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BATAVIA , a See also:village and the See also:county-seat of Genesee county, New See also:York, U.S.A., about 36 m. N.E. of See also:Buffalo, on the See also:Tonawanda See also:Creek. Pop. (1890) 7221; (1900) 9180, of whom 1527 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910), 11,6x3. Batavia is served by the New York Central & See also:Hudson See also:River, the See also:Erie, and the Lehigh Valley See also:railways. It is the seat of the New York See also:State School for the See also:Blind, and of St See also:Joseph's See also:Academy (See also:Roman See also:Catholic), and has a See also:historical museum, housed in the Old See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland See also:Land See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
Office (1804), containing a large collection of See also:relics of the See also:early days of New York, and a memorial library erected in 1889 in memory of a son by See also:Mary E. See also:Richmond, the widow of See also:Dean Richmond; the See also:building contained in Igo8 more than 14,000 volumes. The public See also:schools are excellent; in them in 1898 See also:Superintendent See also:John See also:Kennedy (b. 1846) introduced the method of individual instruction now known as the " Batavia See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme," under which in rooms of more than fifty pupils there is, besides the class teacher, an individual " teacher who See also:helps backward See also:children in their studies, Among Batavia's manufactures are harvesters, ploughs, threshers and other agricultural implements, firearms, See also:rubber tires, shoes, See also:- SHELL
- SHELL (O. Eng. scell, scyll, cf. Du. sceel, shell, Goth. skalja, tile; the word means originally a thin flake,. cf. Swed. skalja, to peel off; it is allied to " scale " and " skill," from a root meaning to cleave, divide, separate)
shell goods; See also:paper-boxes and inside woodwork. In 1905 the See also:city's factory products were valued at $3,589,406, an increase of 39.5 % over their value in 1900: Batavia was laid out in 18oi by Joseph Ellicott (176o-1826), the engineer who had been engaged in See also:surveying the land known as the " Holland See also:Purchase," of which Batavia was a See also:part. The village was incorporated in 1823. Here lived See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Morgan, whose supposed See also:murder (1826) by members of the Masonic See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order led to the organization of the See also:Anti-Masonic party.
Batavia was the See also:home during his last years of Dean Richmond (1804–1866), a capitalist, a successful shipper and wholesaler of See also:farm produce, See also:vice-See also:president (1853–1864) and president (1864–1866) of the New York Central railway, and a, prominent See also:leader of the Democratic party in New York state.
See O. See also:Turner, See also:History of the Holland Purchase (Buffalo, 185o).
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