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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 810 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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DANSVILLE , a

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VILLAGE

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COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county, New

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York, U.S.A., 49 M . S. of

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Rochester, on the Canaseraga

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Creek . Pop . (189o) 3758; (1900) 3633, of whom 417 were

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FOREIGN

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BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born; (1905) 3908; (1910) 3938 . The village is served by the

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DELAWARE

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, and the Dansville &

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MOUNT, WILLIAM SIDNEY (1807-1868)

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RAILWAYS

railways . At Dansville is the

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HEALTH

Health Resort, a large

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SANATORIUM (a modern Latinism, formed from sanare, to cure, restore to health, sanus, whole, healthy, well; often wrongly spelled sanatarium or sanitarium)

sanatorium, with which a nurses' training school is connected . There is a public library . The village has large nurseries and vineyards,

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FLOUR

flour and

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mills, a large

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PRINTING (from Lat. imprimere, O. Fr. empreindre)

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ESTABLISHMENT (0. Fr. establissement, Fr. etablissement, late Norm. Fr. establishement, from O. Fr. establir, Fr. etablir, Lat. stabilire, to make stable)

establishment, a foundry, and a

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SHOE (a word appearing in the Teutonic languages in various forms, as Ger. Schuh, Swed. and Dan. sko, sometimes supposed to come from an unknown root ska or sku, cover)

shoe factory . Dansville, named in

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HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

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Daniel P . Faulkner, was settled about 1800, and was incorporated in 1845 .

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