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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 638 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KALAMAZOO , a See also:

city and the See also:county-seat of Kalamazoo county, See also:Michigan, U.S.A., on the W. See also:bank of the Kalamazoo See also:River, about 49 M. S. of See also:Grand Rapids and 144 M. W. of See also:Detroit. Pop. (1900) 24,404, of whom 4710 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910 See also:census) 39,437. It is served by the Michigan Central, the See also:Lake See also:Shore & Michigan See also:Southern, the Grand Rapids & See also:Indiana, the Kalamazoo, Lake Shore & See also:Chicago, and the Chicago, Kalamazoo & See also:Saginaw See also:railways, and by interurban electric lines. The city has a public library, and is the seat of Kalamazoo See also:college (Baptist), which- See also:grew out of the Kalamazoo See also:literary See also:institute (1833) and was chartered under its See also:present name in 1855; the Michigan See also:female See also:seminary (Presbyterian), established in 1866; the Western See also:State normal school (1904); See also:Nazareth See also:Academy (1897), for girls; See also:Barbour See also:Hall (1899), a school for boys; two private See also:schools for the feeble-minded; and the Michigan See also:asylum for the insane, opened in 1859. The surrounding See also:country is famous for its See also:celery, and the city is an important manufacturing centre, ranking third among the cities of the state in the value of its factory products in 1904. The value of the factory See also:pro-duct in 1904 was $13,141,767, an increase of 82.9%° since 1900. The waterworks and electric-See also:lighting plant are owned and operated by the See also:municipality. Kalamazoo was settled in 1829, was known as Bronson (in See also:honour of See also:Titus Bronson, an See also:early settler) until 1836, was incorporated as the See also:village of Kalamazoo in 1838, and in 1884 became a city under a See also:charter granted in the preceding See also:year.

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