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OLD See also:TOWN , a See also:city of See also:Penobscot See also:county, See also:Maine, U.S.A., on the Penobscot See also:river, about 12 M. N.E. of See also:Bangor. Pop. (1890) 5312; (1900) 5763 (1247 See also:foreign-See also:born); (1910) 6317. It is served by the Maine Central and the Bangor & Aroostook See also:railways, and by an electric See also:line connecting with Bangor. The city proper is on an See also:island (See also:Marsh, or Old Town Island), but considerable territory on the W. See also:bank of the river is included
within the municipal limits. The manufacture of See also:lumber is lumber, &c. The vicinity was settled in 1804, and this was the See also:principal See also:industry of the city. On See also:Indian Island (opposite the first township organized (18o8), being then coextensive with the city) is the principal See also:settlement of the Penobscot See also:Indians, the county. See also:Olean See also:Creek was called Ischue (or Ischua); then an See also:Abnaki tribe, now wards of the See also:state. The See also:abbe 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 Olean was suggested, possibly in reference to the oil-springs in See also:Pierre Thury was sent here from See also:Quebec about 1687 and built the vicinity. The See also:village was officially called See also:- HAMILTON
- HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
- HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
- HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
- HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
- HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
- HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
- HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
- HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
- HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
- HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
- HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)
Hamilton for a a 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 in 1688-1689; in 1705 the See also:mission passed under the 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, but Olean was the name given to the See also:post-See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office in 1817, See also:control of the See also:Jesuits. The first See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white settler in the vicinity and Olean Point was the popular See also:local name. In 1909 several seems to have been See also:John Marsh, who came about 1774, and who suburbs, including the village of See also:North Olean (pop. in 1905, bought the island now known as Marsh Island. From 18o6 to 1761), were annexed to Olean, considerably increasing its See also:area 1840, when it was incorporated as a See also:separate township, Old and See also:population.
Town was a See also:part of Orono. In 1891 it was chartered as a city. See See also:History of Cattaraugus County, New See also:York (See also:Philadelphia, 1879).
One of the See also:oldest railways in the See also:United States, and the first in OLEANDER, the See also:common name for the See also:shrub known to
Maine, was completed to Old Town from Bangor in 1836. botanists as Nerium Oleander.
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