SIDNEY
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V25,
Page 45
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
SIDNEY
, a city and the county-seat of Shelby county, Ohio, U.S.A., on the Miami river, about 33 M
.
S. by W. of Lima
.
Pop
.
(189o) 4850; (1900) 5688, including 282 foreign- born and
1o8 negroes; (191o) 6607
.
Sidney is served by the Cleveland,,
Cincinnati, 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
, 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)
& Dayton, and the Western Ohio (electric) railways
.
The city is situated on an elevated tableland, in an agricultural region
.
Sidney has a public library, and a monumental building, a memorial, erected in 1875, to the soldiers in the American Civil War, and now devoted to various public uses
.
The river here provides some water- power, and the city has various manufactures
.
Sidney was laid out as the county-seat in 1819, was incorporated as a village in 1831 and first chartered as a city in 1897
.
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