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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 303 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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ELYRIA , 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:

LORAIN

Lorain county, See also:

OHIO

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

Black See also:

RIVER

river, 8 m. from See also:

Lake See also:

ERIE

Erie, and about 25 M. W.S.W. of See also:

Cleveland. Pop. (1890) 5611; (1900) 8791, of whom 1397 were See also:

FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born; (1910 See also:

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

census) 14,825. It is served by the See also:

Baltimore & Ohio, and the Lake See also:

SHORE

Shore & See also:

Michigan See also:

SOUTHERN

Southern See also:

RAILWAYS

railways. Elyria is about 720 ft. above See also:

sea-level, and lies at the junction of the two forks of the Black river, each of which falls about 5o ft. here, furnishing See also:

WATER

water-See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power. Among the city's manufactures are See also:

OXIDE

oxide of See also:

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

tin and other chemicals, See also:

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

iron and See also:

STEEL, FLORA ANNIE (1847– )

steel, See also:

leather goods, automobiles and bicycles, See also:

electrical and See also:

TELEPHONE (Gr. rjXs, far, and dxwvr7, voice)

telephone supplies, butted tubing, See also:

GAS

gas engines, screws and bolts, See also:

SILK

silk, See also:

LACE (corresponding to Ital. merletto, trina; Genoese Pizzo; Ger. spitzen; Fr. dentelle; Dutch kanten; Span. encaje; the English word owes something to the Fr. lassis or laces, but both are connected with the earlier Lat. laqueus; early French laces were

lace and See also:

HOSIERY

hosiery. In 1905 the city's factory products were valued at $2,933,450-140.2% more than their value in 1900. Flagging, See also:

BUILDING

building-stones and grindstones, taken from quarries in the vicinity (known as the See also:

BEREA

Berea Grit quarries), are shipped from Elyria in large quantities. Elyria was founded about 1819 by Heman See also:

Ely, 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; it was selected as the site for the county seat in 1823, and was chartered as a city in 1892.

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