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HAMILTON , a city and the county-seat ofSee also: Butler county,
See also: Ohio, U.S.A., on both sides of the See also: Great See also: Miami See also: river, 25 M
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N. of See also: Cincinnati
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Pop
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(189o), 17,565; (1900), 23,914, of whom 2949 were See also: foreign-See also: born; (1910 census), 35,279
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It is served by the Cincinnati, Hamilton & See also: Dayton, and the See also: Pittsburg, Cincinnati, See also: Chicago & St See also: Louis
See also: railways, and by interurban electric lines connecting with Cincinnati, Dayton and Toledo
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The valley in which Hamilton is situated is noted for its fertility
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The city has a See also: fine public square and the Lane See also: free library (1866) ; the See also: court See also: house is its most prominent public See also: building
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A See also: hydraulic canal provides the city with See also: good See also: water 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
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Its most distinctive manufactures are paper and See also: wood pulp; more valuable are foundry and machine See also: shop products; other manufactures are See also: safes, malt liquors, See also: flour, woollens, Corliss engines, carriages and wagons and agricultural implements
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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 General Arthur See also: Saint Clair, but it was abandoned in 1796, two years after the place had been laid out as a See also: town and named See also: Fairfield
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The town was renamed, in honour of See also: Alexander Hamilton, about 1796
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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
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In 1908, by the annexation of suburbs, the See also: area and the population of Hamilton were considerably increased
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Hamilton was the early home of See also: William 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 printing office, where the son had learned to set type in his teens, and to remove to Dayton
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