KIRKSVILLE  , a

city and the county-seat of Adair county, Missouri, U.S.A.,about 129 M . N ..by W. of Jefferson City . Pop . (1900), 5966, including 112 foreign-born and 291 negroes; (1910), 6347 . It is served by the Wabash and the Quincy, Omaha & Kansas City railways . It lies on a rolling prairie at an elevation of 975 ft. above the sea . It is the seat of the First District Missouri State Normal School (1870); of the American School of Osteopathy (opened 1892); and of the related A . T . Still Infirmary (incorporated 1895), named in honour of its founder, Andrew Taylor Still (b . 182o), the originator of osteopathic treatment, who settled here in 1875 . In 1908 the School of Osteopathy had 18 instructors and 398 students . Grain and fruit are grown in large quantities, and much coal is mined in the vicinity of Kirksville .

Its manufactures are shoes, bricks,

lumber, ice, agricultural implements, wagons and handles . Kirksville was laid out in 1842, and was named in honour of Jesse Kirk . It was incorporated as a town in 1857 and chartered as a city of the third class in 1892 . In April 1899 a cyclone caused serious damage to the city .