JEFFERSONVILLE  , a

city and the county-seat of Clark county, Indiana, U.S.A., situated on the N. bank of the Ohio river, opposite Louisville, Kentucky, with which it is connected by several bridges . Pop . (189o), 1o,666; (1900), 10,774, of whom 1818 were of negro descent and 615 were foreign-born; i 19 r o census), 10,412 . It is served by the Baltimore & Ohio South-western, the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St Louis, and the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St Louis railways, and by three inter-urban electric lines . It is attractively situated on bluffs above the river, which at this point has a descent (known as the falls of the Ohio) of 26 ft. in 2 M . This furnishesgood water power for manufacturing purposes both at Jeffersonville and at Louisville . The total value of the factory product in 1905 was $4,5z6,443, an increase of 20 % since 1900 . The Indiana reformatory (formerly the Southern Indiana penitentiary) and a large supply depot of the United States army are at Jeffersonville . General George Rogers Clark started (June 24, 1778) on his expedition against Kaskaskia and Vincennes from Corn Island (now completely washed away) opposite what is now Jeffersonville . In 1786 the United States government established Fort Finney (built by Captain Walter Finney), after-wards re-named Fort Steuben, on the site of the present city; but the fort was abandoned in 1791, and the actual beginning of Jeffersonville was in 1802, when a part of the Clark grant (the site of the present city) was transferred by its original owner, Lieut . Isaac Bowman, to three trustees, under whose direction a town was laid out . Jeffersonville was incorporated as a town in, 1815, and was chartered as a city in 1839 .