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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 112 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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LUDINGTON , 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 See also:

Mason county, See also:

Michigan, U.S.A., on See also:

Lake Michigan, at the mouth of the See also:

Marquette See also:

RIVER

river, about 85 m. N.W. of See also:

GRAND

Grand Rapids. Pop. (1900) 7166 (2259 See also:

FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born); (1904, See also:

state See also:

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

census) 7259; (1910) 9132. It is served by the Pere Marquette, and the Ludington and See also:

NORTHERN

Northern See also:

RAILWAYS

railways, and by steamboat lines to See also:

Chicago, See also:

MILWAUKEE

Milwaukee and other lake ports. To See also:

MANITOWOC (Indian, " Spirit-land")

Manitowoc, Milwaukee, See also:

KEWANEE

Kewanee and Two See also:

Rivers, See also:

Wisconsin, on the W. See also:

SHORE

shore of Lake Michigan, cars, especially those of the Pere Marquette railway, are ferried from here. Ludington was formerly well known as a See also:

LUMBER

lumber centre, but this See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry has greatly declined. There are various manufactures, and the city has a large ,See also:

GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain See also:

trade. On the site of the city Pere Marquette died and was buried, but his See also:

BODY

body was removed within a See also:

YEAR

year to Point St Ignace. Ludington was settled about 1859, and was chartered as a city in 1873. It was originally named Pere Marquette, but was renamed in 1871 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 See also:

James Ludington, a See also:

LOCAL

local lumberman.

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