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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 954 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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HUNTINGTON , a See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city and the See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county-seat of Cabell county, See also:

West See also:

Virginia. U.S.A., about 50 M. W. of See also:

CHARLESTON

Charleston, W. Va., on the S. See also:

BANK

bank of the See also:

OHIO

Ohio See also:

RIVER

river, just below the mouth of the Guyandotte river. Pop. (1900) 11,923, of whom 1212 were negroes ; (1910 See also:

CENSUS (from Lat. censere, to estimate or assess; connected by some with centum, i.e. a count by hundreds)

census) 31,161. It is served by the See also:

Baltimore & Ohio and the Chesapeake & Ohio See also:

RAILWAYS

railways, and by several lines of river steamboats. The city is the seat of See also:

Marshall See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

College (founded in 1837; a See also:

State Normal School in 1867), which in 1907-1008 had 34 instructors and Imo students; and of the West Virginia State See also:

Asylum for the Incurable Insane; and it has a See also:

Carnegie library and a city See also:

HOSPITAL (Lat. haspitalis, the adjective of hospes, host or guest)

hospital. Huntington has extensive railway See also:

CAR (Late Lat. carra)

car and repair shops, besides foundries and See also:

machine shops. See also:

STEEL, FLORA ANNIE (1847– )

steel See also:

ROLLING

rolling See also:

mills, manufactories of stoves and ranges, breweries and See also:

glass See also:

WORKS

works. The value of the city's factory product in 1905 was $4,407,153, an increase of 21% over that of 1900. .Huntington See also:

DATES

dates from 1871, when it became the western See also:

TERMINUS

terminus of the Chesapeake & Ohio railway, was named in See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of Collis P. Huntington (1821-1900), the See also:

PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president of the road, and was incorporated.

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