ADRIAN  , a

city and the county-seal of Lenawee county, Michigan, U.S.A., on the S. branch of Raisin river; near the S.E. corner of the state . Pop.(189o) 8756 ; (1900) 9654, of whom 1136 were foreign-born: (1Q10 census) 10,763 . It is served by five branches of the Lake Shore railway system, and by the Wabash, the Toledo and Western, and the Toledo, Detroit and Ironton railways . Adrian is the seat of Adrian College (1859; co-educational), controlled by the Wesleyan Methodist Church in 1859-1867 and since 1867 by the Methodist Protestant Church, and having departments of literature, theology, music, fine arts, commerce and pedagogy, and a preparatory school; and of St Joseph's Academy (Roman Catholic) for girls; and r m. north of the city is the State Industrial Home for Girls (1879), for the reformation of juvenile offenders between the ages of ten and seventeen . Adrian has a public library . The city is situated in a rich farming region; is an important shipping point for live-stock, grain and other farm products; and is especially known as a centre for the manufacture of wire-fences . Among the other manufactories are flouring and grist mills, planing mills, foundries, and factories for making agricultural implements, United States mail boxes, furniture, pianos, organs, automobiles, toys and electrical supplies . The value of the city's factory products increased from $2,124,923 in 1900 to $4,897,426 in 1904, or 130'5%; of the total value in 1904, $2,849,648 was the value of wire-work . The place was laid out as a town in 1828, and according to tradition was named in honour of the Roman emperor Hadrian .