[4] The first permanent settler was Joseph Ward, a sixty-five-year-old American Revolutionary War veteran from New Jersey.

Joseph and his two sons, Usual and Israel, came overland by horseback intending to settle in the new outpost of Columbia.

Joseph's wife, Phebia, and other sons and daughters traveled by flatboat down the Ohio River to reunite at Columbia.

Joseph and his sons built the first house, a log cabin, in 1797 along a well-known Native American trail near what is now Whetsel and Monning Avenue.

[1] According to the U.S. Census American Community Survey, for the period 2016–2020 the estimated median annual income for a household in the neighborhood was $74,910.