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TIFFIN , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Seneca county, See also:Ohio, U.S.A., on the See also:Sandusky See also:river, about 40 M. S.S.E. of See also:Toledo. Pop. (Igoe), 10,989, of whom 1168 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (Y910 See also:census), 11,894. Tiffin is served by' the See also:Baltimore & Ohio, the See also:Cleveland. See also: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 and the Pennsylvaniarailways, and by an electric See also:line to See also:Fostoria, about 12 m. See also:west. It is the seat of an Ursuline See also:College for girls, founded in 1863 and incorporated with See also:power to confer degrees in 1878; and of See also:Heidelberg University (Reformed 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), founded in 185o, incorporated as Heidelberg College in 1851 and reincorporated under its See also:present name in 189o. The Heidelberg Theological See also:Seminary was conducted here from 185o to 1907, when it was combined with the "School of See also:Theology " of See also:Ursinus College, Collegeville, See also:Pennsylvania, to See also:form the Central Theo-logical Seminary of the itefoimed Church in the See also:United States, which in 19o8 was removed to See also:Dayton, Ohio. In Tiffin are the St See also:Francis See also:Home (1869), and the See also:National Orphans' Home (1897). The city had 87 factories in 1905, of which 54.2% were owned by individuals, and the value of the,factory products was $2,434,502. Tiffin was settled in 1817, incorporated as a See also:town in 1835, and chartered as a city in 185o, when the See also:village of Ft. See also:Ball, on the opposite See also:side of the Sandusky, was consolidated with it. It was named in See also:honour of See also:Edward Tiffin (1766-1829), a native of See also:Carlisle, See also:England, who emigrated
to. the United States. He graduated at the University of
Pennsylvania in 1789, removed in 1796 to See also:Chillicothe, Ohio.
where he practised See also:medicine and was a See also:local Methodist preacher. He was See also:speaker of the See also:House of Representatives of the See also:North-west Territory in 1799, See also:president (1802) of the See also:convention which framed the first constitution of Ohio, the first See also:governor of the See also:state (1803-1807), a Democratic member of the United States See also:Senate in 1807-1809, first See also:commissioner of the United States See also:General See also:Land 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 1812-1814, and surveyor-general of public lands north-west of the Ohio River in 1814-1829.
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