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CROOKSTON , 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:

Polk county, See also:

MINNESOTA

Minnesota,U.S.A., on the Red See also:

Lake See also:

RIVER

river in the Red River valley, about 300 m. N.W. of Minneapolis, and about 25 M. E. of See also:

GRAND

Grand Forks, See also:

North Dakota. Pop. (189o) 3457; (1900) 5359; (1905, See also:

state See also:

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

census) 6794, 2049 being See also:

FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born, including 656 from See also:

Norway (2 See also:

NORWEGIAN

Norwegian weeklies are published), 613 from See also:

CANADA

Canada, 292 from See also:

Sweden; (1910 U.S. census) 7559. Crookston is served by the See also:

GREAT

Great See also:

NORTHERN

Northern and the Northern Pacific See also:

RAILWAYS

railways. It has a See also:

Carnegie library, and the St See also:

Vincent and See also:

Bethesda hospitals, and is the seat of a Federal See also:

LAND

Land See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

Office and of a state agricultural high school (with an experimental See also:

FARM

farm). Dams on the Red Lake river provide a See also:

FINE

fine See also:

WATER

water-See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power, and among the city's manufactures are See also:

LUMBER

lumber, See also:

leather, See also:

FLOUR

flour, farm implements, wagons and bricks. The city is situated in a fertile farming region, and is a See also:

MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

market for 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, potatoes and other agricultural products, and lumber. Crookston was settled about 1872, was incorporated in 1879, received its first city 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 1883, and adopted a new one in 1906. It was 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 See also:

William Crooks, an See also:

early settler.

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