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SOUTH BEND

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 499 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SOUTH See also:BEND , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of St See also:Joseph county, See also:Indiana, U.S.A., at the See also:head of See also:navigation and on the See also:southern bend (hence the name) of the St Joseph See also:river of See also:Michigan, and (by See also:rail) 86 m. E. by S. of See also:Chicago. Pop. (1900), 35,999, of whom 86o1 were See also:foreign-See also:horn (including 3053 Poles and 2402 Germans); (r9ro, See also:census), 53,684. See also:Land See also:area (1906), 6.2 sq. m. It is served by the See also:Grand See also:Trunk, the See also:Lake See also:Shore & Michigan Southern, the Michigan Central, the New See also:Jersey Indiana & See also:Illinois, the Chicago, Indiana & Southern, and the Vandalia See also:railways, and by four inter-See also:urban electric lines. Among the See also:principal buildings are the city-See also:hall, the county See also:court-See also:house, the public library, and the See also:Oliver Hotel. In Notre See also:Dame, a suburb, are St See also:Mary's See also:College and See also:Academy (See also:Roman See also:Catholic, chartered 1855) for girls, and the university of Notre Dame du See also:Lac (Roman Catholic, first opened in 1842, and chartered in 1844). In 1910 the university had 87 instructors, 1005 students, and a library of 6o,000 volumes. It is the headquarters of the See also:order of the See also:Holy See also:Cross, whose sisters have See also:charge of St Mary's College and Academy. South Bend ranked See also:fourth among the manufacturing cities of the See also:state in 1905. Its See also:industrial establishments include See also:carriage and See also:wagon See also:works (those of the Studebaker Bros.

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Company being the largest in the See also:world), plough and agricultural See also:machine works—the Oliver Chilled Plow Works, founded by See also:James Oliver (1823-1909), being particularly well known—the See also:wood-working See also:department of the See also:Singer Sewing Machine Company, See also:iron and See also:steel foundries, See also:flour-See also:mills, and See also:paper and pulp mills. The See also:water-See also:supply is obtained from 122 artesian See also:wells, with a daily capacity of about 24,000,000 gallons. South Bend was the site of an See also:Indian See also:village and of a See also:French trading See also:post. It was settled about 1820, laid out about 1831 (when it became the county-seat of St Joseph county), incorporated as a village in 1835, and chartered as a city in 1865.

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