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PARSONS , a See also:city of Labette See also:county, in See also:south-eastern See also:Kansas, U.S.A., situated at the junction of the Big and Little Labette creeks, about 138 m. S. by W. of Kansas City. Pop. (1890), 6736; (1900), 7682, of whom 807 were negroes; (1905), 11,720; (1910), 12i463. It is served by the Kansas City, Fort See also:Scott & See also:Memphis (St See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis & See also:San Francisco See also:system) and the See also:Missouri Kansas & See also:Texas See also:railways. The city has large See also:machine shops of the Missouri Kansas & Texas railway and various manufactures. Natural See also:gas is utilized for See also:light and See also:heat. The first See also:settlement on the site of the city was made in 1869 and was called Mendota (" See also:place of See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting "—i.e. of the creeks). In 1871 the city was chartered, and in 1910 See also:government by See also:commission went into effect. It was named in See also:honour of See also:Levi Parsons (1822-1887), the first See also:president of the Missouri Kansas and Texas railway.
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