
>
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