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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 830 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PARKERSBURG , 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 See also:

Wood county, See also:

West See also:

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

OHIO

Ohio See also:

RIVER

river, at the mouth of the Little Kanawha, about 95 M. below See also:

WHEELING

Wheeling. Pop. (189o), 8408; (19o0), 11,703, of whom 515 were See also:

FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born and 783 were negroes; (1910 See also:

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

census), 17,842. Parkersburg is served by the See also:

Baltimore & Ohio, the Baltimore & Ohio See also:

South-western, and the Little Kanawha See also:

RAILWAYS

railways, by electric railway to See also:

MARIETTA

Marietta, Ohio, and by passenger and See also:

FREIGHT, (pronounced like " weight "; derived from the Dutch vracht or vrecht, in Fr. fret, the Eng. " fraught " being the same word, and formerly used for the same thing, but now only as an adjective= " laden ")

freight boats to Pitts-See also:

BURG

burg, See also:

CINCINNATI

Cincinnati, intermediate ports, and ports on the Little Kanawha. Parkersburg is the see of a See also:

PROTESTANT

Protestant Episcopal See also:

bishop. Oil, See also:

COAL

coal, natural See also:

GAS

gas and See also:

FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire-See also:

clay abound in the neighbouring region, and the city is engaged in the refining of oil and the manufacture of pottery, See also:

BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic bricke, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French brique, originally a " broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic brikan, to break)

brick and See also:

TILE (0. Eng. tigel, Fr. tuile, connected with Lat. tegula)

tile, See also:

glass, See also:

LUMBER

lumber, See also:

FURNITURE (from " furnish," Fr. fournir)

furniture, See also:

FLOUR

flour, See also:

STEEL, FLORA ANNIE (1847– )

steel, and foundry and See also:

machine-See also:

SHOP

shop products. In 1905 the ,value of the factory products was $3,778,139 (21.9% more than in 1900). Parkersburg was settled in 1789, was incorporated in 182o, and received a new 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 in 1903, when its boundaries were enlarged. About 2 M. below the city is the See also:

ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island which was the See also:

home of Harman See also:

BLENNERHASSETT, HARMAN (1765-1831)

Blennerhassett (q.v.) and bears his name.

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