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WINFIELD , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Cowley county, See also:Kansas, U.S.A., in the S. See also:part of the See also:state, on the See also:Walnut See also:river,about 4o m. S.S.E. of See also:Wichita. Pop. (189o) 5184; (1900) 5554, of whom 203 were See also:foreign See also:born and 282 were negroes; (1905) 7845; (1910) 6700. It is served by the See also:Atchison, See also:Topeka & See also:Santa Fe, the See also:Missouri Pacific, and the 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:railways, and is connected by electric See also:line with See also:Arkansas City, Arkansas. In the city are St See also:John's Lutheran See also:College (1893), the See also:South-See also:west Kansas College (Methodist Episcopal, opened in 1886), St See also:Mary's See also:Hospital and Training School (1898), Winfield Hospital (1900), a Lutheran orphans' See also:home and a State School for Feeble-minded Youth. See also:Island See also:Park (5o acres) is the 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-See also:place of a summer See also:Chautauqua. Winfield is a See also:supply and distributing point for a See also:rich farming See also:country, in which large quantities of See also:wheat and See also:alfalfa are raised. See also:Limestone is quarried near the city, and natural See also:gas is found in the vicinity and piped in from eastern See also:fields for See also:general use in the city. The See also:municipality owns and operates the waterworks and the electric-See also:lighting plant. Winfield was settled in 187o and incorporated in 1871.
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