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INDEPENDENCE . a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Jackson county, See also:Missouri, U.S.A., 3 m . S. of the Missouri See also:river and so m . E. of See also:Kansas City . Pop . (189o) 638o, (1900) 6974 (937 negroes); (1910) 98J9 . The city is served by theMissouri Pacific, the See also:Chicago & See also:Alton, and the Kansas City See also:Southern See also:railways, and by an electric See also:line and See also:fine See also:boulevard to Kansas City . It is situated about boo ft. above the See also:sea, and is surrounded by a fertile agricultural See also:district . The city has a small public square (surrounding the See also:court-See also:house) and a public library, and is the seat of St See also:Mary's See also:Academy, under the See also:control of the Sisters of See also:Mercy . Among its manufactures are farming implements, See also:flour and See also:lumber . The See also:municipality owns its electric See also:lighting plant . Independence was laid out as a See also:town and chosen as the county-seat in 1827, first chartered as a city in 1849 and made a city of the third-class in 1889 . About 15oo See also:Mormons, attracted by the " See also:revelation " that this was to be a See also:Zion, settled in and about Independence in 1831 and 1832 .
They contemplated See also:building their See also:chief See also:temple about 1 m
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W. of the site of the See also:present court house, but in 1833 (partly because they invited See also:free negroes to join them) were expelled by the " See also:gentile " inhabitants of Independence
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In 1867 a See also:settlement of about 15o Hedrickites, or members of the " See also: H . See also:Perkin, Jour . Chem . See also:Soc., 1894, 65, p . 228) . Indene vapour when passed through a red hot See also:tube yields chrysene, It combines with nitrosyl chloride to See also:form indene nitrosate (M . Dennstedt and C . See also:Ahrens, Ber., 1895, 28, p . 1331) and it reacts with See also:benzaldehyde, oxalic ester and formic ester (J . Thiele, Ber., 1900, 33, p . 3395) . Confederate See also:army was defeated a few See also:miles E. of Independence by General See also:Alfred Pleasonton .
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