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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 701 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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NILES , a See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of See also:

Trumbull 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, See also:

OHIO

Ohio, U.S.A., on the Ootacamund maintained by See also:

government. Mahoning See also:

RIVER

river, at the mouth of the Meander and See also:

MOSQUITO (Span. mosquito, a gnat, diminutive of mosca, a fly)

Mosquito creeks, about 55 M. E.S.E. of See also:

Cleveland. Pop. (1890) 4289; (1900) 7468 (2104 See also:

FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born); (1910) 8361. It is served by the See also:

Baltimore & Ohio, the See also:

ERIE

Erie and the See also:

Pennsylvania See also:

RAILWAYS

railways, and by an interurban electric See also:

SYSTEM

system. See also:

COAL

Coal and See also:

IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron-ore are abundant in the vicinity, and the city's See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal manufactures are See also:

SHEET

sheet See also:

STEEL, FLORA ANNIE (1847– )

steel, sheet iron, See also:

TIN (Lat.- stannum, whence the chemical symbol " Sn "; atomic weight =117.6, 0=16)

tin, See also:

metal See also:

LATH (0. Eng. laett, Mid. Eng. lappe, a form possibly due to the Welsh llath; the word appears in many Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch lat, Ger. Latte, and has passed into Romanic, cf. Ital. latta, Fr. latte)

lath, boilers and railway cars. The See also:

MUNICIPALITY

municipality owns and operates its waterworks and electric-See also:

LIGHTING

lighting plant. Niles was settled in 1832, laid out in 1834, incorporated as a See also:

VILLAGE

village in 1865 and chartered as a city in 1895. It was named (1834) 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:

HEZEKIAH (Heb. for " [my] strength is [of] Yah ")

Hezekiah Niles (1777–1839), the founder and editor of the weekly Niles's See also:

REGISTER

Register (1811–1849).

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