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