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See also:SOUTH See also:BETHLEHEM , a See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough of See also:Northampton See also:county, See also:Pennsylvania, U.S.A., on the Lehigh See also:river, about 57 M. N.W. of See also:Philadelphia, and opposite Bethlehem, with which it is connected by See also:bridges. Pop. (1900), 13,241, of whom 3322 were See also:foreign-See also:born and 115 were negroes; (to to See also:census), 19,973. It is served by the Lehigh Valley, the Philadelphia & See also:Reading, the Central of New See also:Jersey and the Lehigh & New See also:England See also:railways. The borough is the seat of Lehigh University. This institution was founded in 1865 by See also:Asa See also:Packer, who then gave 85oo.000 and 6o acres (afterwards increased to 115 acres) of See also:land in the borough, and by his will See also:left to the university library $500,000, and to the university an endowment of 51,500,000 and a large See also:interest (about one-third) in his See also:estate. The university was chartered in 1866; it embraces a school of technology, with courses in See also:civil, See also:mechanical, metallurgical, See also:mining, See also:electrical and chemical See also:engineering, See also:electrometallurgy and See also:chemistry, and a school of See also:general literature (1878), with classical and Latin-scientific courses. In 1908-1909 it had 68 instructors, 1720 students, and a library of 127,000 volumes. The See also:principal buildings of the university are Packer 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 (1869), largely taken up by the See also:department of civil engineering, the chemical and metallurgical laboratory, the See also:physical and electrical engineering laboratory, the See also:steam engineering laboratory, See also:Williams Hall for mechanical engineering, &c., Saucon Hall for the See also:English department_ See also:Christmas Hall, with See also:drawing-rooms and the offices of the Y.M.C.A., the See also:Sayre astronomical See also:observatory, the Packer Memorial 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, the university library (1897), dormitories (1907) given by See also:Andrew See also:Carnegie, Drown Memorial Hall, a students' See also:club, the See also:college See also:commons, and a gymnasium.
South Bethlehem is the see of a See also:Protestant Episcopal See also:bishop. The Bethlehem See also:Steel See also:Company manufactures here See also:iron and steel, including See also:Bessemer steels, See also:armour See also:plate, steel rails,See also:government See also:ordnance, drop forgings, iron and steel castings, stationary engines, See also:gas engines, See also:hydraulic pumps, projectiles, steel See also:shaft and See also:pig iron; See also:zinc is smelted and refined; and there are large See also:hosiery and See also:knitting See also:mills, and See also:silk mills and See also:cigar factories. The See also:total value of the borough's factory products increased from $9,964,054 in 1900 to $15,275,411 in 1905, or 53.3%.
In 1846 a See also:water-cure was established where St See also:Luke's See also:hospital now stands, in the adjoining borough of See also:Fountain 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 (pop. in 'See also:pro, 1388), and for a few years this attracted a considerable number of visitors during the summer See also:season. In 1853 See also:works were established for the manufacture of 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 See also:oxide of zinc from a See also:calamine found here, in the next See also:year metallic zinc was produced, and in 1865 the first See also:sheet zinc made in See also:America was rolled here. The borough was incorporated in 1865.
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