GMINNEAPOLIS  , the largest See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of See also:

• MINNESOTA

Minnesota, U.S.A., and the See also:

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

county-seat of Hennepin county, situated on both See also:

• BANKS, GEORGE LINNAEUS (1821-1881)
• BANKS, NATHANIEL PRENTISS (1816–1894)
• BANKS, SIR JOSEPH
• BANKS, THOMAS (1735-1805)

banks of the See also:

• MISSISSIPPI

Mississippi See also:

• RIVER

river at the Falls of St See also:

• ANTHONY, SAINT
• ANTHONY, SUSAN BROWNELL (1820-1906)

Anthony and immediately above St See also:

• PAUL
• PAUL (PAULUS)

Paul . Pop . (1870), 13,066; (188o), 46,887; (189o), 164,738; (1900), 202,718; (1910 See also:

• CENSUS (from Lat. censere, to estimate or assess; connected by some with centum, i.e. a count by hundreds)

census) 301,408 . Of the See also:

• TOTAL

total See also:

• POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population in 1900, those of See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign parentage (both parents foreign-See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born) numbered 118,946, and there were 61,o21 of foreign See also:

• BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")

birth, including 20,035 Swedes, 11,532 Norwegians, 7335 Germans, 5637 See also:

• ENGLISH

English-Canadians, 3213 Irish, 2289 English, 1929 Russians, 17o6 See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French-Canadians and 1133 Austrians . Minneapolis is served by the See also:

• CHICAGO
• CHICAGO, UNIVERSITY OF

Chicago, See also:

• BURLINGTON

Burlington & See also:

• QUINCY
• QUINCY, JOSIAH (1744–1775)

Quincy, the Chicago, See also:

• GREAT

Great Western, the Chicago, See also:

• MILWAUKEE

Milwaukee & St Paul, the Chicago & Northwestern, the Chicago, See also:

• ROCK
• ROCK (O.Fr. rake, Sp. rota, Ital. rocca; possibly from a Lat. form rupica, from rupes, rock)
• ROCK, DANIEL (1799–187t)

Rock See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

Island & Pacific, the Great See also:

• NORTHERN

Northern, the Minneapolis & St See also:

• LOUIS
• LOUIS (804–876)
• LOUIS (893–911)
• LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
• LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian

Louis, the Minneapolis, St Paul & Sault Sainte See also:

• MARIE

Marie, and the Northern Pacific See also:

• RAILWAYS

railways . It has also three terminal switching lines and the See also:

• BELT (a word common to Teutonic languages, the Old Ger. form being bale, from which the Lat. balteus probably derived)
• BELT, THOMAS (1832-1878)

belt See also:

• LINE

line of the Minnesota See also:

• TRANSFER (from Lat. transferre, to bear across, carry over)

Transfer See also:

• COMPANY

Company, serving both Minneapolis and St Paul . With St Paul, which is served by the same See also:

• SYSTEM

system of railways, Minneapolis is the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief railway centre of the Northwest and one of the greatest in the See also:

• UNITED

United States, being the See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal gateway to the See also:

• COMMERCE
• COMMERCE (Lat. commercium, from, cum, together, and rnerx, merchandise)

commerce of the See also:

• CANADIAN

Canadian and Pacific See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north-See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

west . There are a See also:

• UNION
• UNION (known locally as Union Hill and officially as Town of Union)

Union passenger station, and See also:

• SEPARATE

separate stations for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul, the Chicago, ift Western and the Minneapolis & St Louis railways . The city is situated on a high See also:

• PLATEAU (a French term, older platel, for a flat piece of wood, metal, &c., from plat, flat)
• PLATEAU, JOSEPH ANTOINE FERDINAND (1801-1883)

plateau (800-85o ft. above See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

sea-level) above the river, and covers an See also:

• AREA

area of about 53 sq. m . It has an extensive system of boulevards, parkways and parks (aggregating 2465 acres in 1908) . Among the parks are Loring, near the centre of the city, in which is a statue of Ole See also:

• BULL
• BULL, GEORGE (1634–1710)
• BULL, JOHN (c. 1562–1628)
• BULL, OLE BORNEMANN (18ro-188o)

Bull; Lyndale, in the See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south-west See also:

• PART

part of the city; Interlachen, just north-west of Lyndale; Glenwood, in the west of the city; See also:

• VAN

Van Cleve, See also:

• LOGAN
• LOGAN, JOHN (1748-1788)
• LOGAN, JOHN (c. 1725-1780)
• LOGAN, JOHN ALEXANDER (1826-1886)
• LOGAN, SIR WILLIAM EDMOND (1798-1875)

Logan, Windom and See also:

• COLUMBIA

Columbia in the part of the city See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

east of the Mississippi river; See also:

• RIVERSIDE

Riverside, on the south-west See also:

• BANK

bank of the Mississippi; and Minnehaha See also:

• PARK (Fr. part; Ital. parco; Sp. Marque; O.Eng. pearroc; connected with Ger. pferch, fold, and pfarrei, district, translating med. Lat. parochia, parish)
• PARK, EDWARDS AMASA (1808–1900)
• PARK, MUNGO (1771-1806?)

Park, in which are the Minnehaha Falls, a beautiful cascade of the Minnehaha See also:

• CREEK
• CREEK (Mid. Eng. crike or creke, common to many N. European languages)

Creek (the out-let of See also:

• LAKE
• LAKE, GERARD LAKE, 1ST VISCOUNT (1744-1808)

Lake Minnetonka), near the Mississippi, with a fall of 50 ft., well known from See also:

• LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH (1807-1882)

Longfellow's poem " See also:

• HIAWATHA (" he makes rivers ")

Hiawatha." The numerous small lakes in the city (there are about Zoo lakes in Hennepin county) have been incorporated in the park system; among them are Lake Harriet (353 acres; in Lake Harriet Park), Lake See also:

• CALHOUN, JOHN CALDWELL (1782-185o)

Calhoun (on which are extensive public See also:

• BATHS

baths), Lake Amelia (295 acres), Lake of the Isles (too acres), See also:

• CEDAR (Lat. cedrus, Gr. iapos)

Cedar Lake, See also:

• POWDER (through O. Fr. puldre, modern poudre, from Lat. pulvis, pulveris, dust)

Powder See also:

• HORN
• HORN (a common Teutonic word, cognate with Lat. cornu; cf. Gr. Kipas)
• HORN (Lat. cornu; corresponding terms being Fr. cor, trompe; Ger. Horn; Ital. corno)
• HORN, ARVID BERNHARD, COUNT (1664-1742)
• HORN, PHILIP DE MONTMORENCY, COUNT

Horn Lake (in the park of that name) and Sandy Lake (in Columbia Park) . Adjoining Minnehaha Park are the grounds (51 acres, given to the See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state by the city) and buildings of the Minnesota state soldiers' See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home (1887); and 2 M. beyond the Falls, at the junction of the Minnesota and Mississippi See also:

• RIVERS
• RIVERS, ANTHONY WOODVILLE, or WYDEVILLE, 2ND EARL (c. 1442—1483)
• RIVERS, EARL
• RIVERS, RICHARD SAVAGE, 4TH EARL (c. 1660—1712)

rivers, isthe Fort Snelling Military See also:

• RESERVATION (Lat. reservare, to keep back)

Reservation (1819) .

Seven See also:

• MILES, NELSON APPLETON (1839— )

miles south-west of the limits of the city is Lake Minnetonka, one of the most famous summer resorts in the Northwest, a beautiful See also:

• BODY

body of See also:

• WATER

water 15 M. See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long, with a See also:

• SHORE

shore line of 150 M. encircled by undulating wooded hills . Among the most fashionable streets are See also:

• MOUNT, WILLIAM SIDNEY (1807-1868)

Mount See also:

• CURVE (Lat. curvus, bent)

Curve, See also:

• CLIFTON

Clifton and Park avenues, all in the " West See also:

• DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

Division "or south-western See also:

• QUARTER (through Fr. from Lat. quartarius, fourth part)

quarter of the city . The streets in all parts of the city are of exceptional width and heavily shaded in the residential districts . There are handsome residential suburbs . The See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court-See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house and city-See also:

• HALL
• HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
• HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
• HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
• HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
• HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
• HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
• HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
• HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
• HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
• HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
• HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
• HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
• HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
• HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
• HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
• HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
• HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)

hall, constructed of red Minnesota See also:

• GRANITE (adapted from the Ital. granite, grained; Lat. granum, grain)

granite and completed in 1902 at a cost of about $3,500,000, is one of the finest municipal buildings in See also:

• AMERICA

America . Other prominent buildings are the Masonic See also:

• TEMPLE
• TEMPLE, FREDERICK (1821-1902)
• TEMPLE, RICHARD
• TEMPLE, SIR RICHARD, BART
• TEMPLE, SIR WILLIAM, BART

Temple, the Chamber of Commerce, the See also:

• LUMBER

Lumber See also:

• EXCHANGE

Exchange, the Bank of Commerce, the Auditorium; the buildings of the See also:

• METROPOLITAN (Lat. metropolitanus, Gr. µnrpoiroXtrns)

Metropolitan See also:

• LIFE

Life (formerly the Guaranty), the See also:

• SECURITY (Lat. securus, free from care, safe)

Security Bank, the North-western See also:

• NATIONAL

National Bank, the First National Bank, the Andrus, the New See also:

• YORK
• YORK (HOUSE OF)
• YORK, EDMUND OF LANGLEY, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
• YORK, EDWARD
• YORK, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
• YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

York Life, and the See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

Young Men's See also:

• CHRISTIAN
• CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)

Christian Association; Hotel Radisson and West Hotel . Minneapolis is the see of a See also:

• PROTESTANT

Protestant Episcopal bishopric . On the east See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side of the river are the buildings of the university of Minnesota (q.v.) . In Minneapolis are the Minneapolis See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College of Physicians and Surgeons (1883), the medical school of Hamline University; See also:

• AUGSBURG
• AUGSBURG, CONFESSION OF
• AUGSBURG, WAR OF THE LEAGUE OF

Augsburg See also:

• SEMINARY (Lat. seminarium, from semen, seed)

Seminary (See also:

• NORWEGIAN

Norwegian Lutheran, 1869), the United See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

Church Seminary (1890), the Minnesota College (See also:

• SWEDISH

Swedish, 1905), the Minneapolis Normal School for Kindergartners, the Froebellian See also:

• KINDERGARTEN

Kindergarten Normal School, See also:

• GRAHAM, SIR GERALD (1831–1899)
• GRAHAM, SIR JAMES ROBERT GEORGE
• GRAHAM, SYLVESTER (1794-1851)
• GRAHAM, THOMAS (1805-1869)

Graham Hall and See also:

• STANLEY (FAMILY)
• STANLEY, ARTHUR PENRHYN (18x5–1881)
• STANLEY, EDWARD (1779-1849)
• STANLEY, SIR HENRY MORTON (184o-1904)
• STANLEY, SIR WILLIAM (1548-163o)
• STANLEY, THOMAS (1625-1678)

Stanley Hall, the Minneapolis School of See also:

• MUSIC

Music, See also:

• ORATORY (Lat. oratorio, sc. ors; from orare, to speak or pray)

Oratory and Dramatic See also:

• ART

Art, and the Northwestern Conservatory of Music . Between Minneapolis and St Paul are the See also:

• MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
• MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

main buildings of Hamline University (Methodist Episcopal, co-educational, 1854) . The public library (more than 18o,000 volumes in 1908) See also:

• GREW, NEHEMIAH (1641-1712)

grew out of a private library, the See also:

• ATHENAEUM

Athenaeum (186o), was reorganized by See also:

• HERBERT (FAMILY)
• HERBERT, GEORGE (1593-1633)
• HERBERT, HENRY WILLIAM
• HERBERT, SIR THOMAS (1606-1682)

Herbert See also:

• PUTNAM
• PUTNAM, ISRAEL (1718–1790)
• PUTNAM, RUFUS (1738-1824)

Putnam (librarian from 1887 to 1891), and has several branches, the most notable of which is the Pillsbury Library (1904) on the east side; in its main See also:

• BUILDING

building (Hennepin See also:

• AVENUE (the past participle feminine of Fr. avenir, to come to)

Avenue and loth See also:

• STREET
• STREET, GEORGE EDMUND (1824-1881)

Street) are the offices of the Minnesota See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy of Natural Sciences (1873), which, with the Society of See also:

• FINE

Fine Arts, assisted in erecting the building in 1884 . Among the hospitals and charitable institutions are the Minneapolis city See also:

• HOSPITAL (Lat. haspitalis, the adjective of hospes, host or guest)

hospital, the state hospital for crippled and deformed See also:

• CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children, and See also:

• ASBURY, FRANCIS (1745–1816)

Asbury Methodist, the Northwestern, the See also:

• DEACONESS (i7 &locovos or &aKhvuraa, servant, minister)

Deaconess', the Swedish, the St See also:

• MARY
• MARY (1457-1482)
• MARY (1496-1533)
• MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS

Mary's, the Maternity and the St See also:

• BARNABAS

Barnabas hospitals, See also:

• BETHANY (mod. el-'Azariyeh)

Bethany Home, the See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic See also:

• ORPHAN

orphan See also:

• ASYLUM (from Gr. b.-, privative, arid earl, right'of seizure)
• ASYLUM, RIGHT OF (Fr. droit d'asile; Ger. Asylrecht)

asylum, the See also:

• WASHBURN
• WASHBURN, CADWALLADER COLDEN (1818–1882)

Washburn orphans' home, the Pillsbury House (1906) where See also:

• SETTLEMENT
• SETTLEMENT, ACT OF

settlement See also:

• WORK

work is carried on by the See also:

• PLYMOUTH
• PLYMOUTH, EARLS OF

Plymouth Congregational Church, and several See also:

• FREE

free dispensaries .

The first newspaper in the city was the St Anthony See also:

• EXPRESS (through the French from the past participle of the Lat. exprimere, to press out, by transference used of representing objects in painting or sculpture, or of thoughts, &c. in words)

Express, which began publication in 1851; it is no longer in existence . In 1906 the city had, in addition to numerous weekly and monthly See also:

• PERIODICALS

periodicals (English, Norwegian-Danish, Swedish, See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German, French), four dailies, the See also:

• TRIBUNE (med. Lat. tribune, from classical Lat. tribunal)

Tribune (1867), the See also:

• JOURNAL
• JOURNAL (through Fr. from late Lat. diurnalis, daily)

Journal (1878), and the See also:

• NEWS

News (1903), all in English, and the Tidende (Norwegian-Danish), established as a weekly in 1851 . The Mississippi river, which here has an See also:

• AVERAGE

average width of about 1200 ft., is crossed by 17 See also:

• BRIDGES
• BRIDGES, ROBERT (1844– )

bridges (9 See also:

• HIGHWAY

highway and 8 railway bridges) . The Federal See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government undertook to deepen the channel by dredging and by making two dams and two locks between the Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis & See also:

• OMAHA

Omaha railway See also:

• BRIDGE

bridge in St Paul and the See also:

• WASHINGTON
• WASHINGTON (or WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE)
• WASHINGTON, BOOKER TALIAFERRO (c. 1859– )
• WASHINGTON, BUSHROD (1762-1829)
• WASHINGTON, GEORGE (1732-1799)

Washington Avenue bridge in Minneapolis—a distance of 11.4 m.—from 2 or 3 ft. to 6 ft., and to make the river regularly navigable as far as the Washington Avenue bridge, Minneapolis; the project, first adopted in 1894 and modified in 1907, was 70% completed in See also:

• JULY

July 1908, and up to that See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time $1,061,397 had been spent on the work . The enormous water-See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power of the Falls of St Anthony, yielding about 40,000 h.p., has been the principal See also:

• FACTOR (from Lat. facere, to make or do)

factor in making Minneapolis a great manufacturing centre . The rapid erosion of the soft See also:

• LIMESTONE

limestone See also:

• BED
• BED (a common Teutonic word, cf. German Bett, probably connected with the Indo-European root bhodh, seen in the Lat. fodere, to dig; so " a dug-out place " for safe resting, or in the same sense as a garden " bed ")

bed at one time threatened the destruction of the power, but this has been prevented by an enormous See also:

• APRON (a corruption arising from a wrong division of " a napron " into " an apron," from the Fr. naperon, napperon, a diminutive of nappe, Lat. mappa, a napkin)

apron and an artificial See also:

• CONCRETE
• CONCRETE (Lat. concretes, participle of concrescere, to grow together)

concrete See also:

• FLOOR (from O. Eng. flor, a word common to many Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch vloer, and Ger. Flur, a field, in the feminine, and a floor, masculine)

floor (completed in 1879) . Additional water-power (25,000 h.p.) is derived from See also:

• TAYLOR
• TAYLOR, ANN (1782-1866)
• TAYLOR, BAYARD (1825–1878)
• TAYLOR, BROOK (1685–1731)
• TAYLOR, ISAAC (1787-1865)
• TAYLOR, ISAAC (1829-1901)
• TAYLOR, JEREMY (1613-1667)
• TAYLOR, JOHN (158o-1653)
• TAYLOR, JOHN (1704-1766)
• TAYLOR, JOSEPH (c. 1586-c. 1653)
• TAYLOR, MICHAEL ANGELO (1757–1834)
• TAYLOR, NATHANIEL WILLIAM (1786-1858)
• TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808–1876)
• TAYLOR, ROWLAND (d. 1555)
• TAYLOR, SIR HENRY (1800-1886)
• TAYLOR, THOMAS (1758-1835)
• TAYLOR, TOM (1817-1880)
• TAYLOR, WILLIAM (1765-1836)
• TAYLOR, ZACHARY (1784-1850)

Taylor's Falls on the St Croix river . The proximity of the See also:

• RICH, BARNABE (c. 1540-1617)
• RICH, CLAUDIUS JAMES (1787-1821)
• RICH, JOHN (1692-1761)
• RICH, PENELOPE, LADY (c. 1562–1607)
• RICH, RICHARD, 1ST BARON RICH (1490?-1567)

rich wheatfields of the north-west, and the extensive See also:

• TIMBER

timber forests, have made Minneapolis the greatest lumber and See also:

• FLOUR

flour centre in the See also:

• WORLD

world . The importance of the flour manufacturing See also:

• INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry was originally due to the excellent water-power available, and See also:

• DATES

dates from the introduction of improved See also:

• ROLLER

roller-See also:

• MILL
• MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
• MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
• MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
• MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)

mill methods in the See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early 'seventies, although there were successful See also:

• MILLS, JOHN (d. 1736)
• MILLS, ROGER QUARLES (1832– )

mills in operation twenty years earlier . The enormous flour-mills of Minneapolis (22 in 1907) are perhaps the most interesting See also:

• SIGHTS

sights of the city . Their aggregate daily capacity is over 8o,000 barrels, the largest of them having a capacity of 15,000 to 16,500 daily . In 1905 the value of the city's flour and grist mill products was $62,754,446, 51.6 % of the total value of the city's factory product, and 8.8 % of the value of the flour and grist mill products of the entire United States .

See also:

• FOOD
• FOOD (like the verb " to feed," from a Teutonic root, whence O. Eng. foda; cf. " fodder "; connected with Gr. lrareicOae, to feed)

Food preparations were valued in 1905 at $1,361,492 . Minneapolis is also the greatest See also:

• PRIMARY

primary See also:

• WHEAT
• WHEAT (Triticum)

wheat See also:

• MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

market in the world, its 40 or more See also:

• ELEVATORS, LIFTS

elevators (of which those of the Washburn-See also:

• CROSBY, HOWARD (1826–1891)

Crosby Company, erected in 1907, are the largest) having a See also:

• NET

net capacity of about 35,000,000 bushels, and handling more than 90,000,000 bushels in 1908 . Its commerce in other grains is also extensive; in the amount of See also:

• BARLEY (Hordeum sativum)

barley received and shipped Minneapolis surpasses any other city in the United States, and in receipts and shipments of See also:

• RYE

rye is second only to Chicago . The Mississippi river above Minneapolis is made to serve, by means of a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of extensive See also:

• LOG (a word of uncertain etymological origin,possibly onomatopoeic; the New English Dictionary rejects the derivation from Norwegian lag, a fallen tree)

log-booms, as the principal source of See also:

• SUPPLY (through Fr. from Lat. supplere, to fill up)

supply to the great saw-mills, of which there are here some of the largest in the world, with a combined capacity of 3,500,000 ft. a See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day, and with an average See also:

• ANNUAL

annual cut of 575,000,000 ft . The total value of the lumber products in 1905 was $9,960,842 (lumber and timber, $5,816,726; planing-mill products, including See also:

• SASH

sash, doors and blinds, $4,144,116) . Other important manufactures with the product-value of each in 1905 were See also:

• MALT (O. Eng., mealt; O. Sax., malt; O. Tent., maltos; Mod. Ger., Malz; Scand., malt; probably derived from the Sanskrit mrdu, soft, thus having reference to the fact that malt is raw grain rendered soft or tender)

malt liquors ($1,185,525), foundry and See also:

• MACHINE
• MACHINE (through Fr. from Lat. form machina of Gr. µnxavil)

machine See also:

• SHOP

shop products ($2,820,697), structural See also:

• IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron-work ($1,991,771), See also:

• STEAM
• STEAM (0. Eng. steam, vapour, smoke, cf. Du. steam; the origin is unknown)

steam railway See also:

• CAR (Late Lat. carra)

car construction and repairing ($2,027,248), patent medicines ($1,715,889), See also:

• FURNITURE (from " furnish," Fr. fournir)

furniture ($1,238,324), See also:

• COOPERAGE (from " cooper," a maker of casks, derived from such forms as Mid. Dutch caper, Ger. Kufer, Lat. cuparius; the same root is seen in various Teut. words for a basket, such as Dutch kuip and Eng. " kipe " and " coop, " but cooper is apparently not
• COOPERAGE, or COPERAGE (Flemish and Dutch kooper, a trader, dealer)

cooperage ($1,415,360), and See also:

• HOSIERY

hosiery and knit goods ($957455)• The total value of the factory product was $94,407,774 in 1900, and $121,593,120 in 1905, an increase of 28.8 %; in 1905 the value of the factory product was 39'5 % of that of the entire state . Minneapolis is governed under a See also:

• CHARTER (Lat. charta, carta, from Gr. Xap-rns, originally for papyrus, material for writing, thence transferred to paper and from this material to the document, in O. Eng. boc, book)

charter adopted in 1872 (when St Anthony and Minneapolis were consolidated) and frequently amended . It provides for the See also:

• ELECTION
• ELECTION (from Lat. eligere, to pick out)

election of a See also:

• MAYOR (Lat. major, greater)
• MAYOR, JOHN EYTON BICKERSTETH (1825– )

mayor, treasurer and See also:

• COMPTROLLER

comptroller for two-years terms; for elected boards of See also:

• CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in English of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

control for library, parks and See also:

• EDUCATION

education, and for a unicameral city See also:

• COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

council, See also:

• HALF

half of which is chosen every two years for a See also:

• TERM

term of four years . The mayor, whose See also:

• VETO (Lat. for " I forbid ")

veto may be nullified by an adverse See also:

• VOTE

vote of two-thirds of the council, has very limited appointing See also:

• POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers, the See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head of the See also:

• POLICE (Fr. police, government, civil administration, a police force, Gr. sroXumeia, constitution, condition of a state, roars, city, state)

police See also:

• DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department being the most important of his appointees . The city council elects the city clerk, city See also:

• ATTORNEY (from O. Fr. atorne, a person appointed to act for another, from atourner, legal Lat. attornare, attorn, literally to turn over to another or commit business to another)

attorney, city engineer, chief of the See also:

• FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire department and most of the See also:

• MINOR
• MINOR (Lat. for smaller, lesser)
• MINOR, ROBERT CRANNELL (1839-1904)

minor See also:

• OFFICERS

officers . Under a See also:

• PROVISION (Lat. provisio)

provision of the charter adopted in 1887 saloons are not permitted outside the " See also:

• PATROL, (Fr. patrouiller, connected with pane, foot)

patrol limits of the business See also:

• DISTRICT

district "; so that there are no saloons in the residential districts of the city . The See also:

• MUNICIPALITY

municipality owns the waterworks system, the water supply being obtained from the Mississippi river .

See also:

• HISTORY

History.—The first recorded visit of a See also:

• EUROPEAN

European to the site of Minneapolis was that of See also:

• FATHER

Father Louis Hennepin, the French Jesuit missionary, who discovered and named the Falls of St Anthony in 1680; but it is almost certain that he was preceded by some of the adventurous coureurs See also:

• DES

des See also:

• BOIL

boil, few of whom See also:

• LEFT

left records of their extensive wanderings, and Radisson and Groseilliers seem to have visited this region two decades before Hennepin . The See also:

• LAND

land on which the city lies, being divided by the Mississippi river, was for many years under different sovereignties, the east side becoming United States territory at the See also:

• CLOSE
• CLOSE (from Lat. clausum, shut)
• CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903)

close of the See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

War of See also:

• INDEPENDENCE
• INDEPENDENCE, DECLARATION OF
• INDEPENDENCE, WAR OF

Independence, while the west side, after being under See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish and French See also:

• RULE

rule, did not become a part of the United States until the See also:

• PURCHASE

purchase of See also:

• LOUISIANA

Louisiana in 1803 . In 1766 the site was visited by the See also:

• AMERICAN

American traveller, See also:

• JONATHAN
• JONATHAN (Heb. " Yah [weh] gives ")

Jonathan See also:

• CARVER, JOHN (x575?-1621)
• CARVER, JONATHAN (c. 1725-1780)

Carver, 1and in 1805 by Lieut . Zebulon M . See also:

• PIKE
• PIKE, ZEBULON MONTGOMERY (1779-1813)

Pike; the military reserve which Pike bought from the See also:

• INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians included a greater portion of the west side of the See also:

• PRESENT

present city . After the erection of Fort St Anthony (1819; later called Fort Snelling), a water-power saw-mill was erected (1822) to saw lumber for the fort on the east bank of the river at the Falls of St Anthony . Later flour was also ground in this mill, which thus became the forerunner of the greatest of the city's See also:

• INDUSTRIES

industries . Gradually as the See also:

• INDIAN

Indian land titles became extinguished the east bank was settled . The first settlement on the west bank was made by See also:

• COLONEL (derived either from Lat. column, Fr. colonne, column, or Lat. corona, a crown)

Colonel See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John H . See also:

• STEVENS,
• STEVENS, A
• STEVENS, ALFRED (1818-1875)
• STEVENS, ALFRED (1828-1906)
• STEVENS, HENRY (1819—1886)

Stevens in 1850, but the land was not opened to settlers until 1855 . The See also:

• VILLAGE

village of St Anthony, on the east side of the river, was incorporated in 1855; Minneapolis, on the west bank, was incorporated in 1856 . St Anthony became a city in 1860, and Minneapolis, which then had only 2564 inhabitants, soon outstripped its See also:

• NEIGHBOUR (O. Eng. neahgebiir, from Walt, " nigh," " near ")

neighbour after the See also:

• CIVIL

Civil War, and received a city charter in 1867 .

In 1870 Minneapolis alone had 13,066 inhabitants (18,079 with St Anthony), and in 1872 the two cities were united under the name of Minneapolis . The Republican National See also:

• CONVENTION (Lat. conventio, an assembly or agreement, from convenire, to come together)
• CONVENTION, THE NATIONAL

Convention met in Minneapolis in 1892 and renominated See also:

• PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

President See also:

• BENJAMIN
• BENJAMIN, JUDAHPHILIP (1811-1884)

Benjamin See also:

• HARRISON
• HARRISON, BENJAMIN
• HARRISON, FREDERIC (1831— )
• HARRISON, JOHN (1693—1776)
• HARRISON, THOMAS (16o6-166o)
• HARRISON, THOMAS ALEXANDER (1853– )
• HARRISON, WILLIAM (1534–1593)
• HARRISON, WILLIAM HENRY (1773–1841)

Harrison .