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ELLSWORTH , a See also:

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

city, See also:

PORT

port of entry 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:

Hancock county, See also:

Maine, U.S.A., at the See also:

head of See also:

NAVIGATION (from Lat. navis, ship, and agere, to move)

navigation on the See also:

Union See also:

RIVER

river (and about 34 M. from its mouth), about 30 M. S.E. of See also:

Bangor. Pop. (1890) 4804; (1900) 4297 (189 See also:

FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born) ; (1910) 3549• It is served by the Maine Central railway. The fall of the river, about 85 ft. in 2 m., furnishes See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good See also:

WATER

water-See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power, and the city has various manufactures, including See also:

LUMBER

lumber, shoes, woollens, sails, carriages and foundry and See also:

machine shopproducts, besides a large lumber See also:

trade. See also:

SHIPBUILDING

Shipbuilding was formerly important. There is a large See also:

UNITED

United States See also:

fish hatchery here. The city is the port of entry for the Frenchman's See also:

BAY

Bay customs See also:

DISTRICT

district, but its foreign trade is unimportant. Ellsworth was first settled in 1763 and for some See also:

time was called New See also:

BOWDOIN, JAMES (1726—1790)

Bowdoin; but when it was incorporated as a See also:

TOWN

town in 1800 the See also:

PRESENT

present name was adopted 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:

Oliver Ellsworth. A 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 was secured in 1869.

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