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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 351 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OSKALOOSA , a See also:

city and the See also:county-seat of Mahaska county, See also:Iowa, U.S.A., about 62 m. S.E. of See also:Des Moines. Pop. (1900) 9212, of whom 649 were See also:foreign-See also:born and 344 were negroes; 1(19ro U.S. See also:census) g466. It is served by the See also:Chicago, Burling-ton & See also:Quincy, the Chicago, See also:Rock See also:Island & Pacific, and the Iowa Central See also:railways, and. by interurban electric lines. The city is built on a fertile See also:prairie in one of the See also:principal See also:coal-producing regions of the See also:state. At Oskaloosa is held the Iowa yearly See also:meeting of the Society of See also:Friends; and the city is the seat of See also:Penn See also:College (opened 1873), a Friends' institution, and of the Iowa See also:Christian College (incorporated as Oskaloosa College in 1856 and reincorporated under its See also:present name in 1902). At the See also:village of University See also:Park (incorporated in 1909), a suburb adjoining the city on the E., is the Central Holiness University (1906; coeducational), where the See also:annual See also:camp meeting of the See also:National and Iowa Holiness Associations is held. Coal-See also:mining is the most important See also:industry in the surrounding region. There are deposits of See also:clay and See also:limestone in the vicinity, and among the city's manufactures are drain and See also:sewer See also:tile, paving and See also:building bricks, See also:cement blocks, and warm-See also:air furnaces; in 1905 the factory products were valued at $779,894: Oskaloosa was first settled in 1843; it was selected in 1844 by the county commissioners as a site for the county-seat, and was chartered as a city in 1853. It is said to have been named in See also:honour of the wife of the See also:Indian See also:chief Mahaska (of the Iowa tribe), in whose honour the county was named; a See also:bronze statue of Mahaska (by See also:Sherry E. See also:Fry, an Iowa sculptor) was erected here in 1909.

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Hunter, " See also:History of Mahaska County," in See also:Annals of Iowa, vols. vi.-vii. (See also:Davenport, Iowa, 1868–1869), published by the Iowa State See also:Historical Society.

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