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FORT See also:DODGE , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Webster county, See also:Iowa, U.S.A., on the See also:Des Moines See also:river, 85 m. (by See also:rail) N. by W. from Des Moines. Pop. (1890) 4871; (1900 12,162; (1905, See also:state See also:census) 14,369, (2269 being See also:foreign-See also:born); (1910) 15,543. It is served by the See also:Illinois Central, the See also:Chicago See also:Great Western, the Minneapolis & See also:Saint See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis, and the Fort Dodge, Des Moines & See also:Southern See also:railways, the last an electric interurban See also:line. See also:Eureka Springs and See also:Wild See also:Cat See also:Cave are of See also:interest to visitors, and attractive scenery is furnished by the river and its bordering bluffs. The river is here spanned by the Chicago Great Western railway See also:steel See also:bridge, or viaduct, one of the longest in the See also:country. Fort Dodge is the seat of See also:Tobin See also:College (420 students in 1907 1908), a commercial and business school, with preparatory, normal and classical departments, and courses in See also:oratory and See also:music; among its other institutions are St See also:Paul's. school (Evangelical Lutheran), two See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:schools, Corpus Christi See also:Academy and the Sacred See also:Heart school, Our See also:Lady of See also:Lourdes See also:convent and a See also:Carnegie library. Oleson See also:Park and Reynold's Park are the city's See also:principal parks. Immediately surrounding Fort Dodge is a See also:rich farming country. To the E. of the city lies a See also:gypsum See also:bed, extending over an See also:area of about 5o sq. m., and considered to be the most valuable in the See also:United States; to the S. See also:coal abounds; there are also See also:limestone quarries and deposits of See also:clay in the vicinity -the clay being, for the most See also:part, obtained by See also:mining. FortDodgeis a See also:market forthe products of the surrounding country, and is a See also:shipping centre of considerable importance. It has various manufactures, including gypsum, See also:plaster, oatmeal, See also:brick and See also:tile, See also:sewer See also:pipe, pottery, foundry and See also:machine-See also:shop products, and shoes. In 1905 the value of all the factory products was $3,025,659, an increase of 2oo•8% over that for 1900. Fort See also:Clark was erected on the site in 185o to protect settlers against the See also:Indians; in 1851 the name was changed by See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of the secretary of See also:war to Fort Dodge in See also:honour of See also:Colonel See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry Dodge (1782–1867), who was a See also:lieutenant-colonel of See also:Missouri See also:Volunteers in the War of 1812, served with distinction as a colonel of See also:Michigan Mounted Volunteers. in the See also:Black See also:Hawk. War, resigned from the military service in See also:March 1833, was See also:governor of See also:Wisconsin Territory from 1836 to 184r and from 1846 to 1848, and was a delegate from Wisconsin Territory to See also:Congress from 1841 to 1845, and a United States senator from Wisconsin in 1848–1857. The fort was abandoned in 1853, and in 1854 a See also:town was laid out. It was chartered as a city in 1869. From the .gypsum beds near Fort Dodge was taken in 1868 the See also:block of gypsum from which was modelled the " See also:Cardiff See also:Giant," a rudely-fashioned human figure, which was buried near Cardiff, See also:Onondaga county, New See also:York, where it was " discovered '•' See also:late in. 1869. It was then exhibited in various parts of the country as a " petrified See also:man." The hoax was finally exposed by See also:Professor See also:Othniel C. See also:Marsh of Yale; and See also:George See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall of See also:Binghamton, N.Y., confessed to the See also:fraud, his See also:object having been to discredit belief in the " giants " of See also:Genesis vi. 4. (See " The Cardiff Giant: the True See also:Story of a Remarkable Deception," by See also:Andrew D.
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