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JANESVILLE , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Rock County, See also:Wisconsin, U.S.A., situated on both sides of the Rock See also:river,
(1900), 13,185, of whom 2409 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (rgro See also:census), 13,894. It is served by the See also:Chicago & See also:North-Western and the Chicago, See also:Milwaukee & St See also:Paul See also:railways, and by electric lines connecting with See also:Madison and See also:Beloit, Wis., and See also:Rockford, See also:Illinois. The Rock river is not commercially navigable at this point, but furnishes valuable See also:water-See also:power for manufacturing purposes. The city is picturesquely situated on bluffs above the river. Janesville is the centre of the See also:tobacco See also:trade of the See also:state, and has various manufactures. The See also:total value of the city's factory product in 1905 was $3,846,038, an increase of 20.8 % since 'goo. Its public buildings include a city 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, See also:court See also:house, See also:post See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, city See also:hospital and a public library. It is the seat of a school for the See also:blind, opened as a private institution in 1849 and taken over by the state in 185o, the first charitable institution controlled by the state, ranking as one of the most successful of its See also:kind in the See also:United States. The first See also:settlement was made here about 1834. Janesville was named in See also:honour of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry F. Janes, an See also:early settler, and was chartered as a city in 1853.
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