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LYNN , a See also:city and- seaport of See also:Essex See also:county, See also:Massachusetts, 9 m. N.E. of See also:Boston, on the N. See also:shore of Massachusetts See also:Bay. Pop. (1900) 68,5x3, of whom 17,742 were See also:foreign-See also:born (6609being See also:English Canadians, 5306 Irish, 1527 English and 128o See also:French Canadians), and 784 were negroes; (1gro See also:census) 89,336. It is served by the Boston & See also:Maine and the Boston, See also:Revere See also:Beach & Lynn See also:railways, and by an interurban electric railway, and has an See also:area of 1o•85 sq. m. The business See also:part is built near the shore on See also:low, level ground, and the residential sections are on the higher levels. Lynn See also:Woods, a beautiful See also:park, covers more than 2000 acres. On the shore, which has a See also:fine See also:boulevard, is a See also:state See also:bath See also:house. The city has a handsome 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, a See also:free public library, founded in 1862, a soldiers' See also:monument and two hospitals. Lynn is primarily a manufacturing city. The first smelting See also:works in New See also:England were established here in 1643. More important and earlier was the manufacture of boots and shoes, an See also:industry introduced in 1636 by See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip Kertland, a See also:- BUCKINGHAM
- BUCKINGHAM, EARLS, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- BUCKINGHAM, FIRST DUKE
- BUCKINGHAM, GEORGE VILLIERS, 1ST DUKE 0E1
- BUCKINGHAM, GEORGE VILLIERS, 2ND DUKE 0E1 (1628-1687)
- BUCKINGHAM, HENRY STAFFORD, 2ND DUKE OF3 (1454-1483)
- BUCKINGHAM, JAMES SILK (1786-1855)
Buckingham See also:man; a See also:corporation of shoemakers existed here in 1651, whose papers were lost in 1765. There were many See also:court orders in the seventeenth See also:century to butchers, tanners, bootmakers and cordwainers; and the business was made more important by See also:John See also:Adam Dagyr (d. 18o8), a Welshman who came here in 1750 and whose See also:work was equal to the best in England. In 1767 the output was 8o,000 pairs; in 1795 about 300,000 pairs of See also:women's shoes were made by 600 journeymen and 200 See also:master workmen. The product of women's shoes had become famous in 1764, and about 1783 the use of See also:morocco had been introduced by Ebenezer Breed. In 1900 and 1905 Lynn was second only to See also:Brockton among the cities of the See also:United States in the value of boots and shoes manufactured, and out-ranked Brockton in the three allied See also:industries, the manufacture of boots and shoes, of cut stock and of findings. In the value of its See also:total manufactured product Lynn ranked second to Boston in the state in 1905, having been fifth in 1900; the total number of factories in 1905 was 431; their See also:capital was $23,139,185; their employees numbered 21,540; and their product was valued at $55,003,023 (as compared with $39,347,493 m 1900). Patent medicines and compounds and the manufacture of See also:electrical machinery are prominent industries. The Lynn factories of the See also:General Electric See also:Company had in 1906 an See also:annual product See also:worth between $15,000,000 and $20,000,000. The foreign export of manufactured products is estimated at $5,000,000 a See also:year.
Lynn was founded in 1629 and was called Saugus until 1637, when the See also:present name was adopted, from Lynn Regis, See also:Norfolk, the See also:home of the Rev. See also:Samuel See also:Whiting (1597-1679), pastor at Lynn from 1636 until his See also:death. From Lynn See also:Reading was separated in 1644, Lynnfield in 1782, Saugus in 1815, and, after the See also:incorporation of the city of Lynn in 185o, Swampscott in 1852, and in 1853 Nahant, S. of Lynn, on a picturesque See also:peninsula and now a fashionable summer resort.
See See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James R. Newhall, See also:History of Lynn (Lynn, 1883), and H. K. See also:Sanderson, Lynn in the Revolution (1910).
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