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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 361 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EMPORIA  , a

city and the county-seat of Lyon county, Kansas, U.S.A., on the Neosho
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river, about 6o m . S.W. of
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Topeka . Pop . (1890) 7551; (1900) 8223, of whom 686 were
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foreign-born and 663 were negroes; (1910' U.S. census) 9058 . It is served by the
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Atchison, Topeka &
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Santa Fe, and the
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Missouri, Kansas &
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Texas
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railways . The city has a Carnegie library, and is the seat of the state normal school and of the College of Emporia (Presbyterian; 1883) . Emporia's
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industrial interests are mainly centred in commerce with the surrounding farming region; but there are small
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flour mills, machine shops, foundries and other manufacturing establishments,—in 1905 the value of the factory product was $571,601 . The
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municipality owns and operates the
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water-
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works and the electric-
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lighting plant . Emporia was settled in 1856 and was chartered as a city in 1870 . The Emporia
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Gazette, established in 1890, was pur chased in 1894 by William Allen White (b . 1868), a native of Emporia, who took over the editorship and made a
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great stir in 1896 by his editorial entitled " What's the
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matter with Kansas ? "; he also wrote several volumes of excellent short stories, particularly The Court of Boyville (1889), Stratagems and Spoils (1901) and In Our
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Town (1906) .

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