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NEW See also:ALBANY , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Floyd county, See also:Indiana, U.S.A., on the N. See also:bank of the See also:Ohio See also:river, at the See also:head of See also:low See also:water See also:navigation, nearly opposite See also:Louisville, See also:Kentucky, with which it is connected by three railway See also:bridges, and 156 m. below See also:Cincinnati, Ohio. Pop. (1890) 21,059; (1900) 20,628, of whom 1363 were See also:foreign-See also:born and 1905 negroes; (1910) 20,629. It is served by the See also:Baltimore & Ohio See also:South-western, the See also:Chicago, See also:Indianapolis & Louisville, the See also:Pittsburg, 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 and the See also:Southern See also:railways, by electric railways to Louisville, Indianapolis, &c., and by steamboats on the Ohio; it is connected by a See also:belt See also:line with the Louisville & See also:Nashville, the Chesapeake & Ohio, the See also:Illinois Central and other railways. The city is situated on an elevated See also:plateau above the river, in an See also:amphitheatre of wooded hills. It has a See also:good public library, a well organized public school See also:system and several private See also:schools and See also:academies. Within the city limits is a See also:national See also:cemetery. The manufactures include See also:leather, See also:iron, foundry and See also:machine See also:shop products, See also:furniture and See also:veneer, See also:lumber, See also:cotton goods and See also:hosiery, distilled liquors and stoves. The value of the factory products in 1905 was $4,110,709, 13% more than in 1900. Originally settled about the beginning of the 19th See also:century, New Albany was platted in 1813 and was chartered as a city in 1839. The city owed much of its See also:early See also:industrial importance to the See also:plate-See also:glass See also:works successfully established here by See also:Washington See also:Charles de Pauw (1822-1887), who endowedthe De Pauw See also:College for See also:Young See also:Women (opened as the Indiana See also:Asbury See also:Female College in 1852). The glass works See also:left the city because of the See also:superior and cheaper See also:fuel supplied by natural See also:gas in central Indiana. The De Pauw College for Young Women was relatively unimportant after the endowment of Indiana Asbury University (now De Pauw University) by W. C. de Pauw in 1883, but it continued to give instruction until 1903.
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