AUBURN  , a

city and the county-seat of Cayuga county, New York, U.S.A., 25 M . S.W. of Syracuse, on an outlet of Owasco Lake . Pop . (189o) 25,858; (1900) 30,345, of whom 5436 were foreign-born, 2084 being from Ireland and 1023 from England; (191o) 34,668 . It is served by the Lehigh Valley and the New York Central & Hudson River railways, and by inter-urban electric lines . The city is attractively situated amidst a group of low hills in the heart of the lake country of western New York; the streets are wide, with a profusion of shade trees . Auburn has a city hall, the large Burtis Auditorium, the Auburn hospital, two orphan asylums, and the Seymour library in the Case Memorial building . There is a fine bronze statue of William H . Seward, who made his home here after 1823, and was buried in Fort Hill Cemetery . In Auburn are the Auburn (State) prison (1816), in connexion with which there is a women's prison; the Auburn Theological Seminary (Presbyterian), founded in 1819, chartered in 1820, and opened for students in 1821; the Robinson school for girls; and the Women's Educational and Industrial Union, for the education of working girls, with a building erected in 1907 . The city owns its water-supply system, the water being pumped from Owasco Lake, about 22 m . S.S.E. of the city .

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good water-power, and the city has important manufacturing 1 "Life of Anthony a Wood written by Himself " (Aiken . Oxon., ed . Bliss) . interests . The principal manufactures are cordage and twine, agricultural implements, engines, pianos, boots and shoes, cotton and woollen goods, carpets and rugs, rubber goods, flour and machinery . The total factory product in 1905 was valued at $13,420,863; of this $2,890,301 was the value of agricultural implements, in the manufacture of which Auburn ranked fifth among the cities of the United States . There are a number of grey and blue limestone quarries, one of which is owned and operated by the municipality . Settled soon after the close of the War of Independence, Auburn was laid out in 1793 by Captain John L . Hardenburgh, a veteran of the war, and for some years was known as Harden-burgh's Corners . In 18o5, when it was made. the county-seat, it was renamed Auburn . It was incorporated in 1814, and was chartered as a city in 1848 . See C .

Hawley, Early Chapters of Cayuga History (Auburn, 1879) .