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OELWEIN

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 14 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OELWEIN , a See also:

city of Fayette See also:county, See also:Iowa, U.S.A., in the N.E. See also:part of the See also:state, about 132 M. N.E. of See also:Des Moines. Pop. (1890) 830; (1900) 5142, of whom 789 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (19ro U.S. See also:census) 6028. It is served by the See also:Chicago, See also:Rock See also:Island & Pacific and the Chicago See also:Great Western See also:railways, the latter having large repair shops here, where four lines of its road converge. Oelwein was named in See also:honour of its founder, See also:August Oelwein, who settled here in 1873; it was incorporated in 1888, and chartered as a city in 1897.

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