GALESBURG  , a

city and the county-seat of Knox county, Illinois, U.S.A., in the N.W. part of the state, 163 m . S.W. of Chicago . Pop . (189o) 15,264; (190o) 18,607; of whom 3602 were foreign-born; (census, 1910) 22,089 . It is served by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railways . Knox College (non-sectarian and coeducational), which was chartered here in 1837 as the " Knox Manual Labor College " (the present name was adopted in 1857), was opened in 1841, and had in 1907-1908, 31 instructors and 628 students; of whom more than half were in the Conservatory of Music, a department of the college, and 79 were in the Academy . Lombard College (coeducational; Universalist), which was chartered as the " Illinois Liberal Institute " in 1851, was known as Lombard University (in honour of Benjamin Lombard, a benefactor) from 1855 to 1899; it includes a College of Liberal Arts, the Ryder Divinity School (1881), and departments of music and domestic science, and in 1907—1908 had 18 instructors and 11.7 students . Here also are Corpus Christi College (Roman Catholic), St Joseph's Academy (Roman Catholic) and Brown's Business College (1874) . There is a public library, founded in 1874 . The industries consist mainly of the construction and repairing of steam railway cars (in the shops of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railway) and the manufacture of foundry and machine-shop products,vitrified brick, agricultural implements Feet of Philippine Colugo, or Flying-Lemur (Galeopithecus philippinensis) . and machinery . The total value of the factory product in 1.905 was $2,217,772, being 52.9% more than in 'goo .

Galesburg was named in honour of the Rev .

George Washington Gale (1789-1862), a prominent Presbyterian preacher, who in 1827–1834 had founded the Oneida Manual Labor Institute at Whitestown, Oneida county, New York . Desiring to establish a college in the Mississippi Valley to supply " an evangelical and able ministry " to " spread the Gospel throughout the world," and also wishing to counteract the influence of pro-slavery men in Illinois, he interested a number of people in the project, formed a society for colonization, and in 1836 led the first settlers to Galesburg, the " Mesopotamia in the West." Knox College was founded to fulfil his educational purpose . Galesburg was an important " station " of the Underground Railroad, one of the conditions of membership in the " Presbyterian Church of Galesburg " (the name of Mr Gale's society) being opposition to slavery; and in 1855 this caused the church to withdraw from the Presbytery . Galesburg was chartered as a city in 1857 . On the 7th of October 1858 one of the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates was held in the grounds of Knox College .