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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 60 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HASTINGS  , a

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city and the
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county-seat of
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Adams county,
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Nebraska, U.S.A., about 95 M . W. by S. of
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Lincoln . Pop . (1890) 13,584; (1900) 7188 (12J3
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foreign-
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born); (1910) 9338 . Hastings is served by the
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Chicago,
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Burlington &
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Quincy, the Chicago &
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North-western, the
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Missouri Pacific and the St
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Joseph &
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Grand
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Island
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railways . It is the seat of Hastings
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College (Presbyterian, coeducational), opened in 1882, and having 286 students in 1908, and of the
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state
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asylum for the chronic insane . The city carries on a considerable jobbing business for the farming region of which it is the centre and produce
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market . There are a large foundry and several large brickyards here . Hastings was settled in 1872, was incorporated in 1894 and was chartered as a city in the same
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year .

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