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GALLIPOLIS , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of Gallia county, See also:Ohio, U. S. A., on the Ohio See also:river, about 125 M. E. by S. of See also:Cincinnati. Pop. (1890) 4498; (1900) 5432 (852 negroes); (19io) 556o. It is served by the an 'wha & Michiran (Ohio Central Lines) and the Hocking Valley See also:railways, and (at Gallipolis See also:Ferry, See also:West See also:Virginia, across the Ohio) by the See also:Baltimore & Ohio railway. The city is built on a level site several feet above the river's high-See also:water See also:mark. It has a See also:United States marine See also:hospital and a See also:state hospital for epileptics. Among the city's manufactures are See also:lumber, See also:furniture, See also:iron, stoves, See also:flour and brooms. The See also:municipality owns and operates its waterworks. Gallipolis was settled in 1790 by. colonists from See also:France, who had received worthless deeds to lands in Ohio from the Scioto See also:Land See also:Company, founded by See also:Col. See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Duer (1747–1799) and others in 1787 and officially organized in 1789 as the Compagnie du Scioto in See also:Paris by See also:Joel See also:Barlow, the See also:agent of Duer and his associates abroad, William See also:Playfair, an Englishman, and six Frenchmen. This company had arranged with the Ohio Company in 1787 for the use of about 4,000,000 acres, N. of the Ohio and E. of the Scioto, on which the Ohio Company had secured an See also:option only. The dishonesty of those who conducted the sales in France, the unbusinesslike methods of Barlow, and the failure of Duer and his associates to meet their See also:contract with the Ohio Company, caused the collapse of the Scioto Company See also:early in 1790, and two subsequent attempts to revive it failed. Meanwhile about 150,000 acres had been sold to prospective settlers in France, and in See also:October 1790 the See also:French immigrants, who had been detained for two months at See also:Alexandria, Virginia, arrived on the site of Gallipolis, where See also:rude huts had been built for them. This land, however, See also:fell within the limits of the See also:tract bought outright by the Ohio Company, which sold it to the Scioto Company, and to which it reverted on the failure of the Scioto Company to pay. In 1794 William See also:Bradford, See also:attorney-See also:general of the United States, decided that all rights in the 4,000,000 acres, on which the Ohio Company had secured an option for the Scioto Company, were legally vested in the Ohio Company. In 1795 the Ohio Company sold to the French settlers for $1.25 an See also:acre the land they occupied and adjacent improved lots, and the United States See also:government granted to them 24,000 acres in the See also:southern See also:part of what is now Scioto County in 1795; little of this land (still known as the " French See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
Grant "), however, was ever occupied by them. Gallipolis was incorporated as a See also:village in 1842, and was first chartered as a city in 1865.
See See also:Theodore T. Belote, The Scioto See also:Speculation and the French See also:Settlement at Gallipolis (Cincinnati, 1907), See also:series 2, vol. iii. No. 3 of the University Studies of the University of Cincinnati.
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