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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 587 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GENEVA  , a

city of Ontario county, New York, U.S.A., at the N. end of
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Seneca Lake, about 52 M . S.E. of Rochester . Pop . (1890) 7557; (1900) 10,433 (of whom 1916 were
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foreign-born); (1910 census) 12i446 . It is served by the New York Central & Hudson
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River, and the Lehigh Valley
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railways, and by the Cayuga & Seneca Canal . It is an attractively built city, and has good
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mineral springs . Malt, tinware,
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flour and grist-mill products, boilers, stoves and ranges,
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optical supplies, wall-paper, cereals, canned goods, cutlery, tin cans and wagons are manufactured, and there are also extensive nurseries . The
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total value of the factory product in 1905 was $4,951,964, an increase of 82.3 % since 1900 . Geneva has a public library, a city hospital and hygienic institute . It is the seat of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station and of Hobart College (non-sectarian), which was first planned in 1812, was founded in 1822 (the majority of its incorporators being members of the
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Protestant Episcopal church) as successor to Geneva Academy, received a full charter as Geneva College in 1825, and was renamed Hobart
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Free College in 1852 and Hobart College in 1860, in honour of Bishop John Henry Hobart . The college had in 1908—1909107 students, 21 instructors, and a library of 50,000 volumes and 15,000
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pamphlets . A co-
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ordinate woman's college, the William Smith school for
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women, opened in 1908, was endowed in 1906 by William Smith of Geneva, who at the same time provided for a Hall of Science and for further instruction in science, especially in biology and psychology .

In 1888 the Smith

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Observatory was built at Geneva, being maintained by William Smith, and placed in charge of Dr William Robert Brooks, professor of astronomy in Hobart College . The
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municipality owns its
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water-supply
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system . Geneva was first settled about 1787 almost on the site of the
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Indian
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village of Kanadasega, which was destroyed in 1779 during Gen . John Sullivan's expedition against the Indians in western New York . It was chartered as a city in 1898 .

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