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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 495 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BRENHAM , a See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city and the See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county-seat of See also:

Washington county, See also:

TEXAS

Texas, U.S.A., situated in the S.E. See also:

PART

part of the See also:

state, about 68 m. N.W. of See also:

Houston. Pop. (189o) 5209; (1900) 5968, including 2701 negroes and 531 See also:

FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born; (191o) 4718. Brenham is served by the Gulf, See also:

COLORADO

Colorado & See also:

SANTA

Santa Fe (controlled by the See also:

ATCHISON

Atchison, See also:

TOPEKA

Topeka & Santa Fe) and the Houston & Texas Central See also:

RAILWAYS

railways. It is the seat of Blinn Memorial See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

College (See also:

German Methodist Episcopal), opened as " See also:

MISSION

Mission See also:

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

Institute " in 1883, and renamed in 1889 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 the Rev. See also:

Christian Blinn, of New See also:

York, a liberal benefactor; of Brenham Evangelical Lutheran College, and of a German-See also:

AMERICAN

American institute (1898). The See also:

MUNICIPALITY

municipality owns and operates the waterworks. The city is situated in an agricultural and See also:

cotton-raising region, and has cotton compresses and gins, cotton See also:

mills, cotton-See also:

SEED (from the root seen in Lat. serere, to sow)

seed oil re-fineries, foundries and See also:

machine shops, and See also:

FURNITURE (from " furnish," Fr. fournir)

furniture and See also:

WAGON, or WAGGON

wagon factories. Brenham was settled about 1844, was incorporated in 1866, and was chartered as a city in 1873.

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