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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 98 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FREMONT  , a

city and the county-seat of
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Sandusky county,
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Ohio, U.S.A., on the Sandusky
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river, 30 M . S.E. of Toledo . Pop . (1890) 7141; (19o0) 8439, of whom 1074 were
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foreign-born; (1910 census) 9939 . Fremont is served by the Lake
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Shore & Michigan
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Southern, the Lake Shore Electric, the Lake
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Erie & Western, and the
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Wheeling & Lake Erie
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railways . The river is navigable to this point . Spiegel Grove, the former residence of Rutherford B . Hayes, is of
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interest, and the city has a public library (1873) and parks, in large measure the gifts of his
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uncle,
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Sardis Birchard . Fremont is situated in a good agricultural region; oil and natural
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gas abound in the vicinity; and the city has various manufactures, including boilers, electro-carbons,cutlery, bricks, agricultural implements, stoves and ranges, safety razors,
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carriage irons,
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sash, doors, blinds, furniture,
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beet
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sugar, canned vegetables, malt extract, garters and suspenders . The
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total factory product was valued at $2,833,385 in 1905, an increase of 23.4% over that of 1900 . Fremont is on the site of a favourite abode of the Indians, and a trading
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post was at times maintained here; but the place is best known in
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history as the site of Fort Stephenson, erected during the War of 1812, and on the 2nd of August 1813 gallantly and successfully defended by Major George Croghan (1791–1849), with 16o men, against about
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I000
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British and Indians under Brigadier-General Henry A . Proctor .

In Igo6 Croghan's remains were re-interred on the site of the old fort . Until 1849, when the

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present name was adopted in honour of J . C . Fremont, the place was known as
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Lower Sandusky; it was incorporated as a
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village in 1829 and was first chartered as a city in 1867 .

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