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city and the county-seat of Lane county, Oregon, U.S.A., on the Willamette river, at the head of navigation, about 125 M . S. of Portland . Pop . (1900) 3236, of whom 237 were foreign-born; (19ro Federal census) 9009 . Eugene is served by the Southern Pacific railroad ' and by interurban electric railway . It is situated on the edge of a broad and fertile prairie, at the foot of a ridge of low hills and within view of the peaks of the Coast Range; the streets are pleasantly shaded with Oregon maples . The city is most widely known as the seat of the University of Oregon . This institution, opened in 1876 and having 95 instructors and 734 students in 1907-1908, occupies eight buildings on a grassy slope along the river bank, and embraces a college of literature, science and the arts, a college of engineering, a graduate school, and (at Portland) a school of law and a school of medicine . In the city is the Eugene Divinity School of the Disciples of Christ, opened in 1895 . Eugene is the commercial centie of an extensive agricultural district; does a large business 885 in grain, fruit, hops, cattle, wool and lumber; and has various manufactures, including flour, lumber, woollen goods and canned fruit . Eugene was settled in 1854, and was first incorporated in 1864 .