HAMILTON
, a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of See also:- BUTLER
- BUTLER (or BOTELER), SAMUEL (1612–168o)
- BUTLER (through the O. Fr. bouteillier, from the Late Lat. buticularius, buticula, a bottle)
- BUTLER, ALBAN (1710-1773)
- BUTLER, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1818-1893)
- BUTLER, CHARLES (1750–1832)
- BUTLER, GEORGE (1774-1853)
- BUTLER, JOSEPH (1692-1752)
- BUTLER, NICHOLAS MURRAY (1862– )
- BUTLER, SAMUEL (1774-1839)
- BUTLER, SAMUEL (1835-1902)
- BUTLER, SIR WILLIAM FRANCIS (1838– )
- BUTLER, WILLIAM ARCHER (1814-1848)
Butler county, See also:Ohio, U.S.A., on both sides of the See also:Great See also:Miami See also:river, 25 M
.
N. of See also:Cincinnati
.
Pop
.
(189o), 17,565; (1900), 23,914, of whom 2949 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910 See also:census), 35,279
.
It is served by the Cincinnati, Hamilton & See also:Dayton, and the See also:Pittsburg, Cincinnati, See also:Chicago & St See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis See also:railways, and by interurban electric lines connecting with Cincinnati, Dayton and See also:Toledo
.
The valley in which Hamilton is situated is noted for its fertility
.
The city has a See also:fine public square and the See also:Lane See also:free library (1866) ; the See also:court See also:house is its most prominent public See also:building
.
A See also:hydraulic See also:canal provides the city with See also:good See also:water See also:power, and in 1905, in the value of its factory products ($13,992,574, being 31.3% more than in 1900), Hamilton ranked tenth among the cities of the See also:state
.
Its most distinctive manufactures are See also:paper and See also:wood pulp; more valuable are foundry and See also:machine See also:shop products; other manufactures are See also:safes, See also:malt liquors, See also:flour, woollens, Corliss engines, carriages and wagons and agricultural implements
.
The See also:municipality owns and operates the water-See also:works, electric-See also:lighting plant and See also:gas plant
.
A stockade fort was built here in 1791 by See also:General See also:Arthur See also:Saint Clair, but it was abandoned in 1796, two years after the See also:place had been laid out as a See also:town and named See also:Fairfield
.
The town was renamed, in See also:honour of See also:Alexander Hamilton, about 1796
.
In 1803 Hamilton was made the county-seat; in 1810 it was incorporated as a See also:village; in 1854 it annexed the town of Rossville on the opposite See also:side of the river; and in 1857 it was made a city
.
In 1908, by the See also:annexation of suburbs, the See also:area and the See also:population of Hamilton were considerably increased
.
Hamilton was the See also:early See also:home of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Dean See also:Howells, whose recollections of it are to be found in his A Boy's Town; his See also:father's See also:anti-See also:slavery sentiments made it necessary for him to sell his See also:printing See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, where the son had learned to set type in his teens, and to remove to Dayton
.
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