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KEWANEE

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 767 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KEWANEE  , a

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city of
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Henry
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county,
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Illinois, U.S.A., in the N . W.
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part of the
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state, about 55 M . N. by W. of
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Peoria . Pop . (1900), 8382, of whom 2006 were
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foreign-
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born; (1910
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census), 9307 . It is served by the
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Chicago
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Burlington &
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Quincy railroad and by the
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Galesburg & Kewanee Electric railway . Among its manufactures are foundry and
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machine-
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shop products, boilers, carriages and wagons, agricultural implements,
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pipe and fittings, working-men's gloves, &c . In 1905 the
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total factory product was valued at $6,729,381, or 6r.5% more than in 1900 . Kewanee was settled in 1836 by
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people from
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Wethersfield,
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Connecticut, and was first chartered as a city in 1897 .

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