ABERDEEN  , a

city and the county-seat of Brown county, South Dakota, U.S.A., about 125 M . N.E. of Pierre . Pop . (189o) 3182; (1900) 4087, of whom 889 were foreign born; (1905) 5841; (1910) 10,753 . Aberdeen is served by the Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul, the Great Northern, the Minneapolis and St Louis, and the Chicago and North Western railways . It is the financial and trade centre for the northern part of the state, a fine agricultural region, and in 1908 had five banks and a number of wholesale houses . The city is the seat of the Northern Normal and Industrial School, a state institution, and has a Carnegie library; the principal buildings are the court house and the government buildings . Artesian wells furnish good water-power, and artesian-well supplies, grain pitchers, brooms, chemicals and flour are manufactured . The municipality owns and operates the water-works . Aberdeen was settled in 188o, and was chartered as a city in 1883 .