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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 810 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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DANSVILLE , a See also:

VILLAGE

village of See also:

Livingston 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, New See also:

York, U.S.A., 49 M. S. of See also:

Rochester, on the Canaseraga See also:

Creek. Pop. (189o) 3758; (1900) 3633, of whom 417 were See also:

FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born; (1905) 3908; (1910) 3938. The village is served by the See also:

DELAWARE

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, and the Dansville & See also:

MOUNT, WILLIAM SIDNEY (1807-1868)

Mount See also:

Morris See also:

RAILWAYS

railways. At Dansville is the See also:

Jackson See also:

HEALTH

Health Resort, a large See also:

SANATORIUM (a modern Latinism, formed from sanare, to cure, restore to health, sanus, whole, healthy, well; often wrongly spelled sanatarium or sanitarium)

sanatorium, with which a nurses' training school is connected. There is a public library. The village has large nurseries and vineyards, See also:

FLOUR

flour and See also:

paper See also:

mills, a large See also:

PRINTING (from Lat. imprimere, O. Fr. empreindre)

printing See also:

ESTABLISHMENT (0. Fr. establissement, Fr. etablissement, late Norm. Fr. establishement, from O. Fr. establir, Fr. etablir, Lat. stabilire, to make stable)

establishment, a foundry, and a See also:

SHOE (a word appearing in the Teutonic languages in various forms, as Ger. Schuh, Swed. and Dan. sko, sometimes supposed to come from an unknown root ska or sku, cover)

shoe factory. Dansville, 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:

Daniel P. Faulkner, was settled about 1800, and was incorporated in 1845.

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