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Show FAMOUS SONG'S BIRTHPLACE Austin House at Warren, O., Where Stephen C. Foster Write "Suwanee River." Warren, O. Within the next few weeks Col. W. W. Dunnevant of this city, the owner of the Austin house, will begin extensive repairs on the same that will bring the old structure up to a better standard of appearance and cleanliness, but almost all of the lines of the original building will remain re-main unchanged. This is not only one of the oldest buildings in the city, at one time the JM 33i?iT i The Austin House. finest hotel between Pittsburg and Cleveland, but is also famous as the home of Stephen C. Foster at the time that he wrote "Way Down Upon the Suwanee River," by far the most popular of the many songs that he wrote. There are many people in Warren who recall the sight of the man in the streets, and not a few who knew him personally and had been at his rooms in the Austin house to hear him play-on play-on the violin and sing during a visit to this city with his daughter, Marion. He had come here from New York city to visit his sister, the mother of Miss Henrietta Grossman, the actress. |