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See also:JEFFERSON See also:CITY (legally and officially the City.of Jefferson) , the See also:capital of See also:Missouri, U.S.A., and the See also:county-seat of See also:Cole county, on the Missouri See also:river, near the See also:geographical centre of the See also:state, about 125 m. W. of 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. Pop. (189o), 6742; (1900), 9664, of whom 786 were See also:foreign-See also:born and 1822 were negroes; (10 to See also:census), 11,85o. It is served by the Missouri Pacific, the See also:Chicago & See also:Alton, and the Missouri, See also:Kansas & See also:Texas See also:railways. Its site is partly in the bottom-lands of the river and partly on the steep See also:banks at an See also:elevation of about 600 ft. above the See also:sea. A See also:steel See also:bridge spans the river. The state capitol, an imposing structure built on a See also:bluff above the river, was built in 1838–1842 and enlarged in 1887–1888; it was first occupied in 1840 by the legislature, which previously had met (after 1837) in the county See also:court See also:house. Other prominent buildings are the See also:United States court house and 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, the state supreme court house, the county court house, the state See also:penitentiary, the state armoury and the executive See also:mansion. The penitentiary is to a large extent self-supporting; in 1903–1904 the earnings were $3493.80 in excess of the See also:costs, but in 1904–1906 the costs exceeded the earnings by $9044. Employment is furnished for the convicts on the pentitentiary premises by incorporated companies. The state See also:law library here is one of the best of the See also:kind in the See also:country, and the city has a public library. In the city is See also:Lincoln See also:Institute, a school for negroes, founded in 1866 by two regiments of See also:negro See also:infantry upon their See also:discharge from the United States See also:army, opened in 1868, taken over by the state in 1879, and having sub-normal, normal, See also:college, See also:industrial and agricultural courses. See also:Coal and See also:limestone are found near the city. In 19o5 the See also:total value of the factory product was $3,926,632, an increase of 28.2% since 19oo. The See also:original constitution of Missouri prescribed that the capital should be on the Missouri river within 40 M. of the mouth of the Osage, and a See also:commission selected in 1821 the site of Jefferson City, on which a See also:town was laid out in 1822, the name being adopted in See also:honour of See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas Jefferson. The legislature first met here in 1826; Jefferson City became the county-seat in 1828, and in 1839 was first chartered as a city. The constitutional conventions of 1845 and 1875, and the state See also:convention which issued the See also:call for the See also:National Liberal Republican convention at See also:Cincinnati in 1872, met here, and so for some of its sessions did the state convention of 1861–1863. In See also:June 1861 Jefferson City was occupied by See also:Union forces, and in See also:September–See also:October 1864 it was threatened by Confederate troops under See also:General See also:Sterling See also:Price.
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