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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 587 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GENEVA , a See also:

city of See also:Ontario See also:county, New See also:York, U.S.A., at the N. end of See also:Seneca See also:Lake, about 52 M. S.E. of See also:Rochester. Pop. (1890) 7557; (1900) 10,433 (of whom 1916 were See also:foreign-See also:born); (1910 See also:census) 12i446. It is served by the New York Central & See also:Hudson See also:River, and the Lehigh Valley See also:railways, and by the Cayuga & Seneca See also:Canal. It is an attractively built city, and has See also:good See also:mineral springs. See also:Malt, tinware, See also:flour and grist-See also:mill products, boilers, stoves and ranges, See also:optical supplies, See also:wall-See also:paper, cereals, canned goods, See also:cutlery, See also:tin cans and wagons are manufactured, and there are also extensive nurseries. The See also:total value of the factory product in 1905 was $4,951,964, an increase of 82.3 % since 1900. Geneva has a public library, a city See also:hospital and hygienic See also:institute. It is the seat of the New York See also:State Agricultural Experiment Station and of See also:Hobart See also:College (non-sectarian), which was first planned in 1812, was founded in 1822 (the See also:majority of its incorporators being members of the See also:Protestant Episcopal See also:church) as successor to Geneva See also:Academy, received a full See also:charter as Geneva College in 1825, and was renamed Hobart See also:Free College in 1852 and Hobart College in 1860, in See also:honour of See also:Bishop See also:John See also:Henry Hobart. The college had in 1908—1909107 students, 21 instructors, and a library of 50,000 volumes and 15,000 See also:pamphlets. A co-See also:ordinate woman's college, the See also:William See also:Smith school for See also:women, opened in 1908, was endowed in 1906 by William Smith of Geneva, who at the same See also:time provided for a See also:Hall of See also:Science and for further instruction in science, especially in See also:biology and See also:psychology.

In 1888 the Smith See also:

Observatory was built at Geneva, being maintained by William Smith, and placed in See also:charge of Dr William See also:Robert See also:Brooks, See also:professor of See also:astronomy in Hobart College. The See also:municipality owns its See also:water-See also:supply See also:system. Geneva was first settled about 1787 almost on the site of the See also:Indian See also:village of Kanadasega, which was destroyed in 1779 during Gen. John See also:Sullivan's expedition against the See also:Indians in western New York. It was chartered as a city in 1898.

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