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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 709 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HORNELL , a See also:

city of See also:Steuben See also:county, New See also:York, U.S.A., on the Canisteo See also:river, 90 m. S.E. of See also:Buffalo. Pop. (189o) 10,996; (1900) 11,918, of whom 1230 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910 See also:census) 13,617. Hornell is served by the See also:Erie and the See also:Pittsburg, Shawmut & See also:Northern See also:railways; the latter connects at See also:Wayland (20 M. distant by See also:rail) with the See also:Delaware, Lackawanna & Western raiiroad. In the city are St See also:Ann's See also:Academy, the St See also:James See also:Mercy See also:Hospital, the Steuben Sanitarium, a public library, and a county See also:court-See also:house—terms of the county court being held here as well as in See also:Bath (pop. in 1905, 3695), the county-seat, and in See also:Corning. Hornell has extensive See also:car shops of the See also:Eric railroad,and among its manufactures are See also:silk goods (silk gloves being a specially important product), See also:sash, doors and blinds, See also:leather, See also:furniture, shoes, See also:white-goods, See also:wire-fences, foundry and See also:machine See also:shop products, electric See also:motors, and See also:brick and See also:tile. The value of the factory product in 1905 was $3,162,677, an increase of 30'1% since 1900. The first See also:settlement here was made in 1790, within the See also:district of Erwin (then in See also:Ontario county); after 1796 it was a See also:part of Canisteo township, and the settlement itself was known as Upper Canisteo until 182o, when a new township was formed and named Hornellsville in See also:honour of See also:Judge See also:George Hornell (d. 1813). The See also:village of Hornellsville was incorporated in 1852, and in 1888 was chartered as a city; and by See also:act of the See also:state legislature the name was changed to Hornell in 1906. See G.

H. McMaster, See also:

History of the Settlement of Steuben County (Bath, New York, 1849).

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