Sidney (Ohio)

Shelby County

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Sidney is a city in Shelby County, Ohio, United States. The population was 20 211 inhabitants at the 2000 census.

The city was named after the English explorer Sir Philip Sidney and is the county seat of Shelby County. Sidney is known for its architecture, such as the courthouse from 1883 in the Second Empire style, the neogothic Memorial from 1877 to the Civil War dead and designed by Louis Sullivan early modern People's Federal Savings and Loan Association in 1918, the was classified as a National Historic Landmark.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Paul Christian Lauterbur (1929-2007), chemist and Nobel Prize winner radiologist
  • Floyd Alonzo McClure (1897-1970), botanist
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