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principal business thoroughfare, extends over 2 M. from E. to W., and in what was once the centre of the city is Centre Square, in which there is a See also:

MONUMENT (Lat. monumentum or monumentum; from monere, to advise, bring to mind, remind; the German equivalent is Denkmal)

monument to the memory of the soldiers and sailors who See also:

fell in the See also:

CIVIL

Civil See also:

War. Allentown is the seat of a See also:

state 693 homoeopathic See also:

HOSPITAL (Lat. haspitalis, the adjective of hospes, host or guest)

hospital for the insane, of the Allentown See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

College for See also:

WOMEN

Women (Reformed See also:

Church, 1867), and of See also:

Muhlenberg College (1867), an Evangelical Lutheran institution which See also:

GREW, NEHEMIAH (1641-1712)

grew out of the Allentown See also:

SEMINARY (Lat. seminarium, from semen, seed)

Seminary (established in 1848 and incorporated as the " Allentown Collegiate See also:

INSTITUTE (from Lat. instituere, to establish or set up)

Institute and Military See also:

Academy " in 1864); in 1907 the college had 191 students, of whom 109 were in the Allentown Preparatory School (1904), formerly the See also:

ACADEMIC

academic See also:

DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of the college and still closely affiliated with it. The surrounding country is well adapted to See also:

agriculture, and See also:

SLATE (properly CLAY SLATE; in M. Eng. slat or sclat, from O. Fr. esclat, a small piece of wood used as a tile; esclater, to break into pieces, whence modern Fr. eclat, the root being seen also in Ger. schleissen, to split)

slate, See also:

IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron ore, See also:

CEMENT (from Lat. caementum, rough pieces of stone, a shortened form of caedimentum, from caedere, to cut)

cement See also:

rock and See also:

LIMESTONE

limestone are found in the vicinity. Allentown is an important manufacturing centre, and the value of its manufactured products increased 90.9 % from 1890 to 1900, and of its factory product 13.2 % between 1900 and 1905. In 1905 the city ranked See also:

SIXTH

sixth among the cities of the country in the manufacture of See also:

SILK

silk and silk goods, its most important See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry. Other important manufactures are iron and See also:

STEEL, FLORA ANNIE (1847– )

steel, slaughtering and See also:

MEAT

meat-packing products, boots and shoes, cigars, See also:

FURNITURE (from " furnish," Fr. fournir)

furniture, men's clothing, See also:

HOSIERY

hosiery and knit goods, jute and jute goods, See also:

LINEN

linen-See also:

THREAD (0. Eng. praed, literally, that which is twisted, prawan, to twist, to throw, cf. " throwster," a silk-winder, Ger. drehen, to twist, turn, Du. draad, Ger. Draht, thread, wire)

thread, See also:

MALT (O. Eng., mealt; O. Sax., malt; O. Tent., maltos; Mod. Ger., Malz; Scand., malt; probably derived from the Sanskrit mrdu, soft, thus having reference to the fact that malt is raw grain rendered soft or tender)

malt liquors, See also:

BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic bricke, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French brique, originally a " broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic brikan, to break)

brick, cement, barbed See also:

WIRE (A.S. wir, a wire; cf. Swed. vire, to twist, M.H.G. wiere, a gold ornament, Lat. viriae, armlets, ultimately from the root wi, to twist, bind)

wire, wire nails and planing-See also:

mill products.

Allentown's See also:

TOTAL

total factory product in 1905 was valued at $16,966,55o, of which $3,901,249, or 23 %, was the value of silk and silk goods. The See also:

MUNICIPALITY

municipality owns and operates its See also:

WATER

water-See also:

WORKS

works. Allentown was first settled in 1951; in 1762 it was laid out as a See also:

TOWN

town by See also:

James See also:

Allen, the son of a See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief-See also:

JUSTICE (Lat. justitia)

justice of the See also:

province, in See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of whose See also:

FAMILY

family the city is named; in 1811 it was incorporated as a See also:

borough and its name was changed to See also:

Northampton; in 1812 it was made the county-seat; in 1838 the See also:

PRESENT

present name was again adopted; and in 1867 the first city See also:

CHARTER (Lat. charta, carta, from Gr. Xap-rns, originally for papyrus, material for writing, thence transferred to paper and from this material to the document, in O. Eng. boc, book)

charter was secured. The silk industry was introduced in 1881.

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