SIDNEY
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SIDNEY , a city and the county-seat of Shelby county, Ohio , U.S.A., on the Miami river, about 33 M. S. by W. of Lima .
Pop. (189o) 4850; (1900) 5688, including 282 foreign-born and
1o8 negroes; (191o) 6607. Sidney is served by the Cleveland ,,
Cincinnati, Chicago & St Louis, the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton , and the Western Ohio (electric) railways . The city is situated on an elevated tableland, in an agricultural region. Sidney has a public library, and a monumental building, a memorial, erected in 1875, to the soldiers in the American Civil War, and now devoted to various public uses. The river here provides some water-power See Also: - POWER [
WILLIAM 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
GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841) , and the city has various manufactures. Sidney was laid out as the county-seat in 1819, was incorporated as a village in 1831 and first chartered as a city in 1897.
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