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WACO , a See also:

city and the See also:county-seat of McLennan county, See also:Texas, nearly in the centre of the See also:state, on both sides of the Brazos See also:river, about See also:loo m. S. by W. of See also:Dallas. Pop. (189o) 14,445; (1900) 20,686, of whom 5826 were negroes; (1910 See also:census) 26,425. Waco is served by the See also:Missouri, See also:Kansas & Texas, and by other See also:railways. Waco is the seat of Baylor University (co-educational) and of the Texas See also:Christian University (Christian; co-educational). Baylor University was founded at See also:Independence, Texas, by the Texas See also:Union Baptist Association, in 1845, and was consolidated in 1886 with Waco University (Baptist, 1861, founded by Dr See also:Rufus C. Burleson, a former See also:president of Baylor University). It was named in See also:honour of See also:Robert E. B. Baylor (1793-1874), a representative in See also:Congress from See also:Alabama in 183o-1831, and one of its founders. In 1908-Igo9 it had 40 instructors and 1296 students (664 See also:women), of whom 647 were in the See also:college.

The Texas Christian University was founded in 1873 at Thorp's Springs as a private school, chartered as Add Ran College, transferred to the Christian Churches of Texas in 1889, and removed to Waco in 1895. Its See also:

present name was adopted in 1902, the name Add Ran College being retained for the college of arts and sciences. In 1908-1909 the university had 26 instructors and 379 students (279 in the college of arts and sciences). Waco is situated in a fertile farming region. In 1905 the factory products were valued at $2,979,800. The city was named after the Waco (or Hueco) See also:Indians (Caddoan stock), who had a large See also:village here until 183o, when they were nearly exterminated by the Cherokees; in 1855 they removed to a See also:reservation, and after 1859 became incorporated with the See also:Wichita. The first See also:white See also:settlement was made in 1849. Waco was incorporated as a See also:town in 1856; in 1909 the See also:administration was entrusted to a See also:mayor and four commissioners.

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