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LOUISVILLE , the largest See also:city of See also:Kentucky, U.S.A., and the See also:county-seat of See also:Jefferson county, on the See also:Ohio See also:river, Iso m. by See also:rail and 130 M. by See also:water S.W. of See also:Cincinnati. Pop. (1890) 161,129; (1900) 204,731, of whom 21,427 were See also:foreign-See also:born (including 12,383 Germans and 4198 Irish) and 39,139 were negroes; (1910 See also:census) 223,928.
Louisville occupies 40 sq. m. of a See also:plain, about 70 sq. m. in extent, about 6o ft. above the See also:low-water See also:mark of the river,and nearly enclosed by hills. The city extends for 8 m. along the river (spanned here by three See also:bridges), which falls 26 ft. in 2 m., but for 6 m. above the rapids spreads out into a beautiful See also:sheet of quiet water about 1 m. wide. The streets intersect at right angles, are from 6o to 120 ft. wide, and are, for the most See also:part, well-shaded. The wholesale See also:district, with its See also:great See also:tobacco warehouses, is largely along See also:Main See also:Street, which runs E. and W. not far from the river; and the See also:heart of the shopping district is along See also:Fourth Street in the dozen blocks S. of Main Street. Adjoining the shopping district on the S. is the old See also:residence See also:section; the newer residences are on "The See also:Highlands" at the E. end and also at the W. end. The city is served by the See also:Baltimore & Ohio See also:South-Western, the Chesapeake & Ohio, the See also:Pittsburg, 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, the Louisville, See also:Henderson & St Louis, the See also:Illinois Central, the Chicago, See also:Indiana & Louisville, the See also:Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St Louis, the See also:Southern and the Louisville & See also:Nashville See also:railways; by See also:steam-See also:boat lines to See also:Memphis, See also:Cairo, See also:Evansville, Cincinnati and Pitts-See also:burg; by an extensive See also:system of inter-See also:urban electric lines; and by ferries to See also:Jeffersonville and New See also:Albany, ,Indiana, two attractive residential suburbs.
Many of the business houses are old-fashioned and low. The See also:principal public buildings are the See also:United States See also:government See also:building, the Jefferson county See also:court See also:house and the city See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall. In front of the court house stands a See also:bronze statue of See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas Jefferson, designed by See also:Moses See also:Ezekiel (b. 1844), and inside of the court house a See also:marble statue of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Clay by See also:Joel T. See also:Hart (1810--187o). There are few or no large congested See also:tenement-house districts; most of the wage-earners own their own homes or See also:rent cottages. Louisville has an extensive See also:park system, most of which was acquired after 1889 and is on the outskirts. From the heart of the city South Parkway, 150 ft. wide, extends S. 6 m. to the entrance to See also:Iroquois Park (67o acres) on a wooded See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill. At the E. end of Broadway. is See also:Cherokee Park (nearly 330 acres), near which is the beautiful See also:Cave Hill See also:Cemetery, containing the See also:grave of See also:George See also:Rogers See also:Clark, the founder of the city, and the See also:graves of several members of the See also:family of George See also:Keats, the poet's See also:brother, who lived in Louisville for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time; and at the W. end of Broadway, See also:Shawnee Park (about 170 acres), with a See also:long sandy river See also:beach frequented by bathers. Central Park occupies the space of two city squares in the old fashionable residence districts. Through the efforts of a Recreation See also:League organized in 1901 a few playgrounds are set apart for See also:children. Louisville is a noted racing centre and has some See also:fine tracks; the Kentucky See also:Derby is held here annually in May.
The United States government has a marine See also:hospital, and a See also:life-saving station at the rapids of the river. The See also:state has a school for the See also:blind, in connexion with which is the See also:American See also:Printing House for the Blind. There are state hospitals and many other charitable institutions.
The principal educational institutions are the university of Louisville, which has a See also:College of Liberal Arts (1907), a See also:law See also:department (1847), and a medical department (1837)—with which in 1907 were consolidated the Hospital College of See also:Medicine (1873), the Medical Department of Kentucky University (1898), the Louisville Medical College (1869), and the Kentucky School of Medicine (185o); the Southern Baptist Theological See also:Seminary (1859); the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of Kentucky, which was formed in 1901 by the consolidation of the Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church at See also:Danville (1853) and the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary (1893); the Louisville College of.See also:Pharmacy (1871), and the Louisville College of See also:Dentistry (1887), a department of Central University. There are many musical clubs, and a See also:spring festival for which a See also:local See also:chorus furnishes the See also:nucleus, is held annually. The Louisville Public Library was established in 1902, and 1904 acquired the library, the small museum (containing the Troost collection of minerals) and the See also:art See also:gallery of the See also:Polytechnic Society of Louisville (1878), which for many years had maintained the only public library in the city. The principal See also:newspapers are the See also:Courier See also:Journal (Democratic, See also:morning), the Beraid (Republican, morning), the Evening See also:Post (See also:Independent Democratic), and the
Times (Democratic, evening). The Courier Journal is one of the most influential newspapers in the South. Henry See also:Watterson became editor in 1868, when the Courier (1843), established and owned by See also:Walter N. See also:Haldeman, was consolidated with the Journal (183o), of which Watterson had become editor in 1867,
and with the Democrat (1844).
The richness of the surrounding See also:country in agricultural produce, See also:timber, See also:coal and See also:iron, and its transport facilities have made Louisville a large commercial and manufacturing centre. The See also:leaf-tobacco See also:market is the largest in the See also:world, most of the leaf-tobacco produced in Kentucky, which in 1900 was 34'9 % of the entire See also:crop of the United States, being handled in Louisville; the city's See also:trade in See also:whisky, mules and See also:cement' is notably large, and that in pork, See also:wheat, See also:Indian See also:corn, coal and See also:lumber is extensive. The See also:total value of the manufactured products increased from $54,515,226 in 1890 to $78,746,390 in 1900 or 44.4%, and between 1900 and 1905 the value of the factory-made product increased from $66,110,474 to $83,204,125, an increase of 25.9%. Large quantities of fine See also:bourbon whisky are distilled here; in 1905 the value of the factory product of the city was $3,878,004.
The most valuable manufacture in the same See also:year was smoking and chewing tobacco (especially plug tobacco) and See also:snuff valued at $11,635,367—which product with that of cigars and cigarettes ($1,225,347) constituted 15.5% of the value of the factory products of the city. Other important manufactures in 1905 were: packed meats, particularly pork; men's clothing, especially " Kentucky jeans "; See also:flour and grist See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
mill products; See also:cotton-See also:seed oil and cake; See also:leather, especially See also:sole leather; foundry and See also:machine See also:shop products; steam-railway cars; See also:- COOPER
- COOPER (or COUPER), THOMAS (c. 1517-1594)
- COOPER, ABRAHAM (1787—1868)
- COOPER, ALEXANDER (d. i66o)
- COOPER, CHARLES HENRY (18o8-1866)
- COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE (1789-1851)
- COOPER, PETER (1791-1883)
- COOPER, SAMUEL (1609-1672)
- COOPER, SIR ASTLEY PASTON (1768-1841)
- COOPER, THOMAS (1759–1840)
- COOPER, THOMAS (1805–1892)
- COOPER, THOMAS SIDNEY (1803–1902)
cooper-See also:age; See also:malt liquors; carriages and wagons, especially See also:farm wagons; and See also:carriage and See also:wagon materials; agricultural implements, especially ploughs; and plumbers' supplies, including See also:cast-iron See also:gas and water pipes. Besides, there were many other manufactures.
The city's water-See also:supply is taken from the Ohio river a few See also:miles above the city limits, and purified by large filtering See also:plants. Nearly all the See also:capital stock of the water-See also:works See also:company is owned by the See also:municipality.
Louisville is governed under a See also:charter of 1893, which is in the See also:form of an See also:act of the state legislature for the government of cities of the first class (Louisville is the only city of the first class in the state). The See also:mayor is elected for four years, and appoints, subject to the approval of the See also:board of aldermen, the controller and the members of the two principal executive boards—the board of public works and the board of public safety. The legislative See also:power is vested in a See also:general See also:council composed of 12 aldermen and 24 councilmen. Both aldermen and councilmen serve without pay, and are elected on a general See also:ticket for a See also:term of two years; not more than two councilmen may be residents of the same See also:- WARD
- WARD, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM (1837- )
- WARD, ARTEMUS
- WARD, EDWARD MATTHEW (1816-1879)
- WARD, ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS (1844-1911)
- WARD, JAMES (1769--1859)
- WARD, JAMES (1843– )
- WARD, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1830-1910)
- WARD, LESTER FRANK (1841– )
- WARD, MARY AUGUSTA [MRS HUMPHRY WARD]
- WARD, WILLIAM (1766-1826)
- WARD, WILLIAM GEORGE (1812-1882)
ward, but there is no such See also:limitation in regard to aldermen. The treasurer, tax-See also:receiver, auditor, See also:judge of the See also:police court, clerk of the police court, members of the board of school trustees (1 from each legislative district) and members of the park See also:commission are elected by popular See also:vote; the See also:assessor, by the general council. The duration of franchises given by the city is limited to 20 years.
See also:History.—The site of the city was probably visited by La Salle in 1669 or 167o. In See also:July 1773, See also:Captain Thomas Bullitt,2 acting under a commission from the College of 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 and See also:Mary, surveyed a See also:tract of 2000 acres, lying opposite the Falls of the Ohio, and laid out a See also:town site upon this tract. See also:Colonel William See also:Preston, county surveyor of Fincastle county, within which the 2000-See also:acre tract See also:lay, refused to approve Captain Bullitt's survey, and had the lands resurveyed in the following year, nevertheless the tract was conveyed in See also:December 1773 by See also:Lord See also:Dunmore to his friend Dr See also:John Connolly, a native of See also:Lancaster county, See also:Pennsylvania, who had served in the See also:British See also:army, as See also:commander of Fort See also:Pitt (under Dunmore's See also:appointment), was an instigator of Indian troubles which culminated in the See also:Battle of Point Pleasant, and was imprisoned from 1775 until nearly the See also:close of the See also:War of American See also:Independence for attempting under Dunmore's instructions to organize the " Loyal Foresters," who
'Louisville cement, one of the best-known varieties of natural cement, was first manufactured in See also:Shipping See also:Port, a suburb of Louisville, in 1829 for the construction of the Louisville & See also:Portland See also:Canal; the name is now applied to all cement made in the Louisville District in Kentucky and Indiana. There is a large Portland cement factory just outside the city.
2 Captain Thomas Bullitt (1730-1778), a Virginian, commanded a company under See also:Washington at Great Meadows (July 4, 1754), was in See also:Braddock's disastrous expedition in 1755, and after the defeat of See also:Major See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James 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 in 1758 saved his disorganized army by a cleverly planned attack upon the pursuers. He became See also:Adjutant-General of See also:Virginia after the See also:peace of 1763, and took part in the movements which forced Lord Dunmore to leave See also:Norfolk. Subsequently he served in South Carolina under Colonel See also:- LEE
- LEE (or LEGIT) ROWLAND (d. 1543)
- LEE, ANN (1736–1784)
- LEE, ARTHUR (1740–1792)
- LEE, FITZHUGH (1835–1905)
- LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (1802-1851)
- LEE, HENRY (1756-1818)
- LEE, JAMES PRINCE (1804-1869)
- LEE, NATHANIEL (c. 1653-16g2)
- LEE, RICHARD HENRY (1732-1794)
- LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807–1870)
- LEE, SIDNEY (1859– )
- LEE, SOPHIA (1950-1824)
- LEE, STEPHEN DILL (1833-1908)
Lee.were to be sent against the rebellious colonists in the See also:West. The city of Louisville was laid out on the upper See also:half of this Connolly tract. It is possible that there was a See also:settlement on what was afterward called Corn See also:Island (which has now practically disappeared), at the Falls of the Ohio, as See also:early as 1775; in May 1778, General George Rogers Clark, while proceeding, by way of the Ohio river, against the British posts in the Illinois territory, landed on this island and built See also:block-houses for his stores and cabins for about twenty families of emigrants who had come with him. These emigrants (or the greater part of them) removed to the mainland in the See also:winter of 1778–1779, and established themselves in a fort built within the See also:present limits of Louisville. A town government was organized by them in See also:April 1779, the settlement at this time being known as " the Falls of the Ohio." On the 14th of May 1780, the legislature of Virginia, in response to a See also:petition of the inhabitants, declared that Connolly had forfeited his See also:title, and incorporated the settlement under the name of Louisville, in recognition of the assistance given to the colonies in the War of Independence by Louis XVI. of See also:France. In 1828 Louisville was chartered as a city; in 1851 it received a second city charter; in 1870, a third; and in 1893, a fourth. The city's growth was greatly promoted by the introduction of successful steam See also:navigation on the Ohio in 1811 and still further by the opening of the canal around the rapids (generally called the " Falls of the Ohio "). This canal, which is 22 M. in length and is known as the Louisville and Portland canal, was authorized by the legislature in 1825 and was opened in December 183o;
between See also:Congress for
1855 and 1872 made appropriations
enlarging it, and in 1874 it passed entirely under Federal
See also:control. The first railway to serve the city, the Louisville
& See also:Frankfort, was completed in 1851. The 6th of See also:August is locally known as " Bloody See also:Monday "; on this See also:day in 1855 some members of the Know Nothing Party incited a See also:riot that resulted in the loss of several lives and of considerable See also:property. In See also:March 1890 a See also:tornado caused great loss in life and property in the city. General Clark made his See also:home in Louisville and the vicinity after his return from the Illinois country in 1779. Louisville was also the early home of the actress Mary See also:- ANDERSON
- ANDERSON, ADAM (1692—1765)
- ANDERSON, ALEXANDER (c. 1582-1620?)
- ANDERSON, ELIZABETH GARRETT (1836— )
- ANDERSON, JAMES (1662—1728)
- ANDERSON, JAMES (1739-1808)
- ANDERSON, JOHN (1726-1796)
- ANDERSON, MARY (1859– )
- ANDERSON, RICHARD HENRY (1821–1879)
- ANDERSON, ROBERT (1750–1830)
- ANDERSON, SIR EDMUND (1530-1605)
Anderson; John James See also:Audubon Jived here in 1808–1812; and 5 M. E. of the city are the old home and the grave (with a See also:monument) of Zachary See also:- TAYLOR
- TAYLOR, ANN (1782-1866)
- TAYLOR, BAYARD (1825–1878)
- TAYLOR, BROOK (1685–1731)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1787-1865)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1829-1901)
- TAYLOR, JEREMY (1613-1667)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (158o-1653)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (1704-1766)
- TAYLOR, JOSEPH (c. 1586-c. 1653)
- TAYLOR, MICHAEL ANGELO (1757–1834)
- TAYLOR, NATHANIEL WILLIAM (1786-1858)
- TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808–1876)
- TAYLOR, ROWLAND (d. 1555)
- TAYLOR, SIR HENRY (1800-1886)
- TAYLOR, THOMAS (1758-1835)
- TAYLOR, TOM (1817-1880)
- TAYLOR, WILLIAM (1765-1836)
- TAYLOR, ZACHARY (1784-1850)
Taylor.
See See also:Reuben T. Durrett, The See also:Centenary of Lo*isville (Louisville, 1893), being No. 8 of the Filson See also:Club Publications; J. S. See also:Johnston (ed.), Memorial History of Louisville (Chicago, 1896) ; and L. V. See also:Rule, " Louisville, the Gateway City to the South," in L. P. See also:Powell's Historic Towns of the Southern States (New See also:York, 1900).
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