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VALPARAISO

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 865 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VALPARAISO , a See also:

city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Porter county, See also:Indiana, U.S.A., about 40 M. S.E. of See also:Chicago. Pop. (189o) 5090; (1900) 628o, including 66o See also:foreign-See also:born; (19ro) 6987. It is served by the See also:Grand See also:Trunk, the New See also:York, Chicago & St See also:Louis, and the See also:Pennsylvania See also:railways. The city has a public library (1905), and is the seat of an See also:Institute of Telegraphy (founded in 1874; chartered in 1900) and of Valparaiso University (1873; formerly known as the Valparaiso Normal Training School). This university was founded to furnish a See also:practical See also:education at a See also:low cost, and in 1910 had 187 instructors and a See also:total enrolment of 5367 students. Valparaiso was settled about 1835, incorporated in 1856 as a See also:village and chartered as a city in 1865.

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