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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 650 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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COFFEYVILLE , a See also:

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

city of See also:

Montgomery 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, See also:

KANSAS (known as the Sunflower State ")

Kansas, U.S.A., on the See also:

VERDIGRIS

Verdigris See also:

RIVER

river, about. 15o m. S. of See also:

TOPEKA

Topeka and near the et. See also:

COFFEE (Fr: cafe, Ger. Kaffee)

Coffee. See also:

SOUTHERN

southern boundary of the See also:

state. Pop. (1890) 2282; (1900) 4953, of whom 803 were negroes; (19o5) 13,196; (1910) 12,687. Coffeyville is served by the See also:

MISSOURI

Missouri Pacific, the See also:

ATCHISON

Atchison, Topeka & See also:

SANTA

Santa Fe, the Missouri, Kansas & See also:

TEXAS

Texas, and the See also:

SAINT (lat. sanctus, " holy ")

Saint See also:

Louis, See also:

IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

Iron See also:

Mountain & Southern See also:

RAILWAYS

railways, and by inter-See also:

urban electric railway to See also:

Independence. It is in the Kansas natural-See also:

GAS

gas See also:

field, See also:

SHIPS

ships large quantities of See also:

GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain, and has a large See also:

ZINC

zinc See also:

OXIDE

oxide smelter and a large oil refinery, and various manufactures, including vitrified See also:

BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic bricke, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French brique, originally a " broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic brikan, to break)

brick and See also:

TILE (0. Eng. tigel, Fr. tuile, connected with Lat. tegula)

tile, See also:

FLOUR

flour, See also:

LUMBER

lumber, chemicals, window See also:

glass, bottles, pottery and See also:

STRAW

straw boards. The See also:

MUNICIPALITY

municipality owns and operates its See also:

WATER

water-See also:

WORKS

works and electric See also:

LIGHTING

lighting plant. Coffeyville, named 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 A. M.

Coffey, who was a member of the first legislature of the territory of Kansas, was founded in 1869, but in 1871 it was removed about r m. from its See also:

ORIGINAL

original site, now known as " old See also:

TOWN

town." It was incorporated as a city of the third class in 1872 and received a new See also:

CHARTER (Lat. charta, carta, from Gr. Xap-rns, originally for papyrus, material for writing, thence transferred to paper and from this material to the document, in O. Eng. boc, book)

charter in 1887. Coffeyville became a station on the Leavenworth, See also:

Lawrence & See also:

GALVESTON

Galveston railway (now See also:

PART

part of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe), and for several years large See also:

numbers of See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle were driven here from See also:

INDIAN

Indian Territory and Texas for shipment; in fact, the city's See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief importance was as a See also:

trade centre for the See also:

north part of Indian Territory until natural gas was found here in large quantities in 1892.

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