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FARIBAULT

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 178 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FARIBAULT , a See also:

city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Rice county, See also:Minnesota, U.S.A., on the See also:Cannon See also:river, at the mouth of the Straight river, about 45 M. S. of St See also:Paul. (Pop. 189o) 652o; (1900) 7868, of whom 1586 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1905) 8279; (1910) 9001. Faribault is served by the See also:Chicago See also:Great Western, the Chicago, See also:Milwaukee & St Paul, and the Chicago, See also:Rock See also:Island & Pacific See also:railways. The city is attractively situated near a See also:lake region widely known for its summer resorts. Faribault is the seat of the Minnesota See also:institute for defectives, embracing the See also:state school for the See also:deaf (1863), the state school for the See also:blind (1874), and the state school for the feeble-minded (1879); of three institutions under See also:control of the See also:Protestant Episcopal Church—the See also:Seabury divinity school (incorporated 186o), the Shattuck school (1867; incorporated in 1905), a military school for boys, and St See also:Mary's See also:hall (1866), a school for girls, founded by See also:Bishop Whipple; and of the See also:Roman See also:Catholic (Dominican) See also:Bethlehem See also:Academy for girls. In the city are the See also:cathedral of our Merciful Saviour (1868-1869), the first Protestant Episcopal See also:church in the See also:United States built and used as a cathedral from its opening; and the See also:hospital and nurses' training school of the Minnesota See also:District of the Evangelical See also:Synod. The city has a public library, and owns and operates its own See also:water-See also:supply See also:system. There is a See also:good water See also:power, and among the. city's manufactures are See also:flour, See also:beer, shoes, See also:furniture, rattan-See also:ware, warehouse trucks, canned goods, See also:cane See also:syrup, waggons and carriages, gasolene engines, See also:wind-See also:mills, pianos and woollen goods. Faribault, named in See also:honour of See also:Jean See also:Baptiste Faribault, a See also:French See also:fur-trader and See also:pioneer who made his headquarters in the region in the latter See also:part of the 18th See also:century, was permanently settled about 1848, and was chartered as a city in 1872. A French millwright, N.

La Croix, introduced here, about 1860, a new See also:

process of making flour, which revolutionized the See also:industry in the United States, but his See also:mill was soon destroyed by See also:flood and he removed to Minneapolis, where the process was first successful on a large See also:scale. Faribault was for many years the See also:home of Bishop See also:Henry See also:Benjamin Whipple (1822-1901), the pioneer bishop (1859-1901) of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Minnesota, famous for his missionary See also:work among the See also:Indians.

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