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See also:IOWA See also:CITY , a city and the See also:county-seat of See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson county, Iowa, U.S.A., on Iowa See also:river, about 120 M. E. of See also:Des Moines. Pop. (1890) 7016; (1900) 7987, of whom 1355 Were See also:foreign See also:born; (1905) 8497; (1910) 10,091. It is served by two branches of the See also:Chicago, See also:Rock See also:Island & Pacific railroad, and by the Iowa City & See also:Cedar Rapids Interurban railway (electric), of which it is a See also:terminus. The ground on which the city is built forms an See also:amphitheatre surrounded for the most See also:part by hills and bluffs. Iowa City is the seat of the See also:state university of Iowa, of Iowa City See also:Academy, of the library of the State See also:Historical Society and of the state See also:Sanatorium for the Treatment of See also:Tuberculosis. The university, organized in 1847, and occupying the old State Capitol grounds, is an integral part of the public school See also:system of the state, and is under the See also:control of a See also:board of regents, consisting of the See also:governor, the See also:superintendent of public instruction and eleven members, elected—one from each congressional See also:district—by the See also:General See also:Assembly. The university's preparatory See also:department was opened in 1855 and continued until 1879; the first collegiate session was in 1856-1857, but during 1858-186o the collegiate department was closed. The institution embraces a See also:college of liberal arts (186o), with a school of See also:political and
' As See also:lieutenant-governor, Newbold serves for the unexpired portion of the See also:term to which Kirkwood was elected; Kirkwood resigned on the 1st of See also:February 1877, having been chosen See also:United States senator.social See also:science (r9oo)—which offers courses in See also:commerce, See also:administration, See also:modern See also:history and See also:practical philanthropy—and a school of See also:education, first opened in 1907, to See also:train secondary and college teachers and school principals and superintendents; a college of See also:law (1868); a college of See also:medicine (1870), including a training school for nurses (1897); a college of homoeopathic medicine (1877), including a nurses' training school (1894); a college of See also:dentistry (1882); a college of See also:pharmacy (1885); a See also:graduate college; a college of applied science (1903), with courses in See also:civil, See also:electrical, See also:mechanical, See also:mining, municipal and sanitary See also:engineering and courses in See also:chemistry; a summer school for teachers and librarians and a university See also:extension department. Affiliated with the university is a school of See also:music. The university's income is derived from the proceeds of invested funds and lands originally given by the United States, from permanent appropriations by the state and from the proceeds of a one-fifth See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
mill tax to be used for buildings alone. In 1907-1908 the institution had 28 buildings (including the old State Capitol, built in 1840), a teaching and administrative force of nearly 200 members and 2315 students, of whom 1082 were in the college of liberal arts; the university library had about 65,000 volumes (25,000 were destroyed by See also:fire in 1897), and the university law library, 14,000 volumes; and the See also:total income of the university was about $611,000. In 1908 the library of the State Historical Society of Iowa, housed in the 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 the Liberal Arts of the university, numbered about 40,000 volumes. Iowa City has a considerable variety of small manufacturing establishments. In 1839 Iowa City was selected as the site for the seat of See also:government of the newly created Territory of Iowa. The legislature met for the first See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in 1841 and continued to hold its sessions here until 1857, when Des Moines, on See also:account of its more central position, was made the See also:capital.
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