LAWRENCEBURG  , a

city and the county-seat of Dearborn county, Indiana, U.S.A., on the Ohio river, in the S.E. part of the state, 22 M . (by rail) W. of Cincinnati . Pop . (1890) 4284, (1900) 4326 (413 foreign-born); (1910) 3430 . Lawrenceburg is served by the Baltimore & Ohio South-Western and the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St Louis railways, by the Cincinnati, Lawrenceburg & Aurora electric street railroad, and by river packets to Louisville and Cincinnati . The city lies along the river and on higher land rising too ft. above river-level . It formerly had an important river trade with New Orleans, beginning about 182o and growing in volume after the city became the terminus of the Whitewater canal, begun in 1836 . The place was laid out in 1802 . In 1846 an " old " and a " new " settlement were united, and Lawrenceburg was chartered as a city . Lawrence-burg was the birthplace of James B . Eads, the famous engineer, and of John Coit Spooner (b . 1843), a prominent Republican member of the United States Senate from Wisconsin in 1885—1891 and in 1897—1907; and the Presbyterian Church of Lawrenceburg was the first charge (1837—1839) of Henry Ward Beecher .