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PHILADELPHIA

PHILADELPHIA , a See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city and the See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county-seat of Tuscarawas county, See also:

OHIO

Ohio, U.S.A., on the Tuscarawas See also:

RIVER

River and near the Ohio See also:

canal, about 75 M. S. by E. Of See also:

Cleveland. Pop. (189o) 4456; (19o0) 6213 (554 See also:

FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born); (1910) 8542. It is served by the See also:

Baltimore & Ohio (the Cleveland, See also:

LORAIN

Lorain & See also:

WHEELING

Wheeling See also:

DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

Division), and the See also:

Pennsylvania (Cleveland & Pittsburgh Division) See also:

RAILWAYS

railways, and by an inter-See also:

urban electric See also:

SYSTEM

system. The city has a level site in the midst of a See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good agricultural See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, which abounds in See also:

COAL

coal and See also:

FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire-See also:

clay. In the public square is a soldiers' See also:

MONUMENT (Lat. monumentum or monumentum; from monere, to advise, bring to mind, remind; the German equivalent is Denkmal)

monument, and the city has a public library and a See also:

park. Its See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal manufactures are See also:

STEEL, FLORA ANNIE (1847– )

steel, enamelled See also:

WARE

ware, clay goods, brooms, See also:

FLOUR

flour and carriages. The first See also:

settlement in the vicinity was made in May 1772, when Moravian See also:

INDIAN

Indian converts migrated from Pennsylvania (Friedenshiitten, See also:

Bradford county, and Friedenstadt, See also:

Lawrence county) to Schoenbrunn, called by the See also:

INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians Welhik-Tuppeek, a See also:

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

spring (now dry) a little See also:

south of the See also:

PRESENT

present New Philadelphia. Under See also:

David Zeisberger (1721-1808) and 1 In See also:

OCTOBER

October 1890 the See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief of See also:

POLICE (Fr. police, government, civil administration, a police force, Gr. sroXumeia, constitution, condition of a state, roars, city, state)

police was assassinated, and before he died charged the See also:

CRIME (Lat. crimen, accusation)

crime to Italians. He had been active in proceedings against certain Italians accused of crime, and his See also:

DEATH

death was popularly attributed to the See also:

MAFIA (MAMA)

Nineteen Sicilians were indicted, and of nine put on trial six were acquitted and three escaped conviction on the ground of a mis-trial. On the 14th of See also:

March 1891 a See also:

MOB

mob See also:

broke into the jail and lynched eleven of the accused. The See also:

ITALIAN

Italian See also:

government demanded that the lynchers should be punished, entered claims for See also:

INDEMNITY (through Fr. indemnite, Lat. indemnis, free from damage or loss; in-, negative, and damnum, loss)

indemnity in the See also:

case of the three Sicilians who had been Italian subjects, and, failing to secure as prompt an See also:

ANSWER (derived from and, against, and the same root as swear)

answer as it desired, withdrew its See also:

AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

ambassador from See also:

Washington. In 1892 the See also:

UNITED

United States paid an indemnity of $25,000 to See also:

Italy. Johann Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder (1743-1823) other missionary villages were planted at Gnadenhutten (October 1772), Lichtenau (1776) and See also:

SALEM

Salem (178o), all in the present county of Tuscarawas. After the See also:

MASSACRE

massacre of See also:

Christian Indians at Gnadenhutten in 1782 the Indians removed to See also:

Michigan and in 1791 to See also:

FAIRFIELD

Fairfield, See also:

Ontario; in 1798 some of them returned to Tuscarawas county and settled See also:

GOSHEN

Goshen, where Zeisberger is buried. New Philadelphia was laid out in 1804 and was named by its founder, See also:

John Knisely, after Philadelphia in Pennsylvania; it was incorporated as a See also:

VILLAGE

village in 1815, and was first chartered as a city in 1896. See Ohio Archaeological and See also:

HISTORICAL

Historical Quarterly for See also:

APRIL

April 1909 (See also:

Columbus, Ohio) for several articles on the See also:

early settlement by Moravian Indians.

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