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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 963 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CONNELLSVILLE , a 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 Fayette 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:

Pennsylvania, U.S.A., on the Youghiogheny See also:

RIVER

river, about 6o m. S.S.E. of Pitts-See also:

BURG

burg. Pop. (189o) 5629; (1900) 716o, including Boo See also:

FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born; (1910) 12,845. It is served by the Pennsylvania, the Pittsbur g and See also:

Lake See also:

ERIE

Erie, and the See also:

Baltimore & See also:

OHIO

Ohio See also:

RAILWAYS

railways, and by the interurban electric See also:

SYSTEM

system of the See also:

West See also:

Penn Railway Co., which has a large See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power plant near Connellsville. Connellsville is the centre of the Connellsville See also:

coke See also:

DISTRICT

district (in Fayette and Westmoreland counties), which has the largest See also:

PRODUCTION (Lat. productionem, from producere, to pro-duce)

production in the See also:

UNITED

United States, the output in 1907 (13,089,427 tons) being 32.1% of that of the whole See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country. Connellsville coke is the See also:

standard grade. What is called the See also:

LOWER

Lower Connellsville coke region lies in Fayette county S.W. of the Connellsville district. It is richest near See also:

UNIONTOWN

Uniontown, and in 1907 produced 6,310,900 tons of coke, making it second only to Connellsville. The so-called Upper Connellsville (or See also:

LATROBE, CHARLES JOSEPH (18o1–1875)

Latrobe) district, near Latrobe, produced in 1907,.1,030,260 tons of coke. The combined output of these three districts in 1907 was 50.1% of the See also:

TOTAL

total of the entire country. The borough of Connellsville has various manufactures including See also:

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

iron, See also:

TIN (Lat.- stannum, whence the chemical symbol " Sn "; atomic weight =117.6, 0=16)

tin See also:

PLATE

plate, automobiles and various kinds of machinery; and a See also:

state See also:

HOSPITAL (Lat. haspitalis, the adjective of hospes, host or guest)

hospital for the treatment of persons injured in mines is located here.

Connellsville was first settled in 1770, was laid out as a See also:

TOWN

town by Zachariah Connell, in whose 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 it was named, in 1793, and was incorporated in 18o6. The borough of New Haven (pop. in 'goo, 1532) was annexed to Connellsville after the See also:

CENSUS (from Lat. censere, to estimate or assess; connected by some with centum, i.e. a count by hundreds)

census enumeration of 1900.

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