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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 835 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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MORGANTOWN , 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 Monongalia county, See also:

West See also:

Virginia, U.S.A., on the See also:

MONONGAHELA

Monongahela See also:

RIVER

river, about 50 M. S.E. of See also:

WHEELING

Wheeling. Pop. (189o), Io1; (Igo0), 1895; (1910 See also:

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

census), g15o. The city is served by the See also:

Baltimore & See also:

OHIO

Ohio and the Morgantown & Kingwood See also:

RAILWAYS

railways, and by several steamboat lines, the Monongahela being navigable to See also:

FAIRMONT

Fairmont, about 25 M. above Morgantown. Morgantown is the seat of the West Virginia University (co-educational), formed from the Monongalia See also:

Academy (incorporated, 1814) and the Woodburn See also:

FEMALE

Female See also:

SEMINARY (Lat. seminarium, from semen, seed)

Seminary (incorporated, 1858), and chartered in 1867 as the Agricultural See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

College of West Virginia; in 1868 the See also:

PRESENT

present name was adopted. In 1908 the university had 8o instructors and 1534 students. See also:

COAL

Coal, See also:

glass-See also:

sand and See also:

LIMESTONE

limestone are found in- the vicinity of Morgantown. The first See also:

settlement here was made about 1768 by the See also:

BROTHERS, RICHARD (1757-1824)

brothers See also:

David and Zackwill See also:

Morgan, and was named 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 the latter. It was incorporated as Morgan's See also:

TOWN

Town in 1785; and in 1905 a city See also:

CHARTER (Lat. charta, carta, from Gr. Xap-rns, originally for papyrus, material for writing, thence transferred to paper and from this material to the document, in O. Eng. boc, book)

charter was granted to it after the See also:

ANNEXATION (Lat. ad, to, and nexus, joining)

annexation of Greenmont (pop. 1900, 349), See also:

SENECA

Seneca (pop. 1900, 723), and See also:

South Morgantown (pop.

1900, 405).

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