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YOUNGSTOWN , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of Mahoning county, See also:Ohio, U.S.A., on the Mahoning See also:river, about 6o m. S.E. of See also:Cleveland. Pop. (19o0) 44,885 (12,207 being See also:foreign-See also:born especially See also:English, Irish and See also:German) ; (1910 See also:census) 79,066. It is served by the See also:Baltimore & Ohio, the See also:Erie, the See also:Lake See also:Shore & See also:Michigan See also:Southern, the See also:Pennsylvania, and the See also:Pittsburg & Lake Erie See also:railways, and by interurban electric lines. The Rayen High School (incorporated 1856) was endowed under the will of See also:Judge See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Rayen (1776-1854). The See also:Reuben McMillan Public Library (about 25,000 volumes in 1910) is housed in a See also:building finished in 1910 and is named in See also:honour of Reuben McMillan (182o-1898), formerly See also:superintendent of See also:schools. Among other public buildings are 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 and Federal See also:court See also:house, the county court house,"the city and the Mahoning Valley hospitals, and the Y.M.C.A. building. The business See also:district lies in the valley on the N. of the river; the residential districts are chiefly on the neighbouring hills. Youngs-See also:town has four parks, including See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
Mill See also:Creek (483 acres), See also:East End (6o acres) and See also:Wick (48 acres), presented to the city by the Wick See also:family, descendants of the See also:merchant See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry Wick (1771-1845). The value of its factory products increased from $33,908,459 in rgoo to $48,126,885 in 1905. The most important establishments are blast-furnaces, See also:iron and See also:steel See also:works (of the U.S. Steel See also:Corporation) and See also:rolling See also:mills.
Youngstown was named in honour of See also:John See also:Young (1763—1825), a native of Petersborough, New See also:Hampshire, who in 1796 bought from the See also:Connecticut See also:Land See also:Company a See also:tract of land upon which the city now stands, and lived there from 1799 until 1803. The first permanent See also:settlement was made probably in 1796 by William Hillman. The tract was set off as a township in 1800, and the first township See also:government was organized in 1802; the town was incorporated in 1848, and was chartered as a city of the second class in 1867. The county-seat of Mahoning county was removed from Canfield to Youngs-town in 1876, and after much litigation the legality of this removal was confirmed by the See also:United States Supreme Court in 1879. The first iron-See also:mining in the region was done in 1803 by See also:Daniel See also:Eaton, who in 1804 built the first blast-See also:furnace W. of Pennsylvania and N. of the Ohio river. Eaton also built in 1826 the first blast-furnace within the See also:present limits of Youngs-town.
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