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ATCHISON

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 824 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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city and the See also:county-seat of Atchison county, See also:Kansas, U.S.A., on the See also:west See also:bank of the See also:Missouri See also:river, which is navigable 'at this point but is utilized comparatively little .for See also:commerce. Pop. (1890) 13,965; (1900) 15,722, of whom 25o8 were of See also:negro descent . and 1308 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (See also:row) 16,429. Atchison is served by the Atchison, See also:Topeka & See also:Santa FE, the See also:Chicago, See also:Burlington & See also:Quincy, the Chicago , See also:Rock See also:Island & Pacific, and the Missouri Pacific See also:railways. The city is the seat of Midland See also:College (Lutheran, 1887), St See also:Benedict's College (See also:Roman See also:Catholic, 1858) for boys, Mt. Scholastica See also:Academy (Roman Catholic) for girls, and Western Theological See also:Seminary (Evangelical-Lutheran, 1843); a See also:state soldiers' orphans' See also:home is , also located here. Atchison's situation and transportation facilities make it an important See also:supply-centre, its See also:trade in grains and live-stock being particularly large; it has large railway See also:machine shops, and its See also:principal manufactures are See also:flour, See also:furniture, See also:lumber, hardware and drugs. The value of the city's factory products increased from $2,093,469 in 1900 to $4,052,274 in 1905, or 93.6 %. Atchison was founded in 1854 by See also:pro-See also:slavery partisans, and was named in See also:honour of their See also:leader, See also:David See also:Rice Atchison, a See also:United States senator. The city was quickly surpassed by Leavenworth in commercial importance, and during the Kansas struggle was never of See also:great See also:political importance. Its first city See also:charter was granted in 1858. The Atchison Globe (established 1878) is one of the best-known of western papers.

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