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BELLEVILLE , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of St Clair county, See also:Illinois, U.S.A., in the S.W. See also:part of the See also:state 14 M. S.E. of St See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis, See also:Missouri. Pop. (09o) 15,361; (1900) 17,484, of whom 2750 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910) 21,122. Belleville is served by the Illinois Central, the See also:Louisville & See also:Nashville, and the See also:Southern See also:railways, also by extensive interurban electric systems; and a See also:belt See also:line to O'Fallon, Illinois, connects Belleville with the See also:Baltimore & See also:Ohio See also:South Western railway. A large See also:element of the See also:population is of See also:German descent or German See also:birth, and two See also:newspapers are published in German, besides three dailies, three weeklies and a semi-weekly in See also:English. Among the See also:industrial establishments of the city are See also:stove and range factories, See also:flour See also:mills, See also:rolling mills, distilleries, breweries, See also:shoe factories, See also:copper refining See also:works, See also:nail and tack factories, See also:glass works and agricultural See also:implement factories. The value of the city's factory products increased from $2,873,334 in 1900 to $4,356,615 in 1905 or 51.6 %. Belleville is in a See also:rich agricultural region, and in the vicinity there are valuable See also:coal mines, the first of which was sunk in 1852; from this See also:dates the industrial development of the city. Belleville was first settled in 1813, was incorporated as a city in 185o, and was re-incorporated in 1876.
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