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CHESTER , a See also: city of See also:Delaware See also:county, See also:Pennsylvania, U.S.A., on the Delaware See also:river, about 13 m. S.V. of See also:Philadelphia. Pop. (1890) 20,226; (1900) 33,988, of whom 5074 were See also:foreign-See also:born and 4403 were negroes; (U. S. See also:census, 191o) 38,537. It is served by the See also:Baltimore & See also:Ohio and the Philadelphia & See also:Reading See also:railways, by the Philadelphia, Baltimore & See also:Washington See also:division of the Pennsylvania See also:system, and by steamboat lines. Chester has several interesting buildings dating from See also:early in the 18th' See also:century —among them the city See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall (1724), one of the See also:oldest public buildings in the See also:United States, and the See also:house (1683) occupied for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time by 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:Penn. It is the seat of the Pennsylvania Military See also:College (1862); and on the border of Chester, in the See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough of Upland (pop. in 'goo, 2131), is the Crozer Theological See also:Seminary (Baptist), which was incorporated in 1867, opened in 1868, and named after See also:John P. Crozer (1793–1866), by whose See also:family it was founded. Chester has a large See also:shipbuilding See also:industry, and manufactories of See also:cotton and worsted goods, See also:iron and See also:steel, the steel-casting industry being especially important, and large quantities of wrought iron and steel pipes being manufactured. Dye-stuffs and See also:leather also are manufactured. The value of the city's factory products in 1905 was $16,644,842. Chester is the oldest See also: town in Pennsylvania. It was settled by the Swedes about 1645, was called Upland and was the seat of the See also:Swedish courts until 1682, when William Penn, soon after his landing at a spot in the town now marked by a memorial See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone, gave it its See also:present name. The first provincial See also:assembly was convened here in See also:December of the same See also:year. After the See also:battle of See also:Brandywine in the See also:War of See also:Independence, Washington re-treated to Chester, and in the " Washington House," still See also:standing, wrote his See also:account of the battle. Soon afterwards Chester was occupied by the See also:British. In 1701 it was incorporated as a borough; in 1795 and again in 1850 it received a new borough See also:charter; and in 1866 it was chartered as a city. For a See also:long time it was chiefly a small fishing See also:settlement, its See also:population as See also:late as 182o being only 657; but after the introduction of large manufacturing interests in 185o, when its population was only 1667, its growth was rapid.
See H. G. Ashmead, See also:Historical See also:Sketch of Chester (Chester, 1883).
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