LAWRENCEBURG
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LAWRENCEBURG , a city and the county-seat of Dearborn
county, Indiana, U.S.A., on the Ohio river, in the S.E. part
of the state, 22 M. (by rail) W. of Cincinnati. Pop. (1890) 4284,
(1900) 4326 (413 foreign-born); (1910) 3430. Lawrenceburg is
served by the Baltimore & Ohio South -Western and the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St Louis railways, by the Cincinnati, Lawrenceburg & Aurora electric street railroad, and by river packets to Louisville and Cincinnati. The city lies along the river and on higher land rising too ft. above river-level. It formerly had an important river trade with New Orleans, beginning about 182o and growing in volume after the city became the terminus of the Whitewater canal, begun in 1836. The place was laid out in 1802. In 1846 an " old " and a " new " settlement were united, and Lawrenceburg was chartered as a city. Lawrence-burg was the birthplace of James B. Eads, the famous engineer, and of John Coit Spooner (b. 1843), a prominent Republican member of the United States Senate from Wisconsin in 18851891 and in 18971907; and the Presbyterian Church of Lawrenceburg was the first charge (18371839) of Henry See Also: - HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
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- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
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- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
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- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Ward Beecher.
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