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GOSHEN , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Elkhart county, See also:Indiana, U.S.A., on the Elkhart See also:river, about 95 M. E. by S. of See also:Chicago, at an See also:altitude of about Boo ft. Pop. (1890) 6033; (1900) 7810 (462 See also:foreign-See also:born); (1910) 8514. Goshen is served by the See also:Cleveland; See also:Cincinnati, Chicago & St 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 See also:Lake See also:Shore & See also:Michigan See also:Southern See also:railways, and is connected by electric railway with See also:Warsaw and See also:South See also:Bend. The city has a See also:Carnegie library, and is the seat of Goshen See also:College (under Mennonite See also:control), chartered as Elkhart See also:Institute, at Elkhart, Ind., in 1895, and removed to Goshen and opened under its See also:present name in 1903. The college includes a collegiate See also:department, an See also:academy, a See also:Bible school, a normal school, a summer school and See also:correspondence courses, and See also:schools of business, of See also:music and of See also:oratory, and in 19o8-19o9 had 331 students, 73 of whom were in the Academy. Goshen is situated in a See also:good farming region and is an important See also:lumber See also:market. There is a good See also:water-See also:power. Among the city's manufactures are wagons and carriages, See also:furniture, wooden-See also:ware, veneering, See also:sash and doors, ladders, See also:lawn swings, See also:rubber goods, See also:flour, foundry products and agricultural machinery. The See also:municipality owns its water See also:works and its electric-See also:lighting See also:system. Goshen was first settled in 1828 and was first chartered as a city in 1868.
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