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URBANA , a city and the county-seat of Champaign
Ohio
6510; (1900) 6808, including 796 negroes and 405 foreign-born; (1910) 7739. Urbana is served by the Erie, the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St Louis, and the Cleveland
Ohio
home (1892), and is the seat of Urbana University (co-educational), founded in 185o under the auspices of the New Church. The city is situated in a fertile farming region. Its manufactures include furniture, telephones, woollen goods, paper , foundry and machine -shop products, &c. Urbana was laid out in 18o5 by Colonel William Ward, of Greenbriar, Va., who owned the land included in the original
condition that the proceeds from their sale should be used for public improvements; it was incorporated as a village
home for several years (after 18o2), and is the burial place, of Simon Kenton, the famous pioneer
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