IRONTON  , a See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city and the See also:

• COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county-seat of See also:

• LAWRENCE
• LAWRENCE (LAURENTIUS, LORENZO), ST
• LAWRENCE, AMOS (1786—1852)
• LAWRENCE, AMOS ADAMS (1814–1886)
• LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALFRED (1827–1876)
• LAWRENCE, JOHN LAIRD MAIR LAWRENCE, 1ST BARON (1811-1879)
• LAWRENCE, SIR HENRY MONTGOMERY (1806–1857)
• LAWRENCE, SIR THOMAS (1769–1830)
• LAWRENCE, STRINGER (1697–1775)

Lawrence county, See also:

• OHIO

Ohio, U.S.A., on the Ohio See also:

• RIVER

river, about 142 M . E.S.E. of See also:

• CINCINNATI

Cincinnati . Pop . (1890) 10,939; (1900) 11,868, of whom 924 were negroes and 714 See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born; (1910 See also:

• CENSUS (from Lat. censere, to estimate or assess; connected by some with centum, i.e. a count by hundreds)

census) 13,147 . It is served by the Chesapeake and Ohio, the Cincinnati, See also:

• HAMILTON
• HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
• HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
• HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
• HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
• HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
• HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
• HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
• HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
• HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
• HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
• HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
• HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
• HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
• HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
• HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
• HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
• HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)

Hamilton and See also:

• DAYTON

Dayton, the See also:

• NORFOLK
• NORFOLK, EARLS AND DUKES OF

Norfolk and Western, and the See also:

• DETROIT

Detroit, See also:

• TOLEDO
• TOLEDO, COUNCILS OF (Concilia toletana)

Toledo and Ironton See also:

• RAILWAYS

railways, and by river steamboats . The city is built on a See also:

• PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain at the See also:

• BASE

base of hills rising from the river bottom and abounding in See also:

• IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron ore and bituminous See also:

• COAL

coal; See also:

• FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire and pottery See also:

• CLAY (from O. Eng. claeg, a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Klei)
• CLAY, CASSIUS MARCELLUS (1810-1903)
• CLAY, CHARLES (1801–1893)
• CLAY, FREDERIC (1838–1889)
• CLAY, HENRY (1777–1852)

clay also occur in the vicinity . Besides See also:

• MINING

mining, Ironton has important See also:

• LUMBER

lumber interests, considerable river See also:

• TRAFFIC

traffic, and numerous manufactures, among which are iron, See also:

• WIRE (A.S. wir, a wire; cf. Swed. vire, to twist, M.H.G. wiere, a gold ornament, Lat. viriae, armlets, ultimately from the root wi, to twist, bind)

wire, nails, machinery, stoves, fire-See also:

• BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic bricke, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French brique, originally a " broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic brikan, to break)

brick, pressed brick, terra-See also:

• COTTA
• COTTA, BERNHARD VON (1808—1879)
• COTTA, GAIUS AURELIUS (c. 124—73 B.c.)

cotta, See also:

• CEMENT (from Lat. caementum, rough pieces of stone, a shortened form of caedimentum, from caedere, to cut)

cement, carriages and wagons, and See also:

• FURNITURE (from " furnish," Fr. fournir)

furniture . The See also:

• TOTAL

total value of its factory product in 1905 was $4,755,304; in 1900, $5,410,528 . The See also:

• MUNICIPALITY

municipality owns and operates its See also:

• WATER

water-See also:

• WORKS

works . Ironton was first settled in 1848, and in 1851 was incorporated .