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LOGANSPORT , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Cass county, See also:Indiana, U.S.A., on the See also:Wabash See also:river, at the mouth of the See also:Eel river, about 67 m. N. by W. of See also:Indianapolis and 117 M. S. by E. of See also:Chicago. Pop. (1900) 16,204, of whom 1432 were See also:foreign-'See also:born, (1910 See also:census) 19,050. It is served by six divisions of the See also:Pittsburg, See also: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
Louis, two divisions of the Vandalia (See also:Pennsylvania Lines), and the Wabash See also:railways, and by electric interurban lines. The city is the seat of the See also:Northern Indiana See also:Hospital for the Insane (1888), and has a public library, and a hospital (conducted by the Sisters of St See also:Joseph). Among the See also:principal buildings are the See also:court See also:house, a Masonic See also:temple, an See also:Odd See also:Fellows' temple, and buildings of the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
Order of Elks, of the Knights of Pythias, and of the fraternal order of Eagles. Situated in the centre of a See also:rich agricultural region, Logansport is one of the most important See also:grain and produce markets in the See also:state. The Wabash and the Eel See also:rivers provide See also:good See also:water See also:power, and the city has various manufactures, besides the railway repair shops of the Vandalia and of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St Louis railways. The value of the city's factory product increased from $2,100,394 in 1900 to $2,955,921 in 1905, or 40'7%. See also:Limestone, for use in the manufacture of See also:iron, is quarried in the vicinity. The city owns and operates the water See also:works and the electric-See also:lighting plant. Logansport was platted in 1828, was probably named in See also:honour of a See also:Shawnee See also:chief, See also:Captain See also:Logan (d. 1812), became the county-seat of Cass county in 1829, and was chartered as a city in 1838.
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